The programme for this year’s BEAI Annual Scientific Conference is now available. We return to the Aviva Stadium, Dublin, on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 September.
THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER — MEDICAL DEVICE CONNECTIVITY SYMPOSIUM
The afternoon opens at 14:00 with our local secondary schools programme and the exhibition, followed by the Medical Device Connectivity Symposium (14:30–17:30), chaired by Fran Hegarty.
This is a working session rather than a lecture series. Short talks will set the scene, after which attendees break into groups to discuss, amend and prioritise the “actions and topics” that determine whether an MDI project succeeds. Live voting will score them in real time, with the results debated by a panel drawn from last year’s BEAI symposium and this year’s EBME Expo. The starting point is the output of the EBME roundtable held in June — we intend to test that thinking and develop it further, and the conclusions will be presented back to the full conference on Friday.
The day closes with a networking event at Lansdowne Rugby Club from 18:00.
FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER — MAIN CONFERENCE DAY
Registration and refreshments from 09:00, opening address at 09:50.
Session 1
• Keynote — Prof Tomas Ward, Insight SFI Centre, DCU: “Signals, Selves and Systems: AI for Modelling Cognition in Humans and Machines”
• Dr Lisa McNamee, ESERO / Irish Defence Forces: “Medtech for Space Flights: Opportunities for Innovation”
• Gary Cordery, Mid and South Essex NHS: “A New Trajectory — One Department’s Story of its Course Correction to Meet Modern Technical Challenges”
• Dr Ronan MacLoughlin, Aerogen — title TBC
Session 2
• Fran Hegarty: “Medical Device Integration — State of the Nations”
• Bas van Breugel, Philips Medical: “Connect. Understand. Act. — How SDC is Redefining Medical Device Interoperability”
• Further speaker TBC
• Panel discussion — Future Scoping the Medical Device Landscape
Session 3
• Oleg Shrolik, National Maternity Hospital: “A Celebration of Dashboards”
• Jonathan Quigley, NSAI: “Translating Standards from Tedium to Lifesaving — Revision of IEC 60601 and Standards for AI”
• Leandro Pecchia, Secretary General, IFMBE: “The Clinical Engineering Voice in the WHO and the EU”
• “Thesis in 3” — three-minute presentations on selected posters from PhD and MSc students
• Aaron Griffin, Halosyn: “Medical Device Tracking — Cost and Opportunity”
• Panel discussion — Blast Off or Splash Down
Session 4
• Clinical Engineering Professional Update (speaker TBC), followed by the annual BEAI awards and closing remarks at 16:20
The exhibition, poster viewing and networking run throughout the day, with refreshments and a networking event from 16:30.
REGISTRATION
Places can be booked at on the BEAI website. Prior registration is required for access to the exhibition area on both days.
The full programme is available here. A small number of sessions are still being confirmed and we will circulate the final version closer to the date.
We look forward to seeing you at the Aviva.
