WT | Wearable Technologies Conference 2017 EUROPE

February 7 - 8, 2017
ICM – Internationales Congress Center München (Germany)

In 2017 WT | Wearable Technologies went into the 11th year with the conference in Munich! It has become THE meeting point for global professionals involved in this field of technology. This is the 2017 B2B2C event for the entire wearable ecosystem. On top of the conference stage, WT has an extensive exhibition area which features companies from every market segment, therefore offering you the ideal networking experience.

Speakers 2017

  • Andreas Gall, Red Bull Media House

    Andreas Gall, Red Bull Media House

    Biography

    Born on July 2nd, 1964 in Munich. Professional radio and television engineer, sound engineer. CEO of SAE, Austria’s first private sound engineering school. Deputy head of technology at Antenne Bayern radio station from 1989 to 1991; head of technology of 104.6 RTL (Berlin). Founder and CEO of Mondocom GmbH (Munich and Vienna) in 1992, which operates the technical premises of Austrian national radio Ö3 since 1998. From 2002 to 2007 Chief technology officer for Austrian national broadcaster ORF. Chief technology officer Officer of Red Bull Media House since 2007. Married, one son.

  • Anne Beuttenm~~u00fcller, Niantic

    Anne Beuttenm~~u00fcller, Niantic

    Biography

    Anne Beuttenmüller joined Google 9 years ago. After more than 6 years working in Ad Sales,
    consulting for media, creative and performance agencies, she joined Google’s internal startup Niantic Labs. When 2015 Niantic Inc. became an independent company she decided to leave Google to join Niantic, Inc. and now she is responsible for product marketing across EMEA.
    Anne is a passionate Ingress and Pokémon GO Player, mother of two and lives with her husband in Hamburg, Germany.

  • Terho Lahtinen, Suunto

    Terho Lahtinen, Suunto

    Biography

    Terho has over 25 years of experience of sports wearables as an athlete and, since 2000, in various product and business related roles at Suunto including new product concepting, consumer experience and insights collection. Currently in Suunto Tomorrow Team, he is driving Movesense, an open development platform for motion sensing solutions. In his leisure time, Terho organizes popular trail running events in Finland

  • Nicola Belli, Safilo Spa

    Nicola Belli, Safilo Spa

    Biography

    Born in 1967 from a 3rd generation entrepreneurial family, in the industrious North-East of Italy.
    I graduated with honors in Aerospace Engineering thanks to my fondness for speed and flight.
    I grew in the Dolomites with a great passion for sport and I had the honor to attend 3 Winter Olympic Games with different technical roles: I scaled up from minibus driver to General Manager of the Italian National Bobsleigh Teams, and got the prize of seeing the Teams winning 3 Olympic medals.
    1993 – My first dreamful job at Ferrari as Project Leader dealing with aerodynamics, materials and special projects for ESA and NASA. I almost got arrested for speeding into a military zone the first time I entered Cape Canaveral. Our experiment container, the BDPU-TC4, successfully flew in the STS78 Spacelab Mission. In 1995 the Ferrari F50 got special rollbars because my head didn’t fit in the cockpit. Safety first.
    1996 - Innovation Manager at Benetton Sportsystem for Nordica, Rollerbalde, Prince, Killer Loop and Playlife brands. Last project in 2001 was a sport training suit made with smart wearable fibers for astronaut Roberto Vittori, successfully flown on San Marco, Soyuz – ISS mission, April 2002. I invented and patented a smart suspensions system that has been cited by other 29 inventors from Nike, Adidas, Reebok, New Balance, Columbia, and others. Very proud.
    2001 – Founder and Director at Matech – Innovative Materials - Galileo Science Park. The first technology transfer center in Italy on innovative materials. More than 320 projects in 9 years.
    2010 – The startups season: co-founder of Venetwork, Venetronic, Fantic Motors, VNT Medical, Start Innovation. Vision and action to help the SMEs to cooperate on common projects to relaunch and sustain the local economy.
    2013 – Back to serve a global company at Safilo with a goal and a dream: redesign Innovation organization to bring the company back to trendsetter status and deploy disruptive technologies for the health and wellbeing of consumers. Successfully developing projects for Dior, Fendi, Jimmy Choo, Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger, Givenchy, Safilo, Oxido, Polaroid, Smith brands.
    2016 – Project Manager of SafiloX , the Brain Sensing Eyewear, a promising wearable platform.
    I spent my whole professional life in Innovation, helping companies to build their future through a proper attitude for continuous evolution. My only regret is my worst invention: Rollerblade Grind Shoes with steel rollers and ball bearings: it sold a lot but resulted in some broken legs. Too fast.
    My 4 kids keep me on the edge and hyperactive.

  • Jason Janavicius, Oakley

    Jason Janavicius, Oakley

    Biography

    Shaping innovation and technology at the crossroads of trend identification, Jason Janavicius is constantly pushing analytical and creative thinking within his Strategic Planning Manager role at Oakley.
    With a Masters in Business from University of California at Irvine and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the
    University of Nevada at Reno, Jason provides strategic research and product direction in the wearable category. He recently helped
    shape Oakley’s newest wearable, Radar Pace, by evaluating the overall wearable landscape and testing dozens of products, relating to
    running and cycling, to answer the question: “what is missing?”

    As an avid runner and cyclist, the work he has done to help create and launch Radar Pace has inspired him to train for his first Ironman
    on October 30th, 2016.

