Wearable technology is a market segment loaded with well-intentioned promise. To date that promise has all been front-loaded onto the consumer space with the proliferation of first generation activity trackers, smartwatches, glasses, and other gadgets. But, there is also an emerging enterprise market for wearable tech. However, it is a market that has, with the exception of healthcare, yet to generate any notable market share. The current perception is that unlike the consumer market, the enterprise lags significantly relative to attaining any sort of sustainable wearable tech momentum. But is this true?

I’ve spent some time discussing the future of wearable tech with two folks who bring interesting, if different experiences to the wearable tech market. The first is Steve Holmes, the recently appointed VP of Intel’s New Devices Group, who I interviewed recently for a Blue Hill Research podcast. The second is Tony Rizzo, who has been heavily involved with the wearable tech vendor community since November 2012 and who developed and produced two major wearable tech conferences since then. Rizzo is now Entrepreneur in Residence at Blue Hill Research, and we often discuss wearable tech.

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