XWD @ MDP jurors Christian Denhart, Eric Lewallen, Marcus Filipovich, Anne Burdick & Maggie Hendrie, announce the awards!
I had a chance to see a video of the XWD awards presentation on the MDP rooftop. I’m not posting it here as it was a private video. I’ll add it if it becomes public. We pretty much know what happened anyway, but what was interesting about this replay was that 3 teams got awards, but only 1 team got Award + Critique: us!
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We’re presenting at WearableTechLA on Th, July 17!
Congratulations Team Compass H2O! We won 3rd place and we’re pitching at WearableTechLA on Th, July 17!
Thanks for the WearableTechLA schedule Sharon! So the 3 teams have 5 minutes each, or maybe more like 4 minutes to get their whole pitch out!
Yes, awesome job Susan!! 🙂
Syuzi said they might just provide a location for each team to display the product with a poster with introduction. We may not need to present.
Let’s wait for her email for the final confirmation.
Ekin told me they won’t present their work at wearable tech LA.
Wearable Tech LA is the first Entertainment and Health Wearable conference held in Los Angeles. Attending Wearable Tech LA will give you an opportunity to meet and collaborate with the best of Hollywood, Music, and Sports including leaders from the NBA, NFL, NHL, and others.
According to International Data Corporation, wearables will be the fastest-emerging category and become a $12B industry in 2018. You’ll also get the inside track from industry leaders on wearables, a first look at emerging wearable computing, watch fast track pitches from 15 startups and network with top VCs, angels, large corporation (e.g. GoPro, Intel, Samsung, adidas, Qualcomm, Google, etc.) and thought leaders.
Key highlights:
World’s First Wearable Entertainment and Health conference in LA
Cocktail reception & wearable showcase
400-500 attendees
Top celebrities from Hollywood, Music and Sports
20 dynamic keynotes, 50 speakers and 15 startups pitching their products – 3 winners to be announced.
Panel discussion with thought leaders in the wearable entertainment and spaces
Live demos including a demo on extreme wearables
Top VCs and corporations (e.g. GoPro, Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm, Google, etc…)
Wearable Tech LA sounds so exciting. And I can’t wait to join it and meet all of you there:)
I think we definitely need to meet up at least once before July 17. We can set up a meeting and talk about the feedback we got. I’m free anytime after Wednesday, but my finals are coming soon. I understand Susan and Vivia might have hard time to meet up, but we will try our best.
Oh, Allia / Ekin won’t present? That’s a shame. We didn’t hear anything from Courtney / MDP this week. But next week I hope they’ll give us some info on WTLA. As Sharon said above, it might be more of a “Poster Session” than “Presentation.”
The judges feedback is kind of funny – they liked the quality of our build, but didn’t like it on the wrist, and didn’t like the water finding use case as much as wayfinding. So they sort of said, “we love your work, now throw it away and start over”! 😛
The answer to the 1st 1/2 of that, off the wrist might be that we aren’t going to have time to develop that before the 17th, even if we wanted to?
The use case though is mostly presentation rather than engineering to do now, so we could develop that if we wanted to.
For meeting F2F, Mon-Wed-Fri are a little better for me, but my schedule is flexible ATM, so I can probably work out any day that works for others. I’m happy going up to Art Center, or wherever we like. You’re all welcome at my place in Rosemead, too.
We probably can’t get all 8 of us together, but as many of us as want to / are able to, would be great. And we can also discuss here on the website, or we could do a Google Video Hangout.
Thanks Joseph!
I think we earn the heart of the audience. We did provide a workable demo and the audiences loves that.
The way we need to improve is to tell a better story. I really enjoy the way Emoty presents, quite logical and they did tell us where the concept came from and what problem it solved.
A great story will make the product more convincing.
I love the design of the badge for the water bottle. Thanks, Glenn~
It looks like a real one that could sale 😛
hahaha – yessy! Compass H2O is the only brand of water I drink now! I keep it fully stocked in the studio fridge! 🙂
Oh, you remind me. We could make more bottles on the demo day 7/17. And hand out to the audiences passed by. They might need some water to prevent dehydration for that busy day ^_^
Yes Sharon, that’s a really great idea. Can we print more of the labels? I actually measured the label from the ones that were on the bottles, but it seems like they might have wound up 1/8″ – 3/16″ short going around. Maybe the file got shrunk in placing from PS to IL or something. Anyway, I guess they just need to be 1/4″ wider.
I can pick up a case of water and we could meetup sometime / someplace and paste labels. And I can bring the tape film gun.
Glenn Zucman, 
Joseph, and 
Sharon Gong are discussing. 
Here is the detail info and schedule about Wearable LA: http://www.wearabletechla.com/#nav-header
Seems like this time period is saved for us on 7/17:
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Designathon teams Demo Their Extreme Wearables