  • William Parry, Intel

    William Parry, Intel

    Biography

    Within Intel, William occupies a marketing strategy role for the New Devices Group, where he keeps his finger on the pulse on all things wearable tech. This rapidly evolving, dynamic technology space is where he strategizes and markets for next gen headworn wearable devices, developed by Intel.

    His background lies in heading up communications for Recon Instruments – an innovative headworn wearables company – acquired by Intel in June, 2015.

    Will has spent the last five years focused on defining the consumer narrative around headworn devices – playing a pivotal role in forming Recon’s public image as a market leader, while launching and establishing a range of headworn wearable devices with defined use cases.

  • Maria Bobrowska, TUI Group

    Maria Bobrowska, TUI Group

    Biography

    Maria Bobrowska has led numerous mobile initiatives related to improving in destination experience across TUI Group portfolio of hotels. She is also responsible for scope definition and roll out of specific apps for the Group. Her main objective is to ensure the adequate mobile proposition is in place across Group Portfolio to ease, satisfy and anticipate customers’ needs. At the same time she is an advocate of mobile change across the business.

  • Laurens van den Berg, Polar Electro

    Laurens van den Berg, Polar Electro

    Biography

    Born and raised in The Netherlands, Laurens graduated form the Rotterdam School of Management with a Masters Degree in Strategic Management. He has over 15 years of commercial experience in Fast Moving Consumer Goods with Beiersdorf/ NIVEA, which encompasses the full consumer marketing process from insight generation to execution at the POS. He has worked in local, regional and global roles, in marketing and sales, in developed and emerging markets across functions and geographies, like The Netherlands, Germany, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Early 2016 he followed his passion for sports, technologies and digital by joining Polar Electro as Marketing Director DACH (Germany, Austria & Switzerland). With Polar, he plays a key role in building on 40 years of pioneering in wearable sports technology and leading the organisation, the products and services in it's digital transformation.

  • Patrice Slupowski , Orange

    Patrice Slupowski , Orange

    Biography

    Patrice Slupowski is Vice-President Digital Innovation running the open-innovation
    corporate product marketing team of Orange, in charge of several projects around APIs,
    Internet of Things, mobile applications & mobile OS, personal data aggregation, privacy
    or emerging technologies (AI, VR, …).

    Patrice Slupowski is a marketing expert in IoT, social networks, connected TV, wellness
    & personal data and mobile multimedia services. He founded a start-up called Waptoo in
    1999, one of the first companies to believe in the opportunities around mobile data,
    creating WAP and mobile services and proposing some automated mobile testing
    software, for companies and telcos, which has been acquired by Lagardere Group.
    Patrice has been involved in digital space from the very first minute, and is permanently
    connected from 1990. Patrice is a graduate in Information Science and Technology from
    Paris-Dauphine University.

  • Dr.-Ing. Michael Strohmayr, tacterion

    Dr.-Ing. Michael Strohmayr, tacterion

    Biography

    Dr.-Ing. Michael Strohmayr invented and developed the base for tacterion’s sensorskin technology at the Robotics and Mechatronics Center of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He is responsible for Strategy, Polymer Sensor Technology, IP Management as well as the Manufacturing Technology. He studied Mechatronics at the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg and Biomedical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. He did his Ph.D. in Robotics at the
    Institute for Intelligent Process Control and Robotics (IPR) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at DLR. He has extensive work experience from DLR (more than 10 years) and Bosch.

  • Chris Goeltner, Osram Opto Semiconductors

    Chris Goeltner, Osram Opto Semiconductors

    Biography

    Chris Goeltner is product manager at Osram Opto Semiconductors in Sunnyvale, California where is responsible for sensor products serving the wearables market. He held marketing positions at Texas Instruments and several Silicon Valley start-ups in the renewable energy and semiconductor industry. After receiving his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he started his career at Mercedes-Benz and Siemens.

  • Gerd B~~u00fcschel, Covestro

    Gerd B~~u00fcschel, Covestro

    Biography

    Gerd Büschel is experienced in R2R production technologies and has more than 20 years of experience in marketing and sales of thermoplastic films, foams and adhesives for Covestro (former Bayer Material Science).

  • Sampo H~~u00e4rk~~u00f6nen, Infineon Technologies

    Sampo H~~u00e4rk~~u00f6nen, Infineon Technologies

    Biography

    Sampo Härkönen Senior Manager Pressure Sensor Marketing Infineon Technologies AG
    M.Sc. Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. Business Administration

    Sampo Härkönen works for Infineon Technologies as a Senior Manager, Pressure Sensor Marketing. He has lived in Munich, Germany since July 2014. Sampo has never liked reading long user manuals and he has always been passionate about smart phones and other consumer electronics devices which feel human and are intuitive to use. Such a great user experience is possible by using sensors that can help the device to cope with the environment. Sensors like a barometric pressure sensor can even motivate users to follow heathier life style, for example by counting the calories consumed.

    Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) have made miniaturization and integration of sensor systems possible. Sampo has followed MEMS technology development since late 90’s when he worked for Nokia Corporation. During his time in Nokia he held several key positions and spent 3.5 years in Bay Area California scouting for new technologies. Sampo led Nokia’s audio sourcing team during the time when MEMS microphones replaced conventional Electret-Condenser-Microphones (ECMs) and considers it an excellent example of technology disruption. After Nokia he worked for AAC Technologies where he was responsible for strategy, new business development and sales. Sampo was a board member of MEMS Technologies PTE in Singapore after AAC became a major shareholder of that company.

