Live Report from WT | Wearable Technologies Conference 2016 EU in Munich – Day 1

9:00 AM: Christian Stammel, CEO of Wearable Technologies, welcomes the wearable tech enthusiasts on the first day of the Conference with a welcome Keynote and an overview of the wearable market over the past 10 years! Invited guest companies are ISPO with wearable tech guru Markus Hefter talking about the presence of wearables at ISPO, Giuseppe Coppola from Philips explaining where was the market back then and where it is now, John Dwyer from Flex got also some wearable flowers and is on stage giving us hints about what we will be talking about in the next 10 years!

9:45 AM : Success Stories Session. Starting with Misfit Director Strategic Partnerships Francis Hoe explaining the Misfit story since 2011. All the partnerships that they made until the recent acquirement of Misfit by Fossil. Misfit was always concerned and focused on the design of their products and to make them consumer friendly. Among their partners are well known companies like Speedo, Victoria Secret, or Swarovski!

Claus F. Nielsen from Delta, a testing, consulting company is explaining the journey of his son to treat Diabetes. Real people don’t need fancy products for healthcare they need real solutions! The consumer electronic companies are starting to move forward into the healthcare market. The companies should liberate the data and not keep it.
Delta is working also in solutions for the healthcare market and they made their very own and is certified.

CSEM is now talking about the Microtechnologies for wearables. Jens Krauss explains what they do and their different programs they have, the MEMS mostly linked to the watch industry. Some of the companies using CSEM’s technology is Limmex, PulseON and iFit.

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