How to Grow your Business with Wearable Technology: SmartWatch Apps

The Smartwatch industry is expected to grow to a 60 billion dollar business by 2020 (according to Smartwatch Group). In the past year, all the big players in the tech market presented their versions of wearable devices (from Sony to HP to Motorola). With the coming of giants such as Google Wear and Apple Watch, smartwatch usage will skyrocket in 2015.

Smartwatches gain a competitive advantage over smartphones and tablets, and unleash new opportunities from a marketing perspective for startups and businesses. Companies around the world are working on creating new use cases for their own smartwatch apps. Are you ready to develop your application for this wearable technology?

We are thrilled to announce our amazing speakers who will speak about the following:

Sridhar Solur, founder of HP's Wearables and Cloud/Mobile Printing, will give an overview of the wearables and smartwatches market, what’s happening now in the field, and what could happen in the future. He recently worked on the MB Chronowing watch and can share his insight on what it takes to create a wearable.

JP Gil, Designer at Google Android Wear, will talk about smartwatches specs and tricks and new opportunities they unleash, as well as give recommendations for startups who are looking into developing a wearable app.

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WHO SPEAKS

Sridhar Solur
General Manager, Wearables and IOT, HP

Serial entrepreneur and business leader with a consistent track record of incubating, building, growing, and managing new businesses in large organizations in a world wide capacity. Product creator and a technologist with a razor sharp focus on user experience. Lover of all things Mobile.
Founder of HP's Wearables and Cloud/Mobile Printing business, Mobile/IOT Incubator. Mentor to 500 Startups. Alchemist Enterprise Accelerator.
You can reach Sridhar at @sridharsolur

JP Gil
Designer at Android Wear

JP grew up in Brazil and has a background in computer science, graphic design and communication. Before Google, he worked for branding and UX agencies, big and small, for clients big and small, in Europe and in the US. He's been at Google for almost 5 years and worked at YouTube, on Emerging Markets initiatives and several experimental projects, one of which is the 20% project that turned into Android Wear.
You can reach JP at @jotapool

AGENDA
6:00 pm - Networking, Food & Drinks
7:00 pm - Presentations begin. Every speech will be followed by interactive audience Q&A
8:30 pm - Wrap-Up & Post-Networking

WHO ATTENDS
Startups & Mobile entrepreneurs
Product people
Business development executives and marketing specialists
App developers
Investors

COMMUNITY SUPPORTERS
This Meetup group is powered by Stanfy (http://stanfy.com/), a mobile app design & development team, and kindly hosted at the venue of Life360, a cool family networking startup.

Check out more updates about our group at #SFMEmeetup on Twitter.