Tech Talks Central
351 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★ - 2 ratingsThe Tech Talks Central web radio covers all the hot topics and trends in the connected world and features interactive interviews with thought leaders, as well as movers and shakers of the tech industry.
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TTC #152 Devices that are changing Patient Care and Education, Valerie Riffaud Cangelosi
March 20, 2015 13:36 - 20 minutes - 23.8 MBValerie Riffaud Cangelosi, New Market Development Manager for Epson Europe starts by explaining why Epson is not only about printers and projectors. Her own main focus is the sensing technologies and wearables Epson is developing, like the Android based smart glasses or wrist watch that monitors heart pulse. She mentions health projects they’re collaborating on with hospitals from Lombardia and how they’re trying to provide solutions. Valerie talks, also, about how education and the students ...
TTC #151 How IoT will add pressure on Service Provider Networks, Peter Margaris
March 20, 2015 13:22 - 15 minutes - 17.4 MBPeter Margaris, Head of Service Provider Product Marketing at F5 Networks talks about his company & the infrastructure solutions they provide to service providers to optimize their application performance, traffic and signal management including security solutions and NFE infrastructure. Collaborating already with 9 out of 10 of the largest global operators and many smaller ones they already foresee the impact the data created by IoT will put on service provider networks, surpassing that of w...
TTC #150 A Need to Re-engineer the Processes in Healthcare, Kari Kohtamaki
March 20, 2015 13:11 - 16 minutes - 19.2 MBKari Kohtamaki, Account Manager for Wellness & Healthcare Technologies at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, explains how VTT is a multi disciplined applied research institute owned by the Finnish Government, employing over 2600 research scientists. He talks about the ECHAlliance and how it’s popularity within Europe can help research institutes collaborate with stakeholders. Kari goes on to describe the development in the eHealth sector within the Scandinavian countries, the opportuni...
TTC #149 Why Aren’t There Women Game Developers Despite The 65% Female Game Users, Zac Jacobs
March 19, 2015 13:22 - 12 minutes - 14.6 MBZac Jacobs co-director of the multi-award winning company Millipede and creator of Dumb Ways to Die 2, the no.1 game in 81 countries, with over 45M downloads, talks about his company, the team and what it takes to be so successful. He talks about the thought process that goes in game development; what game developers should search for and why it is almost impossible to find women game programmers although female players are the significant proportion (65%) of game users. He goes on to talk ab...
TTC #145 Are The Androids Dreaming Yet, James Tagg
March 17, 2015 21:22 - 21 minutes - 25 MBJames Tagg, author of the book ‘Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?’ presented in front of an audience his own beliefs on the Singularity issue. He started out by answering his own question ‘Can a Machine think Creatively?’ and argued mathematically on how much artificial intelligence has progressed, which are the crucial parity point dates and why he doesn’t believe that machines can surpass the creativity of humans. The speech was conducted during a Heroes of Mobile event organised by its founde...
TTC #147 Choons ‘n Chat With Helen Keegan And Friends
March 17, 2015 20:53 - 49 minutes - 56.6 MBHelen and friends of Heroes of the Mobile Fringe organised the Choons ‘n chat conversation in parallel with the Fringe activities and Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona; Helen Keegan, Mobile Strategist & founder at Heroes of the Mobile Fringe; Rosa Aguilar, Fitbit; Carlo Longino, WIP.org; Rafe Blandford, Mobile Strategist at DigitasLBi, Kirsta Styles, Tech Journalist at TechCityNews and a few more friends got together in Barcelona during the MWC15 and talked about the future of mobile, n...
TTC #144 Image Search That Always Returns Results, Ian Parness and Brad Folkens
March 17, 2015 20:49 - 14 minutes - 17 MBIan Parness and Brad Folkens explain how the difficulty of searching on the mobile led to the creation of Camfind; a mobile application that returns results for anything you snap an image of, ranging from a lady’s handbag to a living animal. Ian mentions the interest they have received from companies to integrate their product into their own platforms, mainly retail for product matching, price comparison, but also stock photography vendors or even applications for the visually impaired. Brad ...
