Smart Haptics

As the first industry driven haptics conference, Smart Haptics 2018 will take place in La Jolla, CA on December 5-6 and will bring together multiple end use industries including medical, automotive, mobile, VR/AR and more to explore where the haptics industry is headed.

Smart Haptics 2018 will feature:

  • Pre-Conference workshop: Haptic Hollywood - a pre-conference workshop that will feature panelists from Starbreeze Studios, Tactical Haptics and more. Come learn about the challenges and successes experienced over the last few months and years by pioneers in haptic entertainment.
  • Keynote address, Haptics at Scale - Advancing Mobile Haptics in Pixel 2 and Android, by Google
  • Hear from companies such as Teslasuit, Wearable X, Radix Motion, TDK Corporation, P&G, HEY Bracelet and more
  • Understand the latest trends, innovations and challenges facing the haptics industry
  • Build relationships and put your company's name in front of top industry leaders in the haptics field
  • Collaborate with your colleagues on topics such as current and future possibilities in haptics, emerging application developments, the future of VR/AR and gaming, medical & educational haptic developments, the driving force of automotive haptics, technology enablers part I and II  and more

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2018 Speakers

Sinclair Fleming Lead Engineer Starbreeze Studios
Sarah Hashkes Co-Founder Radix Motion
Gijs Huisman, PhD Co-Founder HEY Bracelet
Dimitri Mikhalchuk CBDMO and Senior Vice President Teslasuit
Tim Szeto CEO and Founder Nanoport Technology
Billie Whitehouse CEO Wearable X
Shumin Zhai Principal Scientist Google
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A good mix of presentations from different fields, and good networking opportunities.

Texas Instruments

Well balanced information from academia, start-ups and large companies.

Panasonic Boston Laboratory ULT

2018 Advisory Board

Alicia Berry Social VR Technical Program Manager Facebook
J. Edward Colgate Breed University Design Professor at Northwestern University Tanvas
Nicholas Colonnese Research Scientist at Facebook Reality Labs Oculus
Jim Holbery Research Director of the Microsoft Advanced Materials & Mechanics Group Microsoft
Hong Z. Tan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University tangerineX
Chris Ullrich Vice President Technology Immersion Corp.

Smithers Apex conferences provide very informative talks with a good balance of top line views and detailed trends and technology.

Sony