After running the most successful Kickstarter campaign to date, Pebble, a leading smartwatch provider, is gearing up for the fight of its life as other goliath technology companies try to lay claim to the smartwatch industry.
Velocity, a comprehensive program for entrepreneurs at the University of Waterloo, will host Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, on June 18 in the Humanties Theatre.
Pebble, which has emerged as a leader in the connected wearables space, just wrapped a record-setting Kickstarter campaign and is about to enter into a very tough, and likely very public, battle with a tech behemoth – Apple.
Migicovsky will tell the tale of Pebble’s journey from its inception at the University of Waterloo, to its move to the Bay Area, to its latest connected smartwatches and how a local idea has taken the Internet of Things industry by storm.
Migicovsky’s passion for developing well-designed, creative products emerged while studying Systems Design Engineering at Waterloo. This led him to apply to the Velocity Residence where he created the first smartwatch model, InPulse, with a group of friends while living in Velocity’s unique collaborative entrepreneurial environment.
Last month Pebble launched the new Pebble Time and Pebble Steel smartwatches through the most successful Kickstarter campaign ever.
Date: Thursday, June 18, 2015
Time: 2 – 3 p.m.
Location: Humanities Theatre, University of Waterloo
