Program
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Thursday, September 24
5.30 pm
Opening Words
Lars Riedemann (MD), Scientific Director
Lale Jakob, Event Organisation
5.30 - 6.00 pm (CEST)
Thursday, September 24
6.00 pm
Opening Words
Dr. Raoul Haschke, Heidelberg University
Dr. Thomas Prexl, Heidelberg Startup Partners e.V.
Dr. André H. R. Domin, Heidelberg Technology Park
6.00 - 6.15 pm (CEST)
Thursday, September 24
6.15 pm
Patron Opening Words
Theresia Bauer (MdL), State Minister for Science, Research and Arts
6.15 - 6.30 pm (CEST)
Thursday, September 24
6.30 pm
Patron Opening Words
Prof Dr Matthias Weidemüller, Heidelberg University
6.30 - 7.00 pm (CEST)
Thursday, September 24
7.00 pm
Translating VR Research into Medical Impact
Walter Greenleaf (PhD), Stanford University
7.00 - 7.30 pm (CEST)
Thursday, September 24
7.30 pm
Patient - the big loser in the Medical VR battle
Prof Grigore Burdea, Rutgers University
7.30 - 8.00 pm (CEST)
Thursday, September 24
8.00 pm
Seeking the virtual, finding the real
Thursday, September 24
8.30 pm
The Reality of Augmented Reality
Karl Guttag
8.30 - 9.00 pm (CEST)
Thursday, September 24
9.00 pm
Title
Bernard Kress, Microsoft
9.00 - 9.30 pm (CEST)
Thursday, September 24
9.30 pm
Congress Overview
Lars Riedemann (MD), Scientific Director
Lale Jakob, Event Organisation
9.30 - 10.00 pm (CEST)
Thursday, September 24
Virtual Get Together
10.00 - 11.30 pm (CEST)
Thursday, September 24
Friday, September 25
8.30 am
Welcome day 2
Lars Riedemann (MD), Scientific Director
Lale Jakob, Event Organisation
8.30 - 8.45 am (CEST)
Friday, September 25
9.00 am
XR Hardware and Software - Status Quo
Christian Steiner, Mixed.de
9.00 - 9.20 am (CEST)
Friday, September 25
9.20 am
Immersive Technologies across Industries: current developments
Prof Christoph Runde, VDC Fellbach
9.20 - 9.40 am (CEST)
Friday, September 25
9.40 am
Seeing is believing: how VR and AR will transform business and the economy
Jeremy Dalton, PwC
9.40 - 10.00 am (CEST)
Friday, September 25
Session 1
Translational Research I
Moderator
Dr Hannes Kenngott (MSc)
10.00 - 11.30 am (CEST)
Friday, September 25
10.00 am
How VR can change assessment and therapy of mental disorders
Prof Dr Thomas Wolbers, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
10.00 - 10.15 am (CEST)
Friday, September 25
10.15 am
Deep learning for advanced interventional imaging
Prof Dr Lena Maier-Hein, German Cancer Research Center
10.15 - 10.30 am (CEST)
Friday, September 25
10.30 am
Augmented Reality for Telestration and Telementoring in Surgery
Felix Nickel (MD), Heidelberg University Hospital
10.30 - 10.45 am (CEST)
Friday, September 25
10.45 am
Improving Surgical Training by Hyperrealism: A Novel Form of Augmented-Reality
Sandy Engelhardt (PhD), Heidelberg University Hospital
10.45 - 11.00 am (CEST)
Friday, September 25
11.00 am
Questions and Answers
Session 1
11.00 - 11.30 am (CEST)
Friday, September 25
Networking Break
11.30 am - 12.30 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
Session 2
UX/UI
Moderator
Lars Riedemann
12.30 - 2.00 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
12.30 pm
Extended Realities in Medical Education
Friday, September 25
12.45 pm
The natural evolution of Operating Procedures – Leveraging ROI by using Augmented Reality
Wolfgang Stelzle, RE'FLEKT
Ralf Distler, Roche Diagnostics GmbH
12.45 - 1.00 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
1.00 pm
How the missing gap in the medical world sounds like
Martin Rieger, VRTonung
1.00 - 1.15 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
1.15 pm
Questions and Answers
Session 2
1.15 - 1.45 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
Networking Break
1.45 - 2.30 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
Session 3
Storytelling
Moderator
Boris Kantzow
2.30 - 3.30 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
2.30 pm
Why storytelling helps with immersive therapies
Friday, September 25
2.45 pm
The use of virtual reality in an academic cancer center
Friday, September 25
3.00 pm
Immersive Journalism for Public Health Awareness
Friday, September 25
3.15 pm
Questions and Answers
Session 3
3.15 - 3.45 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
Networking Break
3.45 - 4.00 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
Session 4
Surgery I
Moderator
Jason McDowall
4.00 - 5.45 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
4.00 pm
Xponential Technologies call for Xponential Surgery
Rafael Grossmann (MD, FACS)
4.00 - 4.15 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
4.15 pm
