The Internet of Caring Things® team warmly welcomes businesses in the North East to their 6th Smart Stuff Workshop, and this time they are heading to Sunderland
If you have a business idea, product, service or solution that uses technology to improve lives, supporting people to live better for longer, then this workshop is for you.
The workshop will look at how technology should not just be smart, it should care. From wearable wellbeing tech to responsive homes that know what you need, from caring for pets to protecting the planet, from financing our whole life to how we educate ourselves and others through life, from tourism & leisure and how we enjoy life we will explore how to turn powerful ideas into solutions that enhance real life.
Attendees will think about:
- How can businesses create data-driven products and services that aid consumers’ most important needs and wants?
- What are people’s unmet expectations and aspirations around hardware and software innovation?
- And how can we create a more ‘caring’ future together?
In this workshop, participants are encouraged to identify and explore the current challenges that businesses and other stakeholders in the region should address when developing new 'Stuff' using 'Smart Technologies'.
Voice® members will be on each of the tables, and businesses will be able to develop design insights about care and data-driven technologies that will help people live better lives, as well as solutions that will be beneficial to your end-users and stakeholders.
This is an opportunity for eligible businesses to ensure your products are designed ‘with’ your target market, not ‘for’ them, to create and build cross-collaborative relationships, enriching your product or service’s lifecycle development.
Eligbility Crieteria:
For the next cohort, they are looking forward to welcoming 20 new-to-programme businesses that are developing products or services that help us to live our lives the way we want to, that enable us to care about ourselves or others, be it a family member, our pets, our gardens, our communities or our planet.
To be eligible for this workshop, you must be a company registered within the North East Combined Authority region (County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside or Sunderland).
This event is brought to you by the Internet of Caring Things® programme