Billie Whitehouse is the CEO, designer and director of Wearable X. Billie specializes in the unique combination of hardware, software and apparel for wearable technology products. Known for her development of Nadi X, state-of-the-art technology to optimize your yoga. Billie is invigorating the fashion industry and transforming it into a business focused on improving the quality of our lives.
Billie is an aesthetic specialist with a naturally inquisitive nature towards technology and innovation. As a garment engineer, she strongly believes people should not have to look like the technology that they have grown to love and depend on. Billie’s designs are sharp, experimental, naturally confident and subtly feminine in appearance integrated with the latest technology.
In 2021, Billie & Wearable X were featured in the Venice Biennale & Musée de l'Homme, Limits of Humanity Exhibition in Paris. Business Insider recently named Billie as one of the 30 most important women under 30 in tech and she was named in the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company. A recent highlight was winning The Fashion Group International, Design Technology Award and being named one of the Most Innovative Companies in Fitness by Fast Co.In 2016 she was the winner of The Wearable Award in Paris at Show Room Privé as well as being featured on The Jimmy Fallon Show. Forbes recently compared Billie to Steve Jobs and Jerry Seinfeld because of an anthropological look at human-centric design with humor.
Billie is a renowned keynote speaker with presentations stretching from the The New Yorker Tech Fest, Fortune’s Elevate, Wired Retail UK, Fashion Futures 2021, Pi Apparel, Wearable Technologies 2021 Cannes Lions 2015/2016, Conde Nast Digital Russia 2016, India Fashion Forum 2016 and many more.