I will cover the niche applications that are causing a great stir and how companies are owning these niches with UX and software as the foundation for creating real user value. I will present the need for a 'Hardware enabled software' model for Wearables going forward.

Jacob Skinner is a product development expert, who works with people and technology to create user driven products that offer real value. Especially passionate about wellbeing, health and social impact projects, he works across disciplines to solve technical challenges in wearable technology and the wider IoT space. Alongside Dave Sandbach, he is the driving force behind Thrive Wearables, a global design and development consultancy.

Thrive Wearables is the go-to wearables design and development consultancy. We work on projects that add real value to people's lives and have positive impact on the world. The Thrive team invent, innovate and deliver wearable technology from idea to global mass production. We work with agile and innovative companies worldwide to realise their vision for connected, high impact IoT applications.