About the Conference
Medical Wearables 2024
9th Annual Conference
October 8-10, 2024
ONLINE
Who Should Attend
Prior Participating Companies
Testimonials
Sponsorship Opportunities
About Us
Contact Information
Registration
Medical wearables are the next big thing. History will show that FitBit and Apple Watch are just the early primitive devices, and that the next wave of smart medical wearables will revolutionize healthcare and dramatically improve quality of life.
What are the next-generation medical wearable technologies? What are the most promising use cases and applications? What are the main challenges right now? What’s on the roadmap of the leading companies and R&D groups? These are the key questions that will drive the discussion at this annual conference.
The future is bright for medical wearables -- we invite you to attend this conference to identify emerging technology and application trends, exchange ideas, form new companies, and network with your industry peers!
Conference Topics
- Wearable device trends, competitive forces and dynamics, market drivers, emerging applications, and disruptive technologies
- Emerging types of wearable sensors, materials, and smart fabrics
- Business trends, market projections, M&A developments, and startup activity
- Wearable device applications for medical diagnostics and screening
- Flexible, stretchable, printed, and hybrid electronics
- Connectivity, sensor fusion, body area networks, software algorithms, contextual awareness, virtual sensors, data transmission, and processing
- Fabrication, packaging, and assembly techniques
- Ultra-low power systems and components, energy harvesters, micro batteries and energy storage, supercapacitors, and power management solutions
- Government policy effects, regulatory compliance, security
- Impacts of enabling technologies such as genomics, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality for medical wearables applications
- Digital health, “quantified self” movement, and usage paid insurance
- Technology transfer, ecosystems and hubs, company formation
Who Should Attend
- CEOs
- CTOs
- Entrepreneurs
- Physicians
- Medical professionals
- Academia professors and researchers
- VPs of engineering
- VPs of marketing
- VPs of business development
- MEMS foundry managers
- Product managers and engineers
- Marketing, sales and business development managers
- MEMS and sensors production managers and engineers
- MEMS and sensors design managers and engineers
- Business development professionals
- Industry analysts
- Investment bankers
- MEMS and sensors consultants
- Media representatives
Testimonials
(from the participants and attendees of the 2022-2023 online events)
“I have joined virtual conferences in the past, but I have to say the Medical Wearables 2022 conference was well done. It was easy to connect with people at the show, the discussions/papers were easy to join, and the topics were interesting. The people attending were truly interested in connecting and learning about each other. Thank you for putting together and running a good show!” Ryan Blume, Key Account Manager -- Johnson Medtech
“The Medical Wearables 2023 event exceeded my expectations, featuring high-quality talks and a diverse range of attendees. It proved to be an exceptionally productive gathering where we gained valuable insights into the present and future challenges facing healthcare wearables.” Rachid Guerchouche, Product Manager -- Wearables and Healthcare, Polyn Technology
“This was our first year to participate in this exhibition and I can confidently say that we are happy with the results and what we have learned. My team and I will definitely be back next year, hopefully as one of the presenters. Thank you to the organizers for putting together a great and accessible event and thank you to the presenters for sharing information on the medical wearables market.” Brandon Virgo, Global Marketing and Sales -- Mitsuya
“I really enjoyed Medical Wearables 2022, a well-organized conference in the emerging technology area. I have attended the conference for three years, and I think that the conference is very informative. I also like the social events of the conference, too.” Tianhong Cui, Professor -- University of Minnesota
(from the participants and attendees of the 2021 online event)
“Exciting and diverse conference bringing together experts of different backgrounds. Excellent networking experience.”
David Duncker, Head of HHC -- Hannover Medical School
“Medical Wearables 2021 is surely a great conference in the cutting-edge, emerging technology area. I attended the conference this year and last year, and I really enjoyed the conference a lot. I will recommend my colleagues in the area to attend the conference in the future.”
Tianhong Cui, Professor -- University of Minnesota
"Thank you very much for organizing the event. It was great event!!"
Haruka Aizawa, Business Development Manager -- Tecnisco
“Amazing conference once again, great content and flawless execution.”
Neil Voskoboynikov, Distinguished Engineer -- Medtronic
“Medical Wearables 2021 was a great event to showcase the advances in micro technologies applicable to medical devices. I enjoyed the well-structured presentations from known presenters and my network expanded with tens of valuable contacts, from investors, industrial partners and research partners.”
Andrés Vásquez Quintero, PhD, CTO -- Azalea Vision
“Medical Wearables 2021 serves a dedicated group of companies and scientists: the organization manages to get all relevant players around the table. Besides the relevant lectures, the conference was supported by an unusually efficient system for low threshold meetings with other attendees.”
Geert Langereis, Program Manager Health Research -- Imec,
Additional Attendee Feedback:
- Although I only attended less than 10% of the live presentations, I am pleasantly surprised about the effectiveness of the 1-to-1 meetings in the Brella tool. I have had 10 meetings now and they were all very productive. Normally we do not reach out to competitors or industrial giants, but now I could just chat without any borders.
- The scope of the conference was very interesting for me. The quality of most of the presentations was good. The facilitation (IT tools, information upfront, timekeeping) was really great! In particular, I liked the easy chat functionality in Brella.
