Garage48 Hardware & Arts Riga

When 29 Sep - 1 Oct, 2017

Where Rīga, Latvia

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  • It is time! The uber-popular Garage48 Hardware & Arts hackathon is coming to Latvia! On the 29th of September - 1st of October, the hands-on hackathon for makers and creators is happening for the first time ever in Riga, Latvia at the RTU Design Factory. Since the first hackathon was held in Tartu, Estonia in 2014, the Garage48 Hardware & Arts hackathons have positioned itself among creative doers from all over the world. 

    Whether you’re a product designer, UI / UX designer, electronics engineer, mechanics engineer, server programmer, mobile or web apps developer, marketer or a researcher; we welcome participants that can deliver working physical prototypes in just 48 hours! The goal for the weekend's boot-camp is to bring new concepts of physical innovations to life, so it's all about challenging yourself and thinking outside-of-the-box!

    Garage48 Hardware & Arts Riga is organised in co-operation with EstLat Accelerate project and hosted by RTU Design Factory. You can join the event with an idea or by having amazing skill-sets! You do not need to have previous hackathon experience, but we expect a willingness to learn and positive attitude! During the hackathon we will take good care of you - you will be mentored by the best, fed the yummiest and introduced to cool new people!

    To make the prototyping hackathon a success for you, we’re also going to organise 2 pre-events that will help you to prepare for the prototyping hackathon. You can join the pre-event in Estonia or Latvia, where you will be able to test your idea for the hackathon and ask questions regarding the event.


    AGENDA for the PRE-EVENTS:

    September 25, 2017

    in Tartu at SPARK Hub (Narva mnt 3)

    at 16:00-20:00
    Register for the Tartu event here: https://beta.doodle.com/poll/av7r7naphy356pkh


    September 26, 2017

    in Riga at TechHub Riga (Sporta street 2, Riga)

    at 16:00-20:00
    Register for the Riga event here: https://beta.doodle.com/poll/iy2bz8thyvexrp7x


    For any questions, please contact us via riga.hardware@garage48.org

    JOIN also our Facebook event page, where we will post up-to-date news and information regarding the hackathon.


    PS! There will be FREE buses leaving from Tallinn and Tartu to Riga and back for our participants!
    Buses leaving from Tallinn to Riga
    Date: 29th of Sept
    When: 9.00 am
    Where: from the G. Otsa street (between Estonian National Opera and Tallinn Secondary School of Science).
    Back: on the 2nd of Oct, around 4:00 am in the morning

    Buses leaving from Tartu to Riga
    Date: 29th of Sept
    When: 12:00 noon
    Where: from the parking lot of Vanemuine and Ülikooli street. 
    Back: on the 2nd of Oct, around 1:00 am in the morning

    You can REGISTER for the buses here: https://beta.doodle.com/poll/8iwvgxggrq5fbhvd


    Friday, 29th of September
    NB! Venue: International Exhibition Center, 2nd floor, Conference Hall (Ķīpsalas Street 8, Riga)

    17:30 - Check-in, networking & snacks

    18:00 - Opening remarks

    18:30 - Pitching ideas in 90"

    19:30 - Refreshment Break

    19:50 - Pitching ideas in 90"

    20:45 - Team formation

    22:00 - Team work begins!


    Saturday, 30th of September
    Venue: RTU Design Factory

    09:00 - Breakfast. Development continues

    10:00 - Checkpoint #1

    11:00 - Mentoring round starts

    13:00 - Lunch

    17.30 - Pitch drill introduction

    18:00 - Checkpoint #2. Development continues...

    19:00 - Dinner  

    20:00 - Development continues


    Sunday, 1st of October

    Venue: RTU Design Factory

    09:00 - Breakfast. Development continues

    09:30 - Checkpoint #3

    10:00 - Pitch drill session #1

    13:00 - Lunch

    13:30 - Pitch drill session #2

    15:30 - CLEANING

    16:00 - Refreshment break

    17:00 - Finale. Pitching session.

    18:30 - Refreshment break and Jury takes the time to select winners

    19:00 - Award ceremony & networking

    21:00 - Buses leave for Tallinn




    We'll start on Friday at 17:30 with opening doors. Please come on time, as the registration process might take some time. This time before the official opening is a great opportunity for getting to know the crowd and to network. See the agenda for further information.

    WHAT TO BRING WITH YOU?

    Positive attitude, open mind and lots of energy! Everything you need for a rapid product development. We will have equipment and materials on site, but to be sure we recommend you to bring your own stuff as well. You never know when you need something yourself or if you could help out another team. Sharing is caring! :)
    The fact is that, if you build something what really works on Sunday evening, then we will not ask the bits and pieces back - you don't have to break your prototype, the team can take the it home and continue working on it. This does not apply though for more expensive things - you can not take an oscilloscope with you or set of tweezers etc.

    Please take your:
    laptop
    3-5m power extension cord (as power might be on distance),
    mobile phone
    all chargers
    Optional:
    photo camera to take and share photos
    mattress
    sleeping bag and towel (in case you registered for sleepover at the venue)
    credit cards for domain registration
    business cards (if you have any)

    PITCHING IDEAS

    Ideas are presented based on "elevator-pitch" method within 90 seconds. Event host and audience can ask 1 to 3 short questions.
    You can prepare 1 (one) PDF slide to support your pitch. You should send the slide by Friday noon (29.09), at the e-mail riga.hardware@garage48.org (Subject: name of your project).