TTC #146 Implementing The Connected Kitchen, Mark Dunson and Mobeen Khan
March 17, 2015 20:49 - 28 minutes - 32.7 MBMark Dunson, President of Emerson Climate and Mobeen Khan, AVP of Industrial IoT Solutions at AT&T come together in this interview to explain how Emerson Climate is currently leveraging AT&T’s IoT services for their vision of the connected kitchen. Mark talks about their big expertise in the air condition & refrigeration sectors and how they are using AT&T’s knowledge and infrastructure to serve their large clientele in the connected kitchen focusing on maintenance costs, food integrity and l...
TTC #148 We Want People To Move More, Philip Verschueren
March 17, 2015 20:39 - 9 minutes - 11.3 MBPhilip Verschueren, founder at iCapps talks about their new application, MoveBattle, fueled by wearables and the Apple Health Kit. Their moto is Move as a team and beat the others! An application with a gamification process that he hopes will make fitness and basic training fun and a collective process, that will motivate everyone on the team to participate and in general meet their fitness goals. He hopes to engage employees in companies to exercise more and eventually implement a hosting pl...
TTC #143 A Combination Of Science And Art, Ben Bickford
March 15, 2015 08:47 - 17 minutes - 20.4 MBBen Bickford talks about his work as a consultant combining technology flavours and organisational goals. His interest in big data or ‘big insights’ as he says, customer behaviour and how the companies can use the information to grow. He describes how he follows the entrepreneurial spirit and how he believes that the future is the combination of existing technologies bringing them together in a novel way and how mobile is part of the whole value chain. Ben suggests developers look into opport...
TTC #142 When APIs Need To Meet SLAs, David O’Neill
March 15, 2015 08:45 - 13 minutes - 15.4 MBDavid O’Neill describes how Seattle based APImetrics offers the industry’s first and only intelligent, analytics-driven API performance solution built specifically for the enterprise. He explains what the current problems are with APIs are and how companies need to monitor their APIs with analytics, receive alerts and take action in order to meet service level agreements(SLAs) and customer expectations. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.
TTC #141 Common Standards For The Next 50B Devices In Internet Of Things, Guy Martin
March 14, 2015 22:47 - 10 minutes - 12 MBGuy Martin, Senior Strategist at Samsung Open Source Group and Head of Digital Marketing at Open Interconnect Consortium explains how OIC intends to connect the next 50 billion devices that will make up the Internet of Things. What the need was and how some of the members like Samsung, Intel, Cisco, HP, GE Software have realised that there is not much differentiation in intellectual property but mostly infrastructure. Which means building the Standards and specifications through OIC and the o...
TTC #140 We make collaboration in Health work, Brian O'Connor
March 12, 2015 19:01 - 18 minutes - 21.7 MBBrian O’Connor picks up the thread from the eHealth Forum in Athens and the legacy that was created there leading to an expansion of new country members and stakeholders. They have created over 25 ecosystems that include governments and industry members with over 15000 organisations involved, and more than 100 meetings, yearly. He explains how ECHAlliance came about to helping in the creation of the China Connected Health Alliance upon the request of the Chinese Health Minister and what the G...
TTC #138 Tackling the Chinese Health Challenges and Opportunities, Peter Chau
March 12, 2015 18:47 - 9 minutes - 10.6 MBPeter Chau, Chief Executive for the newly formed China Connected Health Alliance talks about the need behind the formation of the new alliance and how their European counterpart will be able to pass on their experience and provide access to its existing members. He goes on to describe the Chinese health status and how the government is taking actions and policies for change; the opportunities available for foreign companies within this broad market and amongst the 600 million Chinese users of...
TTC #139 Investing in Northern Ireland and Mobile Startups, Norbert Sagnard
March 12, 2015 18:03 - 27 minutes - 31.9 MBNorbert Sagnard a man of many hats talks about the Northern Ireland pavillion at MWC, what kind of startups they were hosting ie. security; what it takes to succeed in Northern Ireland and how the state is helping startups get off their feet with grants, schemes and accelerators. He goes on to talk about his own investment interests and the opportunities he sees in the mobile and technology fields. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks Central.
TTC #136 Being the first to evaluate infrastructure experience, Oren Seliger
November 28, 2014 21:02 - 11 minutes - 21.6 MBOren Seliger is a lucky guy, as he and his team are the first to lay hands on and evaluate, every new piece of infrastructure used today by the company - the same infrastructure that Cisco proposes to its customers, as well as its Intelligent Autonomous Cloud, the new generation network with lots of extra benefits offered today. He gives us an insider look to all and even more... Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central
TTC #137 IoE is hitting the Road, Charalabos Kiorpelidis
November 28, 2014 21:02 - 10 minutes - 18.7 MBLarge scale and long running projects need a dedicated and well experienced partner in order to succeed. That’s the inner meaning of what Charalabos Kiorpelidis, Systems & IT Manager of Aegean Motorways, says as he describes the infrastructure built and managed by his team with Cisco’s help, for this key motorway to run smoothly… Unified access, voice/ telephony/video systems, automation and many toll stations, as well as supporting operations like ERP, CRM, etc. the combination is not easy t...
