Scheduled Speakers and Events
Next Scheduled Presentation Meeting
Wednesday, July 8, 2026, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Top Dog Direct with Steve Silbiger
Steve will speak about the current state and update of the direct response TV industry, home shopping and the As Seen on TV retail space.
Top Dog Direct is a specialized team focused on rapidly bringing products to market, led by Bill McAlister, who has driven over a billion in retail sales with “As Seen on TV” products. Steve Silbiger and Jackie Bloemker oversee TV, web, and media services for direct-to-consumer efforts, ensuring high success rates. Since 1998, Top Dog Direct has launched notable products including Tan Perfect, Urine Gone, Mighty Putty, Smart Mop, BeActive Brace, and Campbell Posture Cane.
https://www.topdogdirect.com/
Wednesday, June 17, 2026, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Note:
Tito Sarkar will join us again to demo his paseo software
At Bayland Community Center HOUSTON INVENTORS ASSOCIATION CONFIDENTIAL "SPECIAL HELP" MEETING
Confidential "Special Help" Meeting
for members only where everyone signs a non-disclosure agreement and attendees can discuss their product or concept openly and receive one-on-one help and advice on the next steps of pursuing their idea, concept or design, or overcoming a particular hurdle.
(You can also join & become a member at this meeting). The meeting will be moderated by Mark Peterson and held in a smaller room (at the end of the lobby), and will have a smaller group of attendees than our 2nd Wednesday general meetings.
Bring us your problems and questions, and we’ll try to get you to the next step.
Videos of Our Past Meetings
We are making videos of our past speakers presentations available upon request for free via email to paid members only, so even if you live too far away to attend our monthly meetings you can benefit by becoming a member. To become a member, Click the link above to pay online or download a Membership Form, fill it out, and mail it in. Then contact kevinroddy87@gmail.com and request a video. You will also be added to our email list to receive monthly announcements regarding upcoming meetings and topics.
Benefits of Attending Meetings
Our motto, “Inventors Helping Inventors“, expresses some of the benefits of membership and attending monthly meetings. We provide speakers having first-hand knowledge of the difficulties in getting from raw idea to marketable product that offer their success stories, and share tips on marketing your invention, and speakers that provide valuable information in technical areas, such as: protecting your idea, patent fundamentals, building prototypes, injection molding, manufacturing vs licensing, etc. At our meetings, we often connect inventors having a problem with other members who may be able to help to solve it. We take pride in being a trusted resource, and do our best to protect inventors from invention marketing/development scams.
Other Local Groups That May Be Of Interest To Inventors
TX/RX Labs, a Houston non-profit organization is teaching classes for entrepreneurs and makers. Welding, CNC, electronics, laser cutting, 3d printing, cad and cam drafting and more. https://apps.classes.txrxlabs.org.classes/.
HIA Facebook Group Page
Have you visited our Facebook Group Page? The purpose of the Group Page is to provide an interactive forum or message board where members can comment on speakers, meetings, ask questions, make suggestions, provide feedback, receive help, etc. Bill Kopitzke is the main administrator. The “Group” page is different from a regular Facebook “Page“, in that you can’t get there by “liking” or being a “friend”; you have to “Join” the group to participate. Group members must be approved or added by other members. To “Join” the group, if you are logged in on facebook, you can click the Facebook logo in the left-hand column. If you are not logged in or if you are NOT already a member of the Facebook Group, click here for instructions on how to join.
