The Smart Fabrics Europe 2013 agenda will be released soon! Check out what happened in San Francisco below...
7:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
Conference Day 1, April 18, 2013:
8:00 Opening remarks and presentation of advisory board:
Stacey Burr, Vice President of Wearable Sports Electronics, adidas; Hap Klopp, Chairman, Obscura Digital and founder of The North Face; Tom Martin, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech; Dr. Kunigunde Cherenack, Senior Scientist Light Generation Dept., Philips Corporate Technologies, Research; and Dr. Tricia Wilson, President and Principal, Fabric Works
8:15 Who are you and why are here dial in
9:00 The culture of change and innovation within and outside organizations from a human centered design point of view
Beto Lopez, Global Lead- Systems Design discipline, IDEO
9:30 Imagined wearables: Body-centric technologies in the art & design context
Kate Hartman, Co-creator of Botanicalls and Lilypad XBee and Assistant Professor of Wearable & Mobile Technology and Director of the Social Body Lab, OCAD University
At Smart Fabrics 2013, you'll hear from the woman who made a plant talk for the first time...tweet actually. Hartman's device allows a plant to communicate through a mobile device, theoretically allowing it to remind its owner that it needs watering or sunlight. So what did the plant say? "@pothos Water me please." If your plants can talk what's next? Collaborate with your industry colleagues at Smart Fabrics 2013 to share ideas and develop the next inanimate object to tweet, text, or Pic Stitch!
10:00 The Intimacy of Technology
Wearables, techno-fabrics and electronic fashion all explore the boundaries of comfort, vulnerability, transformation and privacy of the individual wearer. But how close do we allow technology to get to our body, heart and soul? With the ongoing miniaturization and integration of hi-tech, the intimacy of technology seems to cross already the natural barrier of our bodies, transcending into our "second nature".
Rogier van der Heide, VP and Chief Design Officer, Philips Lighting
10:30 Networking break / student poster session
11:00 - 11:50 Opening session: Innovation, innovation, innovation!
Chaired by: Dr. Tricia Wilson, President and Principal, Fabric Works
11:00 Human Centered Design for wearability, interactivity and innovation
- Now that technology allows us to make anything - how will we know what is the right thing to make?
- This talk will cover the foundations of Human Centered Design, its methods and how to apply it in organizations
Francine Gemperle, Senior Design Strategist, Maya Design
11:20 Reshaping Electronics for the Human Body
- While Moore's Law has delivered smaller, cheaper and faster electronics, these conventional systems exist exclusively in planar layouts on the flat surfaces of rigid, brittle semiconductor wafers. These 2D configurations are not fundamentally compatible for use in soft form factors such as on or in the human body
- Stretchable electronics can be integrated into three-dimensional applications, into dynamic and moving systems, and into space-constrained areas - applications that just aren't possible with standard forms of electronics
- The approach to developing stretchable electronics
- The primary markets and opportunities we see in this space today and in the future, with a focus on wearable sensors for sports, wellness and digital health
Amar Kendale, Vice President of Strategy & Market Development, MC10
11:40 Q&A for the session
11:50 Lunch will be served to delegates
1:20 -2:10 The culture of innovation in organizations, general dynamics, effective teams & work styles
Chaired by: Stacey Burr, Vice President of Wearable Sports Electronics, Adidas
1:20 How the culture of design, craft, and DIY propels smart fabrics innovation and industry
- The importance of aesthetics in smart fabrics design = it has to look good
- Reviving craft practices, local knowledge, and indigenous materials = start with local talent/assets
- DIY techniques, technologies, and communities = networking with interested communities, beta-testers, and early adopters
- What contribution can designers make to smart fabrics innovation?
- 3lectromode's experiments with DIY prêt-à-porter
Valerie Lamontagne, Smart Textiles Researcher / Designer, 3lectromode & Concordia University
1:40 Lessons from an undergraduate interdisciplinary course for smart product design
- This talk will present results and lessons learned from six years of running an interdisciplinary product development studio (engineering, design, and business)
- Successful team building requires actively bridging cultural barriers between disciplines
- We have improved our design process through a combination of quantitative and qualitative evaluation
Tom Martin, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
2:00 Q&A for the session
2:10 Networking break / Student poster session
2:40 - 3:50 Military end uses: research turned into projects
Chaired by: Dr. Tricia Wilson, President and Principal, Fabric Works
2:40 Needs and Applications for Wearable Electronics in the Military Environment
- Overview of some current challenges and technology gaps
- Applications for smart fabrics within the DARPA Warrior Web Program
- Discussion of other military research efforts with future applications for wearable technologies
- How can the smart fabrics industry get involved?