  • Frederik Hermann, Huami/ Amazfit

    Frederik Hermann, Huami/ Amazfit

    Biography

    Frederik Hermann is the Head of Marketing & Sales at Huami. Launched in 2014, Huami is the second largest manufacturer of wearables in the world. The company’s mission is to seamlessly connect biomechanical signals and daily activities with smart data services to promote healthy living and to make our lives easier. Huami’s line of activity trackers and smartwatches, including the Amazfit Pace, Arc, Moonbeam and Equator, track activity without sacrificing style. Huami is also the exclusive provider of wearable technology for Xiaomi and since establishing this partnership, the company sold over 31 Million devices. Huami is privately-held and headquartered in Beijing and Mountain View, CA. Mr. Hermann joined Huami coming from Jawbone and Lumo Bodytech, he graduated from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Information Engineering and Management and immigrated to the United States in 2006 with telecommunications provider Jajah.

  • Al Lakhani, IDEE

    Al Lakhani, IDEE

    Biography

    Al Lakhani is the founder and CEO of IDEE, a company based out of Munich, Germany. IDEE's technology,

    a) prevents breaches by the use of our patented continuous multi-factor authentication solution,
    b) allows users to authenticate without remembering passwords or typing in tokens
    c) meets and exceeds US NIST Levels 1, 2, 3 and European Banking Authority standards on strong authentication.

    Prior to founding IDEE., Mr. Lakhani was a Managing Director and founder of the Forensic Technology Services and Cyber Protection practices at Alvarez & Marsal for 12 years.

    Most recently, Mr. Lakhani was an interim COO and then a senior advisor for an Atlanta based environmental sustainability startup for 15 months, which is currently valued at over $800 million.

  • S~~u00e9bastien Moussay, BodyCap

    S~~u00e9bastien Moussay, BodyCap

    Biography

    Sébastien Moussay worked for 10 years in an INSERM laboratory as a researcher in Life Science. He mainly focused his research on thermoregulation issues and chronobiology.
    In order to refine his data collection, he decided to develop some new miniaturized sensors.
    In 2011, he co-founded BodyCAP, a start-up providing innovative wearable technologies for sport and health applications.

  • Andrew Webb, Generali Vitality

    Andrew Webb, Generali Vitality

    Biography

    Andrew Webb is an executive with Generali, based in Germany. He has over 15 years’ experience in China, South Africa and Europe implementing innovative insurance solutions, including products linked to the measurement of health and fitness activity. Andrew has extensive qualifications and experience in insurance and behavioral economics. He is an alumni of the University of Cape Town, Harvard Business School and University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.

  • Paolo Portesi, Univet

    Paolo Portesi, Univet

    Biography

    Paolo Portesi, born in 1970 has a master’s degree with honors in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Technology. After an experience in the medical sector, he joined Univet in 2001 where he is today the CEO. Univet is among the first world players and the Italian leader in the Safety eyewear, as well in the Laser protection, the Clean Room application and the Loupes magnifying systems.

  • Marco Veneri, STMicroelectronics

    Marco Veneri, STMicroelectronics

    Biography

    Marco Veneri is the Marketing Director of STMicroelectronics Low-Power RF Business Unit. He has joined STMicroelectronics in the 1999 as an application engineer for Audio and Multimedia applications, moving in the next few years to the R&D digital team for Audio DSP design, then head of Embedded Software Developments. The acquired competences and the visionary creativity allowed him to grow his responsibilities in the definition of new system architectures and roadmaps. Under his leadership the Strategic Marketing and Application team was created in 2010, with accountabilities in the programmable platforms, SDKs and mass-market tools for MEMS sensors. Since 2015 he has been appointed Marketing Director of the Low-Power RF BU paving the way to the IoT and Sensor to Cloud connectivity.
    Marco Veneri was born in Milan, Italy, in 1971 and graduated with a degree in Microelectronic from the University Politecnico of Milan.

  • Frank Schneider, dmexco

    Frank Schneider, dmexco

    Biography

    Frank Schneider, 54, is co-founder of dmexco and responsible for the Marketing, Sales & Operations divisions on the dmexco Board of Directors. Before taking on his current position, he was Director Marketing & Communications and a member of the management team of Igedo Company, Düsseldorf. In this position, he was a co-founder of Online-Marketing-Messe (OMD) and played a key role in its successful development and expansion for eight years. Prior to that, Schneider was the Managing Partner of a sports marketing and Internet agency.

  • Asli-Solmaz-Kaiser, TÜV SÜD

    Asli-Solmaz-Kaiser, TÜV SÜD

    Biography

    Asli is leading the product development and innovation for TÜV SÜD for all consumer products globally. 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. She is an active member of the German Product Safety Council and chairs the Safety & Security working group for the Wearable Technologies Group. Asli holds an MBA degree from the University of Mannheim.

  • Thorsten Feldmann , Thera Bytes

    Thorsten Feldmann , Thera Bytes

    Biography

    Thorsten Feldmann started his career in the games industry in 2005 and since then held different positions from producer to product manager. Later he put his focus on business management and the licensing business within the international games industry. As a member of the board he helped a worldwide leading operator of online games to restructure its core business.

    After 10 years of professional work in the gaming industry Thorsten founded Thera Bytes. His vision is to combine games and software with healthcare topics to support healthy behavior. He wants to turn play into health. With his team Thorsten is currently involved in projects around dementia prevention (games meets science) as well as developing a game that is designed to turn inactive people into active ones.

    As a consultant Thorsten offers his professional knowledge in organizational management, leadership, game licensing and negotiation for gaming and non-gaming companies.