TTC #126 Better protection thanks to new Cisco firewall, Nikos Mourtzinos
November 25, 2014 00:00 - 11 minutes - 21.9 MBSecurity has always been a very “hot” issue in ICT and Nikos Mourtzinos, Security Account Manager, for Cisco Greece, Cyprus & Malta, tells us how Cisco ASA, a next generation firewall, protects its users much better against the ever increasing threats. He also talks about the security issues we are (and will be) facing in the era of Internet of Everything and suggests possible ways and solutions to most effectively overcome them. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central
TTC #127 We are still in a transformation period, Emir Halilovic
November 25, 2014 00:00 - 14 minutes - 26.5 MBIn the ICT World (and not only…) market intelligence firms tend to provide a much better overview of a sector, than bits and pieces of information collected from the companies themselves. Emir Halilovic, Program Manager for Networks & Infrastructure at IDC, gives us precious information about Software Defined Network and the benefits it brings to data centres managers and users. He agrees that the market hasn’t taken off yet, but he reminds us that we are still in a transformation period. Int...
TTC #128 Storage Virtualization at the heart of modern IT infrastructure, Jacint Juhasz
November 25, 2014 00:00 - 11 minutes - 22.1 MBThe blueprint of corporate IT has changed dramatically during the last few years due to the advent of technologies like the cloud, virtualization and Software as a Service. Jacint Juhasz, Systems Engineer, South Eastern Europe mentions the Storage Virtualization technologies that have been co-created by NetApp and Cisco and the FlexPod, the core product of the line, the key benefits and how storage virtualization affects the modern complicated corporate IT infrastructure. Interviewed by Georg...
TTC #129 SAP Analytics to the rescue of Big Data, Natassa Mastellou
November 25, 2014 00:00 - 16 minutes - 30.3 MBNatassa Mastellou, although very young in age, seems very passionate and knowledgeable in the truly ‘dark’ field of data analytics. Starting out as to how she landed in SAP Hellas and what an important opportunity the SAP graduate program was for her professional life; she continues to explain what solutions SAP offers for Big Data and how the different layers it offers, can help a business grow and make meaningful sense out of the data it collects. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks...
TTC #130 A new model: Application Centric Infrastructure, Panagiotis Golemis
November 25, 2014 00:00 - 12 minutes - 22.8 MBIn the ever-changing world of ICT, cloud computing seems to be the winner (for the time being) and that means enterprises, organizations and even single users have to adapt themselves to this fact and make the necessary changes in their plans. Panagiotis Golemis, Consulting Systems Engineer at Cisco, talks about Application as a Service platform and describes the benefits of the Application Centric Infrastructure model his company is preaching for. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech T...
TTC #131 Video, Tele-conferencing & Collaboration deployment, Emmanouil Zouraris
November 25, 2014 00:00 - 18 minutes - 34.2 MBThe new e-learning, video- and tele- conferencing technologies have been disrupting the education industry for the last few years. We talk with Emmanouil Zouraris, Video, Collaboration and e-Learning Technologies Manager, Networking & Communications Centre, University of Crete (UoC), about their large scale deployment of Cisco conferencing and telepresence technologies at the multi-site UoC network; the integration with the existing IP telephony infrastructure, the interoperability and mainte...
TTC #132 Setting up a meeting room in the Cloud, Antony Blake
November 25, 2014 00:00 - 11 minutes - 21 MBVideo is the next (if not the current...) big thing in the Web; nobody can deny that! Antony Blake, Cisco Video Acceleration Lead in the EMEAR region, tells us why, as his role is to deal with “technologies that bring video to life”. He also explains why we have to proceed with the humanization of video, he shares with us his joy for the Red Dot award, Cisco was recently honoured with, and finally he describes the all new Project in the Cloud platform that, in essence, is a meeting and collab...
