ThingsCon, a conference about the future of hardware, connected devices and Internet of Things (IoT), will be held in Berlin, Germany from May 8.
The two-day event will see leading designers, developers, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, artists, startups, investors and innovators attending workshops, talks and networking.
With an international and highly diverse line-up of about 40 speakers, the participants will get to explore everything it takes to grow a hardware product from prototype to scaling business – and help participants build the companies of tomorrow.
Speakers include science fiction authors Bruce Sterling and Warren Ellis, UX designer Claire Rowland, futurist Scott Smith, product designer Marcel Schouwenaar, designers Tina Aspiala and Sami Niemelä, ethnographer Georgina Voss, open data activists Zara Rahman and Julia Kloiber, artist and creative technologist Michael Ang, professors Jon Rogers, Andrea Krajewski and Elisa Giaccardi, VP of Product at Spark.io Richard Whitney, and many more.
Topics at ThingsCon include areas as diverse as IoT, trends, manufacturing, product design, connectivity, service design, design fiction, software and hardware development, open source, 3D printing, wearables, best practices and many more.
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