  • Felix Brand, CardioSecur

    Felix Brand, CardioSecur

    Biography

    Felix, Managing Director and founder, is responsible for operations and content
    marketing. His specialty is consumer-oriented telecommunication and innovative
    health care services. In 1998 he started in the area of telecommunication and pay-
    tv. In 2006 he focussed on patient-centric solutions for smartphones. Felix was
    educated in German and English laws (LLB) and has a MBA from SDA Bocconi,
    Milan.

  • Tarek Ouertani, ProGlove

    Tarek Ouertani, ProGlove

    Biography

    Tarek Ouertani studied applied media science in Ilmenau, Germany & entrepreneurship in Brazil. After founding a textile brand in Bolivia, he realized marketing and innovation consultancy projects for German industry leaders. With ProGlove he combines his industry and brand experience to make it the most successful industrial wearable brand worldwide.

  • Ongan Mordeniz, PIQ

    Ongan Mordeniz, PIQ

    Biography

    For the past decade, Ongan has fully focused himself on mobile services and surrounding technologies. The next 10 years for him is set to be the next generation, wearable services.

    After the acquisition of Abaxia in 2010, Ongan served as Vice President of Value Added Services at HTC Corp. His primarily role was to deliver and operate service strategy roadmap.

    Prior to HTC Corporation, Ongan was responsible and managing near shore R&D sites in Belarus for companies in which he was shareholder. He was leading a total team of 127 engineers with specialties from embedded system to server side development. To help to scale the companies, he initiated different academy programs on mobile technologies with local universities by investing in new tech laboratories and forming minds of talents. In 2010 and 2011, he was awarded two times as « Best entrepreneur » in Belarus.

    With a Masters in Media and Telecom from University of Offenburg, Germany and many years’ experience managing multiple engineering groups, Ongan has deep expertise with engineering as it relates to product and service development. He holds a dual citizenship of Turkey and France. And in addition to fluent English, he speaks Russian and German.

  • Dr. Benedict Doepfer, Panasonic

    Dr. Benedict Doepfer, Panasonic

    Biography

    Benedict Doepfer is leading Panasonic Deutschland’s Smart Home Division driving the future development of the product portfolio, commercial models and strategic alliances. Prior he was a Manager at KPMG AG responsible for digital transformation programs. As consultant he was managing connected business solution projects for global TelCo Operators. He holds a Ph.D. in Innovation and Technology Management from the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in collaboration with Audi AG.

  • Dr. Christoph D~~u00f6brich, Allianz Worldwide Partners

    Dr. Christoph D~~u00f6brich, Allianz Worldwide Partners

    Biography

    Studies of International Business at Erlangen-Nuremberg university and UB Barcelona.
    Strategy Consultant with McKinsey & Company
    Lecturer and PhD student at TU Munich in the field of Strategy & Organization (PhD in Behavioral Economics and Decision Making)
    Manager Innovations at Allianz Worldwide Partners S.A.S. focusing on topics in the area of IoT, Service Platforms, and Connected Life

  • Percy Stocker, Ubimax

    Percy Stocker, Ubimax

    Biography

    Percy Stocker is COO at the wearable computing company Ubimax. As Ubimax Co-Founder Percy passionately drives market adoption of innovations at customers while ensuring company-internal operational excellence. Percy has more than 10 years of work experience in professional services and consulting. He holds an information management diploma (“Diplom-Informatiker”) from the Technical University of Munich. Before funding Ubimax, Percy spent several years at Arthur D. Little as an IT strategy consultant with focus on technology innovation management and R&D. During his professional career Percy also worked several years for SAP SE as interim manager within a program setup to ensure fast market adoption of SAP’s innovative in-memory database HANA. Recently Percy is very much involved in advising enterprises on how to define their Internet of Things (IoT) strategy. In this context wearable computing and augmented reality are usually key building blocks.

  • Florian Eyben, audEERING

    Florian Eyben, audEERING

    Biography

    Florian Eyben received his Diploma in information technology in 2008 from TUM (Technische Universität München), one of Germany’s Excellence Universities. In 2015 he received his doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) with summa cum laude grade from TUM for his research work on intelligent speech and music analysis
    at the Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing Group supervised by Prof. Björn Schuller. He is currently active in research and development of novel technologies for speech emotion analytics as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of audEERING GmbH, Gilching, Germany - a start-up which he co-founded.

    He is an expert in audio signal processing, real-time audio feature extraction and machine learning for Affective Computing, Computational Paralinguistics, and Music Information Retrieval. A result of his research work is his award-winning openSMILE toolkit, which has set a world-wide baseline standard in the fields of voice research and Computational Paralinguistics. The papers introducing the toolkit have been cited more than 1000 times. He is a reviewer for several conferences, including IEEE ICASSP, INTERSPEECH, and ISMIR, as well as several high-profile journals such as Speech Communication and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. He has made major contributions to the EU-FP7 Semaine project, has worked for the ASC-Inclusion project, and national funded automatic speech recognition projects. In the PROPEREMO ERC Advanced Grant he collaborated with Prof. Klaus Scherer and successfully acquired the ERC proof-of-concept project VocEmoApI, for which he is now developing the next generation of speech emotion recognition technology at audEERING. He has worked as an intern with Toshiba Research, Cambridge, and Google UK on speech analysis and synthesis projects.

    He has authored and co-authored over 120 publications in journals, books, and conference proceedings. His work has been cited over 4500 times and his H-index is 35.

