Smart Stuff: Creating the Future of Technology

Smart Stuff: Creating the Future of Technology

Tue, 20 May 2025 10:00 – 16:00

The Catalyst

The Internet of Caring Things® team warmly welcomes businesses in the North East to our 5th Smart Stuff Workshop

If you have a business idea, product, service or solution that uses technology or could use technology to improve lives then this workshop is for you.

Throughout the workshop, we look at how technology should not just be smart, it should care. From wearable wellbeing tech to responsive homes that know what you need, from caring for pets to protecting the planet, from financing our whole life to how we educate ourselves and others through life, from tourism & leisure and how we enjoy life we will explore how to turn powerful ideas into solutions that enhance real life.

We get attendees thinking about:

• How can businesses create data-driven products and services that aid consumers’ most important needs and wants?
• What are people’s unmet expectations and aspirations around hardware and software innovation?
• And how can we create a more ‘caring’ future together?

In this workshop, we encourage participants to identify and explore the current challenges that businesses and other stakeholders in the region should address when developing new ‘Stuff’ using ‘Smart Technologies’.

Together, Voice® members and businesses will be able to develop design insights about care and data-driven technologies that will help people live better lives, as well as solutions that will be beneficial to your end-users and stakeholders.

This is an opportunity for eligible businesses to ensure your products are designed ‘with’ your target market, not ‘for’ them, in order to create and build cross-collaborative relationships, enriching your product or service’s life-cycle development.

Sign up here Smart Stuff: Creating the Future of Technology