Keynote speakers
Technology for Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace
Bio:
Brandon Branham, VP of Connected Solutions, leads business development and strategic initiatives to help cities implement connected solutions that improve public safety, optimize operations, and support long-term sustainability goals. His experience in both city leadership and cross-sector collaboration positions him to bridge vision with execution at scale.
Branham previously led Peachtree Corners’ groundbreaking smart city and Internet of Things (IoT) programs. Serving as Executive Director for Curiosity Lab, the country’s first true smart city technology proving ground – featuring real connected city infrastructure and thousands of interacting residents/vehicles that can’t be replicated by closed or controlled testing environments, which brought the region to the forefront in the development of next generation IoT technologies that will change the face of business and society in the near future – both within the country and across the world.
Abstract
How can we create technologies to help us reflect on and potentially change our behavior, as well as improve our health and overall wellbeing both at work and at home? In this talk, I will briefly describe the last several years of work our research team has been doing in this area. We have developed wearable technology to help families manage tense situations with their children, mobile phone-based applications for handling stress and depression, as well as automatic stress sensing systems plus interventions to help users just in time. The overarching goal in all of this research is to develop intelligent systems that work with and adapt to the user so that they can maximize their personal health goals and improve their wellbeing.
Brandon Branham
VP Connected Solutions
Bryan Mulligan
Applied Information Inc.
Personalised health driven by digital health systems and multi-source health/environmental data, ML/AI/DL analytics and predictive models
Bio:
Bryan Mulligan is the President and Founder of Applied Information and has over 20 years of experience leading the transportation industry in technical innovation. Bryan is a serial entrepreneur with a history of creating successful technology companies. Bryan established Applied Information in 2011 to meet the need for a technology company that could apply new wireless, Internet-of-Things, cloud computing, and connected vehicle technologies to modern solutions for the transportation sector. Under Bryan’s leadership, Applied Information has established technologies in multiple areas of transportation, including intersection management, preemption and priority, remote communication, school beacons and vulnerable road user safety, and connected and autonomous vehicle applications.
Bryan previously served as the chair of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA 3TS) section, which develops standards for vehicular transportation technology. He led the section in the creation and revision of several well-known transportation industry standards, including NEMA TS2 and NEMA TS4. Bryan has also served on the NTCIP Joint Committee as the NEMA head of delegation and was a contributing author to many NTCIP standards.
Abstract
The last years saw a steep increase in the number of wearable sensors and systems, mhealth and uhealth apps both in the clinical settings and in everyday life. Further large amounts of data both in the clinical settings (imaging, biochemical, medication, electronic health records, -omics), in the community (behavioral, social media, mental state, genetic tests, wearable driven bio-parameters and biosignals) as well as environmental stressors and data (air quality, water pollution etc.) have been produced, and made available to the scientific and medical community, powering the new AI/DL/ML based analytics for the identification of new digital biomarkers leading to new diagnostic pathways, updated clinical and treatment guidelines, and a better and more intuitive interaction medium between the citizen and the health care system.
Thus, the concept of connected and translational health has started evolving steadily, connecting pervasive health systems, using new predictive models, new approaches in biological systems modeling and simulation, as well as fusing data and information from different pipelines for more efficient diagnosis and disease management.
In this talk, we will present the current state-of-the-art in personalized health care by presenting cases from COVID-19 and COPD patients using advanced wearable vests and new technology sensors including lung sound and EIT, new outcome prediction models in COVID-19 ICU patients fusing X-Rays, lung sounds, and ICU parameters transformed via AI/ML/DL pipelines, new approaches fusing environmental stressors with -omics analytics for chronic disease management, and finally new ML/AI-driven methodologies for predicting mental health diseases including suicidality, anxiety, and depression.
