HFES ASPIRE 2026 · Reno, Nevada · 19–23 October

See ErgoSphere Live

The Human Factors Platform · On the floor, on the real build

54 tools. 37 published methods. 17 Ergo originals. One Human Factors platform.
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On the floor now · Table 14
ASPIRE 2026 has wrapped. The demo hasn't.

Ten minutes, on the booth machine, on the real shipping build. Bring your hardest HF problem.

On the Booth Screen, All Day

Sixty-Eight Seconds. On Loop.

The film that runs on the booth screen in Reno, for anyone who wants to see it first, or cannot get there.

The Journey

Brisbane to Reno. 11,700 Kilometres.

BNE Brisbane · Home RNO Reno · ASPIRE 2026 11,700 KM · ONE LAPTOP BAG

The whole platform travels as carry-on. Local-first means the demo on the booth machine is the real, shipping build: no cloud behind it, no staging server, nothing mocked up. What you see on the floor is what installs on yours.

The Family

Nik. Parnia. And the Boys.

The Ergonomics Engineered family is packing up and coming to visit. Come and say g'day to all four of us.

ASPIRE 2026 · The Family
Nik shaking hands with Harry while Parnia stands beside Charlie, who is wearing his attendee badge and carrying the box, in front of the HFES ASPIRE 2026 poster
Nik Founder

Wrote the code, runs the demos and, apparently, handles the handshakes. Every question at the booth goes straight to the engineer who built the answer.

Parnia Mission Control

The project manager behind every release. She runs the backlog, turns issues into features and work packages, and decides what ships next. If your booth slot runs like clockwork, that is her doing too.

Harry Head of Posture

ErgoSphere's in-app 3D manikin, on loan from every tool in the platform. He has held every awkward posture the toolkit can score, thousands of times, without one complaint. See him at work on the demo laptop.

Charlie The Little One

Badge on weeks early, box already packed. He is taking ASPIRE very seriously and would like you to know he is in charge of the raffle tickets.

The people who build it are the people on the booth. Ask anything, as deep as you like.

At the Booth · Table 14

The Raffle. Every Day.

A draw on each of the three exhibition days: books, merch and ErgoSphere licences. The film loops on screen all day, and the demo laptop is waiting when you want to go deeper.

The Daily Draw

Come by the booth, take a ticket, and check back for the draw. Three draws, one each day the hall is open, Tuesday 20 to Thursday 22 October, with a fresh set of prizes each time, so a Tuesday ticket and a Thursday ticket are both worth having.

What Is in the Draw

Books worth keeping, ErgoSphere merch, and ErgoSphere licences: real seats on the real build, not a trial. Along the way we are giving out a bit of Australia too: boomerangs, koalas, kangaroo toys, and yes, there will be pens.

Ten Minutes on the Real Build

A second laptop runs the shipping software, no cloud, no mock-ups. Book a ten-minute run-through, bring a scenario from your own work, and we will drive it through the toolkit end to end while you watch.

Can't make the booth? See it anyway.

Thirty minutes, screen to screen, on the same shipping build that runs on the booth machine. Bring a scenario from your own work and we will drive it through the toolkit end to end.

ErgoSphere is built by Ergonomics Engineered: a practising, certified Human Factors engineer (CHFEP) and former Boeing Associate Technical Fellow. Brisbane-built, veteran-owned, local-first by design.