Surgical Preparation in Mixed Reality – implementation & clinical experience
Friday, September 25
4.30 pm
Disruptive Medical Simulation & Training Using Virtual and Mixed Reality
Ville Leppälä, Varjo
4.30 - 4.45 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
4.45 pm
Projekt HoloMed
Prof. Dr. Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
4.45 - 5.00 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
5.00 pm
Addressing the runaway complexity of surgery with immersive technology
Friday, September 25
5.15 pm
Questions and Answers
Session 4
5.15 - 5.45 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
Networking Break
5.45 - 6.00 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
Session 5
Training and Education
Moderator
Petra Dahm, Boris Kantzow
6.00 - 8.00 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
6.00 pm
How to implement a structured on-boarding process for medical device operators by leveraging AR
William Harding, Medtronic plc
Friday, September 25
6.15 pm
Utilising the Power of VR for Training and Education at the German Red Cross - A Collaborative Approach
Friday, September 25
6.30 pm
The Neuroscience of XR in Healthcare Education and Training
Friday, September 25
6.45 pm
Augmented and Virtual Reality for Higher Education of Nurses and Medical Doctors in Germany - Report on four Research Projects
Friday, September 25
7.00 pm
VR training for EMS personnel using the i:medtasim software as an example
Friday, September 25
7.15 pm
Questions and Answers
Session 5
7.15 - 8.00 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
Networking Break
8.00 - 8.30 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
Session 6
Clinical Integration
Moderator
Richard Ward
8.30 - 11.15 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
8.30 pm
Towards the clinical use of augmented reality for orthopedic surgery
Friday, September 25
8.45 pm
Building a VR unit in a hospital, practical considerations
Friday, September 25
9.00 pm
Virtually Better: Lessons Learned Using Virtual Reality in Clinical Practice
Friday, September 25
9.30 pm
Transforming and improving neurorehabilitation services with therapeutic virtual reality programs
Friday, September 25
9.45 pm
Changing the surgical paradigm using AI, AR & real time telecommunications
Friday, September 25
10.00 pm
Title
Friday, September 25
10.15 pm
XR for Medical Training at Boston Children’s Hospital
Friday, September 25
10.30 pm
Questions and Answers
Session 6
10.30 - 11.15 pm (CEST)
Friday, September 25
11.15 pm
Summary day 2
Lale Jakob, Event Organisation
Friday, September 25
Networking Evening
11.30 pm - 12.30 am (CEST)
Friday, September 25
Saturday, September 26
8.30 am
Welcome day 3
Lars Riedemann (MD), Scientific Director
Lale Jakob, Event Organisation
8.30 - 8.45 am (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
Session 7
Business Strategy
8.30 - 11.45 am (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
8.45 am
Personalizing the Healthcare Journey with XR and AI/ML
Razvan Ionasec & Guy Spigelman, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
8.45 - 9.15 am (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
9.15 am
Prerequisites of reimbursement of digital technologies – lessons learned from the German case
Jan Brönneke, Health Innovation Hub of the Federal Ministry of Health
9.15 - 9.45 am (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
9.45 am
Medical XR Technology Adoption - Drivers and Challenges
Dennis Steininger, Universität Augsburg
9.45 - 10.00 am (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
10.00 am
Achieving health insurance reimbursement with care innovations: The case of digital anxiety therapy
Christian Angern, Sympatient
10.00 - 10.15 am (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
10.15 am
B. Braun's journey from buying our first VR headset to the use of VR applications in simulation and training
Philipp Aicher, B. Braun Innovation Hub
10.15 - 10.30 am (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
10.30 am
Cognitive rehabilitation in neurological diseases with VR: Risks and chances
Julian Specht, Living Brain
10.30 - 10.45 am (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
10.45 am
Implementing XR technologies in Healthcare businesses
Anton Ebert, Siemens Healthineers
10.45 - 11.00 am (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
11.00 am
HTC DeepQ to grow healthcare VR businesses
Lewis Ting-Jung Chang, HTC Health Care (DeepQ)
11.00 - 11.15 am (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
11.15 am
Questions and Answers
Session 7
