Smart Medication Packaging

Joshua Wachman

How light, sound, and an Internet-connected pill-bottle cap reminds patients to take their prescriptions and alerts caregivers when they forget.

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Biography

Joshua Wachman, President, Vitality

President - Selected by Boston Business Forward magazine as one of the "Forty Under 40 to Watch," Joshua Wachman has a track record developing head-turning products and building innovative businesses in technology, media & entertainment, financial services and consumer healthcare.

He began his professional career as an Imagineer developing theme parks and new businesses for Walt Disney’s highly secretive R&D division.

As President of WatchPoint Media, Wachman was the creative and technical visionary behind a "clickable video"v technology that embedded advertising and commerce links directly into TV. (WatchPoint was acquired by GoldPocket in 2003.)

As Vice President of Business Development for Fidelity’s Online Strategy Group, Wachman led new product development and was point-person for strategic initiatives in social networking, multi-media publishing and content syndication.

Wachman has been retained as a technology strategist by Sony, The National Inventors Hall of Fame, Ambient Devices, Viant, Dreamworks and Fidelity. He has a film credit for special effects sequences in the Dreamworks/PDI film ANTZ and holds several patents.

He earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees at MIT where he studied at the renowned MIT Media Laboratory.

He resides in Brookline, Massachusetts with his wife and 2 children.

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TEDx Boston . . .
Revolutionary Ideas.

What happens when a group of people rally around a radical idea and set in motion unlimited possibilities for a brighter future? A Revolution.

More than 230 years ago, ordinary citizens in Boston dreamed of a democracy and launched a revolution that changed the course of human history. That innovative spirit still thrives in our local students, educators, scientists, artists, leaders, and entrepreneurs. At TEDx Boston, we celebrate their ideas and their passion for improving the way citizens of the world learn, live, give, work, and play.

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In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx.

TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxBoston, where x=independently organized TED event. At TEDxBoston, TEDTalks videos and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in our community.

The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.