eWEAR Entrepreneur Pitch Event
Stanford student and postdoc entrepreneurs present their businesses/ideas as a personal growth and networking experience
Date: Thursday, November 12th, noon to 1:00 pm PST
Zoom Webinar
(for eWEAR affiliate members and investors by invitation only)
Speakers:
Pramod Kotipalli: “Tangible teleportation kit,” tangible.team
Madison Maxey: “E-Textiles: The foundation of productive wearable technology,” loomia.com
Ryanne Ramadan: “Wearables to improve gait for Parkinson’s community”
John Xu: “Wearing a smart lung”
Pramod Kotipalli: “Tangible teleportation kit”
Abstract:
The Tangible Teleportation Kit brings you the presence of loved ones over distance, eliminating the feeling of isolation. Designed for distance-separated couples and families, Tangible is a wearable garment + companion app that gives you the power to send & receive delightfully comforting touch sensations over distance. With intuitive gestures, you can literally “reach out and touch someone” in a video call. Tangible is led by four Stanford University engineers, and has launched for beta-testing. Learn more online (www.tangible.team).
Bio:
Pramod serves as CTO of Tangible Inc. In an increasingly distance-separated world, Tangible aims to eliminate the physical-emotional gap between 2D video calls & in-person interactions. Tangible employs immersive haptics in custom garments, all guided strong human-first design culture. Outside of Tangible Pramod is an ACM-published & award-winning Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researcher with passions in user-centered design, wearable computing, augmented reality, computer graphics, & A.I. A recent graduate of Georgia Tech (‘19 BS CS), Pramod is in his second year of his MS CS program at Stanford. He has worked with organizations like the CDC, SpaceX, Stanford Medicine, and Cisco Systems.
Madison Maxey: “E-Textiles: The foundation of productive wearable technology,”
Abstract:
Circuit boards power the world but are built for hard goods. LOOMIA makes a new form-factor of circuit—a soft circuit (e-textile) system—that can be used to power soft goods. From automotive interiors to wearable technology, our soft circuit systems can be used when standard PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards) aren’t up to the task—bringing heating, lighting, and sensing to car seats, medical apparel, outdoor gear, and more. This talk will introduce our core, patented technology and further explain some of the applications.
Bio:
Madison Maxey has pioneered work in bringing e-textiles to scale as Founder and CEO at LOOMIA (previously The Crated). Throughout the course of her work at LOOMIA, she has done soft circuit work and education for Fortune 500 companies.
Maddy’s work has built the foundation for 4 granted patents and has lead to invited lectures at Universities such as Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, NYU and University of Illinois Champagne Urbana. She is currently at Stanford studying Materials Science and Engineering.
Ryanne Ramadan: “Wearables to improve gait for Parkinson’s community”
Abstract:
Parkinson’s Disease is the fastest growing neurological disease in the world. There is no cure for the disease and current techniques to manage the disease are costly, ineffective, or dangerous. One of the most debilitating symptoms these patients suffer from is “Freezing of Gait” where patients feel like their feet are glued to the floor and they are unable to move forward. To address this symptom, Neuroform is building wearables that detects when a patient freezes and automatically provides vibrational therapeutics to improve their gait symmetry and reduce their risk of fall in a discreet and easy to use manner.
Bio:
Ryanne is extremely passionate about improving quality of, expanding access to, and decreasing costs of healthcare worldwide through medical technologies. She has B.S. degrees in Biomedical & Electrical Engineering and is currently at Stanford completing her M.S. in Management Science & Engineering. She has worked at Medtronic and Accenture Labs where she gained experience in the MedTech and AI industry and is named inventor on nine pending patents. Currently, she is focused on building wearables for the Parkinson’s community to improve their quality of life and aid in symptom management. For fun, she loves to travel, read, and hike.
John Xu: “Wearing a smart lung”
Abstract:
Oxygen participates in a wide range of energy conversion processes, including life-related biochemical reactions. The ability to control to oxygen level may have a profound impact on our metabolism level that relates to cognitive and muscular performances. In the talk, John will demonstrate compact, modular oxygenators that can be made into wearable forms. Applicational potentials and technical challenges will be discussed.
Bio:
Dr. John Xu started his career as an air quality engineer. In pursuit of cleaner energy conversion processes for eliminating airborne pollutants, he had been working on hydrogen fuel cell since his Ph.D. in the Nanoscale Prototyping Laboratory at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on catalytic reactions that facilitate reducing oxygen for highly-efficient electrochemical fuel conversion. These reactions can be utilized for transporting oxygen, for example, enriching pure oxygen from the ambient air. In response to COVID-19, he is developing a mobile oxygenator as a wearable oxygen solution.
