App-ocalypse! - Life after the Smartphone App

Brought to you by The Future Devices & Technologies Group

Today the Smartphone is the centre of our digital universe, and the means by which we interact with a growing number of connected devices, everyday objects and digitised services.

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About the event

Already beginning to emerge, are next-generation approaches to interacting with our increasingly digital world. These include the rapidly growing area of AI and machine learning, new modes of interaction involving movement, speech and tactility, and virtual and blended reality.

Join us at this stimulating event with thought-provoking speakers from backgrounds in both design and technology as we explore the nature of our future digital life. Unique to this event, we will also be inviting you to join us in a participatory workshop exploring new design approaches, which could help you and your business rethink how you design new products and services.

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Sponsored by Beko

Beko is one of Europe’s leading home appliance brands (part of the Arcelik group).

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Hosted by Marks & Clerk

Marks & Clerk is a leading global intellectual property firm with over 125 years’ experience, providing award-winning advice to clients in protecting patent law, trademarks, designs and copyright.

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Agenda

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10:00

Registration and networking with refreshments

10:30

Introduction to the Future Devices SIG from Amyas Phillips, ARM

10:40

Welcome from our host Esther Ford, Senior Associate, Marks and Clerk

10:50

Welcome from our sponsor Natasha Conway, R&D Manager, Beko PlC R&D

11:00

New Experiences @home – VUX and Homewhiz; Serdal Korkut Avcı, Design Director & Özgür Mutlu Öz, UX/UI Manager, Arcelik

We will give a short and brief presentation about the company and its design studies. Then we will go in detail about the projects VUX _ Virtual User eXperience; and HomeWhiz – the connected devices at home. Mainly, we will try to explain our aims and how we see the future at home.

11:20

Q&A

11:25

Refreshments and networking

11:45

A remarkable connection with technology; Bastien Beauvois, Product Marketing Engineer, Ultrahaptics

Human Machine Interface technology has developed phenomenally in the past decade, with Keyboards, mice and buttons being replaced with touchscreens in everything from computing to dashboard controls. The next step frees us from the limitations of having to physically connect with our devices. Gesture recognition offers a paradigm shift in HMI but the sense of touch is lost. This talk explains how touch is integral to the human experience and how this crucial sense doesn’t have to be lost in mid-air controls, making the Human Machine Interface more human.

12:00

Q&A

12:05

Rodolfo Rosini, CEO & Co-founder, Weave.ai

12:20

Q&A

12:25

Solution principles for next-generation text entry; Dr Per Ola Kristensson, University Lecturer, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Text entry is a common everyday computing task. However, despite its ubiquitousness it is difficult to devise an efficient text entry method that users are willing to adopt. In this talk I will explain the narrow design space of text entry research and make the case that successful next-generation text entry methods are likely to be based on designs that merge behavioural solution principles with information engineering techniques. I will exemplify this idea with several new text entry methods we have developed for a variety of use-cases.

12:40

Q&A

12:45

Lunch

13:45

Workshop/Interactive Session chaired by SIG Champion Peter Whale, Iotic Labs and Geoff McCormick

14:45

Mat Hunter, Managing Director, Central Research Laboratory

15:00

Q&A

15:05

Panel session with all speakers chaired by SIG Champion, Amyas Phillips, ARM

15:35

Event closes

Speakers

Serdal Korkut Avci

Bastien Beauvois - Business Development Manager, Independent

Mat Hunter

Per Ola Kristensson

Geoff McCormick

Geoff has worked as a business consultant in the design industry for over 10 years. In that time he has worked with some of the world's most famous and successful designers, where his role was to help designers, companies and brands to try and maximise the commercial effectiveness of design. His experience covers every populated continent and a diverse range of sectors, including developing a mobile petrol retail station, an interior design system for VIP aircraft, hydrogen powered vehicles, packaging strategies for FMCG brands and innovation programmes utilising Asian sourcing. It is this breadth of experience that he values most. Common across all of his clients and projects is the desire to create truly unique experiences that occupy a space in peoples' hearts and minds.

