Fireside Chat with the Keyboard Master — Tech in the Tropics 14

Hey tech fam!! 👋

Remember when phones had BUTTONS? 📱⌨️

Last month JAVIER took us deep inside the brain — mouse visual systems, REAL neuro networks, robot dogs 🧠🦾 this month we're going back to the thing your thumbs miss most.

🔥 TECH IN THE TROPICS 14: FIRESIDE CHAT WITH THE KEYBOARD MASTER 🔥

I am handing off the stage — well, the fireplace 🔥 — to JOSEPH HOFER, former Senior Industrial Designer at BLACKBERRY, now running Hofer Studio and advising the team at Clicks Technologies (yes, THOSE keyboards) ⌨️✨

"The journey from BlackBerry senior industrial design to creating tactile inputs for the world"

🦾 This one is a proper fireside chat + LIVE Q&A — no slides to hide behind, and no excuse not to ask him the thing you've always wanted to know about why your phone became a slab of glass. Bring questions 🙋🏽

⚠️ NOTE THE TIME — we start at 4PM this time, not our usual 6:30. Show up late and you'll be walking in on the good part 😤

📅 Saturday, September 12th ⏰ 4:00PM (yes. 4.) 📍 BRASSHOUSE — Bld 150, 1368 Intl. Cultural St. Shuiwei Village, Futian, Shenzhen 🎟️ FREE — scan the QR on the poster to RSVP 扫码预定

What's in store: brews, cool nerds and techies to meet, some lively debates about haptics vs. the real thing, and a room full of grown adults getting emotional over blackberry designs 🥲

See yall Saturday in the tropics 🌴