Sandra Bucci is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester and an NIHR Senior Investigator. She is an Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, where she co-directs the Complex Trauma and Resilience Research Unit. Professor Bucci trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and worked in Early Intervention in Psychosis services before relocating to the UK.

Her research focuses on developing, evaluating and implementing digital approaches to support people living with severe mental health problems. Grounded in service-user involvement and co-design, her work spans discovery science, intervention development, clinical evaluation, and real-world implementation. She leads a major research portfolio funded by all the major funders and contributes to shaping digital mental health research and practice nationally. She is co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer of CareLoop Health, a digital therapeutics company spun out of the University of Manchester.

Dr Christine Jacob is a Lecturer and Health-Tech Researcher at the Institute for Information Systems FHNW, and a digital health strategist working at the intersection of digital innovation, patient engagement, human-centered design, and healthcare transformation. Her work examines what it takes for digital health technologies (including digital biomarkers and AI-enabled solutions) to be trusted, adopted, integrated into clinical workflows, and sustained in real-world healthcare. With more than 20 years of experience across pharma, consulting, digital strategy, and applied research, she leads and contributes to co-creation projects involving patients, clinicians, healthcare organizations, industry partners, and technology developers. She is a board member of EUPATI Switzerland, an Editorial Board Member of JMIR Human Factors, and a member of the Technology Assessment & Quality Development in Health Informatics Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association. Her work is grounded in patient engagement, human-centered design, health technology assessment, and the responsible implementation of digital health solutions.

Dr. Sheng Xu is a tenured professor and the inaugural Director of Emerging Technologies in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Electrical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. He earned his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Peking University and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Subsequently, he pursued postdoctoral studies at the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He then spent 10 years on the faculty at UC San Diego before joining Stanford in 2025. His research group is interested in developing new materials and fabrication methods for soft electronics. His research has been presented to the United States Congress as a testimony to the importance and impact of NIH funding.

Wei Gao is a Professor of Medical Engineering and a Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 2014, and completed his postdoctoral training from 2014 to 2017 in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He currently serves as Senior Associate Editor of Science Advances, and as Associate Editor of npj Flexible Electronics, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, and Sensors & Diagnostics. He is a recipient of the NSF Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, IAMBE Early Career Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, Pittcon Achievement Award, IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award, IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, and the Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year in Engineering and Technology. 

He is also recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Scientist and a Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science, every year since 2020). Prof. Gao is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). His research interests span wearable and implantable biosensors, digital medicine, bioelectronics, flexible electronics, additive manufacturing, and micro/nanorobotics.

Prof. Wei Tu is a distinguished professor of Urban Informatics in Shenzhen University. He is the Head of the Department of Urban Informatics, Shenzhen University. He received the PhD degree in Photogrammetry and Remote sensing engineering from Wuhan University in 2013. He has been the visiting scholar of MIT and the visiting professor of University College London. His research focuses on urban big data and urban artificial intelligence. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers in Science, Nature Health, IJGIS, and CEUS. He is the PI or co-PI of the Projects of National Key Research and Development Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, and the Science and Technology Commission of Shenzhen, He has been awarded the first prize of geographic information Technology Progress, the first prize of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology, the Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress of the Ministry of Education.

Dr. Sandra Barteit is a research group leader in Digital Global Health at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University Hospital Heidelberg. Her research sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, data science, and sensor-based and wearable technologies, with a focus on the health impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. She leads the PULSE-AI project, funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation, which uses AI and wearable sensors to study climate-related health risks and develop scalable health interventions.

Sandra Barteit holds a Dr.sc.hum. in Global Health from Heidelberg University and master's degrees in Analytics (Georgia Institute of Technology), Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HEC Paris), and Computational Linguistics (Heidelberg University). She is completing her Habilitation in Global Health at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University and coordinates the Faculty's Global Health elective track.

 Joseph Wang is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Nanoengineering, a SAIC Endowed Professor  and the Director of the Center of Wearable Sensors (CWS) at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla USA. Before joining UCSD at 2008, Wang served as the Director of the Center of Bioelectronics at the Biodesign Institute of ASU (Tempe, AZ). Dr. Wang has made pioneering contributions to the fields of wearable sensors, biosensors, electroanalytical chemistry, remote environmental sensors, multi-modal sensors,  and microscale robots.

He is a member of the US National Academy of Inventors, and of the European Academies of Engineering and of Science and Arts,  and a fellow of the RSC, ECS and AIMBE. He has authored over 1300 research papers, 12 books, and 60 patents. Wang has been a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher since 2015 (H Index 225). Wang holds Honorary Professor from 11 different universities and is the recipient of 3 National American Chemical Society (ACS) Awards for Analytical Chemistry (2024), Electrochemistry (2006) and Instrumentation (1999), of the Ralph Adams Pittcon Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry, of the  Talanta Medal, 2021 IUPAC Analytical Chemistry Medal, the Breyer Medal (Australia), Heyrovsky Medal (Czech Republic), the Speirs Medal (RSC), and the IEEE Sensor Achievement Award, 2021.

Chwee Teck Lim is the NUSS Chair Professor and Director of the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include human disease mechanobiology and microfluidic and wearable technologies for next-generation biomedical applications. He has published over 550 peer-reviewed articles and delivered over 500 plenary/keynote/invited talks.  Prof Lim is also a serial entrepreneur having co-founded seven start-ups, including one that went public in 2018.

Prof Lim’s groundbreaking research has been recognized with over 100 awards and honours, including the President’s Science Award, President’s Technology Award, Nature Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentoring in Science, Otto Schmitt Award, Vladimir K. Zworykin Award, Asia’s Most Influential Scientist Award, and the Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Award. He is Fellow or Member of 11 academies worldwide, including the National Academy of Engineering (US), Royal Society (UK), Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), National Academy of Inventors (US), Singapore National Academy of Science, and the Academy of Engineering Singapore.