- Very nice balance between the vision of the medical wearable market, needs from medical field, and active developments by device manufacturers.
- Brella is by far the best virtual conferencing platform I've used.
(from the participants and attendees of the 2020 event)
“Thank you so much for organizing this conference; it was my first time attending and I enjoyed it very much! I look forward to attending in the coming years. I also enjoyed using Brella. It was seamless and simple to use. I liked how I could have one-on-one video conferences, and how it worked easily.”
Alp Arslan, PI, Inthependent, Inc.
“A useful and insightful conference indeed, with specific focus on medical wearables!”
Swapnil Vinod, Sr. Product Manager, Samsung
“The Microtech Ventures team provided excellent pre-conference support, and the video streaming and the AI-enabled networking technology worked very well. I was able to set up 28 high-quality meetings with industry leading companies such as Verily Life Sciences, Medtronic, Mayo Clinic, Fitbit, and Zoll Medical. The conference also provided a great mix of interesting speakers and relevant topics, I acquired several new insights, and we were introduced to a couple of technology providers that may truly make a difference in our sensor solution. From my view, the entire Microtech Ventures team should take a bow for a job very well done. It was surely worth the price of admission!”
Steve Ursenbach, CEO, Reveal Biosensors
“That was a fantastic event!! I was on for the majority of the 3 full days and it was the first virtual event in which I spent more than a few hours.”
Greg Finn, Vice President Business Development, Rockley Photonics
“The Medical Wearables conference was excellent! I thoroughly enjoyed the speakers and the layout of the sessions.”
Jake Horder, Graduate Student, Marquette University
“It was such a great conference and I thank you so much for all your assistance. You are a great team!”
Torsten Weinbrecht, Project Manager, SIGMA Med
“Thank you very much for organizing this very interesting conference and your service.”
Florian Gunther, Research Assistant, Fraunhofer IWU
“For us, this was the first time attending Medical Wearables and even though it had to be all-virtual, the conference was a great success. Extremely high density of successful companies and high-quality speakers! And the networking tool gave me the possibility to meet many of those open-minded, interesting and influential persons. Highly recommend!”
Florian Ullrich, Business Developer, InnovationLab
“Thanks for organizing the Medical Wearables last week. It was a great event.”
Jason Du, Marketing, Sumitomo Bakelite
“Thank you for the great Medical Wearable conference!”
Laura Vornanen, Lead Engineer, GE Healthcare
“I attended the Medical Wearables 2020 conference in December. I was very impressed with both the quality of the presentations and the networking opportunities. Our company attended many online conferences last year due to the pandemic situation, and this conference was by far the most successful for us in terms of meeting relevant people in order to spark conversations about joining our expertise with theirs, specifically in the realm of connected medical devices and health. I had 18 productive networking calls out of the 37 requested; several of these calls lead to new business accounts.”
Bill Betten, Director of Medtech Solutions, S3 Connected Health
(additional anonymous feedback from 2020 online participants)
- “This was such a great event meeting people from all over the world. It was definitely worth spending my evenings until eleven for this (I am located in Germany)!”
- “The conference was excellent and the virtual platform was integrated well.”
- “This was my first virtual conference and I enjoyed it very much. I was surprised at how much it felt like an actual in-person conference.”
- “The conference was well thought out, very organized and to the point, despite it being online.”
- “The conference's virtual layout worked great!”
- “Excellent value for the price.”
- “I found this to be an excellent virtual experience. Both Zoom and Brella performed well, and the range of topics were highly relevant.”
- “The conference was very well organized, thanks to organizers. The platform was simple and easy to navigate. Impressed with how the talks were moderated.”
- “Presentations are nice and short. Mike did a terrific job moderating!”
- “I wish I had access to Brella networking every day in my job in Business Development. I appreciate the willingness of the participants to talk. I have scheduled meeting next week with Hillrom, who was on the top five companies I wanted to connect with. I got more utility out of the conference this year than I did last year. Great job!”
- “Great conference, you guys lined up a very solid set of speakers! Keep it up.”
- “The entire Microtech Ventures team should take a bow for a job well done.”
(from the participants and attendees of the 2018-2019 events)
“I enjoyed not only the presentations, but especially the Q&A sessions. They were particularly informative.”
Zhenan Bao, PhD, Professor, Stanford University
“The conference was well-organized, and I especially liked the high level of interaction, both around the presentations and in between. I would like to see the conference to a max of ~150% of its current size. Nice additions would be from our client field (i.e. companies that need fabrication of micro-devices).”
Paul Bekkers, Business Development Manager, Philips Innovation Services
“Thank you so much for the very well-organized event. First and foremost, Mike did a great job encouraging questions after the talks which led over to fruitful discussions during the breaks. We had great follow up discussions at our booth and also during lunch.”
Ulrich Bretthauer, Senior Marketing Manager – Medical, X-FAB
"Thank you for providing the perfect platform to introduce the MEMS Foundry message and for hosting such a fine event right here in the heart of Silicon Valley. I was very pleased with the format which allowed plenty of time to spend one-on-one time with past and future customers while sharing our company’s vision of supporting the often overlooked small volume R&D efforts for both new and existing clients. Looking forward to the next two events."
