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<center>SegwayFest
Overview of Segway Seminars and Workshops
August 29-30, 2003</center>
<center>__________________________________________________ ___________________</center>
<center>SEGWAY WORKSHOPS</center>
Care and Feeding of Batteries
Facilitator: Ron Reich, Leader of Design Engineering
This presentation provides tips for caring for your battery in order to optimize range and the long-term life of the battery pack. Ron will offer riding suggestions that can help maximize your battery range.
The Parts That Make the Product
Facilitator: Ron Reich, Leader of Design Engineering
This interactive overview of the parts that are at the heart of the Segway HT will provide insight into what makes the Segway HT so remarkable. Ron will use a display of actual components to walk you through the different parts of the machine.
Segway HT Remote Mobility Platform (RMP) Demonstration
Facilitators: John Morrell, Chief Development Engineer, Michael Kaufman, Embedded Software Engineer
Segway engineers will demonstrate an adaptation of the Segway HT balancing technology recently developed for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). This device allows equipment to be deployed on a remotely controlled balancing mobility platform. This platform features many of the same kinds of benefits familiar to you with your Segway HT but for moving equipment rather than human cargo: a high center of gravity with a small footprint, a smooth coordinated ride, and the ability to turn in place.
The Soul of Segway: Integrating Engineering and Design in the Development Process
Speakers: Doug Field, Chief Engineer and Soulkeeper, and Scott Waters, Lead Industrial Designer
In this presentation Doug will focus on the difference between "ideation-focused" and "execution-focused" cultures, and the need to marry the two in order to consistently deliver successful, innovative products. Scott will focus on the design and creation of the Segway HT, discussing the principles involved and the achievements that garnered the 2002 Industrial Design Excellence Award (Gold Medal in Transportation) and the 2003 I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review Consumer Products award.
Panel Discussion with Segway Product Development
Facilitator: Frank Tropea, Administrator SegwayChat.com
Panel Participants: Doug Field, Chief Engineer; JD Heinzmann, Development Engineer; Ron Reich, Leader of Design Engineering and Scott Waters, Lead Industrial Designer;
Members of the Segway Product Development team will answer questions about the product development process, invention and the Segway HT that SegwayFest attendees submit. Please submit questions to the question box at the cocktail reception on Friday evening. Due to time constraints not all questions will be answered. Attendees will be called upon to pose the selected questions.
Keynote Address
Speaker: Dean Kamen, Founder and Chairman, Segway LLC; President, DEKA Research and Development Corp., Founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
<center>ONGOING ACTIVITIES</center>
Energy Analysis
Facilitators: JD Heinzmann, Development Engineer, Michael Kaufman, Embedded Software Engineer, John Morrell, Chief Development Engineer
Verify that your Segway HT is using its battery power efficiently. Find out how your riding style affects the range you get from a battery charge. Take a peek at the awesome amount of data the Segway HT relies on to produce a safe and satisfying glide. Segway engineers will attach a specially instrumented control shaft to your machine that will display the energy being used and other interesting parameters. They will run your machine on a test stand to verify that it is transmitting power to the wheels efficiently. You will also be able to drive around and see how your gliding style demands power from the batteries and how it affects range. Let’s see who can glide the most energy efficiently. Try writing your name in the path that you glide and see how it appears in the data. You will leave with a printout summarizing the energy performance of your Segway HT and other scintillating data.
In order to participate you will need to sign up on site for a time slot and bring your own machine to the Energy Station. Space is limited.
Segway HT Software Upgrades
Facilitators: Jeff Brown, Service Technician, and Michael Kaufman, Embedded Software Engineer
Still or video photography not allowed in upgrade area.
A Segway Service Technician will outfit your Segway HT with a complimentary upgrade to 11.0 software, the latest version available. The installation process will include downloading certain information regarding your Segway HT use including total hours of run time as well as some reliability and performance data. This is the same information a service technician would normally retrieve if trying to diagnose a broken HT. Your willingness to share this data will allow us to understand and evolve our product based on Segway use from our most passionate and loyal customers.
In order to participate you will need to sign up on site for a time slot and bring your own machine to the Upgrade Station. Space is limited.