Sarah Sutton, Project Engineer, System Planning Corporation
3:00 Design Tool for Electronic Textile Clothing Systems
- Current E-textile toolkit
- Need for an E-textile design tool
- Mathematical foundation and approach
- Design tool capabilities
- Integration with existing patternmaking design tools
Jeremiah Slade, Principal Engineer, Infoscitex Corporation and Justyna Teverovsky, Partner, Fabric Works
3:20 Printed bioelectronics for textile and epidermal integration
- Development of wearable printed biosensors for the fitness, athletics, performance monitoring, and combat domains
- Textile-based printed bioelectronics for situational awareness
- Temporary transfer tattoo biosensors Printed biofuel cells for epidermal integration
Dr. Joshua R. Windmiller, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Nano Engineering, University of California, San Diego
3:40 Q&A for the session
3:50 - 5:00 What is happening in the different technical platforms?
Chair: Dr. Kunigunde Cherenack, Senior Scientist Light Generation Dept., Philips Corporate Technologies, Research
3:50 Development of wearable complex multi-layer digital circuit board
- Tradeoff evaluation of digital performance versus board stretchability and flexibility
- Design challenges for high speed differential pair traces that bend and stretch
- Performance and environmental test results
Duncan Boyce, VP Business Development, Infinite Corridor Technology
4:10 Flexible and Wearable Printed Silicon Technology
- "Smart" fabrics provide and/or use digital information to enhance the user's experience in a way not possible with fabric or other materials alone
- Examples include many types of sensors, displays, and changes of state (e.g. heating, cooling, sweat removal, etc.)
- These are sophisticated electronic functions, yet they have to be provided without affecting the fabric's look and feel
- Highly miniaturized, ultrathin, silicon-based electronics can achieve this goal, but their introduction requires a novel assembly technology
Dr. Jayna Sheats, Co-Founder and CTO, Terepac Corp
4:30 Sensing, heating, lighting: key functions for Smart Textiles in Canada
- Innovating in partnership
- 3 case study:
o Heating nonwoven
o Illuminated bag
o Bio-sensing for protective clothing
- Standardization
- Trends and challenge
Aldjia Begriche, Group Leader, Groupe CTT
4:50 Q&A for the session
5:00 Closing remarks for the day
5:30- 7:30 Show us what you've got: E-Textiles Reception
Attendees of the conference are invited to attend the reception where everybody will be wearing & showcasing their samples/products
Dress code: Electronic Tie
Obscura Digital
Delegates will travel by cable car to Obscura Digital. Contact Marianne Vold at mvold@smithers.com for any questions or to RSVP.
Conference Day 2, April 19, 2013
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:20 Opening remarks and announcement of student poster session winner
Chairs: Tom Martin, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech and Stacey Burr, Vice President of Wearable Sports Electronics, Adidas
Opening Keynote
8:30 The game changer technology that will impact smart garments: The future of smart watches
Eric Migicovsky, Founder, Pebble Technology
Brand Owner Case Study
9:00 Smart soccer with miCoach elite team system
- You will hear how adidas is REVOLUTIONIZING THE GAME OF SOCCER with the new micoach technology for elite teams
- Get an inside look into the process of utilizing Smart Fabrics from development to commercialization to delivering a unique User Experience
- The adidas micoach Elite System is a cutting edge innovation that tracks on-field data in real time, helping teams attain and maintain peak physical performance in games and training
Qaizar Hassonjee, VP Innovation, Wearable Sports Electronics, Adidas
9:55 Networking Break
10:20 - 11:10 How design, technology, and research should collaborate to accomplish end products?
