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Rex St. John
Jun 2018Armroadshow

Arm Innovator Asia Tour

Five cities in three weeks — Taipei, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen — taking the Innovator Program directly to the regional developer communities that actually manufacture this hardware.

Numbers

2,000+
Developers
5
Cities

Taipei on the 8th, Tokyo on the 20th, Beijing the 25th, Shanghai the 27th, Shenzhen the 29th. Run with Hackster.io and a long list of regional co-organisers — the Global Innovation Exchange, the China Software Industry Association, and supporters from Alibaba and AWS through to the City of Seattle.

Asia is where most of this hardware is actually built, and the developer communities there were largely being served in translation, months after the fact. The fix was not better documentation. It was turning up in the room, five times, with Innovators who could answer a question in the local language and a board people could hold.

Photos

  • The tour programme open to the schedule page, listing Taipei, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, beside a page of co-organiser and supporter logos
    The schedule, and the two pages of co-organisers it took to get there.
  • A speaker presenting a slide headed Community to a full room at the Shanghai Mushroom Cloud Maker Space
    Shanghai, at the Mushroom Cloud Maker Space.
  • A speaker addressing a seated audience of roughly fifty developers in a bright open maker space
  • A speaker holding up a development board to a packed room seated on the floor and on sofas
    The format that worked: hold up the board, pass it around, take questions until people stop asking.

Sources

SemiconductorsAIoTRobotics