Cleaning and Maintenance of Your Segway HT
Facilitator: Jeff Brown, Service Technician
Learn the importance and how to’s of keeping your machine in tip-top shape.
p-Series Demonstrations
Experience the highly anticipated Segway HT p-Series for yourself.
INDEPENDENCE™ IBOT™ Mobility System Demonstrations
Facilitator: Kurt Heinzmann, Development Engineer, DEKA Research and Development
Kurt will demonstrate the IBOT and answer questions about its development and its role in the lives of individuals with disabilities.
<center>FEATURES</center>
Segway Merchandise Booth
Ginger Museum
Segway HT Agility Course – Attendees can ride. Helmets required.
Segway Home Video – Shown at Friday evening cocktail reception.
<center>UPDATE FROM SEGWAYFEST ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: SEGWAY HT RAFFLE!</center>
This just in, 7/19/03: Wait, there's even more! Segway LLC has announced today that the company will donate a new Segway HT (model to be announced) to the SegwayFest Organizing Committee. The Committee has elected to hold a raffle, open exclusively to SegwayFest attendees, to benefit FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). All proceeds will be forwarded to the National FIRST Committee. For information about this outstanding organization, founded by Dean Kamen, please visit www.usfirst.org.
Raffle tickets will be sold throughout the SegwayFest event, and will be priced at $25 each or in groups of five for $100. There is no limit to the number of tickets you may purchase, but you must be registered and in attendance at SegwayFest to purchase tickets and win. Names on tickets must be names of actual attendees. Raffle is open to attendees 16 years of age or older. This will be a CASH ONLY raffle, so please plan accordingly. The winning ticket will be drawn by Dean Kamen himself at our banquet on Saturday, August 30th, 2003.
Someone at SegwayFest will be going home with a brand new Segway HT! Your Committee wishes all SegwayFest attendees good luck, and great gliding!
Respectfully,
The SegwayFest2003 Organizing Committee:
Fathertime
Ladytime
The GlideMaster
Ftropea
PT
Pam
Blinky
Brooster
Overview of Segway Seminars and Workshops
August 29-30, 2003</center>
<center>__________________________________________________ ___________________</center>
<center>SEGWAY WORKSHOPS</center>
Care and Feeding of Batteries
Facilitator: Ron Reich, Leader of Design Engineering
This presentation provides tips for caring for your battery in order to optimize range and the long-term life of the battery pack. Ron will offer riding suggestions that can help maximize your battery range.
The Parts That Make the Product
Facilitator: Ron Reich, Leader of Design Engineering
This interactive overview of the parts that are at the heart of the Segway HT will provide insight into what makes the Segway HT so remarkable. Ron will use a display of actual components to walk you through the different parts of the machine.
Segway HT Remote Mobility Platform (RMP) Demonstration
Facilitators: John Morrell, Chief Development Engineer, Michael Kaufman, Embedded Software Engineer
Segway engineers will demonstrate an adaptation of the Segway HT balancing technology recently developed for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). This device allows equipment to be deployed on a remotely controlled balancing mobility platform. This platform features many of the same kinds of benefits familiar to you with your Segway HT but for moving equipment rather than human cargo: a high center of gravity with a small footprint, a smooth coordinated ride, and the ability to turn in place.
The Soul of Segway: Integrating Engineering and Design in the Development Process
Speakers: Doug Field, Chief Engineer and Soulkeeper, and Scott Waters, Lead Industrial Designer
In this presentation Doug will focus on the difference between "ideation-focused" and "execution-focused" cultures, and the need to marry the two in order to consistently deliver successful, innovative products. Scott will focus on the design and creation of the Segway HT, discussing the principles involved and the achievements that garnered the 2002 Industrial Design Excellence Award (Gold Medal in Transportation) and the 2003 I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review Consumer Products award.
