Brent Blum

Brent Blum founded the Wearable Technology Practice at Accenture and leads day-to-day operations. His responsibilities include oversight of: R&D, business development, sales, delivery and thought leadership.  In less than two years, Brent has scaled the wearables practice to include three Fortune 100 clients, several hundred community of practice members and relationships with many top vendors.  Prior to formally starting Accenture’s wearable technology practice, Brent was a developer on the LifeShift project and product manager for Verizon’s wearable emergency response service, SureResponse.  Brent’s work within enterprise wearables has been recognizes by Forbes, CBS and TechCrunch.  He holds a degree in Management Information Systems from Wake Forest University....