WT | Wearable Technologies Conference 2015 MILAN

April 29, 2015
Milan, Italy

Wearable Technologies is one of the most compelling new technology areas today. And this year WT will be organizing a second event in Europe in the Italian city of Milan – one of the world’s most important fashion capitals. Attend our 15th WT | Wearable Technologies Conference with the familiar all-round view on the entire WT ecosystem with a special focus on fashion.
The conference will be part of Disruptive Week Milan 2015, a week of coordinated international events on emerging technologies such as IoT, wearable, robotics, smart energy. Find out more.

Exhibitors WT | Wearable Technologies Conference 2015 MILAN

Speakers

  • Marco Suvilaakso, Polar

    Marco Suvilaakso, Polar

    Biography

    Marco Suvilaakso is the Director of Product Management for Polar. He is leading the global product management, portfolio management and strategic planning for the consumer, btob and the OEM business sectors of Polar. The product management team that Marco leads is pioneering the future standard for fitness and sports smart training experience. Marco joined Polar in 2002 to establish the highly successful running product category for Polar. During his ten years at Polar Marco has held various key product management and marketing positions within Polar. Prior to joining Polar he was working in business development and marketing in the mobile telecoms sector. Altogether Marco has 20 years of experience in the international product and service marketing. Marco is Canadian but resides in Finland since 2000 where he now lives with his wife and two young children.

  • Ashlyn Bird, Biosensive Technologies Inc.

    Ashlyn Bird, Biosensive Technologies Inc.

    Biography

    As a Co-Founder of Biosensive Technologies Inc., Ashlyn is an entrepreneur with a strong business background and a passion for fashion and fitness. She holds her Honours Bachelor of Commerce as well as her Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and also works as an Advisor to several innovation and technology-based startups. Ashlyn's expertise include entrepreneurial strategy, entrepreneurial resource management, business development, commercialization, marketing, communications, and leadership.

  • Titus Suck, Canatu

    Titus Suck, Canatu

    Biography

    Mr. Titus Suck joined Canatu in 2013. He has extensive experience in the electronics sector, especially in PCB manufacturing (introduced UV YAG Laser drilling) and PCB Assembly. He also has experience in several start-ups in UV curing technology, internet software and dry-process technology for non-woven materials. Over the last 20 years, Titus held management positions in European marketing, sales, business development and customer support. He holds an MBA in international management from Thunderbird, Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Oregon and Magister M.A. from Tübingen University in Germany.

  • Reka Kovacs, LIBER8

    Reka Kovacs, LIBER8

    Biography

    Reka has a diverse background in business management and in space sciences. She worked in the space industry and at NASA - she has always been passionate about emerging technologies and revolutionary futuristic products. She joined L!ber8 Tech - a company developing E Ink and NFC enabled gadgets with #NOcord, #NObutton, #NOcharge technologies in 2014. Her passion for emerging technologies led her to work as a business development consultant for several hardware startups all over Europe. Reka likes to work in fast paced environments, and in emerging fields where the rules are not set yet, and out-of-the-box thinking and an entrepreneurial mindset is required. Reka is specialized in strategical business development, technology transfer, commercialization, marketing and future studies.

  • Mikko Malmivaara, Clothing+

    Mikko Malmivaara, Clothing+

    Biography

    Mikko Malmivaara has been an active member of the wearable technology community since 1998 representing the Finnish smart clothing pioneer Clothing Plus. With a background in design, product development, research and marketing he is well versed in the technical requirements of body monitoring but also has a decade and a half worth of experience in the business side of wearables. Mr. Malmivaara travels the world spreading the word on biometric sensing and textile-integrated electronics.