  • Elvis Goren , KOMODO Technologies

    Elvis Goren , KOMODO Technologies

    Biography

    Elvis has always had a passion for sports. When he moved to Canada at the age of 10, he began playing soccer, basketball and hockey and loved the competition. In high school he began selling clothes out of the trunk of his car to make some extra money. He loved interacting with the other students and making people happy. Elvis later attained a university degree in business and took part in several health courses in his spare time. This is where he combined his passions of sports, health and people to create the AIO Sleeve.

  • Esmeralda Megally, Xsensio

    Esmeralda Megally, Xsensio

    Biography

    CEO and co-founder - Esmeralda is the CEO and co-founder of Xsensio, a Switzerland-based technology company that develops the first "Lab-on-skin" sensing platform for non-invasive, continuous and real-time health monitoring. The company is a spinoff of the Nanolab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Prior to founding Xsensio, Esmeralda worked for several years as manager at Boston-based investment firm Commons Capital where she was in charge of screening investment opportunities in a partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She earned her MBA at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a B.S. and M.S. in Economics from ULB, Belgium and an executive degree in management from EPFL, during which she developed the concept of Xsensio thanks to an EPFL Innogrant. Her past innovations have been awarded the MIT IDEAS International Technology Award, the MIT IDEAS Graduate Student Award and the Harvard Catalyst Grant.

  • G~~u00fcney K~~u00f6se, Bisou

    G~~u00fcney K~~u00f6se, Bisou

    Biography

    Güney Köse is the founder of Bisou, the digital necklace & magnet. After graduating from university, he started managing the European hackathon event series 'Startup Live' and worked as a trader at Hakan Agro. Saving enough money and experience, he moved on with Bisou and that's what's taking most of his time these days.

  • Michael Feicht, Free-Linked

    Michael Feicht, Free-Linked

    Biography

    Michael is the inventor of Buddy-Watcher, the managing director of Free-Linked GmbH and the team's motivator. He defines the processes and is mainly responsible for development, production planning and logistics. In addition, he oversees all departments and makes sure that everything is working smoothly. He is the universal interface of all company communication. He manages to infect the entire business with his contagious energy on a daily basis.
    Thanks to his communication skills and power of persuasion, he always finds the right team members to help the company progress. Furthermore, he has strong networking skills and knows how to win over new retail partners and customers. Michael studied mechanical engineering with a focus on product development at the university in Pforzheim and has lived in Poland, England, the US and Australia. In addition to German, he is also fluent in Polish and English and is currently learning Russian.
    Michael is also full energy when he is not at work. You can find him on diving trips, skiing holidays or city breaks - he just never stops.

  • Shota Takase, Blincam

    Shota Takase, Blincam

    Biography

    Shota has previously worked for Japanese IT company, Johnson & Johnson as a system engineer and as a project manager. He has experience in a variety of areas including finance, audit, and database & BI integration related to company mergers and acquisitions. He took part in the startup weekend in 2013 and played the role of facilitator for startup events. He finally founded KK Blincam in July 2015 to make wearable cameras that take photos with a wink. He did this by making the most of his experience and lessons he learnt about lean startups at the startup weekend. He raised an amazing 2640% of his target funding during his crowd funding campaign in Japan and was chosen as one of the hottest products in 2017 by Nikkei Trendy. He founded Blincam, inc in the US and is aiming to growth Blincam globally. Shota has an Master in Business Administration from Bond University.

  • Alex Russell, Gait Up

    Alex Russell, Gait Up

    Biography

    Alex is a mechanical engineer, turned startup entrepreneur and business developer. Alex leads Gait Up's B2B activities to integrate Gait Up technology into partners' innovative sports and health wearable products and services. Pomocup is the first partner product from Gait Up, delivered in collaboration with POMOCA.

  • Valer Pop, LifeSense Group

    Valer Pop, LifeSense Group

    Biography

    Being passionate about human health, Valer is driven to empower people around the globe with smart wearable technology. Valer holds a PhD degree and has a background in business, financial and corporate strategy. He founded LifeSense Group in July 2015 and started to develop the female health brand Carin. Carin offers innovative wearables for the different cycles of womanhood.

  • Florian Miguet, Clim8

    Florian Miguet, Clim8

    Biography

    Florian oversees the overall strategy of clim8 and is the textile expert with 15 years of experience in technical textile brands, and distributors in various positions including Product Manager, Buyer to General Manager.
    Florian started his extensive career working for the largest sports chains in France, Intersport and worked there until 2009 as a Product Manager and in Purchasing. He then moved to Hong Kong and worked as an Export Manager with Lafuma Group, managing several teams and brands. At the end of 2010, Florian moved to Oberalp Group (SALEWA/DYNAFIT), first as the Commercial Manager Asia, then as General Manager Asia Pacific, taking a strategic and management role. During this time Florian built a key network across Asia, particularly in South Korea, China and Japan.
    Since December 2015, he has been the co-founder and CEO of clim8, developing and bringing a new generation of intelligent thermal clothing to the market.
    Florian has a Master of Science in Sport Management from The University Paris XII and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Helsinki Business Polytechnic.
    Florian has a family with 2 small children and is passionate about Sport, having played Handball in the 1st division and having finished an Ironman among others.

