Schedule

Two days in wearable technologies

Wearables, fashion tech, smart clothing and consumer innovation: Experience two days filled with inspiration, learn from successful companies and meet the most important influencers within industry, politics and culture. 

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Focus Topic

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The Future of Health
Medical
Disruption
Reinventing an Industry
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Fostering responsible Innovation
Sustainability
and tech
Environment and social
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Pitches and Masterclasses

Startup
show
Meet the innovators
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The future of workspaces and production environments

Industrial
and safety
Industry 4.0 meets IoT
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Female entrepreneurs and professionals unite!
women in tech
Networking
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Blockchain, VR, Gaming, Payments
The next big thing
Tomorrow´s business drivers
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creating a new value chain

Materials &
Product Development

from idea to product
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The future of
consumer goods is wearable
Lifestyle
and Wellbeing
Consumer Trends

All sessions in chronological order

Day 1
07 Sep 2021

Fashiontech: Opening Remarks

Introduction into the topic of Fashiontech and the overall wearable technologies conference.
Manon Montant
17:05

Main Stage

Opening Keynote: The Rapidly Emerging Wearables Convergence Era (Qualcomm)

Pankaj Kedia is the Founder, Business Lead, and Sr. Director of the Wearables segment at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. He incubated the business over 6 years ago and continues to lead its growth having shipped 250+ products across 50+ countries during this time. Pankaj also leads the shareables audio business for the company in collaboration with global audio brands. Prior to Qualcomm, Pankaj held a series...
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Pankaj Kedia

Keynote: Pushing the boundaries of Fashiontech (Former Puma)

For nearly three decades Johnson has worked within the context of sports, fashion, and active lifestyle products for leading global brands. With a design degree from Carnegie Mellon, Charles’ professional starting point as a product designer specializing in footwear has transformed into executive-level leadership shaping vision, teams and global strategies. Today that means combining connected experiences with digital technology that benefit modern and active lifestyles....
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Charles Johnson

Panel: Making Fashion Tech work from Research to Pop Culture

Pop-culture, Technologies and Wearables: Viktoria Modesta and Anouk Wipprecht are pushing the limits of Fashion Viktoria Modesta is an independent bionic multimedia artist, creative director, DJ and supporter of future innovations. Her work continues the theme of exploring modern identity through performance, fashion, avant-garde visuals, technology and science. Her latest work continues to build on her vision – in 2019 she art directed and starred...
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Viktoria Modesta
Anouk Wipprecht
Natalia Modenova
18:30

Sessions

Lightning Talk by Asher Levine who designed style for Lady Gaga and Beyonce

Asher Levine is an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. His eponymous label blends a city-driven modern aesthetic with a biomorphic vision of fashion. As a person who balanced academia and night life with a day job, Asher launched his first collection in 2009. The mad-scientist-meets-luxe style caught the attention of Lady Gaga, who at the time, just released Poker Face. Soon after, Asher became the...
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Asher Levine

Break Out Session: European wearable innovation

Different innovative EU projects like Re-FREAM, WORTH Project, RECORDE will give lightning talks presenting their high-tech ideas. WORTH / ELIIIT RECODE presented by Isabel Berz from IED Loreto Binvignat Streeter Jan Wertel Malou Beemer Youyang Song Tim van der Loo and Sandra Nicoline
Isabel Berz
Jan Wertel
Loreto Binvignat Streeter
Sandra Nicoline Nielsen
Tim van der Loo
Youyang Song
Malou Beemer
Korinna Molla

Lightning Talk: high-security solutions (Tailorlux GmbH)

Tobias Herzog is the Managing director of Tailorlux GmbH. Tailorlux provides authentication and traceability solutions with covert markings that are inseparably linked to the product. Through its interdisciplinary expertise in light-emitting materials and detection, Tailorlux contributes to making transparency, authenticity, and traceability a reality in the value chains of various industries.
Tobias Herzog

Lightning Talk: MYOW Project / Make Your Own Wearables

The objective of the project “MYOW – Make your Own Wearables” is the connection of designers, makers, service providers and manufacturers of personalized wearables in a digital service space. This covers services for the combination and linking of sensors, devices and textiles, which can be flexibly connected to service chains. The new business models developed in the project allow to regulate the co-production and also...
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Tim Bibow