  • Rob Royea, Cyrcadia Health

    Rob Royea, Cyrcadia Health

    Biography

    Mr. Royea is a proven senior executive offering comprehensive knowledge in the creation, and execution, of the strategies necessary to grow sophisticated medical technology and software companies. He has led global efforts of both public and private venture backed technologies, with demonstrated successes from start-up to over $550M in P & L responsibilities. Mr. Royea designed the go-to-market strategies, hired clinical and marketing teams, and executed on the business perspectives for the cardiac ultrasound and cardiac PACS divisions of Acuson, to achieve number one market positions world-wide. He eventually became the general manager for Siemens Medical’s ultrasound, PACS and catheter division for the US helping to pioneer the use of high frequency ultrasound as a key adjunctive tool to mammography for dense breast tissue analysis. Most recently, Mr. Royea lead the global launch, and eventual sale of Ziosoft, Inc. a super computed algorithmic medical imaging company to angel investor, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, to enable a centralized patient data intelligent domain containing imaging, genomic and proteomic data targeted at cardiovascular and cancer research.

  • Asli Solmaz-Kaiser, TÜV SÜD

    Asli Solmaz-Kaiser, TÜV SÜD

    Biography

    Asli is the global head of electrical and electronics products at TÜV SÜD. Having worked in technology and testing, inspection and certification companies for over 12 years, Asli brings extensive knowledge both from a product and service perspective. She has held various management positions in the area of marketing, sales and business development. Asli holds an MBA degree from the University of Mannheim.

  • Wallen Mphep~~u00f6, IShüu Technology

    Wallen Mphep~~u00f6, IShüu Technology

    Biography

    Wallen Mphepö, is an electronic information displays expert whose breakthrough research has been published in IEEE/OSA Journals and also featured in the mainstream media including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, TechCrunch, Spiegel, CNET, The Entrepreneur, Discovery Channel, Yahoo! Tech, PhysOrg, The New Scientist, Popular Science, etc. His research work spans both the advanced theory and applications of display technologies. One of his latest focus has been on wearable fashion. In particular wearable displays, from the perspective of advanced electronic display physics and has been invited to be an honorarium speaker on Wearables Technology at Baidu in Beijing

  • Martin Treiblmayr, Garmin

    Martin Treiblmayr, Garmin

    Biography

    Martin Treiblmayr is Product Manager Content & Services at Garmin. In his role, he oversees connected services for Garmin’s Automotive / Mobile segment. Additionally, he is doing business development engineering of wearable apps for Garmin’s Fitness and Outdoor devices. Prior to joining Garmin, Martin worked at SAP in corporate research and industry solution management. Martin holds a PhD in Geosciences and a dual degree in international business and surveying engineering.

  • Matteo Lai, Empatica

    Matteo Lai, Empatica

    Biography

    Matteo Lai is co-founder and CEO of Empatica, a human data analytics company based in Milan and Boston. Empatica sells the world’s smallest and most accurate wearable sensor for research, and it recently launched Embrace, the first medical grade wearable designed to save lives for people with Epilepsy and Autism. He holds a Master in Innovation Management from Alta Scuola Politecnica. He also studied engineering, trained as an architect, and holds a Double MSc degree in Architecture from Milan’s Polytechnic and Turin’s Polytechnic.

  • Andrea Mazzon, XYZE

    Andrea Mazzon, XYZE

    Biography

    Venetian creative, he’s a fan of digital fashion, motivational NLP and anthropometry.
    He attended Business Administration and Marketing at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and he has a great professional experience in marketing and sales field at venetian SME.
    He’s the Founder & President of XYZE, skilled in Digital Economics & Entrepreneurship at Digital Academy MasterLab and involved in business design, marketing and organization development.

  • Colin Ballantyne, Alpinestars

    Colin Ballantyne, Alpinestars

    Biography

    Colin Ballantyne studied an MEng in Product Design Engineering at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Passionate about motorcycling Colin joined Alpinestars in 2004 after military service as an officer in the Royal Air Force, where he was promptly put in charge of the rider datalogging and airbag protection programs. Working with a team of specialists this culminated in the release of the racing airbag system (for leather suits) in 2009, and now the street version of the airbag system for 2015.

  • Davide Vigano, Sensoria Inc.

    Davide Vigano, Sensoria Inc.