TTC #133 Cisco Fast IT: the future or IoE-centric corporate infrastructure, Nikos Botinis
November 25, 2014 00:00 - 11 minutes - 22 MBCorporate networks become more intelligent but also more complicated driving increasingly demanding business needs. We talk with Nikos Botinis, Cisco Regional Sales Manager for Greece, Cyprus and Malta, about Cisco FastIT; the new App-centric IT operating model which considerably reduces complexity and cost through a simpler, smarter and more secure IT infrastructure. Having Internet of Everything at its core, Fast IT provides a unifying framework to integrate major technology transitions - ...
TTC #134 IoE, a game changer that already works in Greece, Antonis Tsiboukis
November 25, 2014 00:00 - 10 minutes - 18.9 MBProjections of more than 50 billion connected devices and a market of at least 19 trillion dollars by 2020 are not regarded as hype, by Antonis Tsiboukis, General Manager of Cisco for Greece, Cyprus and Malta. On the contrary, he points out that Internet of Everything has already considerable presence even in Greece, citing examples from the health and transportation sectors. He says that #IoE may also create a large number of new jobs (many more than those lost) and adds that cities have to ...
TTC #135 Intercloud: bridging public and private clouds, Enrico Mercadante
November 25, 2014 00:00 - 23 minutes - 43.5 MBCloud processing, storage and distribution is driving many core operations, services and applications in the IT infrastructures of modern organizations. As a result, public and private cloud deployments are an essential and critical piece of the IT puzzle. We talk with Enrico Mercadante, Cloud and Technical Operation Leader, Cisco South Europe, about Intercloud Fabric: the worldwide network of interconnected clouds. Driven by Cisco and a growing number of partners, Intercloud enables the stan...
TTC #125 Creating new modes of interaction between devices and people, Human Electric
November 25, 2014 00:00 - 15 minutes - 29.2 MBInternet of Things will bring new modes of interaction between devices and people. As intelligent electronics get embedded to items which are used outside offices and living rooms, there is a growing need to move beyond keyboards, screens and touch interfaces. Alexandros Christopoulos, Business Lead for Human Electric and Constantinos Tsolakidis, Tech Lead for Human Electric talk about their vision to build new user experiences for activities that cannot rely on traditional interfaces startin...
TTC #114 Open Data in Healthcare, Evika Karamagioli
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 11 minutes - 21.6 MBEvika Karamagioli starts out with why data should be open and what their value is when combined with public policies. We ask her who will analyse efficiently this data and what the challenges are in collecting this data; who profits from it and what kind of scientists should be responsible to analyse it. She insists on citizen participation and how they should be trained to understand and access the data whether it be their own or society’s in general. She explains what the Ideatopos 2015 con...
TTC #124 Antennas as an integral part of Sensors, Dr. Akram Alomainy
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 18 minutes - 33.8 MBDr. Akram Alomainy explains what cognitive radio is, how it senses and learns from environment and why it’s important for the most effective results. He talks about ink-jet printed antennas, antenna flexibility and how they can be part of textiles. His research focuses on creating very small and flexible antennas without losing efficiency and how their application in health services can help patients and personnel in linking everything for medical assessment. Dr. Akram Alomainy is a very pass...
TTC #123 Wearable sensors to create person-centered healthcare, Dr. Kunal Mankodiya
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 15 minutes - 29.3 MBDr. Kunal Mankodiya explains his focus on creating “a wearable platform” to collect contextual data (rather than continuously record information) in real time, combining wearable sensors and smart devices. He talks about creating intelligent algorithms to process and store only relevant data. Dr. Kunal Mankodiya presents his SPARK- wearable sensor and smartwatch project currently in clinical trials with Parkinson’s patients. He also introduces us to parallel projects and his collaboration wi...
TTC #122 Maximizing output power of a CFPG micro-energy harvester, Dr. Kamran Sayrafian
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 12 minutes - 23.4 MBDr. Sayrafian talks about the next big thing in our lives, wearable and implantable sensors, used mainly in mobile health. He explains how we can power them with energy from microharvesters that exploit the natural movement of our body, producing energy proportional to their size, and reveals a user-centric and quite challenging vision for health future: patients and seniors living better at home and away from the hospital, yet better monitored and cared of. Thanks to modern health services t...
