Discover ways to begin and scale your corporation at RoboBusiness’ startup bootcamp

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From left to proper, prime row: John Lanza, Mark O’Toole, Ben Waters, Daniel Theobald, and Joyce Sidopoulos. Backside row: Ninaad Sridharan, Syed Saquib, Niamh Donnelly, Marita McGinn, and Jeff Linnell.

The Robotics Startup Bootcamp, hosted by the MassRobotics Accelerator, returns to RoboBusiness this yr. Spanning two periods on the primary day of the occasion in Santa Clara, Calif., it’ll cowl subjects starting from the fundamentals each entrepreneur ought to know at first of their journey, to the keys to scaling and rising a startup. 

In the course of the first a part of the bootcamp, which can happen at 11:45 a.m. PT on Oct. 16, consultants will share greatest practices for most of the widespread challenges that may make or break an organization. Consultants will talk about subjects comparable to buyer discovery, creating a gross sales pipeline, mental property and emblems, Media and Advertising 101, working with company companions, and easy methods to fund a startup. 

Audio system through the first a part of the bootcamp embody:

• John Lanza: Lanza is a accomplice at Foley Hoag LLC, which presents business-focused counsel on buying, transferring, and defending mental property rights. With in depth expertise advising each startups and established corporations in a variety of industries, he helps purchasers efficiently navigate various enterprise challenges. Lanza has been an adjunct professor and frequent visitor lecturer, contributing insights on mental property and commercialization at Suffolk College Faculty of Regulation, Boston College Faculty of Regulation, Northeastern College Faculty of Regulation, and the Georgia Institute of Expertise.
  
• Mark O’Toole: Advertising 101 founder O’Toole helps corporations construct compelling manufacturers and model tales, develop aspirational rallying cries, create outlined and clear messaging, and discover probably the most applicable channels by which to inform these tales. With deep public relations and advertising and marketing expertise spanning startups and mature companies alike, O’Toole is a relentless promoter on behalf of his purchasers.
• Ben Waters: With greater than 10 years of expertise working in electrical engineering and robotics, Waters is co-founder and CEO of WiBotic, which develops wi-fi charging techniques for robots of all styles and sizes. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the College of Washington, the place he labored on wi-fi energy applied sciences for implanted gadgets. At WiBotic, Waters leads a staff of engineers, designers, and enterprise builders devoted to fixing the challenges of powering autonomous robots.
• Daniel Theobald: Theobald is the founder and chairman of Vecna Robotics, a versatile, clever supplies dealing with automation supplier. He has been on the forefront of robotics for greater than 20 years, working carefully with DARPA, DoD, NASA, NIH, USDA, and lots of others to advance using robots and AI software program to enhance provide chain automation. Along with founding Vecna, Theobald additionally co-founded MassRobotics, and Twisted Fields, an natural analysis farm devoted to the development of automation in agriculture.
• Joyce Sidopoulos: Sidopoulos is co-founder and chief of operations at MassRobotics. In her function, she works on initiatives to increase the breadth and depth of the robotics ecosystem and develops excessive impression applications, highlighting startups expertise, matching startups with funders and clients, participating with robotics adoption, connecting expertise to employers and dealing with academia to commercialize analysis. Sidopoulos can also be a mentor and choose at accelerator and college entrepreneurship applications.

Second a part of bootcamp focuses on scale

The Robotics Startup Bootcamp Half 2 will embody hearth chats with founders who’ve raised funds and scaled their companies. Discussions will embody the function of accelerators, fundraising, hiring and staff development, and scaling to web optimistic income. Audio system throughout this a part of the bootcamp embody:

• Ninaad Sridharan: Sridharan is the co-founder of brd BOT, the robotic “kitchen in a field” for fried meals. Previous to this enterprise, he was a {hardware} engineer at Intuitive Surgical, designing robotic catheters for reprocessing compliance.
  
• Syed Saquib: Saquib is co-founder and CEO of brd BOT. He acquired his begin in meals tech working at KiwiBot, a sidewalk supply platform.
  
• Niamh Donnelly: Donnelly is co-founder and chief robotics officer at Akara. The corporate develops robots and AI instruments to assist hospitals cut back prices and maximize utilization of their working rooms. Earlier than beginning Akara, Donnelly was a robotics researcher at Trinity Faculty Dublin, the place her analysis featured on the quilt of Time journal. In 2023, she was awarded the celebrated EU Ladies Innovators Award by the European Fee for her work in robotics.
  
• Marita McGinn: McGinn is the director of the MassRobotics Accelerator, a program dedicated to supporting and advancing robotics expertise entrepreneurs. She is a longstanding supporter of early stage startups. Beforehand, McGinn was a expertise banker at Silicon Valley Financial institution, constructed company accelerator applications for the U.S. Air Power and Barclays, and frolicked teaching startups on their gross sales processes.
• Jeff Linnell: Linnell is the founder and CEO of Formant, a cloud robotics platform for companies. As a serial entrepreneur, he has based a number of corporations spanning the domains of internet applied sciences, 3D animation, post-production, and augmented actuality. Earlier than founding Formant, Linnell served as head of robotics at Google X. He beforehand based Autofuss, a design/manufacturing firm, and Bot & Dolly, an engineering studio specializing in automation, robotics, and movie.

About RoboBusiness 2024

Along with startups, RoboBusiness focuses on enabling applied sciences, robotics innovation, and enterprise and funding subjects associated to operating a robotics firm. Keynotes on the occasion will function:

• Rodney Brooks, co-founder and chief expertise officer at Strong AI, in addition to co-founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics
• Sergey Levine, co-founder of Bodily Intelligence and an affiliate professor at UC Berkeley
• Claire Delaunay, chief expertise officer at farm-ng
• Torrey Smith, co-founder and CEO of Endiatx
• A panel on driving robotics innovation with ABB, DHL, NVIDIA, and Teradyne

RoboBusiness will embody greater than 70 audio system, over 100 exhibitors and demos on the expo ground, 10+ hours of devoted networking time, the Pitchfire Robotics Startup Competitors, a Ladies in Robotics Luncheon, and extra.

RoboBusiness is co-located with DeviceTalks West, which focuses on the design and improvement of medical gadgets. 1000’s of robotics practitioners from around the globe will convene on the Santa Clara Conference Heart, so register now to make sure your spot!