{"id":27819,"date":"2016-03-08T12:05:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T12:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=27819"},"modified":"2016-03-09T16:11:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:11:06","slug":"wearable-technology-show-opens-at-excel-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wearable-technology-show-opens-at-excel-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearable Technology Show opens at ExCel next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Wearable Technology Show is gearing up for its third annual instalment, which this year will take place on 15-16 March at London\u2019s ExCel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There will be more exhibitors than ever before (over 150) at the exhibition, which brings together some of the leading wearable technology and smart watch brands with retailers who want a slice of the wearable tech pie.<\/p>\n<p>John Weir, event director for the Wearable Technology Show, told <em>WatchPro<\/em> that he expects 6,000 attendees over two days at the ExCel arena.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular interest to watch retailers will be a debate between Joe Santana, CEO of Vector Watches, and Randeep Wilkhu, one of the backers of Will.i.am\u2019s new Dial smart watch, over the future of smart watches.<\/p>\n<p>The watch industry will also be keen to see how the Fitbit Blaze\u00a0smart watch is received, after the company\u2019s share price dipped so dramatically after the watch\u2019s unveiling in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wearable Technology Show is gearing up for its third annual instalment, which this year will take place on 15-16 March at London\u2019s ExCel. There will be more exhibitors than ever before (over 150) at the exhibition, which brings together some of the leading wearable technology and smart watch brands with retailers who want a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[5663,2686,7841,4684],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27819"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=27819"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=27819"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=27819"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=27819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}