Build Better Electronics Manufacturing Summit
Wednesday September 30th, 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
The only conference for manufacturing leaders
developing electronics.
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2024 Event Recap
Last year’s Build Better event over 300 engineering and operations leaders on the USS Hornet to discuss the future of electronics manufacturing.
300+ attendees
Personalized Networking
50% of Attendees VP - C Level
Knowledge
Summit
30+ Speakers
Build Better is the only summit for leaders driving the future of complex electronics. Founded by Instrumental CEO Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, it was created to fill the gap for an electronics-focused conference.
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Empowering engineering and operations teams to excel. Become a part of the Build Better Community.
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2024 Event Speakers
Kyle Weins
iFixit, CEO
Kyle Wiens is the CEO of iFixit, the free repair manual. He’s dedicated his life to defeating the second law of thermodynamics, a battle fought in the courtroom as often as in the workshop. The Right to Repair campaign has, so far, successfully legalized cell phone unlocking and tractor repair. Kyle regularly speaks on design for repair, service documentation, and the environmental impact of manufacturing. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Popular Mechanics, and the Wall Street Journal.
Anna Shedletsky
Instrumental, CEO
Anna-Katrina Shedletsky is the CEO and founder of Instrumental Inc., a manufacturing data company creating the first end-to-end optimization platform for product teams building electronic devices. Instrumental combines AI-powered defect and anomaly detection, failure analysis tools, complete issue monitoring and reporting, and production-quality in-line tests into a single end-to-end optimization platform.
Anna-Katrina holds two degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. Before founding Instrumental, she led system product design for the first-generation Apple Watch program, and contributed to several generations of iPod mechanical design.
Anna-Katrina holds two degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. Before founding Instrumental, she led system product design for the first-generation Apple Watch program, and contributed to several generations of iPod mechanical design.
Kyle Weins
iFixit, CEO
Kyle Wiens is the CEO of iFixit, the free repair manual. He’s dedicated his life to defeating the second law of thermodynamics, a battle fought in the courtroom as often as in the workshop. The Right to Repair campaign has, so far, successfully legalized cell phone unlocking and tractor repair. Kyle regularly speaks on design for repair, service documentation, and the environmental impact of manufacturing. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Popular Mechanics, and the Wall Street Journal.
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