Swimming Pool: Networking Session

Lightning Talks from industry experts and interactive Q&A

FASHIONTECH: Closing

The Wear It Team will close the day with few key updates about Day 2: Digital Health and Fitness Tech and provide some interesting insights about the event.
Manon Montant
Day 2
08 Sep 2021

Digital Health and Wellnesstech: Opening Remarks

Introduction into the topic of Digital Health, WellnessTech and the overall wearable technologies conference.
Manon Montant
17:10

Main Stage

Keynote: Beyond Telemedicine – New Technologies Driving Remote Diagnostic Capabilities (BCG Digital Ventures)

Andre Heeg is Partner & Managing Director at Boston Consulting Digital Ventures, a subsidiary of the Boston Consulting Group specializing in the development of digital business models for corporations. In his prior role as Global Head of Digitization and member of the management board at the Novartis subsidiary Sandoz, he was responsible for the pharmaceutical company’s  digitization activities. Prior to this, he held various management...
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Andre Heeg

Panel: How connected wearable devices change the way we stay healthy and experience pleasure (Amorelie & MUSE)

Ariel Garten is probably one of the most interesting people you will meet. She is a Neuroscientist, mom, former psychotherapist, former fashion designer, and the co-founder and visionary of an amazing and highly successful tech start-up Muse. With no formal business background, Ariel personally raised $18M to found Muse from Silicon Valley investors (as well as Ashton Kutcher). Muse is now used by hundreds of...
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Claire Midwood
Ariel Garten
18:30

Sessions

Lightning Talk: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Project Maku aims at developing a wearable accompanying an app that enables at-home clinical trials. Together with men and boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, we researched how clinical trials should be designed to support them in the best possible way: By giving them a wearable that matches their identity and an app that gives them insight into the data during the clinical trial, helps them...
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Anneke van Abbema

Lightning Talk: Sensor Technology (cosinuss°)

Dr. Johannes Kreuzer studied electronic engineering at the Technical University of Munich from 2000-2005. The topic of his Ph.D. was vital signs monitoring in daily life. During his university time and later, he worked for companies like Epcos, EADS, Airbus, Daimler, and Pilatus. Together with Greta, he founded the company cosinuss° end of 2011. cosinuss° is a technology company based in Munich and specialized in...
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Dr. Johannes Kreuzer

Lightning Talk: MYOW Project / Make your own wearables

The objective of the project “MYOW – Make your Own Wearables” is the connection of designers, makers, service providers and manufacturers of personalized wearables in a digital service space. This covers services for the combination and linking of sensors, devices and textiles, which can be flexibly connected to service chains. The new business models developed in the project allow to regulate the co-production and also...
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Rolf Fricke

Swimming Pool: Networking Session

Lightning Talks from industry experts and interactive Q&A

Digital Health and Wellnesstech: Closing

The Wear It Team will close the day with few key updates about Day 3: Innovation Awards 2021 and provide some interesting insights about the event.
Manon Montant
Day 3
09 Sep 2021

Innovation Award Show: Opening Remarks

Introduction to the Wear It Innovation Award Show and the overall wearable technologies conference.
Manon Montant
17:10

Main Stage

Keynote: The next big thing is wearable (Soundbrenner)

Making music practice addictive: how we shipped 100,000 wearables to musicians and how you can too Florian Simmendinger is the Founder and CEO of Soundbrenner, makers of the world’s first wearable smart device for musicians. By combining wearable devices with great software, Soundbrenner creates an addictive music-practice experience that allows anyone to learn and master any instrument. To date they shipped over 100,000 wearables and...
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Florian Simmendinger

Panel: Investors on Stage (Qualcomm, BCG Digital Ventures, Arkley Brinc VC & leAD)

Pankaj Kedia is business development executive with a 25+ year track record delivering results, bringing innovative products and technologies to market, and making a long-lasting impact in the mobile, wireless, Internet, and wearable segments. Andre Heeg is Partner & Managing Director at Boston Consulting Digital Ventures, a subsidiary of the Boston Consulting Group specializing in the development of digital business models for corporations. Bryony is...
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Pankaj Kedia
Andre Heeg
Bryony Cooper
Mina Begum

