The following represent a portfolio of my public-facing talks and presentations, from 2011-Present. These have all been presented publicly. This portfolio is supplemental to the CV on this site, and as such, a more free-flowing format.

2024

Generative AI Podcast:  The Future of Health Monitoring Sensors (and other things)

I’ve been attending the South Bay Generative AI Meetup since July, attending regularly, which is a mixture of socializing events as well as formal, sponsored lectures.  I’ve learned a lot from the folks that attend as well as the hosts’ excellent podcast.  I was invited by the hosts to join their podcast due to our mutual interested in connected fitness and quantified self.  The 2-hour podcast was focused on fitness for a bit more than the first hour, and then expanded to cover defense, mobile devices and wearables, and broad technology philosophies. Click on the thumbnail or here to listen to the podcast.

2020

IHRSA 2020 Educational Track Presentation

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IRHSA 2020 was canceled.  I was asked to instead present it online.  This qAs being recorded in September 2020 to be made available in a secure location on IHRSA’s website. 

This presentation looks into the future to predict some of the trends in fitness technology, and incorporates insights from the Covid-19 pandemic.  It goes in depth into various new technologies, predicts future trends, and delves into various emerging market trends in the healthcare space, which dovetail with the fitness industry.

Note: The following presentation contains animations on a few slides to illustrate a particular point more effectively. Please view in Display mode to enable the animations.

Powerpoint Download: Advances and Trends in Fitness Technologies

2019

IHRSA 2019 Educational Track Presentation

In 2019 I was invited to one speak at an IHRSA Educational Track at their annual conference in San Diego. This was an hour long and the presentation represented a major progression of the Connected Gym concept, with an implementation-in-progress at FitnessSF, with Pear Sports handling the technology portion.

Included are some real world examples of workout data, with a simulated segmentation of a workout based on indoor location within the gym. Three guest speakers participated: FitnessSF provided an upmarket gym’s perspective on becoming a data-driven gym, Pear Sports presented more on their implementation of the Connected Gym project, and Sweatworks presented an aspirational Wearables in Fitness perspective.

Note: The following presentation contains animations on a number of slides to illustrate how a member moves throughout a club as they perform different elements of their workout. Please view in Display mode to enable the animations.

Capitalizing on Wearables: Building a Data-Driven Gym

2019 IHRSA MyZone Hot Breakfast Panel Discussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=492LVl2NRD4

Global Q&A: How IoT is Changing the Way We Work and Live Fireside Chat

 

Women in Tech/Women of Wearables Presentation at Microsoft Reactor

In August 2019 I had the honor to speak at a Women in Tech event in San Francisco at the Microsoft Reactor: Samsung Presents Growth & Innovation in the Wearables Device Market. I participated in a panel discussion and then presented Wearable technology and gaps especially relevant to women’s health. The Meetup was a collective of entrepreneurs and startups, as well as representatives of larger companies. I presented opportunities to use wearable technology to improve the health of women, in which there are large gaps in services and applications presently.

Women in Tech Wearable 2019

Women In Tech/Women of Wearables FemTech Panel Discussion

Women in Tech Panel Discussion- Jeffrey Cooper, Wandia Chiuri, Natalie Schneider, Nicole Dahlstrom, Jennifer Tye, moderated by Goretti Campbell

2018

IHRSA 2018 FAST Track Breakfast Presentation

In 2018 I was invited to speak at a Fast Track breakfast at IHRSA’s main conference in San Diego. I had about 20 minutes and was asked to create this presentation on the Pros and Cons of Wearables.

Note: The following presentation contains animations on a few slides to illustrate a particular point more effectively. Please view in Display mode to enable the animations.

FAST Track: Pros & Cons of Wearables

Mention: How Gyms Are Using Member Data to Increase Retention

Leveraging the Consumer Fitness Groundswell

In February, I was a guest presenter for a webinar by Club Solutions Magazine, co-presenting with Garrett Marshall, at that time with Fitness-on-Demand. Garret spoke for the first 30 minutes and I followed.

https://vimeo.com/254707571

2017

Gap Innovation Summit Presentation

In early 2017 I was invited by Samsung’s ads group to participate at the Gap Innovation Summit in San Francisco. It was a novel event- Gap was less interested in pandering to them and wanted open discussions about the future of technology, across the board. Representation was broad, and even included a representative of Pharrell Williams’ company I Am OTHER. It was an all-day event involving presentations from everyone followed by discussion and debate.

