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When off-the-shelf doesn't fit: owning your schematic tooling

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When
6:00 PM
Where
Downtown
Format
Networking, Panel / Fireside Chat and Pitch Event / Demo Day
When off-the-shelf doesn't fit: owning your schematic tooling artwork

/ About this event

Your engineers still draw schematics in tools built for a different decade, or pay per seat for software that makes them work the vendor's way. There's a third option.

A talk and live demo for senior engineering leaders in electrical, PCB, and hardware design. The subject: what happens when schematic and circuit design work moves to the browser, on a foundation your team owns outright.

Off-the-shelf tools fit you into a box. Per-seat, cloud-locked, no branding, no source. Building from zero means months of engineering on a canvas, wire routing, and junction logic before any of your domain rules exist. We'll walk a third path: start from a working, open-source schematic canvas, then extend it into the tool your team or your customers actually use. Live demo of a single-line diagram template you can click tonight, an honest scope (where we hand off cleanly to AutoCAD, KiCad, Altium), and where AI helps versus where a deterministic, engineer-controlled canvas still wins.

Bring the tooling problem you haven't been able to buy your way out of. Let's have a real talk.

This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.

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