Özgür Mutlu Öz - UX/UI Manager, Arcelik

Rodolfo Rosini - Co-founder, Weave

SIG Champions

Nadia Aziz - Innovation Consultant, Unbounded Future Ltd

Nadia is an Evangelist of emerging technologies with an expertise in AR & VR and IoT technologies. She has advised C-level executives in Telecom and Media organisations for digital transformation and M&A projects over more than a decade. While being a SIG Champion of Future Devices and Technologies at Cambridge Wireless, she has recently co-founded Unbounded Future, a Deeptech consulting firm based in London. Previously Nadia led Emerging Technologies at NTT Data UK where she supervised R&D and innovation in Augmented (AR) & Virtual Reality (VR), AI, and IoT. Nadia is a supporter of Women in STEM initiatives and is a mentor at the University College London (UCL) IXN programme. She is an industry advisor to IoTerra, a USA-based B2B marketplace for IoT products and was a co-producer for the GIANT Health Event.

Muhammad Chughtai - Senior Research Specialist (Electronics & Electrical Engineering), Beko

I am a seasoned senior technology and engineering consultant with over a decade of multinational experience in AI & Robotics, MedTech, and thermodynamics. My career seamlessly blends corporate discipline with start-up agility, informed by a deep understanding of system dynamics and a holistic perspective. My expertise centres on empowering companies to gain a competitive edge through innovation, successful solution commercialization & partnerships, and strategic business development, all while upholding industry standards. In addition to my engineering expertise, I hold a PhD in the field, complemented by an MBAE. This dual qualification positions me uniquely at the intersection of advanced engineering and educational dynamics.

Zahid Ghadialy - Principal Analyst & Consultant, 3G4G

Zahid is a technologist with a deep understanding of architecting world-class mobile products and solutions. With over 20 years of experience in the telecom industry in various roles, he has been an evangelist for mobile and wireless technologies. Over the years he has accumulated a vast following on his blogs and social networks with simple explainer posts and videos.

His 3G4G blogs are widely read where he looks at different aspects of mobile technology and especially 5G and 6G nowadays, including the architecture, deployments, use cases, applications, etc. His YouTube channel is also very popular where he explains many new features expected as part of 5G in the future. While his style and content is unique, he also references many industry publications and provides slides that are very useful to view online.

He is also very active on Twitter under his @3G4GUK brand helping disseminate the benefits of 5G and why 5G will be needed in the long run. He covers a very wide portfolio of 5G related information that is hard to find otherwise.

Until recently, Zahid was a Senior Director looking at Technology & Innovation Strategy in Parallel Wireless. As a brand ambassador, he represented the company in various Open RAN discussions and also created tutorials on Open RAN and O-RAN which are being used as reference for new starters on the topic.

David Roberts - CTO - Special Projects, Cambridge Wireless, Founder, Jabooh Software

David is a technology leader with over 25 years experience working in the hi-tech arena. He has recently completed a successful project for ghd in conjunction with CW where he carried out the role of System Architect and facilitator.  Prior to this he worked in in the C-IoT space where he ran a multi-national R&D department that developed silicon and software designed for the burgeoning IoT market. He was also responsible for driving an agile transformation programme and assisting the organisation with their integration into a large Chinese multi-national telecoms company. Having started his career as a software developer working for BT and Acorn Computers, he went on to hold senior roles in a number of world-class organisations such as Symbian, Cambridge University and Citrix in the areas of Software Development, Project Management, Product Management, Research, Consultancy and Architecture. His background includes leading and developing teams involved in the creation of large-scale integrated hardware and software products, web-based services and CE devices. He is also highly experienced in large-scale agile development practices, agile coaching/transformation and creating and executing strategies for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of organisations.

Charles Sturman - CEO, TechWorks

As CEO at TechWorks, Charles is driving collaboration between Deep Tech and Semiconductor companies, Academia and Government in order to promote the sector and grow business opportunities for UK companies.

Previously, Charles was responsible for International Business & Marketing at HiSilicon (Huawei’s chipset business) based in Cambridge UK, with responsibility for product strategy, go-to-market and business development in IoT, edge and smart devices fields. Prior to this he led u-blox’ activities in the fast moving consumer IoT segment (wearables, smart-home and entertainment) following the acquisition of the ARM Software Radio spin-out Cognovo, where we was founder and executive VP Sales & Marketing. Charles has held various positions in system design, business development and product marketing within Acorn Computers, TTPCom, Motorola and ARM.

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Marks & Clerk, 90 Long Acre, London, WC2E 9RA

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