Wellington & Lower Hutt Seminar

May 23 2012
Category: 
Product Life Cycle

The popular and informative seminar 'Successful Product Development - from idea to implementation' will be run in Wellington and Lower Hutt with Grow Wellington and Victoria School of Design. This seminar will answer:

  • What makes a great product?
  • How do you know your idea is worth pursuing?
  • How do you fund the development?
  • And then, how do go about realising it?

Timothy Allan (Locus Research), Paul Davies (EverEdgeIP), Jonathan Prince (Motovated Design & Analysis), Richard Templer (IRL), and Professor Simon Fraser,Tim Miller, Tiago Rorke, & Kah Chan (Victoria School of Design)  with the support of Industrial Research Limited, Grow Wellington and Victoria School of Design will be presenting this seminar on:

  • Identifying a winning product
  • Protecting and leveraging your ideas
  • Developing and engineering your vision
  • Raising capital and finance
  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Emerging Technology
This is a practical workshop focused on commercialisation. Our industry experts will help you develop your idea and ensure you have the best possible chance of success in the market.

We will also be talking about Advanced Manufacturing (IRL) and Emerging Scenarios - Exporting to the Internet (Victoria) with a closing panel session chaired by Professor Simon Fraser.


 

Who should Attend:

 
Entrepreneurs, business owners, investors, senior managers, designers & engineers looking to:
  • Assess and identify development ideas
  • Develop products, services or machines
  • Improve their development processes
  • Improve their understanding of how to protect and use IP
  • Raise capital to fund development and commercialization

General Runsheet

4:30 pm Drinks/Networking

5:00 pm Start & Introduction by the EDA

5:10 pm Identifying Winning Products – Timothy Allan (Locus Research)

5:35 pm Commercialising IP – Paul Davies (EveredgeIP)

6:00 pm Advanced Manufacturing & Technology – Dr. Richard Templer (IRL)

6:25 pm Engineering your Vision – Jonathan Prince (Motovated Design & Analysis)

6:50 pm Emerging Scenarios - Exporting to the Internet (Tim Miller, Tiago Rorke, Kah Chan)

7:15pm Panel Discussion chaired by Prof Simon Fraser

 

Wellington Seminar
When: Wednesday 23 May. Refreshments from 4:30pm, Seminar 5:00–7:45pm
Where: Victoria School of Design, Vivian Street, Wellington, Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1)
RSVP to: seminars@motovated.co.nz

Lower Hutt Seminar

When: Thursday 24 May. Refreshments from 4:30pm, Seminar 5:00–7:45pm
Where: The Alan MacDiarmid Theatre, 69 Gracefield Road, Seaview, Lower Hutt
RSVP to: seminars@motovated.co.nz
Motovated Design & Analysis
EverEdge IP
Industrial Research Ltd
Grow Wellington
Victoria School of Design