Whom You Know: Health & Fitness Technology, Virtual Reality Summits to Headline CTA Technology & Standards Forum

Monday, April 10, 2017

Health & Fitness Technology, Virtual Reality Summits to Headline CTA Technology & Standards Forum

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™ today announced its Technology & Standards Forum next month in San Francisco, CA, will feature a Health & Fitness Technology Summit and Virtual Reality (VR) Summit.

The events, held at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis May 9-11, 2017, will blend industry strategy sessions, educational opportunities and networking events - part of CTA's continued efforts to help grow these emerging segments of the consumer technology industry.

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Among the events at the CTA Health and Fitness Technology Summit:

Luncheon Keynote with Ravi Kuppuraj, CEO, Philips Connected Sensing & Wearable Venture

Sessions including Intensity Counts! Leveraging Health & Fitness Tech to Support Worldwide Physical Activity Guidelines and Don't SLEEP on your Data - A Dialogue on Consumer Sleep Technology Data

CTA Health and Fitness Technology Division Board meeting (members only) and Technology Subcommittee meeting

Meetings of the CTA Consumer Stress Monitoring Technologies, Physical Activity Monitoring and Sleep Monitors Working Groups

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Events at the Virtual Reality Summit will include:

Panel sessions on VR content development, hardware and the future of gaming

VR product demonstrations and explanations of VR, Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) differentiation

CTA AR/VR Working Group Meeting (members only)

Inaugural meeting of CTA working group developing AR/VR standards

VR technology overview and collaboration opportunities

"CTA's standards program has been very active in the consumer health and fitness technology space for several years now - and this will be an especially influential forum," said Dave Wilson, vice president, technology & standards, CTA. "We're now working on recommended performance metrics for sleep monitors, definitions and performance criteria for heart rate monitors, interoperability standards for handling electroencephalogram data, and definitions and characteristics for consumer stress monitors. And after last year's publication of ANSI/CTA/NSF-2052.1, Definitions and Characteristics for Wearable Sleep Monitors and ANSI/CTA-2056, Physical Activity Monitoring for Fitness Wearables: Step Counting , we're now launching a new standard to develop terms and definitions related to augmented and virtual reality."

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Registration for the event is now open. Visit https://www.cta.tech/Events/Event-List/Technology-Standards-Forum.aspx for details. Anyone interested in CTA's standards activities are encouraged to learn more about participation at standards.CTA.tech.

About Consumer Technology Association:

Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™ is the trade association representing the $292 billion U.S. consumer technology industry, which supports more than 15 million U.S. jobs. More than 2,200 companies - 80 percent are small businesses and startups; others are among the world's best known brands - enjoy the benefits of CTA membership including policy advocacy, market research, technical education, industry promotion, standards development and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. CTA also owns and produces CES® - the world's gathering place for all who thrive on the business of consumer technologies. Profits from CES are reinvested into CTA's industry services.

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