  • Sandra P~~u00e9tursd~~u00f3ttir , First Bond

    Sandra P~~u00e9tursd~~u00f3ttir , First Bond

    Biography

    Sandra is an Icelandic nature loving jewellery student. She currently lives in Copenhagen where she studies Jewellery, Technology & Business at Copenhagen School of Design & Technology. Her passion for jewellery started at an early age but she discovered the world of Wearables after doing a semester in Sustainable Wearable Technology at her school.
    Along with her two teammates, Henriette and Eszter, also JTB students, she created Fibo, a jewellery device for parents to be, focusing on sharing the experience of pregnancy.

  • Victoria Backsin, Light Flex Sweden AB

    Victoria Backsin, Light Flex Sweden AB

    Biography

    Victoria Backsin is one of the founders and the CEO of Light Flex Technology she has extensive experience in concept and business developments with long and broad experience in design, specializing in wearables with functional design”

  • Wilson Quispe, EJOY

    Wilson Quispe, EJOY

    Biography

    Born in Perù, Wilson has been living in Milan, Italy, since 1991. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. He is pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science and he is working as a software manager for a hi-tech company. The company develops and sells solutions for the Internet of Things Market.

  • Alessio BUA, NEXO Group

    Alessio BUA, NEXO Group

    Biography

    Early in his career Mr. Alessio Bua has been involved in all aspects of law office administration and management of Sefitalia Group, a highly reputed Italian company that offers excellent security and logistic services and innovative, top quality, high-tech products to the large-scale retail trade. Today, he is the Business Development Manager of NEXO, which has among its best partners SefItalia Group FLIR, AXIS and ZEISS.
    Inspired by xPredator, a successful thermographic solution for protecting supermarket food items from theft, he had the brilliant idea to create Python. The world’s first thermal goggle, produced using nanotechnologies, allows you to see things that the naked eye could never perceive on its own.

  • Tytti Julkunen, Forciot

    Tytti Julkunen, Forciot

    Biography

    Tytti Julkunen, FORCIOT CMO & Co-Founder, is an experienced business development, marketing and change management professional with broad international experience in mobile and electronic industries. During her career she has lead various teams of experts and organizations, product development programs, B2B customer relations and worked in several different countries and companies, for example at Nokia, Microsoft and Intel Corporations and at Robonic Ltd.
    Sports enthusiast!

  • Michiel Allessie, Sleep.ai

    Michiel Allessie, Sleep.ai

    Biography

    Michiel Allessie - founder and CEO of Sleep.ai combines in-depth knowledge, experience, passion for healthcare and digital applications. Both active as a practicing physician in private practice and active as an IT entrepreneur. Michiel has extensive experience in the intersection of public healthcare - IT.

  • Janne Kyll~~u00f6nen, QuietOn

    Janne Kyll~~u00f6nen, QuietOn

    Biography

    Janne is an enthuastic innovator and user experience driven Product Manager. He has over 14 years’ experience in product and project management with Nokia, Microsoft and Pehutec. Janne is the inventor of a large number of patents and has led teams to develop outstanding consumer products. Janne is the inventor of QuietOn earplugs.

  • Johan de Geyter , UEST

    Johan de Geyter , UEST

    Biography

    Johan is CEO at Zembro. He is a serial innovator, with a track record in start-ups and spin-offs. The last few years he has been traveling around the world helping companies like Chanel, LVMH, Smuckers, CA and others to identify the next-wave innovation. His passion is to combine technology with design & usability to create next-generation products.
    Today Zembro is leading again the next wave of “mobile Personal Emergency Response systems” (mPERS or Hausnotruf). The Zembro Watch allows seniors to alert family members or professional alert services in case of emergency. Zembro makes sure there is “always someone close”

  • Ken Iwasaki, H2L

    Ken Iwasaki, H2L

    Biography

    Ken is the CEO and co-founder of H2L. He got his B.S. (Biochemistry) and M.S. (Computer Science) in 2008, 2010, respectively. His main research area is Human Computer Interaction. Since graduation, he experienced business consulting at Accenture, and R&D at RIKEN (Brain Science Institute). In 2012, he co-founded H2L, Inc. with Dr. Tamaki and Dr. Kamada. He takes advantage of his unique experience of both business and research to make research-stage technologies into products.

  • Jaehwan Lee, IDIO Creative Works

    Jaehwan Lee, IDIO Creative Works

    Biography

    Jaehwan Lee is a co-founder and designer at IDIO Creative Works, Inc. He graduated in the industrial design department of Hongik University in South Korea. He is an expert in product design, UI/UX design. He had design experiences with LG, Seymourpowell, Camper, ECAL and Design Methods.

  • Ellie Karssemakers, Wanderwatch

    Ellie Karssemakers, Wanderwatch

    Biography

    Ellie focuses on the marketing and sales in Europe and takes care of the general and admin activities of Wanderwatch. She has a background in Corporate Finance and has extensive experience as a consultant in the field of strategy and mergers and acquisitions. She is part of the sales team that sold Essent to RWE for € 9.3 billion. She then had various executive positions centralizing shared service centers and Commerce at RWE Essent. Ellie started her Economics study at Tilburg University and completed it at the Radboud University. In 2007, she completed her M BA in Rotterdam. Ellie is results-oriented, and able to motivate people.

