From prototype to full-scale production – Inspiration and networking.
- 20 aug2025
We bring together hardware startups, manufacturers, advisors, investors, mentors and others with experience and interests within manufacturing in an informal setting to encourage effective networking and exchange of tips and ideas.
Learn more about the 16 innovative startups in Batch 3 here (in Danish).
Future Manufacturers is a collaboration between DI Produktion, MADE and Industriens fond. The program helps Danish hardware startups go from prototype to full-scale production.
Dato
20 august 2025 kl. 15:00 - 17:30
Sted
Industriens Hus
H. C. Andersens Blvd. 18
1553 København
Danmark
Sprog
English
Tilmeldingsfrist
20 august 2025 kl. 10:00
Pris
Participation is free of charge. If you are registered and do not attend without notifying in advance, a no-show fee of 250 DKK (excluding VAT) will be charged.
MADE: Senior Consultant Anders Sparre, asparre@made.dk, +45 2627 2494
Program
14.30 Registration
15.00 Future Manufacturers meetup with startups, manufacturers, advisors, investors and more
We bring together hardware startups, manufacturers, advisors, investors, mentors and others with experience and interests within manufacturing in an informal setting to encourage effective networking and exchange of tips and ideas.
15.15 Hardware is hard – Especially on your bank account
Do you know your true cost of goods? A great hardware product is only as good as its financial foundation. The path from idea to a profitable product is a minefield of hidden costs, inventory traps, and funding gaps. Financial management will soon be one of your most powerful tools for survival.
Mikkel Kristiansen, CEO of VentriJect, will share some of the essential metrics and rules that separate successful hardware startups from the rest.
15.35 Avoid feature creep – and get your product into users' hands faster
The biggest challenge in product development is rarely innovation. It's discipline. While it would be great to develop a product that solves several problems at once, it would most likely take a lot of time to get all features to play well together. You have to kill those 'darling' features before they kill your time-to-market.
Jan Larsen, Sr. VP of R&D at INVISIO, will share how established hardware players rigorously define, prioritize and avoid the pitfalls of endless feature additions.
16.00 Our current challenges – with the startups of Batch 3
The participating startups in Batch 3 will each give a short presentation of their current manufacturing related challenges – and hopefully others in the room can provide advice or connections to help them overcome their challenges. Challenges could include anything from decisions about materials, sourcing of components, mechanical design issues to CE marking, packaging and make-or-buy decisions. And much more.
16.30 - 17.30 Networking, drinks and snacks
