The Wearable Technology Show

Now in its sixth year, the Wearable Technology Show (WTS2019) returns to London, at the Business Design Centre on the 12-13 March 2019.

WTS2019 features cutting edge technology across a multitude of fields, including smart home, healthcare, fashion, fitness, performance sports, enterprise, and augmented reality. The show will welcome visionary speakers working within the industry to discuss the future of wearables, smart technology and IOT.

Over 6,000 delegates and 200 speakers will come together to exchange views, network and do business. The show floor will feature cutting edge technology attracting prosumers, distributors and buyers.

Co-located with the Wearable Technology Show will be the AR360 Show, Europe’s largest independent event for AR, VR and mixed reality, as well as the Digital Health Technology Show, where delegates can see the future of healthcare and learn about the latest disruptive technology transforming the medical sector.

The Wearable Technology Show has seven different conference tracks: Main Stage; AVR360; Digital Health Technology; Smart Textiles; Performance Sports; AI Business; and the Innovation Stage.

In the exhibition hall, visitors will be able to see some of the latest and most innovative products in the Maker Zone, as well as the latest advances in textiles and clothing in the Smart Textiles Zone.

Some of the world’s leading companies and disruptive start-ups will deliver insight and opinions on the main stage. Visitors will get to hear the latest on the evolution of wearable technology, the benefits of ‘getting connected’, and hear from industry leaders about how devices are being used to increase productivity.

Alan Foreman, CEO of B-Secur will take a session on continuous health monitoring. The benefits and opportunity to patients, carers and hospitals to move health monitoring into the home are significant. Continuous monitoring in the home environment provides the quantity and quality of data to allow trending and to spot underlying issues that may otherwise be missed with ad hoc testing in the hospital setting. This is not a new phenomenon and even consumer technology companies such as Apple are pursuing this through ECG monitoring on the Apple Watch already.

However, one challenge leads to another – how does the system ensure that data from a patient is truly theirs and has not been corrupted with data from another patient? B-Secur is exploring some of these more obscure challenges that could really unlock the potential of the future.

The Health 4.0 theatre is designed to inspire new ways of thinking about and solving the problems facing health today. Featuring global innovators and thought leaders, the aim is to cover the most advanced digital innovations, business models and Featuring innovators and thought leaders, the aim of Health 4.0 is to cover the most advanced digital innovations and health strategies fit for the future health strategies fit for the future. Former Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt will engage the audience with a presentation on where the health sector is heading.

Professors from De Montfort University will take a session on delivering the best of digital health. De Montfort University has established a new Digital Health and Care Unit within the school of Health and Life Sciences to address many of the frustrations experienced by patients, clinicians and digital health companies at the pace of access to, and thus benefit from, emerging technologies.

Starting in 2018 the Unit set out to establish partnerships with local clinicians and digital health companies to answer real clinical and social needs with technologies that are ready for use in the UK, but not deployed.

This partnership is bearing fruit for patients, clinicians, digital health companies and the university and the team will share some early results. They will share their approach and encourage clinicians, companies and patients to get involved and see the benefits.

David Cannington, CMO & co founder of Nuheara will take a presentation on how hearables are going to revolutionise healthcare. With exciting new product innovations typically found in medical devices to new consumer engagement models, hearables will drive a new movement towards affordable and accessible healthcare. Find out about which healthcare segments are most threatened and dive into the disruption facing the hearing healthcare market.

Leon Eisen, founder & CEO of Oxitone will take a session on digital continuous care. Utilisation of new technology disrupts the paradigm of many ecosystems and is often resisted in healthcare. However, when a natural evolution of technology is incorporated into an existing organisation, the innovations outpace the disruptive effects while encouraging widespread acclimation. Digital continuous care incorporates modern wearable medical technologies and enables reliable patient continuous supervision as a natural evolution of medical monitoring. The combination of AI’s predictive power with the convenience of comfortable wearable medical devices can be fine-tuned with existing healthcare ecosystems. Harnessing Digital Continuous Care will improve patient life style, quality of care, while reducing risk and overall costs.

David Sims from Toshiba will take a session on what 5G and mobile edge computing will mean for the future workforce in the UK. With various 5G trials taking place across the UK in recent months, it is anticipated that the next-gen cellular network will be commercially available later this year, bringing with it better connectivity, increased capacity, and faster speeds. This in turn will pave the way for a host of emerging technologies to gain prominence in the enterprise space, most notably mobile edge computing. What does this mean for UK businesses and their workforce?

By processing data at the edge of the network, edge computing has the potential to revolutionise the operational efficiency of remote and field-based workers. Mobile edge computing devices will act as the gateway to bringing IoT solutions and wearables, for instance Assisted Reality (AR) smart glasses into the enterprise IT infrastructure. This will provide businesses with new methods of gathering and processing data in a more secure and efficient manner.

Companies such as Ubimax and Vuzix are already innovating in this space, creating the hardware and software applications to make wearable technology accessible to professional users. The possibilities for such technology are ripening. To give one example, workers in remote manufacturing operations could use AR technology to access detailed specifications or instructions in real-time, reducing any errors, and increasing efficiency overall.

Such use span sectors such as engineering, manufacturing, logistics and healthcare.

2019 certainly looks to be the year wearables reach the mainstream in business, but how will the wearable landscape evolve in the longer-term? This session will explore the opportunities this will give the workforce.

The Wearables Awards will take place during the Wearable Technology Show, and will recognise those companies with the best – and most improved – product or service offering in the past 12 months.

The catergories include Digital Health Start Up Pitch; Wearable Innovation; AVR360 Award; Enterprise Award; Health Innovation; Crunchwear Editors Award; and the Consumer Product of the Year.

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