  • Sona Shah, Neopenda

    Sona Shah, Neopenda

    Biography

    Sona is the co-founder and CEO of Neopenda, a global health startup using technology to reduce newborn mortality in low-resource settings. Sona completed her BS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech, and subsequently worked as an engineer in Bioprocess Research and Development at Eli Lilly and Company. After spending time as a teacher and Engineering Without Borders volunteer in Kenya, Sona’s passion for working in under-resourced communities continued during her research involvement with mChip, a point-of-care diagnostic device for HIV and syphilis developed at Columbia University. She has also worked at the TB Alliance, both in community engagement and drug discovery for medications that treat tuberculosis. Sona completed a Masters in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University before launching Neopenda, where she develops her passions for global health and technology into innovative technologies for some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

  • Hanne P~~u00e5lsson, Stylos

    Hanne P~~u00e5lsson, Stylos

    Biography

    Hanne Pålsson is an industrial designer with a master degree, from School of Industrial Design IKDC (Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre) in 2015 at Lund University, Sweden. The safety alarm Vevios is her Master degree project which she had the opportunity to further develop within her own company Stylos, which was founded in 2016. Hanne has also a background in illustration, graphical design and film editing. She is currently developing the safety alarm Vevios into a final product at the Venture Labs incubator at Ideon in Lund. Vevios is to be used within the elderly care but it targets also towards other markets such as crime and for witness protection.

  • Mauricio Piper, Wotch

    Mauricio Piper, Wotch

    Biography

    Mauricio Piper dropped out of gymnasium in the 1990ies to create a leading hosting company in Cologne/Germany. Since that time, Mauricio has been deeply engaged with disruptive technologies. In 2015, he decided to develop solutions to bridge the gap between fine watchmaking and smartwatch technology. As an early evangelist of the eStrap, Mauricio has been featured in German and American tv.

  • Christian Stammel, Wearable Technologies

    Christian Stammel, Wearable Technologies

    Biography

    As founder and CEO Christian Stammel has more than 20 years’ experience in marketing and sales as well as an excellent international network. Using this expertise he supported numerous international companies of all sizes regarding business development, technology marketing, and increase of sales activities with his innovation and marketing company Navispace AG. The natural next step to Navispace’s huge success “Wearable Technology” was the incorporation of the Wearable Technologies AG in 2011. Since then, WT served as a business accelerator for more than 3000 renowned companies and will remain the key hub for marketing new technologies in this field in the years to come.

  • Daniel Bongers, SmartCap Technologies

    Daniel Bongers, SmartCap Technologies

    Biography

    Dr Daniel Bongers is the creator of the SmartCap fatigue monitoring product, and a co-founder and current CTO of SmartCap Technologies. Daniel has dedicated the last 12 years to working with businesses around the world to deploy the SmartCap solution into daily operations. As CTO, Daniel heads the Innovation Group at SmartCap.

  • Arnaud Atchimon, Neofuturism

    Arnaud Atchimon, Neofuturism

    Biography

    Arnaud Atchimon Ake is a designer, developer and maker. Thanks to his father being a diplomat, Arnaud grew up between Africa, Europe and Asia. Moving to South Korea at age 17 opened his eyes to the power of technology and connected environments. After his graduation, Arnaud moved to Canada where he began his career in a small startup working as a graphic designer. This led him to create Neofuturism a multidisciplinary studio that specializes in all things design related. His hard work and attention to details allowed him to work with some the biggest advertising agencies on a wide range of projects. Arnaud now resides in Dusseldorf where he works as a creative technologist for Isobar Germany an innovative digital agency and creates I.O.T. enabled products in his spare time.

