# Launch event impressions

> On August 24th we had a great launch event for The Things Network Aarhus. Around 25 people showed up - some from companies or municipalities and some just as in

- Type: Community update
- Community: [The Things Network Aarhus](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/aarhus/)
- Author: Kim Søvsø
- Published: 2017-09-05
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/aarhus/post/launch-event-impressions

On August 24th we had a great launch event for The Things Network Aarhus.

Around 25 people showed up - some from companies or municipalities and some just as interested civilians.

We had prepared a few presentations - overview of TTN and LoRaWAN + some use cases and suggestions for hardware to play with.

We also had prepared a hack-session, unfortunately the transmitters we had ordered didn't arrive in time so instead we played with some different prototyping boards and actually managed to get a message through the system (well... across the room to the gateway we had brought along ;-)

Finally we talked a bit on how to get engaged in TTN Aarhus, future events etc.

Find the presentations [here on our public Google Drive folder](https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5rPaZdlkm0USHhwZzJ5WTBteTg).

A big thanks to our event co-hosts DOKK1/City of Aarhus (venue), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (food and drinks), Alexandra Institute (hardware).

Pictures from the event can be found the [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/ttnaarhus/).

Please reach out if you want to join us in building the open IoT network in Aarhus!

- Kim, Lasse and Claus
   Initiators of TTN Aarhus