They wanted a presentation involving wearables in a practical solution. I extracted a portion of the Member Engagement presentation for gyms, and then presented how that could translate to retail. The use case essentially utilized the wearable as a “cookie on the wrist”, for customers who wished to participate (i.e., share data) and have an enhanced experience when visiting Gap retail properties.

Gap Innovation Summit: Customer Engagement Using Technology

IHRSA 2017 European Congress CEO Forum Presentation

In 2017 I was invited to present at IHRSA’s European Congress in London for their CEO Forum. Iteratively, there are some differences with the CEO Forum presentation in 2016, but it is quite close to that one. I re-presented most of that deck because it was an entirely new audience overseas.

Note: The following presentation contains animations on a few slides to illustrate a particular point more effectively. Please view in Display mode to enable the animations.

Member Engagement Using Technology

Interview in IHRSA’s CBI Publication

2016

2016 Motionsoft Technology Summit Keynote Presentation

In 2016 I was asked to keynote the Motionsoft Technology Summit in Baltimore. This is the longest presentation I have given as the keynote was for a 90-minute slot. I divided the presentation into two parts- a 45 minute presentation of a Connected Gym concept, and then a 45 minute panel discussion with three people from the industry and me. The Moderator of the panel discussion was the Chief Marketing Officer of Motionsoft.

The panelists included the CEO of Spark Compass, a contextual content delivery platform, the CEO of Focus Motion, which recognizes motion and categorizes them as, in this case, specific weight lifting exercises, and the CEO of GymTrack, who was developing a system for identifying with free weight or piece of equipment you were using through BLE tags. This was my first presentation specific to Fitness, and resulted in a much deeper connection to that industry. I am grateful to Motionsoft for the opportunity to keynote.

The Motionsoft Technology Summit is geared towards the CTO, and this deck was developed for that audience.

Note: The following presentation contains animations on a few slides to illustrate a particular point more effectively. Please view in Display mode to enable the animations.

Original Fitness 360 Presentation

Club Industry 2016 CEO Summit Presentation

Just one month later I was asked to give a similar presentation at Rick Caro’s CEO Summit at Club Industry in 2016 in Chicago. This summit, per its name, is targeted at the CEOs in the fitness industry, so I reworked and refactored the presentation as an executive pitch. It is much the same core material as the Motionsoft, but more geared towards implementation steps and the ROI each level of implementation affords.

Note: The following presentation contains animations on a few slides to illustrate a particular point more effectively. Please view in Display mode to enable the animations.

Member Engagement Using Technology

Panel Discussion, Motionsoft Technology Summit 2016: CTO Data Strategies: Extracting Competitive Advantage is Just a Few Clicks Away

Mention: Penton’s Club Industry Show Successfully Concluded its 31st Event, Drew Engaged Fitness Professionals from Health and Wellness Facilities

2015

IoT Briefing to Banking & Finance Executives at CES in Las Vegas

In January 2015 I was asked to give an IoT briefing to a group of 22 banking and finance executives from one of the largest firms in that industry at CES. It was a private presentation and I won’t name the company. I developed it and invited Dr Luc Julia (from my 2014 panel) to give an in-depth description of the IoT cloud he was developing.

The Internet of Things: Following the Edge of Technology

Digital Health in the Real World- A Sneak Peak into the Future of Patient Care

In October 2015 I was invited to present at Dorsey & Whitney’s Dorsey 4D Symposium for Life Sciences.  Representing Samsung’s wearables, I invited a colleague from the B2B Healthcare Group to co-present.  The event was held at the Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club.  A copy of the presentation is not available here due to contributions from multiple sources.

Freeform Ideation of Use Cases for SurveyMonkey

 

In 2015, I was invited by SurveyMonkey to participate in their panel discussion at Dreamforce in San Francisco. Unusually, the topic was wearables (with surveys?) and I was asked to discuss possibilities. This was an unusual assignment, as surveys and wearables are an odd combination. I took a long walk in the forest with no distractions and put my head into the space and tapped out whatever came to mind, no matter the practicality, to get a pool of ideas to examine. It occurred to me that the data need not be human-generated, even though that is the core use of SurveyMonkey. The resulting list was a mix of human and environmental inputs, and the list formed the basis of the Word document below, which is a very informal sussing out of those use cases and how they remotely might be something of interest.