11.15 - 11.45 am (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
Networking Break
11.45 - 12.30 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
Session 8
Ethics and Privacy
Moderator
Kent Bye
12.30 - 2.00 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
12.30 pm
XR, AI and Humans in Interaction: Scientific Opportunities and Ethical Challenges
Saturday, September 26
12.45 pm
Privacy and Safety Considerations for Medical XR Beyond Current Regulations
Laura Elan, XR Safety Initiative (XRSI)
12.45 - 1.00 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
1.00 pm
Hacking XR – Views from a regulatory perspective
Thomas Süptitz & Steffen Buchholz, The Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)
1.00 - 1.15 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
1.15 pm
Healthcare Cybersecurity - From threat to opportunities
Mihir Mistry, Secureworks
1.15 - 1.30 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
1.30 pm
Questions and Answers
Session 8
1.30 - 2.00 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
Networking Break
2.00 - 2.30 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
Session 9
Surgery II
Moderator
Tobias Langer
2.30 - 3.45 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
2.30 pm
The Smart Hospital of The Future and How We Built It
Saturday, September 26
2.45 pm
VSI Holomedicine
Saturday, September 26
3.00 pm
SurgeonMR: Interactive Platform for Surgical Procedures in Mixed Reality
Saturday, September 26
3.30 pm
Questions and Answers
Session 9
3.30 - 3.45 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
Networking Break
3.45 - 4.00 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
Session 10
Associations
Moderator
Lars Riedemann
4.00 - 6.00 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
4.00 pm
XR Association
Saturday, September 26
4.15 pm
Swiss Society of Virtual and Augmented Reality
Mohamed Jean-Philippe Sangaré, SSVAR
Saturday, September 26
4.30 pm
VDC, XRMed, EuroVR
Harald Eifert, EurA AG - Niederlassung Hamburg
Saturday, September 26
4.45 pm
MedVR
Saturday, September 26
5.00 pm
XR4ALL – an initiative to strengthen the European XR community
Saturday, September 26
5.15 pm
XR Bavaria e.V. / XR HUB Bavaria
Petra Dahm, Extended Reality Bavaria e.V
5.15 - 5.30 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
5.30 pm
International Virtual Reality and Healthcare Association (IVRHA)
Saturday, September 26
5.45 pm
Questions and Answers
Session 10
5.45 - 6.00 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
Session 11
Regulatory Affairs
Moderator
Kent Bye
6.00 - 7.30 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
6.00 pm
Introduction to the basics
Saturday, September 26
6.15 pm
XR as a medical device
Saturday, September 26
6.30 pm
Regulatory Evaluation Challenges for Medical Extended Reality Devices
Saturday, September 26
6.45 pm
How to get started - First steps towards the mountain peak
Saturday, September 26
7.00 pm
Questions and Answers
Session 11
7.00 - 7.30 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
Session 12
Mental Health
Moderator
Denise Silber
7.30 - 9.00 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
7.30 pm
The Birth of Intelligent Virtual Humans for Clinical Training and Health Care Support
Saturday, September 26
8.00 pm
HIPAA Compliant Virtual Reality Counseling
Saturday, September 26
8.15 pm
VR to Research to Medicine and back again
Saturday, September 26
8.30 pm
Digital Therapeutics, XR, AI, Precision Medicine - The Future of Sensor-Driven Health
Saturday, September 26
9.00 pm
Questions and Answers
Session 12
9.00 - 9.15 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
Networking Break
9.15 - 9.30 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
Session 13
Translational Research II
Moderator
Lars Riedemann
9.30 - 11.30 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
9.30 pm
How Do We Improve the Science of Medical VR
Saturday, September 26
10.00 pm
From Brain Surgery to Behavioral Health: XR guides Precision Interventions
Saturday, September 26
10.30 pm
Implementing AR/VR tools for interventional radiology training and clinical care
Saturday, September 26
11.00 pm
Title
James Finley, PhD, University of Southern California
11.00 - 11.30 pm (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
11.30 pm
Questions and Answers
Session 13
11.30 pm - 12.00 am (CEST)
Saturday, September 26
12.00 pm
Closing remarks
Lars Riedemann (MD), Scientific Director
Lale Jakob, Event Organisation
12.00 - 12.30 am
Saturday, September 26
Networking Evening
12.30 am - Open end
Saturday, September 26