Start-Up Pitches

During the event 10 Start-Ups will present their innovative ideas from close-to-body technologies to the soft- and hardware ideas for wearable tech. Start-Ups will have the opportunity to pitch their ideas for 3 minutes and then answer 2 questions from the Jury Members.  
Denis Altschul
Ichiro Amimori
John Hornes
Nate Robinson
Tanya Colonna
Juan Opitz-Silva
Boudewijn Wisse
Josh Rabinowitz
Stefan van der Fluit

Expert Talk: Investing in FemTech

Rachel Braun Scherl is a champion for women’s health and a pioneer in the space, where she has passionately focused on driving the conversation on the business of women’s sexual and reproductive health. The first Vagipreneur®, Rachel works on women’s businesses “from the tops of their heads to the tips of their toes.” As Managing Partner and Co-Founder (1998) of SPARK Solutions for Growth, a...
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Rachel Braun Scherl

Lightning Talk: MYOW Project / Make your own wearables

The objective of the project “MYOW – Make your Own Wearables” is the connection of designers, makers, service providers and manufacturers of personalized wearables in a digital service space. This covers services for the combination and linking of sensors, devices and textiles, which can be flexibly connected to service chains. The new business models developed in the project allow to regulate the co-production and also...
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Clara E. Gleiß

Innovation Award Ceremony

Pankaj Kedia
Andre Heeg
Bryony Cooper
Mina Begum
19:50

Sessions

Swimming Pool: Networking Session

Lightning Talks from industry experts and interactive Q&A
Day 4
10 Sep 2021

Iot, Blockchain and Sensors: Opening Remarks

Introduction to the topicS of IoT, Blockchain and Sensors with Wearable Technology and the overall wearable technologies conference.
Manon Montant
17:10

Main Stage

Keynote: Evolution of Wearable Use Cases around Sensors (Qualcomm)

Ally Choi is Director of Product Marketing for the Wearables segment at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. She is leading the wearables business development, manages company’s wearables business strategy and strategic customer relations. Ally has spent over 15 years in the Telecommunications industry across a range of product, business, account management and marketing roles at global leading OEMs and mobile operators. Prior to Qualcomm, Ally led the...
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Ally Sujin Choi

Panel: Blockchain And Wearables (IOTA Foundation, Ocean Protocol & Fraunhofer FIM-RC)

As a Blockchain specialist and DEC certified digital assets analyst, Tara Merk is convinced that permissionless DLT, and IOTA in particular, will deliver sustainable impact to the economy and society at large. She has in-depth expertise in the use of blockchain technology across different industries including global trade and supply chains, mobility and eHealth. Manan Patel has a total experience of 10+ years in IT...
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Tara Merk
Fabine Völter
Manan Patel
18:30

Sessions

Lightning Talk: Sensor Tech Product (GreenTeg AG)

Holger Hendrichs is the VP Sales and Marketing at the GreenTeg AG. Holger describes himself as a self-driven person with an “embedded” consulting mindset of helping the clients and customers first, solving problems and delivering excellent solutions.
Chris Blomfield-Brown

Lightning Talk: Cloud-based sensor management (IDUN Technologies AG)

Mark Melnykowycz is the Application Lead at the IDUN Technologies AG. Mark has worked in the academic and industrial research areas in the United States, Switzerland, and Japan on extended projects including biomaterials, smart materials, automotive engineering and various topics within composite materials. His work approach includes a mix of analytical thinking and research methods combined with an artistic flexibility to develop unique solutions. Mark...
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Mark Melnykowycz

Lightning Talk: MYOW Project / Make your own wearables

The objective of the project “MYOW – Make your Own Wearables” is the connection of designers, makers, service providers and manufacturers of personalized wearables in a digital service space. This covers services for the combination and linking of sensors, devices and textiles, which can be flexibly connected to service chains. The new business models developed in the project allow to regulate the co-production and also...
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Tobias Albert

Swimming Pool: Networking Session

Lightning Talks from industry experts and interactive Q&A
Tara Merk
Fabine Völter
Manan Patel

IOT, BLOCKCHAIN AND SENSORS: closing

The Wear It Berlin team will do the closing to the day and the event.
Manon Montant