Monday 26 March 16:00 – 17:30
Emerging and Disruptive Technologies in the Portable Information Devices of the Future

The panel will address the innovative, emerging and disruptive technologies in Portable Information Devices (PIDs) and supporting systems of the future, both technical and business related aspects.

The panel is organized by the IEEE-New Technologies Direction Committee (NTDC) of the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB).

Moderator:
Ephraim Suhir, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Panelists and Program:
Vida Ilderem, Vice President and Director for Embedded Systems Research, Motorola Labs, USA
Application of Nano-Engineering, Nano-Technologies, and Nano-Materials for Telecommunications and PID Systems

Andrew Lippman, Senior Research Scientist, Media Laboratory, MIT, USA
Innovations and Challenges in the PIDs and PID Systems of the Future

Phillip C.H. Chan, Dean of Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Emerging and Disruptive Technologies for Future Portable Information Devices: IC Technologist Perspective

Phillip Wright, Consultant, Optoelectronic Industry Development Association, USA,
Emerging and Disruptive Technologies for Future Portable Information Devices: the Role of Optoelectronics

Joe Barrett, Director, Intel, USA
Recent Learning in Intel Business about New Technical Solutions and Reliability Requirements, including the PID space

Bob Brennan, Intel Corporation

Tuesday 27 March 16:00 – 17:30
Wearable and Portable Information Systems and Devices in Medicine and Biology

The panel will address an overview of the current state of the art on wearable (and portable) biomedical systems and devices and discuss about future challenges in R&D, applications and business opportunities as well as usability, standardization, manufacturability, testing and validation. The main areas addressed in the panel will be smart fabrics and interactive textile systems (SFIT or e-textiles), body sensor networks and data management, sensor-actuator wearable systems, and enabled wearable biomedical applications.

The panel is organized by the IEEE-EMBS Technical Committee on Biomedical Sensors and Systems (TC on WBSS), with the contribution of the cluster of EuropeanCommission-funded projects on Smart Fabrics -Interactive Textile(SFIT).

Moderators:
Sundaresan Jayaraman, Georgia Institute of Technology, Textile Information Systems Research Laboratory, USA

Andreas Lymberis, Scientific Officer, European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate General, Belgium

Panelists and Program:
Sundaresan Jayaraman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA,
Wearable Biomedical Systems: Research to Reality and the Vision of the IEEE EMBS TC on WBSS

Danilo de Rossi, University of Pisa, Italy
e-textile Based Wearable Systems and Applications: a) R&D State of the Art b) the SFIT Cluster of EU Funded Projects

Mario El-Khoury, CSEM, Swizterland
Body Sensor Networks" and Portable Monitoring Systems

Discussion

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