    Biography

    Davide Vigano' is cofounder and CEO of Sensoria Inc. Sensoria’s vision can be summarized in a single sentence: “The Garment is the Computer”®. Sensoria designs and develops a bio-sensing platform which includes an integrated suite of heart rate monitoring t-shirts, a sports bras and a pressure sensitive smart socks. Davide is a former Microsoft Executive with over 25 years of sales, marketing and product management experience. Joined the Mac Works, Mac Office teams in 1987 and more recently served as General Manager of the Health Solutions Group where he was in charge of marketing and product strategy for both HealthVault and Amalga product lines. He acted as Vice President of the Worldwide Small and Medium Business division which he grew 18% YOY to over $14B.

  • Simon Vicari, Aroma Technology LLC

    Simon Vicari, Aroma Technology LLC

    Biography

    Large experience working overseas for several Multinational Companies to build strategic partnerships. Sterling reputation for guiding product development from concept to manufacturing, including strategic sourcing. Has filed numerous patents for cutting-edge technology devices. Is currently board of directors of several Start-up Companies. Has a Master Degree at the “Institut Universitaire de Technologie” (France) and Sociology.

  • Lisa Lang, Elektrocouture

    Lisa Lang, Elektrocouture

    Biography

    With a name that sounds ripped from a Marvel comic book, Lisa Lang delivers a personality to match - and she has a superpower: Lisa brings people together to create new, innovative, and beautiful products. Lisa was raised in a Franconian craftsman family, studied Arts, New Media as well as international business management and lived and worked all around the word. In the almost ten years of her career in the IT industry, she’s gained a reputation as a digital information technology and new media game changer. Now Lisa is blending all her experiences with her agency for bespoke wearables technologies, ELEKTROCOUTURE.com, and has been named one of the top 100 most influential people in wearable tech worldwide.

  • Michele Monico, Flextronics

    Michele Monico, Flextronics

    Biography

    Michele Monico is Vice President, R&D and Engineering and the General Manager of Flextronics’ site in Milan, Italy. Mr. Monico is responsible for all the global product and technology development activities in the Medical segment of the High Reliability business group. The team is composed of more than 350 design engineers dedicated to medical device development, with locations in Dallas (USA), Milan (Italy), Althofen (Austria), Timisoara (Romania), Haifa (Israel) and Singapore.

    Mr. Monico has been with the company for 12 years, serving in a variety of managerial roles. Prior to moving into the global role he was the Design Center Director of the largest design center located in Milan, leading for several years a multidisciplinary design team, including industrial design, system engineering, program management, quality, industrialization and transfer into production.

  • Edward Kay, MediaTek Labs

    Edward Kay, MediaTek Labs

    Biography

    Edward has a talent and passion for partner relationships and technical marketing nurtured through working with international publishers and developers for two decades. Edward is an experienced presenter, having delivered complex ideas and innovative concepts globally to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences. Ed has a history of working with innovators and technology leaders. His early career was notable for producing multimedia products for artists such as U2, Peter Gabriel, Douglas Adams and The Prodigy. He worked as Head of Developer Programs at Symbian, helping to build the first app store, running developer events in Europe, Asia and the US, and spearheading many programmes such as the Symbian Signed Program. Since then Ed has had a number of consulting and product roles with companies such as SGN, Shell, Nationwide Bank, IBM, Audi and The Rank Group – he has had particular involvement in developing future concepts in both retail and industry. Ed also has experience of constructing and deploying mobile and smart infrastructure projects particularly in the utilities field. In his current role as Developer Relations Manager at MediaTek Labs Europe, Edward supports the community of makers, developers and startups in the IoT and Wearables domain using MediaTek solutions and helps bring their ideas to the market.

  • Alberto Sanna, Scientific Institute San Raffaele

    Alberto Sanna, Scientific Institute San Raffaele

    Biography

    Alberto Sanna graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, in Milan Italy. He is the Director of the Center for Advanced Technologies in Health and Wellbeing (www.eservices4life.org) at the Scientific Institute San Raffaele in Milan, in charge of three main research programs. During his career, he has been presenting his research activities in 100+ top level international congresses and he has been constantly active in academic teaching. Presently, he is teaching Information Technology for Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine at the University Vita-Salute in Milano. He is author of edutainment videogames & formats and inventor of patents & trademarks in the field of innovative technologies for health and wellbeing.