    Consider following key points:

    - Describe briefly your background (10 sec)

    - What is the name of the idea (5 sec)

    - What's the idea all about? What is the problem your idea solves? Target user count and description (30 sec)

    - Technical solution and if there is a revenue model (in case of non-profit idea, how the maintenance and further development costs will be covered?) (30 sec)

    - Minimum viable product and plan for 48 hours. Who do you need for the team? (20 sec)

    NB! Practice your pitch to your friends or family before you present! 90 seconds goes really fast!

    FORMING TEAMS

    After pitching is over, we will put all the ideas on the wall. Every participant will choose their favourite idea and this is how teams will be formed. Usually 16 to 18 best ideas will get enough interested people to get the "green light" for the implementation.
    Average team has about 5 to 7 people and the team should be "balanced" - covering all required roles like necessary engineers, designer, a project manager (team lead/visionary), and marketer in order to get the product/service ready in 48 hours! Minimum size for a team is 4 people and max is 8 people.
    If some ideas get too few people or not balanced teams (probably unable to build the service), the idea will be dumped. Those people should choose another idea/team.

    WORKING IN TEAMS

    After forming the teams, organizers will give a room/space for every team for the weekend. You should start by dividing roles, setting the product vision, customer journey and start working right away.
    It is very important that you have a project manager (team lead) in the team - one of his tasks is to keep the focus of the team, one eye on the clock and the other on the team progress. 48 hours is really a short time.
    Food and drinks. We provide breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday and Sunday. So, you could focus on work and building your product.

    MENTORS

    We have arranged mentors to work with the teams throughout the weekend. Some of them are more technical, some more business savvy. Be open and ask for their advice and contacts.
    Please wear your name badge during the whole event, this will help to encourage networking and gets you inside through security guards. Otherwise be open, get to know new people, share your ideas and give ideas/feedback to other teams.

    MOST IMPORTANT - have fun!




    WHAT IS SAID

    #G48AH #G48RIGA

    THE SUPERSTARS
    The Mentors 

    Krists Avots
    Director of Business Development @ Lattelecom
    Andrejs Pukitis
    Founder at Baltic Lasers SIA
    Emil Syundyukov
    Lead at Start(IT) Foundation
    Viesturs Sosārs
    Co-founder at TechHub Riga
    Priit Salumaa
    CEO & Founder at Better Medicine
    Jānis Dimpers
    Rocket guidance engineer, Audio/video broadcast engineer at MTG
    Juris Krūmiņš
    Regional Manager at Bolt Latvia
    Guntis Kuļikovskis
    Technical Director at Winmill
    Gundars Miezītis
    3D scanning, CNC Milling, Robotics at RTU
    Mindaugas Valkavičius
    3D printing, stockmaster, materials & moduling at RTU Design Factory
    Pēteris Sala
    Design Unicorn, Modelling, 3D Printing at RTU Design Factory
    Fricis Kalvelis
    Product design guru, 3D Modelling, 3D Printing at RTU Design Factory
    Andris Tjulins
    CNC, 3D Modelling, Lasercutting at RTU
    Kristens Raščevskis
    3D modelling, Prototyping, Mechanics at RTU
    Sergejs Luhmirins
    Android Tech Lead at FullContact
    Aleksandrs Kikuts
    IoT Specialist, Operation & Support at Tele2
    Mareks Birznieks
    Designer
    Martin Melioranski
    Chartered Architect and Director of 3DL at Estonian Academy of Arts
    Janis Lapsa
    product design, prototyping, 3D modeling @ RTU Design Factory
    Harijs Grīnbergs
    CTO at Winmill
    Aldis Cimoška
    Member of the Management Board; Ventspils Plant manager at HansaMatrix AS
    Mikus Dubickis
    Business Management Lecturer and Researcher at RTU
    Uldis Kalejs
    Service and Technology Development Expert at sia Lattelecom
    Andris Stabiņš
    Creative director / Designer at SQUALIO
    Kristofers Celms
    Head of Electronics and Software at Mass Portal
    Reinis Lazdāns
    Hardware Engineer at Mass Portal
    Jānis Peipers
    Technical support at Mass Portal
    Valters Celmiņš
    Electronics Engineer at Mass Portal
    Vladislavs Maksimcuks
    Software Engineer at FullContact inc.
    Linda Reneslace
    Associate at Law firm Sorainen
    Ksenija Suvorova
    IoT System developer, Product & Technology at Tele2 IoT
    Krists Darzins
    Art Director at Digibrand, Co-founder at Corebook.io

    Organizers

    Anu Piirisild
    Event Producer at GrIdEST
    Viesturs Sosārs
    Co-founder @ TechHub Riga
    Laura Grikke
    Project Manager @ TechHub Riga
    Ieva Upeniece
    Community, Social Media and Communications 
    Emil Syundyukov
    Lead @ Start(IT) Educational Foundation
    Alona Belinska
    Project Manager @ Latvian Startup Association Startin.LV
    Liene Briede 
    RTU Design Factory
    Triin Liiv
    Social Media Marketing @ Garage48, Marketing Manager @ Lava Media

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