Agenda Wearable Technologies Conference 2017 Europe

Tuesday, 7th February 2017
09:00 Welcome and Introduction by Christian Stammel
09:15 Keynote: Let’s Give Wings to Wearables and Activate emotions Andi Gall, CTO, Red Bull Media House, Dr. Oliver Trinchera, MD, Kinexon
09:45 Changing the Healthcare Landscape moderated by Kevin Lloyd, Wearable Technologies
  Connecting Physical Activity and Insurance Andrew Webb, Head of Products, Generali Vitality
  CardioSecur - Instant Heart Check for 200 Million People with Heart Problems Felix Brand, Managing Director & Founder, CardioSecur
  Innovative Technologies in Elite Sports and e-Health Sébastien Moussay, Co-Founder and CEO, BodyCap
10:40 Break
11:10 News from the World of Sports moderated by Greg Varner, Wearable Technologies
  Designing Wearable Fitness for Everyone Frederik Hermann, Head of Marketing and Sales, Huami - Manufacturers of Amazfit and Mi Band
  Bringing Artificial Intelligence to Sports Ongan Mordeniz, Co-Founder and COO, PIQ
  Expanding Sports Analytics from Professional Athletes to All Performance Levels Terho Lahtinen, Senior Manager, Future Concepts, Suunto
  Polar Team Pro Shirt Laurens van den Berg, Marketing Director DACH, Polar Electro
  Evolving Smart Eyewear with Oakley Radar Pace Jason Janavicius, Strategic Planning Manager, William Parry, Marketing Strategy Manager, Oakley & Intel
12:45 The DMEXCO Story, Frank Schneider Co-founder & Director Marketing, Sales & Operations, dmexco
01:00 Lunch Break
02:30 Games, Gamification & Lifestyle moderated by Claas Wolter, Marchsreiter Communications
  Healthify Me! How Games and Wearable Technology Will Change Our Lifestyle Thorsten Feldmann , CEO, Thera Bytes
  Changing the Game Anne Beuttenmüller, Head of Marketing EMEA, Niantic
  SAFILOX: How Wearable Technologies are Made Truly Wearable. Design Driven and Brand Led Seamless Integration of a Technological Platform Nicola Belli, Front End Innovation Director, Safilo Spa
3:20 Break
3:40 Innovation Wild Fire - Innovation World Cup Award Ceremony moderated by Christian Stammel, CEO, Wearable Technologies
  Ready-to-go ecosystem for Wearable and IoT innovators Marco Veneri, Marketing Director, Low-Power RF BU, STMicroelectronics
  Elevator Pitches of the Finalists
  Sports & Fitness
  Buddy-Watcher - Communication in Scuba Diving 4.0 Michael Feicht, Free-Linked
  clim8 Intelligent Thermal Clothing Florian Miguet, clim8
  Know Your Heart – AIO Sleeve Elvis Goren, KOMODO Technologies
  PomocUp: the Ski Mountaineering Device Alex Russell, Gait Up
  Healthcare & Wellness
  Carin wear: The Rising Star in Female Health Wearable Technology Brand Valer Pop, LifeSense Group
  Xsensio "Lab-on-Skin (TM)" Wearable Sensing Platform Esmeralda Megally, Xsensio
  QuietOn: Wellbeing Technology Based On Silence Janne Kyllönen, QuietOn
  Monitoring Vitals to Give All Newborns a Healthy Tomorrow Sona Shah, Neopenda
  Gaming & Lifestyle
  Blincam: the Quickest Wearable Cam, Take a Picture With a Wink. Shota Takase, Blincam
  Companion: The best way to navigate the modern urban landscape. Arnaud Atchimon Ake, Neofuturism
  UnlimitedHand: Touch and Feel the Virtual Reality Ken Iwasaki, H2L
  Wanderwatch: Smartwatch for Outdoor Play Anton de Nijs & Ellie Karssemakers, Wanderwatch
  Safety & Security
  Life by SmartCap: Getting Drivers Home Safe Every Day. Dr. Daniel Bongers, SmartCap Technologies
  “THE LIGHT OF THINGS” Light Flex Technology Victoria Backsin, Light Flex Sweden
  Save Lives With Python Thermal Mask Alessio Bua, NEXO Group
  The Zembro Watch: an IoT Solution That Saves Lives Johan de Geyter , UEST
  Vevios: The Wearable Safety Alarm from Stylos Hanne Pålsson, Stylos
  Special Prize Smart Clothing
  FORCIOT®: Ultra Precise Force Measurement System Tytti Julkunen, Forciot
  Sleep.ai: The Silent Sleep Company Michiel Allessie, Sleep.ai
  Special Prize Smart Jewelry
  Wearables to Solve Problems or to Challenge Fashion? Güney Köse, Bisou
  When the Technology Meets Traditional Artisan Jewelry Wilson Quispe, EJOY
  Fibo by First Bond: Jewellery Concept for Parents to be. Sandra Pétursdóttir, First Bond
  Looper: Never Lose Your Stuff Again Jaehwan Lee  , IDIO Creative Works
  Wotch eStrap: Transform Your Wristwatch Into a Smart Device Mauricio Piper, Wotch
  Announcement of the Winners of the Innovation World Cup
5:45 Guided Tour through ISPO tradeshow and Networking Party at ISPO fairgrounds
Wednesday, 8th February 2017
09:00 Welcome and Introduction by Christian Stammel
  The World’s First WT TÜV SÜD-Certified Product Asli Solmaz-Kaiser, Vice President, Product Development & Innovation, TÜV SÜD
09:30 News from the Greater Wearable Ecosystem moderated by Blake McEldowney, Zinc-Group
  Wearables in the Leisure Industry Maria Bobrowska, Senior European Commercial Manager Mobile, TUI
  IoT Industry Facing UX Fragmentation and Personal Data Regulation Patrice Slupowski, VP, Digital Innovation, Orange
  IoT and Insurance – The Perfect Match? Dr. Christoph Döbrich, Innovations Manager, Allianz Worlwide Partners
  Smart Home - Adressing the Chasm with Alliance-based Solutions Dr. Benedict Doepfer, Manager Sales & Marketing Smart Home, Panasonic
11:00 Break
11:30 Solutions for Professionals and Industry moderated by Greg Varner, Wearable Technologies
  Productive use of Smart Glasses and Wearable Computing in Logistics, Manufacturing and Maintenance Percy Stocker, COO, Ubimax
  SAFETY WITH A VISION: Safety eyewear with integrated augmented reality Paolo Portesi, CEO, Univet
  Connecting the Worker to a Digitized Industry Tarek Ouertani, Brand & Marketing, ProGlove
  Forget Passwords Al Lakhani, CEO, IDEE
  Digital Reinvention - New Possibilities in a Connected World Niklaus H. Waser, Vice President - Head of Watson IoT Global Ecosystem, IBM
12.45 Lunch Break
2:45 Cutting Edge Enabling Technologies moderated by Kevin Lloyd, Wearable Technologies
  Listening Between the Lines - Automatic Intelligent Audio Analysis for Speaker Traits, Speech Emotions and Environment Sounds on Mobile Devices Dr.-Ing. Florian Eyben, CTO, audEERING
  High-Precision Barometric Pressure Sensor for Consumer Applications Sampo Härkönen, Senior Manager Pressure Sensor Marketing, Infineon Technologies
  Optical Sensors Advancing Mobile Applications Chris Goeltner, Product Manager Wearables, Osram Opto Semiconductors
  Sensorskin – Making Everything Touch Sensitive Dr.-Ing. Michael Strohmayr, CEO/CTO, tacterion
  Process Efficient Roll-to-Roll Thermoplastic Materials, Enabling Soft Embedding and Comfortable Wearable Patches Gerd Büschel, OEM Manager, Covestro
4:30 Closing Remarks - conference ends at approx. 5:00pm