Chaired by: Stacey Burr, Vice President of Wearable Sports Electronics, Adidas
10:20 The Body as Metaphor
- Technologies enrich and amplify the cognitive characteristics of our human skin and stimuli of our senses
- These sensations created through computation and the manipulation of data can create visual, tactile, tangible, and sensory experiences and can be transferred easily over distance
- Garments and accessories manufactured with computational smart fabrics (long-term) or integrated wearables technologies (short-term) are nodes in a larger network (mobile) and lead to new innovations
Sabine Seymour, Director, Fashionable Technology Lab, Parsons The New School for Design and Chief Creative Officer, Moondial
10:40 Software and services -- building the integrated wearable technology ecosystem
- The key principles the emerging wearable ecosystem players need to take into account as they chart their path to market together
- The role of software and services in developing integrated, compelling and meaningful consumer experiences
- Her vision for the tremendous opportunity in front of the wearable technology ecosystem and the roles for each of the players, as the vision becomes a reality
Jennifer Darmour, Design Director, Artefact and Electricfoxy
11:00 Q&A for the session
11:10 - 12:00 Panel discussion - start-up companies in the smart fabrics space: big ideas converted into successfulprojects
Chaired by: Hap Klopp, Chairman, Obscura Digital and founder of The North Face
Panelists:
- Elizabeth Redmond, CEO & Founder, POWERleap Inc
- Marco Peluso, Founder and CEO, HealthSynch, Inc
12:00 Lunch will be served to delegates
1:00 -2:10 Latest case studies of technologies converted into products
Chaired by: Dr. Tricia Wilson, President and Principal, Fabric Works
1:00 TBD
1:20 Novel highly conductive graphene-based materials
- Developed by sandwiching conductive molecules of ferric chloride between layers of graphene
- At just one-atom-thick, graphene is the thinnest substance capable of conducting electricity, very flexible and the strongest known material
- Breakthrough in wearable electronic devices: this is the most transparent, lightweight and flexible material ever for conducting electricity. In this way, you could wear light devices which would function for a long time with light batteries
Dr. Monica Craciun, Senior Lecturer - Center for Graphene Science, University of Exeter
1:40 Electro-active Smart-Fabrics and their Applications
- E-textiles - an emerging phenomenon in our lives
- Smart fabric heaters, & circuits, textile switches and pressure mapping sensors
- Radar absorbing composites, stealthy antennas and windmills
Dr. Jamshid Avloni, President & CEO, Eeonyx Corporation
2:00 Q&A for the session
2:10 Break
2:30- 3:20 Technology developments
Chair: Dr. Kunigunde Cherenack, Senior Scientist Light Generation Dept., Philips Corporate Technologies, Research
2:30 Conformable electronics achieved by integration of foil-based electronics in textiles
- Interconnection of foil based electronics to textile with isotropic conductive adhesive and mechanical adhesion by thermoplastic polyurethane.
- Low temperature glueing
- Light generating wearable fabrics
Dr. Margreet de Kok, Senior Scientist, Holst Centre
2:50 Electronic Textiles: from research lab to product development
- This presentation will discuss the different approaches to research and development needed in an academic laboratory and in a for-profit startup. The discussion will compare and contrast:
Research work on Karma Chameleon, in collaboration with a material scientist. The technical goal of our project is to develop a prototype for an all-fiber based textile that can harness, sense, and display energy. Conceptually, this constitutes a radical deviation from the dominant model of a textile substrate with integrated mechano-electronics to a fully integrated composite substrate, wherein the fibers themselves (a) harness human-generated energy, (b) store the energy directly inside the fibers, and (c) use that energy to control a fiber-based actuator (such as fiber illumination and color).
- R&D work with OM Signal, where I am developing a collection of complex bio-sensing shirts for mass production, in conjunction with a wellness/lifestyle App
Joanna Berzowska, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University
3:10 Q&A for the session
3:20- 4:10 Case study of the latest developments in E-Textiles as an application for devices from the heart of Silicon Valley
Chair: Tom Martin, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
3:20 LUMO BodyTech Weaving Sensors Into the Fabric of our Everyday Lives
- LUMO startup's journey in developing sensor-based solutions that integrate into people's daily lives
- Team's human-centric approach and focus on experimentation, feedback, and learning for almost every aspect of their business
- The invaluable lessons LUMO has learned along the way about launching a wearable-sensors company
Monisha Perkash, CEO & Co-Founder, LUMO BodyTech
3:50 Closing remarks and conclusion of conference
Chair: Stacey Burr, Vice President of Wearable Sports Electronics, Adidas