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Jan
ARS Electronica Festival
On September 5th, 2019 in Postcity Linz, Austria Wear It Berlin led a podium discussion at ARS Electronica Festival. During the event Re-FREAM artists and scientists partnered up for a 9-month long project to reimagine the future of fashion and technology. Each project receives funding of 55.000 EURs. The Re-FREAM Berlin Hub is managed by... Read More
On November 21st, 2019, Wear It Berlin led a workshop at Fashion Talks Antwerp, Belgium to mentor fashion & tech entrepreneurs from all over Europe.
On Oct 22, 2019, Thomas Gnahm, Managing Director of Wear It Berlin GmbH, was honored by the European Commission to deliver the keynote Design-driven development: from rapid prototype to wearable system at the EC Workshop on ‘Smart Bioelectric and Wearable Systems’ to 150 industry leaders and experts. Thomas Gnahm delivered the keynote at the session... Read More
Polar is a pioneer of wearable technology, starting off with heart rate monitoring back in 1982 and expanding with GPS functionality and smart coaching solutions for athletes of all levels. Companies, like Polar, are drawn to Wear It Innovation Summit for its networking wealth. At Wear It Innovation Summit 2019 Polar stole the show by... Read More
“New. Surprising. Game-changing” – the motto of this year’s Wear It Innovation Summit was also the motor powering the great content encountered in more than 60 talks, workshops and networking sessions at the event. Hamayal Choudhry, founder of smartARM and the winner of Microsoft’s Global Tech Competition, the Imagine Cup 2018, with a prize of... Read More
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Jul
Siemens Mobility and Wear It Berlin announce Safewatch exclusively at Wear It Innovation Summit
Wear Innovation Summit has developed into a platform which brings together industry leaders such as Siemens Mobility, Polar, Microsoft, HUGO BOSS, H&M and many more under one roof, and the reasons are plenty – from innovating their own products, solutions or creating a potential for their businesses. Companies are driven to attend Wear It Innovation... Read More
One of the highlights of the Wear It Innovation Summit was the Wear It Innovation Show, which brought the most promising products and solutions in wearable tech on the innovation stage. On the 25th of June, the afternoon was dedicated to the 13 Startups that had 3 minutes each to impress the Grand Jury and... Read More
Hessnatur Stiftung is an institute for applied sustainability which aims at fundamentally changing the basic concepts and experimental practices of the textile industry: “In the near future textile companies won‘t be able to conduct business without transparency and thorough knowledge along their entire supply chains.“ – hessnatur Stiftung Sustainability was again one of the Focus... Read More
One of the highlights of Wear It Innovation Summit was the live demo of Rokoko’s SmartSuit Pro, an intuitive and accessible wireless motion capture suit. In a hands-on workshop organized by A MAZE. and Rokoko, the latter showed the applicability of their Smartsuit Pro, which was mainly developed in order to give power and life... Read More
“We want to take you to Mars!” – Sophie Gruber, Board Member at Austrian Space Forum Wear It Innovation Summit aimed to address different interests in wearable tech, which was successfully put into practice during various Talks, Workshops and Networking Sessions. Materials and Product Development, one of the topics highlighted at the event, tackles an industry... Read More