SurveyMonkey went through the list and picked a few they liked, and those were part of the broader discussion at Dreamforce. Panel Discussions are dynamic and don’t stick to script, so I needed to also fill in for unpredictable questions from the moderator as well as the audience during Q&A.

Freeform Brainstore of ideas for SurveyMonkey and Wearables

2014

Smart Home of the Future Panel Discussion at 2014 Samsung Developer Conference

In 2014, I conceived and developed a Smart Home of the Future concept for Samsung Developer Conference. The concept was presented as a panel discussion. It contained a lecture, followed by the panel. The lecture highlighted the problem and what was needed to improve the current smart home situation. Planning began in the summer of 2014. The acquisition of SmartThings occurred during the development of the concept. I picked up a SmartThings system and installed it at home and incorporated my learnings into the presentation.

In order to give the presentation gravitas and authenticity, the panelists needed to be important people in the field. I included one SmartThings cofounder, Dr Luc Julia, a Samsung VP developing their SAMI IoT cloud and co-inventor of Siri, a Big Data expert from Samsung HQ. But it needed someone from outside to lend a broader validation to it. Since I love to cook, I had developed a deep dive on the kitchen within the presentation. I felt that a Smart Pantry was never the subject of any articles on Smart Homes, and was a gap that was necessary to fill. So I reached out to the CTO of McCormick Spices, knowing that spices are high margin foods, are a key item in pantries, and likely might be early adopter of RFID technology once it became cost effective (we are still waiting on that to happen). I spelled out the use case (knowing what dry goods I had and when they expired) and it turns out McCormick already had done their homework in that area and Jerry was happy to be the fourth panelist- the critical outside validation.

The version posted to this site was the Presenter’s Slides, not intended for public display. They contained a lot of text for talking points, and it is stripped of any adornments. The public-facing deck was much thinner, and contains slides from another company that I do not have permission to include here.

Related Article: Smart Home of the Future

Original Presentation PowerPoint

2011

Presentation and Panel Discussion at Cinequest Film Festival

In 2011, I conceived of two applications for Nokia’s top of the line camera phones. At the time, applications in iTunes- the competitor, were scattershot, with each photographic style a completely separate app. The concept- ShutterPro and VideoPro, were single apps with monetizable plug-ins, each plug-in representing a different feature, such as Tilt Shift, HDR, 3D, etc… in a single app. Similarly, VideoPro featured plug-in capture enhancements as well as an editor, which plug-ins such as Ken Burns effect, etc…

I secured a budget of $250k for development of the application. Subsequently, we knew we wanted a suitable launch, so I proposed sponsoring and secured the funding ($75k) to sponsor Nokia Day at Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. As part of the sponsorship, we had the main theater for 2 hours to present. I created a presentation on the applicability of mobile cinematography and mobile phones to all aspects of the industry.

On the Capture side, we highlighted capture from a unique perspective, documentary usage (easy to grab video clips when you don’t want to be obvious with larger equipment). Also that mobile lowered the barrier to entry, “democratizing” film-making so creative people from disadvantaged backgrounds would be able to create cinematic productions. DVD Extras rounded it out- those casual, behind-the-scenes clips that are frequently added to premium content releases.

Then we pivoted to post production and task management (an enterprise solution). And finally, the usage of mobile for personalized marketing campaigns, before social media was a driving factor in marketing.

The panelists were:

• Kari Nevil, independent film maker, for authenticity and that critical outside viewpoint (creation)
• Anton Gauffin, CEO of BLStream, developer for ShutterPro and VideoPro (capture)
• William Mutual, CEO LiveCast (capture)
• Paul Vlahos, Oscar-winning CEO UltiMatte (capture and special effects)
• Paul Gaylie, CTO PortNexus (workflow)
• Tim Garrett, CEO Pocketbooth (photography)
• Eric Sanchez, CEO QView (marketing)
•  

ShutterPro was developed and launched. VideoPro was next. Just before Cinequest, Nokia’s now infamous “Burning Platform” memo was leaked, which led to the near-immediate death of Symbian as a viable OS. Unfortunately, the app never achieved it’s potential due to the subsequent gutting and customer flight to iPhones and Android after that. ShutterPro did survive and get reimplemented on Windows Phone. By that time, Nokia’s market share was small.

Mobile Cinematography, Nokia Day, Cinequest Film Festival