January 31, 2019 Research
Industry Trends and Market Opportunities – Sensors, Minaturization, Technical Convergence
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March 21, 2019 Commercialization
Go to Market Strategies, Financing options, Global Supply Chains, B2B & B2C
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May 23, 2019 Innovation
Understanding Your Core Competencies and Value Propositions in the World of Electronic Hardware Design
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Sept 19, 2019 Innovation
Selecting Components & Solutions for Software & Hardware Design & Understanding “DFX”
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The 2019 Driving Dreams Expert Series is designed for anyone who is developing a new electronic/hardware/software product. We’ll address the most relevant issues and decisions for these innovators through a series of panel discussions, workshops and networking events throughout the year. By bringing industry experts, thought leaders and technical professionals together, this program will provide an outstanding forum for collaborating and resourcing.
Some technical innovators work in corporations. Some work as entrepreneurs. They all face the challenge of developing a product and bringing it to market in an environment of rapid technological change. In these workshops, attendees will learn about choosing an architecture or topology, understanding market trends, dealing with obsolescence and cost/performance trade offs. These are only a few of the complex issues that innovators must address.
Cloud, Wireless Protocol, End Point Gateway, SaaS, HaaS, IoT, IIot, MIoT, Industry 4.0, Modular Verses Discrete, AI, AR and VR
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January 31, 2019
ResearchHosted at Arrow Electronics
Industry Trends and Market Opportunities – Sensors, Miniaturization, Technical Convergence Join this session to get up to speed on all the market trends hot from CES 2019 in Las Vegas. You’ll learn exactly how these market and technology changes will impact the product you are working on. You’ll also learn about emerging trends that will impact your product roadmap. You may find some of the biggest opportunities for your product’s success by taking advantage of the evolution of the technology landscape over the next 3 to 5 years. This session will cover frameworks for evaluating your innovations, including future focused research and identifying general problems that your technology can address.
Hands-On session – Intel
Keynote speaker – Alex Fesiak , IoT Business Development Manager, Arrow Electronics
Tech Workshop: 8:30am – 1:00pm
Keynote, panel and networking: 2:00pm – 6:00pm
March 21, 2019
CommercializationHosted at Arrow Electronics Go To Market Strategies Learn the best marketing strategy for your products, HaaS, SaaS, White Label and Channel Partners. Increase your customer engagement by understanding their needs and building a unique profile.
Learn how to finance hardware in the Canadian Environment. Where do you get financing? Abroad? Corporate R&D partners and investors? Selling – B2B and B2C – What are the considerations for each, common requirements, pitfalls, who makes buying decisions, how to reach the right people. Consumer products – Selling to large chain retailers and monetizing data, IoT, collecting data; How and what information to collect, where to store it, etc. How to use data to scale and remain competitive.
Hands-On session – Arrow
Keynote Speaker – Greg Dashwood – Microsoft
Tech Workshop: 8:30am – 1:00pm
Keynote, panel and networking: 2:00pm – 4:30pm
May 23, 2019
InnovationHosted at Arrow Electronics
Understanding your core competencies and value propositions in the world of smart product design Innovation is required to remain competitive and expand business. There are many facets consider to promote innovation and creativity within a business. You’ll come away from this conference with a better understanding of this complex subject. Questions that concerns most businesses are whether to make component parts themselves or by modular systems, and whether to purchase products locally or from abroad. Which supply chain strategy and manufacturing strategy is best for your business? Should you source products from China? If you do business abroad, how do you protect your intellectual property?
Hands-On session – Digi International, Modular Solutions Speeding Time to Market
Keynote Speaker – Bereskin Parr – Protecting Your Intellectual Property
Tech Workshop: 8:30am – 1:00pm
Keynote, panel and networking: 2:00pm – 6:00pm
June 20, 2019
Research
Hosted at Arrow Electronics
Business & Technology Fundamentals (Product-market fit)
Hands-On session – Multi-Protocol Solutions For Design Flexibility presented by SiLabs
Keynote Speaker – Certification and Compliance: Regulatory Hurdles for Wireless Technology presented by Nemko Canada
Tech Workshop: 8:30am – 12:00pm
Keynote, panel and networking: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
September 19, 2019
InnovationHosted at Arrow Electronics Selecting Components & Solutions for software & Hardware design & Understanding “DFX”
Encouraging innovation in your business is vital to staying ahead of the competition and prospering in the 21st century global environment. To succeed, you must know your core competencies, and understand the regulations for hardware products (signal / radiation etc), software trends, sensor software, open source and so on. Another concern is how to create a collaborative echo system. How do you work with partners, AI and block chain? What environmental risks are there from the components to the packaging? To create great products, you must understand the building blocks of electronic design, and design for “test; design for de-risking “. The best practice is to design for excellence (DFX) by designing for test, manufacturability, and production.
Hands-On session – ADI – Do you need to rapidly prototype your new idea? ADI’s new MeasureWare Solution is revolutionising the product development process enabling Scientists, Engineers and Entrepreneurs, to build a working, sensing prototype in minutes.
Presenters:
Robert Finnerty – Applications Engineer, ADI
Fiona Treacy – Marketing Manager, ADI
Keynote:
David Allen, Intel
Panel Discussion:
Mike Brown, Swift Labs
Mark Wood, Microart Services
Greg Durlacher, Silicon Experts
Robert McMillan, CENGN – Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks
Tech Workshop: 8:30am – 12:00pm
Keynote, panel and networking: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
November 14, 2019
DEMO DAY & INVESTOR SHOWCASEBrampton Economic Development
Companies must have attended at least 2 of the sessions to participate in Demo Day. Review panel approves companies to participate based on readiness
