Conference Programme

3–4 February 2027 | ETH Zurich

All times are shown in Central European Time (CET). Programme timings and speakers are subject to change.

Day 1 – Wednesday 3 February

08:00
Registration & Breakfast
08:45
Welcome and opening remarks
Session 1: Wearable Sensors
09:00
Body-Interfaced Biosensors
Wei Gao
California Institute of Technology, USA
09:40
Electrochemical and Biophysical Sensing: From On-Skin to in vivo Diagnostics
Chwee Teck Lim
National University of Singapore
10:20
Short Talk
Speaker to be announced
10:30
Coffee break
Session 2: Bioelectronics Design
11:00
Fabiana Arduini
University of Rome Tor Vergata
11:40
Huangxian Ju
Nanjing University
12:20
Short Talk
Speaker to be announced
12:30
Lunch
Session 3: Digital Biomarkers in Clinical Trials
14:00
Sandra Bucci
University of Manchester
14:40
Closing the Loop: Digital Biomarkers for Precision Digital Therapeutics
Tobias Kowatsch
University of St Gallen (HSG)
15:20
Short Talk
Speaker to be announced
15:30
Coffee break
Session 4: Digital Health in Disease and Population Monitoring
16:00
Cecilia Mascolo
University of Cambridge
16:40
Giorgio Quer
Scripps Research
17:20
Jing-Dong Han
Peking University
18:00
Poster session and welcome reception

Day 2 – Thursday 4 February

08:00
Registration & Breakfast
Session 5: Wearable Device Design
08:30
Innovating Healthcare through Multimodal-Wearable Sensing
Joseph Wang
University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA
09:10
Plenty of room under the skin
Sheng Xu
Stanford University
09:50
Short Talk
Speaker to be announced
10:00
Coffee break
Session 6: Panel Discussion on Policy, Ethics and Adoption
10:45
Effy Vayena
ETH Zurich
Christine Jacob
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Ariel Stern
Universität Potsdam
11:45
Lunch
Session 7: Wearables and Digital Monitoring in Global Health
13:00
Wearable Sensors and AI as Digital Biomarkers of Climate Stress in Vulnerable Populations
Sandra Barteit 
Heidelberg University
13:40
Big data and machine learning for monitoring schistosomiasis transmission and morbidity
Goylette Chami
Oxford University
14:20
Mobile phone data show spatial and socioeconomic inequalities in hospital utilization
Wei Tu & Jizhe Xia
Shenzhen University
15:00
Short Talk
Speaker to be announced
15:10
Coffee break
Session 8: Industry Session
16:00
Industry roundtable
Session 9: Clinical Implementation of Digital Biomarkers
17:00
Felix Balzer
Charité – University Medicine Berlin
17:40
Short Talk
Speaker to be announced
17:50
Poster awards and closing remarks

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