From Bottleneck to Speedrun: A New Playbook for Hardware Development

Hardware innovation is full of opportunity — yet hardware engineering remains slow, expensive, and unforgiving compared to software. This talk breaks down the real mechanics of board-level electronics development: the players, dependencies, and hidden constraints that quietly dictate your timeline. Using real project data and case studies (including a startup whose hardware failure proved fatal) Quilter AI’s Staff Electrical Engineer and EDA veteran Ben Jordan pinpoints where hardware projects actually break down, from PCB layout bottlenecks to costly respins. Then he turns to what most teams get wrong about fixing it — and what actually works instead. You’ll leave with a sharper read on where your own hardware risk is hiding, and a concrete playbook for de-risking it.