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.

1. Photo credit: CC-BY-NC-ND Flickr The DEMO Conference

2. Photo credit: CC-BY-NC-SA Flickr user werkunz
1. Back to the Future
2. Bring Your Own Device
3. Post-PC, Post-IT Department?
(Keep Taking the Tablets?)
4. Whatever Next?

3. Photo credit: CC-BY-NC-SA Flickr user werkunz
1. Back to the Future
2. Bring Your Own Device
3. Post-PC, Post-IT Department?
(Keep Taking the Tablets?)
4. Whatever Next?

4. 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)

5. 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)Photo credit: MIT

6. 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)Photo credit: MIT

7. 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)

8. Picture credit:
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)

9. http://youtu.be/lRo8tpmdr48

10. Photo credit: CC-BY-NC-SA Flickr user werkunz
1. Back to the Future
2. Bring Your Own Device
3. Post-PC, Post-IT Department?
(Keep Taking the Tablets?)
4. Whatever Next?

11. Photo credit: Flickr user willrich
Where are we now?
Photo credit: NBC News

12. Photo credit: Flickr user willrich

13. Photo credit:
Wikimedia Commons

17. Where are we now?

18. Photo credit: CC-BY-NC-SA Flickr user werkunz
1. Back to the Future
2. Bring Your Own Device
3. Post-PC, Post-IT Department?
(Keep Taking the Tablets?)
4. Whatever Next?

19. Photo credit: www.imore.com

20. Photo credit: www.imore.com
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

21. Photo credit: CC-BY Flickr user jemimus

22. 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/…]

24. Photo credit: CC-BY-NC-SA Flickr user werkunz
1. Back to the Future
2. Bring Your Own Device
3. Post-PC, Post-IT Department?
(Keep Taking the Tablets!)
4. Whatever Next?

25. Photo credit: Google

26. http://youtu.be/LuMv29nKo2k

28. Photo credit:
HAPIfork

29. Photo credit: CC-BY Flickr user AndreaLaurel

30. Photo credit:
EMBL-EBI

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

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

33. 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?

34. 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

35. Photo credit: CC-BY-NC-ND Flickr user number10gov

36. http://youtu.be/vxEa_jrIuAU

37. Photo credit: CC-BY-NC-ND Flickr The DEMO Conference