  • Martina Janeckova, Qardio

    Martina Janeckova, Qardio

    Biography

    Martina is in charge of the global marketing strategy and strategic partnership initiatives on behalf of Qardio. She brings 15 years of experience of partnership formation and strategic business positing. Martina's background has been in alternative asset management industry, working with some of the most successful and influential managers and investors in the world.

  • Fabrizio Rovati, STMicroelectronics

    Fabrizio Rovati, STMicroelectronics

    Biography

    Fabrizio Rovati is co-ordinating the SW development activities for the STM32 Open Development Environment in ST’s Central Labs organization . He has been working for STMicroelectronics since 1995 where he started working on digital video processing algorithms and architectures. He then moved to Advanced System Technology, now part of ST’s Central Labs, where he started the IP-based networked multimedia team, progressively focusing on internet of things applications and also coordinated ST’s "Smart Home" R&D program.

Contributors

Agenda

Wednesday, 29th April 2015
09:30Welcome and Introduction by Christian Stammel, Wearable Technologies
  Keynote: The Intelligence of Things - Consumer Health Michele Monico, VP Design & Engineering Milan Design Center, Flextronics
10:00Veterans and Pioneers of the Market
  Making Successful Wearables over Several Decades Marco Suvilaakso, Director of Product Management, Polar
  Connect IQ – The Wearables Platform to Lead the Sports Technology Ecosystem Martin Treiblmayr, Product Manager Content & Services, Garmin
  5 Tips for Producing Safe and Compliant Wearables Asli Solmaz-Kaiser, Global Head of Electrical and Electronics, TÜV SÜD
11:00Coffee Break
11:30Accessories and Jewelry and the Integration of Technology moderated by Lisa Lang, Elektrocouture
  Medical Quality Wearables Are Coming: Embrace by Empatica and Ground-Breaking Research on Human Behavior Matteo Lai, Co-Founder and CEO, Empatica Inc
  Ear-O-Smart: The World's First Smart Earring Ashlyn Bird, Co-Founder, Biosensive Technologies Inc.
  Tago Arc: an E Ink Bracelet with Endlessly Variable Display Possibilities Reka Kovacs, Business Development, LIBER8 Technology
  The Building of a Seamless Fusion of Science and Aesthetics where Function is a Foregone Conclusion Wallen Mphepö, CEO, IShüu Technology
01:00Lunch break
02:30New Products and Technologies moderated Alberto Sanna, Scientific Institute San Raffaele
  Making Wearables Possible: a Bendable Sensor Technology Titus Suck, Sales Director Europe, Canatu
  Innovative, Personal Early Breast Wellness Screening Rob Royea, CEO and President , Cyrcadia Health, Inc.
  Turbo-Charging Heart Health: Building Medical Devices You Will Actually Want To Use Martina Janeckova, Head of Marketing and VP of Global Outreach, Qardio
  Introducing: “NEXT to me”: 10 Sensors in the World First Smallest Wearable Device Focused on Healthy Wellbeing, Safety and Air Quality Monitoring Simon Vicari, Founder & CEO, Aroma Technology LLC
03:30Coffee Break
04:00Fashion and Design
  Between Textiles and Electronics: The Dos and Don’ts of Getting In The Game of Electrotextiles Mikko Malmivaara, Manager Sales and Marketing, Clothing+
  Shop Online at Your Right Size Andrea Mazzon, Founder & Chairman, XYZE
  TechAir: Instinctive Protection for All Riders Colin Ballantyne, Product Design Engineer, Alpinestars
  Sensoria Smart Clothing a Wearable 2.0 Fashion Platform Davide Vigano, Co-Founder, Sensoria Inc.
05:15Kick-Off WT | Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup Season 2015/2016
  Fabrizio Rovati, Senior Program Manager ST Central Labs, STMicroelectronics
  Edward Kay, Developer Relations Manager, MediaTek Labs
06:00Networking