(Photo: Samsung Galaxy S5 with Gear Fit smartwatch by Karlis Dambrans)
Welcome, and thank you for signing up to the Fit Tech Summit monthly event. Fit Tech Summit exists to help ‘facilitate FitTech businesses succeed with developing relevant products, raising finance and achieving scale to improve the wellbeing of all humans.’
We choose to fulfil some of these objectives by inviting in speakers to our monthly event in order to broaden the scope of discussion and debate. We hope to see you all on the evening to contribute to the development of the Fit Tech space. You will find the Agenda and speakers biographies below. In the mean time please free to contact me direct with any questions – stuart@fitsummit.io.
Agenda
7.00pm Welcoming remarks, Oleg Fomenko
7.05pm Housekeeping and community update from our hosts – WeWork
7.10pm Address from the CEO of London Sport Authority, Peter Fitzboydon and message from The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson
7.20pm Beyond tomorrow: what’s bubbling on the fit tech horizon, Shane Richmond – journalist, ex-Telegraph
7.30pm The Sports and Fitness Innovation and Design Challenge, Prof Peter Childs – Imperial College/Royal College of Art
7.40pm Fit to invest: path to mass-market Fit Tech solutions, Nathan Benaich – Playfair Capital
7.50pm Panel discussion and Q&A – Persuasive technology: designing interactive technologies that motivate and create new fitness habits – moderator, Shane Richmond.
8.30pm You will have the chance to chat informally after the panel discussion with the other Fit Tech members and the speakers.
Closing: we will be organising for the team and some members to stay on for dinner afterwards, so please do join!
On arrival
A member of the team will greet you at the WeWork reception from 6.45 – 715pm. You will need to sign in and collect a name badge before heading to the speaking area.
Speaker biographies
Shane Richmond
Shane Richmond is a journalist and technology writer. He is the former Technology Editor of The Telegraph and, since 2013, he has been a freelance journalist and copywriter. In 2013 he published a book about wearable technology, Computerised You, and has spoken about wearable tech at The Wearable Technology Show in London and You Are In Control in Reykjavik. He gives guest lectures on the subject at the London College of Fashion and is an advisor for running startup Train As One. He spent most of last year working on a book about banking technology but did find time to carry out this in-depth test of wrist-based heart rate monitors: http://www.wareable.com/fitness-trackers/heart-rate-monitor-accurate-comparison-wrist
Peter Childs
Peter Childs is Head of the Dyson School of Design Engineering and the Professorial Lead in Engineering Design at Imperial College London. His general interests include: creativity tools and innovation; design process and design rationale; fluid flow and heat transfer. His role at Imperial includes being the joint course director for the Innovation Design Engineering and the Global Innovation Design masters degrees run jointly with the Royal College of Art. He is also Director and Chief Scientific Officer of QBot Ltd.
Nathan Benaich
Nathan joined Playfair Capital in 2013 to seek out, invest into and help grow technology companies that will hopefully go on to shape our generation. Nathan is particularly interested in businesses where data and engineering are a core competencies, as well as those which craft compelling user experiences that quickly become entrenched habits. Within the Playfair portfolio of >40 companies, Nathan focuses on product design, analytics, and growth, while providing support for companies raising their next round of financing. At Playfair, Nathan has led, originated or participated in Seed, Series A and Series B investments for high-growth companies including Mapillary, Appear Here, Dojo, and Festicket. Prior to Playfair, he earned an M.Phil and Ph.D in oncology as a Gates and Dr. Herchel Smith Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and a BA in biology from Williams College. Nathan has published research that leverages both experimental and computational approaches to understand how we might stem the fatal spread of cancer around the body.
