Wear it Smart Conference Opening Keynote

#FFDemoDay #SmartStorm

Wearables: a perfect storm of technology trends

Sylvain CarleWear It Smart Conference Montréal

October 2015

Will your smart umbrella be enough for this rough weather?

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7 Mega Trends that made Smart Wearables Possible

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The PC is a mere sum

of it’s parts (disintegration)

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The Smart Phone created the sensor ecosystem (and economics)

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Network is assumedobvious or desired

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Linux and Open Source

paved the way

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Kickstarting is the new bootstrapping (with market insights)

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It’s in you pocket

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Near is good enough

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The Gamer Generation worldview and perspective

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Challenges for wearables

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• It’s all about integration (or re-integrating)

• Tech is not enough. Design wins. Easy trumps nice

• Hardware is hard. No shortcuts. Good is not great

• Real business models are of the 2nd order (data)

Connect all the “smarts”(wear, home, car, phone, grid)

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Amazing potential. Harder than you think.

Better than you thought.Endless possibilities!

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#FFDemoDay #SmartStorm

Wearables: a perfect storm of technology trends

Sylvain CarleWear It Smart Conference Montréal

October 2015