Insights December 17th, 2015

Tom Emrich: Wearable Technology and Us
In Tom Emrich: Wearable Technology and Us Emrich talks about switching perspectives on technology – How wearable technology will reconnect us to ourselves and to one another.

Tom is a passionate writer, consultant, and community builder. He founded We Are Wearables, an organization that rallies the tech community together to discover, discuss, and demo wearable tech, quickly becoming the largest community of its kind in the world. Tom writes regularly about wearables and other emerging technologies for MobileSyrup, BetaKit, Design News, and Designers of Things. He also works with startups and large organizations as an advisor and consultant.
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Check out We Are Wearables in Toronto.  They are on a mission to foster adoption and facilitate innovation in wearable tech by bringing communities together to discover, discuss and demo the latest in wearable technology. If you are a startup, entrepreneur, investor, brand, marketer, developer, designer or just an enthusiast come join the movement. Follow them on Twitter @WeAreWearables for group updates and wearable tech news.

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Nikolas Badminton is a world-respected futurist speaker that researches, speaks, and writes about the future of work, how technology is affecting the workplace, how workers are adapting, the sharing economy, and how the world is evolving. He appears at conferences in Canada, USA, UK, and Europe. Email him to book him for your radio, TV show, or conference.

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Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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