The GLAZED Conference weekend would be incomplete without a hackathon. Wearable World has partnered with the specialists of all-things-hackathon, AngelHack to bring you a 2-day event focused around wearable platform applications! Compete against the industry's best developers to create apps for top secret and not so secret Wearable Platforms like Glass. Winning apps will get to demo live to over 900 investors, press, industry leaders during the Digital Fall Tech Fashion Show following the GLAZED Conference. Prepare to be amazed!
Wearable World presents the first ever Google Glass and Wearable Technology conference, GLAZED! Time to talk everything Wearables. GLAZED was created to get that conversation started and flowing. We've curated an environment that will bring together technology pioneers, founders, executives, influencers and investors.
Redg Snodgrass and Owen Thomas, Editor-in-Chief at ReadWrite, opens the floor of Glazedcon
Owen Thomas
Editor-In-ChiefRobert Scoble talks about how life is going to get a little bit easier with the impending context relevant revolution.
Robert Scoble
KeynotePrior to the emergence of the iPhone shopping’s biggest disruption was the industrial age. With the emergence of “Wearable Tech” we have the potential to see an even more incredible disruption in what we wear, how we shop, and how we make purchases. Let’s learn from today’s most disruptive players what to expect next.
Manish Chandra
CEO
Greg Bensinger
Moderator
Quinn Li
Vice President and Managing Director of North America
Alex Muse
CEOBitTorrent, Myspace, Pandora, and the iPod have redefined an industry that goes back thousands of years. Hear a sneak peak about what is going to happen in the next few years from arguably the most connected in Tech and Music in the world.
Ina Fried
Senior Editor
Larry Marcus
Investor
Michael Cerda
Senior Vice President
Brian Zisk
FounderCaffeinate, stretch your legs, make new friends, snag a few more LinkedIn connections, negotiate your wearable idea and head back to your seat.
Insights on how to build successful applications on wearables that will make you money.
Det Ansinn
President and Owner
Mikael Berner
CEO
Cheryl Yeoh
Personalized Products
Christina Farr
WriterYobie Benjamin demos exciting wearable tech on stage!
Yobie Benjamin
Industry LeaderNir Eyal talks with Cheryl Kellond, CEO of Bia Sport, Alex Gourley, CEO of BitGym and Katy Fike, CEO of Innovation50, on how new interfaces, like Google Glass, change user behavior. How will technology affect our everyday habits and can it be a force for good? This panel of technologists, entrepreneurs, and experts will discuss how companies are building products to change the way people live by designing user behavior.
Nir Eyal
Moderator
Cheryl Kellond
CEO
Alex Gourley
CEO
Katy Fike
CEOSimon Khalaf, CEO of Flurry, talks with Amir Efrati (Jessica Lessin) on the need for companies to switch gears from mobile to wearables.
Simon Khalaf
CEO
Amir Efrati
ReporterEric Migicovsky, CEO of Pebble, Kate Drane, Hardware lead of Indiegogo and Rob Coneybeer of Shasta Ventures discuss how to launch a successfully crowd-funded campaign with Mark Milian of Bloomberg.
Eric Migicovsky
CEO
Kate Drane
Hardware Marketing Director
Mark Milian
Moderator
Rob Coneybeer
Co-FounderApplication builders on this new “Wearable Ecosystem” are finding it difficult to find “the right” tools and back end systems to support a different type of build out and architecture. Learn from the players, and an insider about how the industry is changing to adapt to this community.
Jon Gottfried
Evangelist
Steven Holmes
VP of the New Devices Group
Tryggvi Lárusson
CTO and Co-Founder
Brian Bedrosian
Sr. Director of Embedded WirelessAre wearables the imminent demise or potential resurgence of traditional media? Chris Tolles, CEO of Topix, Mark Johnson, CEO of Zite and Jon Swartz of USA Today discuss with Meghan Kelley of VentureBeat, the future of media and whether or not it will miss wearables as it missed web and mobile.
Chris Tolles
CEO
Mark Johnson
CEO
Jon Swartz
Writer
Meghan Kelly
ReporterWith the emergence of “mainstream wearable tech” our whole world is set to change. If change begins at home then how does this technology integrate with family, friends, hearth, and home? What are the early paths to market & monetization? What will this Wearable Home be? Hear from Chris Hughes, Jason Johnson, CEO of August, and Trae Vassallo of KPCB speak to this new world.