Panel Discussion with Segway Product Development
Facilitator: Frank Tropea, Administrator SegwayChat.com
Panel Participants: Doug Field, Chief Engineer; JD Heinzmann, Development Engineer; Ron Reich, Leader of Design Engineering and Scott Waters, Lead Industrial Designer;
Members of the Segway Product Development team will answer questions about the product development process, invention and the Segway HT that SegwayFest attendees submit. Please submit questions to the question box at the cocktail reception on Friday evening. Due to time constraints not all questions will be answered. Attendees will be called upon to pose the selected questions.
Keynote Address
Speaker: Dean Kamen, Founder and Chairman, Segway LLC; President, DEKA Research and Development Corp., Founder of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
<center>ONGOING ACTIVITIES</center>
Energy Analysis
Facilitators: JD Heinzmann, Development Engineer, Michael Kaufman, Embedded Software Engineer, John Morrell, Chief Development Engineer
Verify that your Segway HT is using its battery power efficiently. Find out how your riding style affects the range you get from a battery charge. Take a peek at the awesome amount of data the Segway HT relies on to produce a safe and satisfying glide. Segway engineers will attach a specially instrumented control shaft to your machine that will display the energy being used and other interesting parameters. They will run your machine on a test stand to verify that it is transmitting power to the wheels efficiently. You will also be able to drive around and see how your gliding style demands power from the batteries and how it affects range. Let’s see who can glide the most energy efficiently. Try writing your name in the path that you glide and see how it appears in the data. You will leave with a printout summarizing the energy performance of your Segway HT and other scintillating data.
In order to participate you will need to sign up on site for a time slot and bring your own machine to the Energy Station. Space is limited.
Segway HT Software Upgrades
Facilitators: Jeff Brown, Service Technician, and Michael Kaufman, Embedded Software Engineer
Still or video photography not allowed in upgrade area.
A Segway Service Technician will outfit your Segway HT with a complimentary upgrade to 11.0 software, the latest version available. The installation process will include downloading certain information regarding your Segway HT use including total hours of run time as well as some reliability and performance data. This is the same information a service technician would normally retrieve if trying to diagnose a broken HT. Your willingness to share this data will allow us to understand and evolve our product based on Segway use from our most passionate and loyal customers.
In order to participate you will need to sign up on site for a time slot and bring your own machine to the Upgrade Station. Space is limited.
Cleaning and Maintenance of Your Segway HT
Facilitator: Jeff Brown, Service Technician
Learn the importance and how to’s of keeping your machine in tip-top shape.
p-Series Demonstrations
Experience the highly anticipated Segway HT p-Series for yourself.
INDEPENDENCE™ IBOT™ Mobility System Demonstrations
Facilitator: Kurt Heinzmann, Development Engineer, DEKA Research and Development
Kurt will demonstrate the IBOT and answer questions about its development and its role in the lives of individuals with disabilities.
<center>FEATURES</center>
Segway Merchandise Booth
Ginger Museum
Segway HT Agility Course – Attendees can ride. Helmets required.
Segway Home Video – Shown at Friday evening cocktail reception.
<center>UPDATE FROM SEGWAYFEST ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: SEGWAY HT RAFFLE!</center>
This just in, 7/19/03: Wait, there's even more! Segway LLC has announced today that the company will donate a new Segway HT (model to be announced) to the SegwayFest Organizing Committee. The Committee has elected to hold a raffle, open exclusively to SegwayFest attendees, to benefit FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). All proceeds will be forwarded to the National FIRST Committee. For information about this outstanding organization, founded by Dean Kamen, please visit www.usfirst.org.
Raffle tickets will be sold throughout the SegwayFest event, and will be priced at $25 each or in groups of five for $100. There is no limit to the number of tickets you may purchase, but you must be registered and in attendance at SegwayFest to purchase tickets and win. Names on tickets must be names of actual attendees. Raffle is open to attendees 16 years of age or older. This will be a CASH ONLY raffle, so please plan accordingly. The winning ticket will be drawn by Dean Kamen himself at our banquet on Saturday, August 30th, 2003.
Someone at SegwayFest will be going home with a brand new Segway HT! Your Committee wishes all SegwayFest attendees good luck, and great gliding!
Respectfully,
The SegwayFest2003 Organizing Committee:
Fathertime
Ladytime
The GlideMaster
Ftropea
PT
Pam
Blinky
Brooster