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Saturday, June 25th, Main Event In Menlo Park, CA

Don't Miss June's Main Event!

This Month: Learn How To Develop and Bring Your Products To Market, Patent Search and More!

Featured Speakers:
Bruce Lundeen & Guy Mcllroy


Company: 

       

"Full Cycle Design: The Easier Way To Transform Ideas Into Products
The Journey Of Business Partners Bruce Lundeen and Guy Mcllroy: From An Idea To The Apple Stores Shelves"

Bruce and Guy worked to help develop Peel, an exciting product that turns your iPhone into a universal remote control. Come learn from this success and their other new product successes, so you can do the same and bring your product to market.
 
Learn:
 
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Featured Speaker
Larisa Migachyov, Patent Attorney

Patent Searching

Learn...

Learn how to do a patent search to find out if your idea is really new and if it can be patented.

Patent searching is not as difficult as you think. Anyone can do it. You just need to learn a few skills.
 

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LOCATION:
Saturday, June 25th, 2011
Menlo Park, California
Tech Shop, which is located at 120 Independence Dr, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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AGENDA

9:15 am - 9:45 am - Check In & Networking
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9:45 am - 10:30 am - Larisa Migachyov - Patent Searching
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10:30 am - 12:15 pm - Bruce Lundeen & Guy Mcllroy - Full Cycle Design: Transforming Ideas Into Products
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12:15 pm - 12:45 pm - Networking

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Complete details on attending can be found toward the bottom of this email.
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Featured Speakers
Bruce Lundeen & Guy Mcllroy


“Full Cycle Design: The Easier Way To Transform Ideas Into Products
The Journey Of Business Partners Bruce Lundeen and Guy Mcllroy: From An Idea To The Apple Store Shelves"
 
Bruce and Guy worked to help develop Peel, an exciting product that turns your iPhone into a universal remote control. Come learn from this success and their other new product successes, so you can do the same and bring your product to market.
 
Learn:
 
  • What full cycle design is
  • How to use full cycle design to transform your ideas into products
     
  • How Bruce and Guy were able to help put Peel into the Apple store
  • What has Bruce been up to since the Weemote (his very succesful remote control for kids)
     
  • How to develop your product idea and take it in the right direction until it's on store shelves

About The Peel:

A smart product that turns your iPhone into a universal remote -- using a wireless external IR blaster


The idea of using an iPhone or iPod touch as a universal remote has been tossed around for years, but it's always required either a finicky external dongle or an extravagantly expensive home automation rig. Instead, we've been treated to a host of single-device remote apps for everything from FiOS, DirecTV, Comcast, and Dish Network DVRs to the Apple TV to the Boxee Box to... well, you name it.

Bruce Lundeen and Guy Mcllroy and the other partners as Peel launched the Peel Universal Control system, which is designed to take your iPhone or iPod touch head-to-head with universal remote heavyweights like Logitech's Harmony system.

The Peel company is made up of former Apple engineers, and their solution is extremely novel: instead of attaching a dongle to the iPhone itself, they're controlling your A/V rack using a pear-sized (and Yves Behar-designed) wireless IR blaster that's supposed to live quietly on your coffee table. The blaster (called the Peel Fruit) connects over ZigBee to a tiny network adapter (the Peel Cable, also designed by Behar) that attaches directly to an open Ethernet port on your WiFi router -- a two-part hardware setup that seems fussy, but is designed to obviate the need for software configuration during installation, and allows the IR blaster to run for nine months on a single C battery.

Credit for article above goes to http://www.engadget.com

About The Speakers

Bruce Lundeen

Bruce Lundeen is a creative thinking hardware engineer and engineering manager with an extensive product development background. He is a full cycle product designer with expertise in embedded consumer design needing wireless interfaces, low power battery operation, amongst others requirements.

Bruce uses this background and experience to bring ideas from the napkin and create award winning products. Ever since his first work experience in college maintaining electronics gear for various industries, Bruce has developed an unique perspective in full cycle design and how important customer feedback is.

Bruce has designed and deployed products that have reached the marketplace in partnership with large, small and start-up companies. A number of patents pending.

Recent history:

Koliada - Principal Hardware Engineer – full-cycle product realization

Peel - Founder, Hardware Engineering –smartphone remote control

LIZCON -  Founder, Mechanical Engineering and design – RV Products

Trimble - Senior Contract Engineer – Mobile resource Management

Livescribe - Senior Contract Engineer – Smart Pen Design

Weemote - Partner and Design Engineer – Weemote Remote control


Guy McIlroy

Guy Mcllroy has a varied product engineering background that combines to provide deep consumer and embedded expertise, experience and leadership. He is a product architect with extensive hardware, software and technology experience for a broad spectrum of technical domains including wireless LAN, WiFi, wide area wireless, Bluetooth, TCP/IP, Mobile O/S, RTOS, distributed data systems, hardware integration, real time data acquisition, telemetry, data systems and various programming languages.

Guy has designed, implemented and deployed products in consumer and industrial markets ranging from mining and smelting industries to hip technorati and well understand the rigors of industrial, consumer and embedded product development. He has nine patents either issued or pending.

Recent history:

Koliada - Founder, Principal Engineer – full-cycle product realization

Peel - Founder, Systems Engineering – smart phone remote control

Quidillum - Founder, Chief Architect – digital content analytics technology

CTO of RadioLAN – 802.11a backhaul, sold to Harris-Stratex (now Aviat Networks).

Chief Architect - Openwave/IBM alliance ($20mm joint venture)

Freerein - Chief Scientist – Architect for a $15MM wireless start-up

Palm - Senior Architect - Palm advanced development group

Apple - Architect - Airport product conception, Newton communications architecture.
 
 
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Featured Speaker
Larisa Migachyov, Patent Attorney
 
Patent Searching
 
Learn...
  • Why patent searching is important
  • How to do patent searching
  • What to look for when doing patent serching

Learn how to do a patent search to find out if your idea is really new and if it can be patented.

Patent searching is not as difficult as you think. Anyone can do it. You just need to learn a few skills.

 
About The Speaker
 
Larisa Migachyov brings real-world engineering experience to her patent practice. She holds a Master's degree in biomechanical engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering (minor in mathematics) from the University of Minnesota. While at Stanford, she obtained a patent for an invention of her own (U.S. Pat. No. 6,304,840), and invented several other devices. After graduating, she worked as a mechanical engineer for several years before opening her own design consulting firm, serving individual inventors and assisting them with design for manufacturability, industrial design, prototype creation, and the drafting of patent drawings.

Ms. Migachyov passed the Patent Bar Exam in 2005 and became a patent agent; shortly thereafter, she entered law school at the University of Pennsylvania. Throughout law school, Ms. Migachyov maintained a patent prosecution practice. After graduating from law school, she worked for the prestigious firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, specializing in patent litigation, before opening her own practice.

Ms. Migachyov is fluent in Russian and is very happy to work with Russian-speaking clients.
 
 
 
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LOCATION:
Menlo Park, California
Tech Shop, which is located at 120 Independence Dr, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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TIME:
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