Portable Technology in the Workplace – Welcoming Wearables

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These are the slides from my keynote at the UNICOM BPM conference in London on March 20th 2014. In this talk I introduce the history of wearable computing, talk about some salutory tales from prior work with BYOD and VDI, and the threat that disruptive new technologies pose for the IT department. I close with a look into the near future, and a rallying call for STEM education and the Missing Million.

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1. Back to the Future
2. Bring Your Own Device
3. Post-PC, Post-IT Department?
(Keep Taking the Tablets?)
4. Whatever Next?

Past, Present
Wearables:
— 2014: “Year of the
Smartwatch”
— Motorola (now Google)
Moto Actv in 2011
— Kevin Warwick’s Project
Cyborg (2000s)
— DARPA wearables
programme (2000s)
— Wrist computers (1990s)
— Steve Mann (1981)

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Beauty & the
Geek jeans
Past, Present
Wearables:
— 2014: “Year of the
Smartwatch”
— Motorola (now Google)
Moto Actv in 2011
— Kevin Warwick’s Project
Cyborg (2000s)
— DARPA wearables
programme (2000s)
— Wrist computers (1990s)
— Steve Mann (1981)

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Where are we now?
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Pros or Cons?
No Flash, Java applets, ActiveX
Can’t run many specialist apps natively
Office “compatible” apps… aren’t
One app at a time

Photo credit: CC-BY Flickr user jemimus
VDI/DaaS:
UI elements too small for fat fingers
Requires net connection
Keyboard/mouse assumptions
Unified filestore [OneDrive/Dropbox/…]

Photo credit: CC-BY Flickr user AndreaLaurel

Photo credit: CC-BY-NC Flickr user Rain Rabbit

Training and Skills
—The Missing Million:
—100,000 unfilled tech
vacancies
—1m young unemployed
(NEETs)
—“Code for UK”?
—But not just coding
—Sysadmin, data scientist
etc just as essential
—Teaching Generation Pi
Whatever Next?

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