JP Chen
Senior Director, Quality & Automation @ Supermicro
Build Better Electronics Manufacturing Summit
Wednesday October 7th, 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area
The only conference for manufacturing leaders developing electronics.
300+
registrants
Personalized Networking
50% of Attendees
VP - C Level
Featured Speakers
Tony Aghazarian
Former Senior Director @ Apple, Former COO @ Archer
Jer Kuempel
Former Head of Hardware @ Limitless
Eric Migicovsky
Former CEO and Founder @ Pebble
Why attend?
Build Better is the only conference dedicated to those building highly complex electronics.
Share learnings from leaders across AI infrastructure, consumer, and defense.
Schedule of Sessions
Achieving Speed of Light in Production
What are the limiting factors in your production system — and how can you systemically eliminate them to achieve "speed-of-light production"? Leaders share their systems behind rapid production ramps and continuous yield and throughput optimization.
AI Native Manufacturing
From how we work to how we build, AI is already transforming the factory floor. Join this discussion on what leaders are implementing today, the real results they are getting, and what they believe "AI Native Manufacturing" looks like from NPI to scale.
The Test Frontier: AI Compute Systems
AI trays and racks are the most complex electronics being built at scale today — and testing these systems is a herculean challenge. Explore the evolving discipline of test engineering, from hardware and fixture design to software, automation, telemetry, and AI-powered diagnostics. Learn how engineering teams are reducing escapes, accelerating debug, and scaling test for increasingly complex systems.
What the Eras of Wearable Intelligence Reveal About What's Next
From Pebble and Apple Watch to AI-native wearables and the next wave of ambient computing, the builders behind defining eras of wearable intelligence unpack what each generation taught us about technology, design, and human behavior. What happens next as intelligence moves beyond the screen and becomes something we wear, carry, and increasingly live with?
Unbuild Better
As hardware becomes more valuable, complex, and resource-intensive, its second life is becoming part of the engineering problem. Leaders across AI infrastructure and high-volume electronics explore how products are being recovered, rebuilt, redeployed, and designed for a world where the end of one product lifecycle can be the beginning of another.
More to be announced...
2026 BUILD BETTER SPEAKERS
The leaders and visionaries from across the hardware and manufacturing world, coming together on the USS Hornet.
President, Product Test Group @ Teradyne
Product Engineering Manager @ Meta
CEO & Co-Founder @ MOLG
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Build Better FAQ
Build Better is an annual event for leaders building complex electronics. This event is a knowledge summit dedicated to sharing practical advice, not selling. Hear talks from leaders in the industry from consumer electronics, defense electronics, and AI compute infrastructure builders.
The summit takes place on the deck of the USS Hornet museum in Alameda, CA.
Build Better is for people building electronics. While most of our talks are geared towards the manufacturing executive, we welcome all hardware builders. To keep the group focused, we limit tickets to those in the industry.
We have a variety of sponsorship opportunities, and speaker positions. If you would like to speak at, or sponsor Build Better, please reach out to communications@instrumental.com and we will get in touch.
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