[Hong Kong] Jason Chiu, cherrypicks’ CEO, moderated the panel discussion on “Wearable Technologies and Start-ups: the Waterloo Connection” held by Cyberport on 19 November, with a line-up of guest speakers including Aaron Grant from Thalmic Lab, Peter Whitby from O2 Canada, William Chan from Big Dipper Studio and Dave Yip from Gametech. The panel straddled four decades of Waterloo engineers (Electrical and Mechatronics), computer scientists and mathematicians. Waterloo’s President Dr Feridun Hamdullahpur opened the forum with a talk about the unique startup and innovation culture at Waterloo. In the discussion, the professionals talked about the hottest cake in the IT industry on the future of wearables, cybersecurity issues in wearables (invasion of personal privacy), the UW ecosystem that support a strong entrepreneurial culture, etc.
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