Chris Hughes
Developer
Jason Johnson
CEO
Trae Vassallo
PartnerOwen Thomas grills Sonny Vu, CEO of Misfit Wearables, Marco Della Torre, CEO of Basis, and Casper De Clercq of Norwest Venture Partners, on how they intend to use their products to make all generations engaged with their health.
Owen Thomas
Editor-In-Chief
Sonny Vu
Industry Leader
Marco Della Torre
Vice President of Product Science
Casper De Clercq
InvestorOrlando Portale, CEO of Glassomics and Sutha Kamal, CEO of Massive Health, and Michael Yang of Comcast Ventures talk to Kyle Samani, CEO of Pristine, on why quantified health wearables aren’t just for the consumer and how they will impact the entire future of the healthcare industry.
Orlando Portale
Industry Leader
Kyle Samani
Founder and CEO
Sutha Kamal
CEO
Michael Yang
InvestorCaffeinate, stretch your legs, make new friends, snag a few more LinkedIn connections, negotiate your wearable idea and head back to your seat.
Getting to casual gamers takes a hard core gaming mindset. In this winner take most world being the first to market on a platform has the makings for tremendous success (Tapulous, ngMoco, Angry Birds). Come learn the hacks, cheats, and wisdom from these former success stories, and see what it takes to win the wearable gamer.
Shawn Hardin
CEO
Nabeel Hyatt
Venture Partner
Charles Hudson
Partner
Martine Paris
EditorWhen you have a limited marketing budget, and even more limited resources to build compelling applications you need to make the right choice. Hear as these platform experts weigh the pro’s, con’s and hacks to making a product hit as opposed to a sure miss.
Amber Case
Director
Shruti Gandhi
Principal Investor
Bjorn Laurin
VP of Product
Meron Gribetz
CEOVince Pizzica, SEVP of Technicolor, talks with Redg about how large companies are listening to consumers demands for wearable tech.
Vince Pizzica
Senior Executive Vice PresidentJacob Mullins, CEO of Exitround talk to Stephanie Palmeri of SoftTechVC, Dave Liu, Managing Director, Co-Head of Internet and Digital Media Investment Banking at Jefferies, David Blumenfeld, Senior Vice President, Westfield Labs and Jeff Eddings, Senior Director, Product Management, Emerging Technologies at Turner Broadcasting.
Stephanie Palmeri
Principal
Jacob Mullins
CEO
Jeff Eddings
Director
Dave Liu
Managing Director
David Blumenfeld
Senior Vice PresidentToday’s entrepreneurs know virality is vitality, monetization is never a fixed path and the road to market is never paved with gold. The Wearable Platform arms race won’t be any different. Learn from experts that have built, taken to market, and made $$$ in an unknown environment.
Josh Elman
Partner
Josh Constine
Writer
Christian Wiklund
CEO
Julie Mossler
Director of CommunicationsInnovative founders, Peter Berger of People+ and Matt Wilkinson of Crushpath, delve into the mechanics of reinventing platforms to be ready for the future with Sunil Nagaraj of Bessemer Venture Partners and Kevin Swan of iNovia.
Peter Berger
CEO
Matt Wilkinson
Co-Founder
Sunil Nagaraj
Investor
Kevin Swan
InvestorJames Park, CEO of Fitbit, takes the stage for our final fireside keynote.
James Park
CEOElaine Fiolet takes the stage with Philippe Kahn, CEO of FullPower Technologies, Tan Le of Emotiv Lifesciences and Tanguy Leborgne, VP of Consumer Solutions at Plantronics about how to get around today’s technical challenges to create products for the future.
Eliane Fiolet
Co-Founder and Editor
Tan Le
CEO
Tanguy Leborgne
Vice President of Consumer Solutions
Philippe Kahn
CEOAugmented Reality has always been pontificating about the promise of impending revenue. In the last few months, we have seen an incredible resurgence of wearable platforms and this panel of AR visionaries will educate you how AR is the window to not only the souls of users but also to their pocketbooks.
After a weekend of conversation around wearable technology, the world's top tier investors, press, developers and entrepreneurs will gather to celebrate fashion, art, and technology during a fashion show that will showcase the latest innovations.