This event is a unique opportunity to collaborate across disciplines with a common interest in Wearable Technology. We are bringing together innovators — from space suit engineers to hand bag designers and everyone in between. Our goal is to engage industry, government, and academic researchers to identify and solve the greatest challenge in Wearable Technology today.
University teams pitch their solutions to industry-identified wearables challenges. See Challenge Statments below.
Open panel discussions on needs and drivers, guest presentations from field experts and startups, plus networking mixers.
Full agenda TBA.
Teams of up to six undergraduate and/or graduate students may respond to an industry-identified challenges (see below). Interested teams should contact info@techcollaboration.center to secure their position for the Challenge Day. There are limited slots for each challenge, which will be reserved on a first-come first-serve basis. The deadline to register your challenge response team via email is February 24, 2023. The TCC will facilitate introductions between the team and the challenge-submitting organization. Teams will have the Spring 2023 semester to develop their solution with periodic interactions with the challenge sponsor. At least one representative from the team should attend the workshop in Houston in April to present the team's solution.
The priority deadline for challenge submissions has passed. However, if you have a challenge you strongly feel would be an asset to this year's program, please contact info@techcollaboration.center as soon as possible. Engineers working on industry-relevant technology may submit a Wearables Challenge. These challenge statements should be succinct and feasible to address given a three-month timeframe. Material contributions and intellectual property should be handled directly with the responding teams. Please contact the TCC for the Challenge submission form.
Wearable Technology subject matter experts are welcome to apply to give a presentation. Please submit a brief abstract to info@techcollaboration.center by March 24, 2023. Please indicate your preference for a 15-minute presentation, 45-minute presentation, or proposed panel discussion. We are broadly defining wearable technology, and priority will be given to presentations with cross-industry applications.
Organizations with a unique wearable technology are welcome to apply to give a technology demonstration. Please send a brief description to info@techcollaboration.center by March 24, 2023. Please indicate your preference for a 15-minute demo and or vendor booth at the workshop, or a 45-minute TCC-Live podcast-style interview (to be conducted on a separate date). We are broadly defining wearable technology, and priority will be given to those with cross-industry applications.