TTC #121 How Data and Data Analytics change healthcare, Dr. May D Wang
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 20 minutes - 37.3 MBData is changing healthcare. Health information systems deal with the entire pipeline of health related data from data capture/acquisition, information extraction, Data analytics and interpretation, presentation and decision support. We had the opportunity to talk with a distinguished guest Dr May D. Wang, Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. In the first part Dr Wang gives an overview of the role of data in healthcare and some of the key challenges in ...
TTC #120 Development of low-cost smart training pants (STants), Sarvenaz Salehi
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 10 minutes - 20.3 MBMrs. Salehi gives a thorough description of the smart training pants that DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) has designed and already produced as a working prototype. A most characteristic example of real “wearables”, these pants contain an array of sensors that send continuously via Bluetooth information to a designated mobile device about the vital statistics of the user ie. that could be an athlete, soldier or patient. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks ...
TTC #119 Gamification in fitness & health, George Veinoglou
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 11 minutes - 21.3 MBMr. Veinoglou talks about loyalty schemes and gamification – a hot issue in health, as it can be used in many sectors and in different ways; how he motivates organizations and enterprises in Greece, as well as abroad, to use the techniques. As every case has its own needs and requirements, the platform solution (or, rather the framework) proposed by Icon Platforms is a modular one, that may be shaped and transformed in the most suitable way. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Cen...
TTC #118 Using Body Sensor Networks for end-to-end pervasive sensing, Dr. Benny Lo
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 17 minutes - 32.3 MBIn this interview we talk with Dr. Benny Lo, Lecturer at the Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College London, about the current research in the field of Body Sensor Networks. The focus is on using small sensors, often in the form of pervasive wearable devices, for continuous monitoring of patients. The research is concerned with the entire end-to-end system from sensor hardware, operating system, analytics all the way to the actual clinical trials. At the second half of the interview we discuss a few ...
TTC #117 Monitoring of oral chemotherapy patients at home, Prof. Reem Kayyali
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 11 minutes - 21.9 MBDr. Kayyali explains the benefits of CANadvice, an Android mobile application tested in 2014 in UK and used by patients receiving oral chemotherapy at home, in order to alert their doctors about possible quite painful side-effects, while undergoing treatment. She also speaks about Welcome, a European project which is in essence a monitoring system for pulmonary diseased patients, based in the cloud. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.
TTC #115 Antennas, the hidden hero of wireless technologies, Dr. Will Whittow
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 12 minutes - 22.7 MBAntennas are at the very heart of our wirelessly connected world. Technology advances have completely miniaturized and concealed them to the point that people tend to forget that they exist! Antenna research is hotter than ever with applications like wearable and embroidered antennas which give birth to terms like “functional fashion”, more efficient energy harvesting which enables inductive powering in more situations and the study and analysis of specific absorption rates (SAR) which are di...
TTC #113 Mobile in health - solutions for elderly and kids with ADHD, Dr. Panagiotis Bamidis
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 15 minutes - 29 MBThere are many consumer- and healthcare- grade solutions aiming to improve the quality of life for the elderly, however ease-of-use and intrusiveness are two of the most common factors hindering effectiveness and wide adoption. Dr. Panagiotis Bamidis, Assistant Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki talks about the current research in Affective and Physiological computing aiming to improve the cognitive and physical condition of elderly people using gamified experiences through...
TTC #112 CFPG micro-energy harvester for wearable medical sensors - Prof John Baras
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 10 minutes - 19.9 MBThe highlight of Prof. Baras’ interview is that “if the 20th century was the century of ICT, then the 21st century surely is the century of Medicine”! Being a technology- Renaissance man himself, he believes that the next frontier is disease modelling (like diabetes or Alzheimer); he and his team give answers on a broad spectrum of applied technology issues focusing on revolutionary micro-energy harvesters that exploit the value-added of human body movements to power sensors and many other mo...
TTC #111 Creating machines with empathy, Javier Hernandez
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 16 minutes - 29.9 MBWhat if you could see what calms you down or increases your stress as you go through your day? What if you could see clearly what is causing these changes for your child or another loved one? Javier Hernandez is currently working towards his Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab investigating Affective Computing: the field of using sensors and computers in order to interpret feeling and emotion. Starting from the current experiments at MIT Media Lab using off-the-shelf Google Glasses as the human-comput...
TTC #110 Potentials of miniaturized Smart Systems in healthcare, Dr. Andreas Lymberis
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 13 minutes - 25.2 MBVeteran Program Officer, Dr. Lymberis, explains the many ways European Commission employs to support enterprises and SMEs in particular, that focus on nano- microelectronics and smart systems/apps, used mainly in the healthcare sector. Through new programs that are innovative and greatly adapted to their special needs, niche players may now submit proposals and get support for the design and development of prototypes; responding to competitors and narrowing the gap with USA or Far East countr...
TTC #109 Your brain as the ultimate controller, Prof. Bin He
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 16 minutes - 29.8 MBThe field of non-invasive Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) is gaining massive momentum as startups, companies and researchers are pushing hard. The race on BCI research is on improvement of the efficiency and the accuracy of the systems, while some of the first commercial efforts are testing the waters with several affordable devices already available to consumers. Professor Bin He, a pioneer in the field of Biomedical Engineering, talks about the ground-breaking research currently being done ...
TTC #108 Personalized health-care using pervasive systems, Dr. Andreas Triantafyllidis
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 15 minutes - 28.7 MBCurrent healthcare practices and technologies are limited what it comes to offering a treatment that is personalized and optimized for the individual patient. The reasons are not only due to current technology limitations of legacy systems but also due to operational practices and economics. Dr. Andreas Triantafyllidis, a PostDoc Research Scientist at the Institute of Biomedical Enginnering at the University of Oxford, talks about the ongoing research in using pervasive systems to achieve bet...
TTC #107 HPV Guard - a software management platform for cervical cancer, Prof. Petros Karakitsos
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 12 minutes - 23.8 MBProf. Karakitsos explains how HPV Guard, a smart and innovative system to define individual risk for cervical cancer development, works. This brand new platform, supported by an EU Grant, Greek State money and private investments, compiles -using established know-how of Big Data mining- laboratory and clinical data that feed a dedicated scoring system, with specialist doctors analyzing the results. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central.
TTC #106 Converting sensor outputs from analog to digital, Dr. Nikos Petrellis
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 15 minutes - 29.2 MBDr. Nikos Petrellis talks to us about his work in developing electronic circuits to convert sensor outputs from analog to high resolution digital data. He explains the importance of portable, low cost, and diverse modules that can be applied to existing, perhaps older technology, systems. We talk about healthcare applications of converting and correcting analog data derived from existing wearable sensors in real time without the need of costly upgrades to hospital equipment. Dr. Petrellis ...
TTC #105 The Reaction Project for Glycemic control, Prof. Thomas Pieber
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 14 minutes - 26.3 MBProf. Thomas Pieber talks about the EU funded REACTION project; a decision support system for the remote accessibility to diabetes management & therapy in operational healthcare networks. Patients are monitored with wearable non invasive and minimally invasive continuous Glucose Monitoring sensors(CGM) based on novel technologies. Starting from his own task of trying to improve the quality of control from the medical side, he poses an interesting question on whether ‘Hospitals are aware of th...
TTC #104 Beyond “wearables” and quantified-self, Michael Dillhyon
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 25 minutes - 46.9 MBMichael Dillhyon, President of Vital Connect Europe, is a professional with an outstanding track record in leading, founding and advising businesses in the fields of life sciences, biosciences, eHealth. We talk about recent advances in health-patches - tiny self-powered adhesive devices that can be placed directly on the patient’s body for non-invasive, continuous, remote monitoring of several vital signs and metrics. In the second part of our discussion we talk about the tidal wave of change...
TTC #103 Leading sensing, imaging and robotics into a new era, Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 18 minutes - 34.9 MBProf. Guang-Zhong Yang talks about The Hamlyn Centre and their research focus on sensing, imaging and robotics and how they’re interested in developing technology that is safe and effective for all medical devices, whilst having a strong kinetical value, making technology accessible. He talks about the body sensor network and their pervasive use; starting from wearables up to implanted sensors; how they catch signs that help distinguish possible health issues or how they can implant sensors a...
TTC #102 From eHealth and mHealth to the new age of Health, Prof. Dimitris Koutsouris
November 14, 2014 00:00 - 15 minutes - 29.4 MBHealth is changing. From traditional healthcare provision, lifestyle habits and medicinal tech to the available tools, systems, devices and software. The terms eHealth or mHealth will soon be obsolete as advances in patient management, personal healthcare records, analytics, quantified self, data mining, big data and the self-managed paradigm gradually replace legacy systems, processes and businesses. Professor Dimitris Koutsouris, an accomplished authority in Biomedical Engineering, talks ab...