James Crow, Vice President, MEMS Foundry
"The conference was a very well-organized event. A great agenda of medical wearable sensors, technologies, and manufacturing-related issues. Samtec made several new business and technical contacts with high potential for collaboration! Many thanks to the Microtech Ventures and MEMS Journal team for an excellent forum and networking event!"
Steve Groothuis, Chief Technology Officer, Samtec Microelectronics
“MEMS Journal yet again succeed in bringing together key industry partners and thoughts leaders at their Medical Wearables 2018 conference. By setting up an open, collaborative forum, MEMS Journal not only captured the current Zeitgeist around wearable technology and sensors, they help all involved get a glimpse of what the challenges and opportunities will be coming in the future.”
Gerry Harvey, Vice President of Engineering, OnScale
“What I enjoyed most about Medical Wearables 2018 was the dialogue among the audience during Q&A. The conference is small enough where great questions from the audience spurred great discussion among the group as a whole, not just between the speaker and the questioner. Very interactive and engaging.”
Ryan Kraudel, Vice President of Marketing, Valencell
“Thank you for the nice conference. Medical Wearables gave a great insight to latest developments in the industry. Right place to be to get in contact with right people.”
Ari Kuukkala, Sales Director, Afore
“This is my first time attending and presenting at the Medical Wearables conference. As a startup company, we have a great time networking with important partners not only in the medical but also in the semiconductor ecosystem. I really do believe that this conference series is of great benefit for academic researcher to startups and larger companies who are looking for business opportunity.”
Linh Le, Founder and CEO, Bonbouton
“In overall, this was a great opportunity for me to overview current status and future challenges of medical wearables. In particular, the great interest and passion for the forthcoming medical wearables were highly impressed, even though the advent of the related market is still sluggish.
My particular interest was devoted to power sources for the wearable gadgets. I witnessed that a number of the conference attendees were eager to find out a new class of power sources tailored for the medical wearables, which was a great boost for my research on power sources.”
Sang-Young Lee, PhD, Professor, UNIST
"Medical Wearable 2018 provided research progresses and business trends in wearable/flexible devices. It helped our startup to get the latest information."
Jin Luo, CEO, NSC Technology
“I found the Medical Wearables Conference 2018 to be well run and professionally organized. The presentations were timely and of great interest. Overall we had a great experience and met a lot of interesting individuals.”
Bruce Mahler, Vice President, Ohmega Technology
“Medical Wearables 2018 was great for meeting qualified people developing medical wearable devices. I was able to meet a lot of people and several may have need for our services.”
Walt Maclay, President, Voler Systems
“If you want up to date information of the latest innovations in medical wearables this is the event to go. For me, the event strikes the balance of covering a wide variety of applications and use cases whilst providing in-depth technology details and background. The presenters are of high quality and real experts in their respective fields. The program and set up leaves plenty of room to delve into detailed discussions with the experts.”
Horst Merkle, Director of Business Development, Roche
“This conference gathered a well-balanced mix of audience, speakers and exhibitors from all backgrounds for me to consider it informative and time well spent. The Startup Showcase exposed how new ideas and the wide availability of new materials, equipment, manufacturing knowhow and established computing power is generating a new breed of miniaturized medical devices. “
Carlos Stahr, Sales Manager, Silex
“Medical Wearables 2018 is an excellent event. It is very focused, the caliber of the speakers is high, and it is organized very well.”
Steve Statler, SVP Marketing and Business Development, Wiliot
“Medical Wearables 2018 was a terrific learning experience. The agenda was packed with experts from various organizations – there was an interesting mix of companies with products at hand, research institutes and semiconductor companies. The agenda was well organized to have plenty of time of technical talks, Q&A and to have discussions both on the sidelines and at the demo booths. Mike and team did an excellent job of making this very productive. The perspectives from speakers regarding FDA, intellectual property and Startup Showcase were valuable.”
Ashutosh Zade, Principal Software Engineer, Insulet
“Medical Wearables 2018 is a well-defined professional conference for business executives and technologists to exchange innovative ideas, for companies to nurture and expand networks, and for startups to have spotlight shows and quick industry engagements.”
Erik Zhu, CEO, Mindsall
(from the participants and attendees of the 2014-2015 events)
"I really enjoyed participating in the conference in the last couple of days. The subjects addressed during the presentations are right on the spot in terms of the challenges and opportunities in the wearable segment. I also enjoyed the opportunity to talk to other players trying to address the same challenges."
Ruben Balbuena, Senior Technical Product Marketing Manager, ROHM Semiconductor
"Cambridge CMOS Sensors was delighted to present at the Wearable Sensors conference in Santa Clara. The event was a huge success, well attended by key OEMs. It was a perfect setting to learn through in-depth presentations and networking the tremendous development that is taking place in the wearable markets."
Jess Brown, PhD, Sales and Marketing Director, Cambridge CMOS Sensors
"The Wearable Sensors and Electronics 2014 conference was an excellent event - well attended by luminaries from both the sensor space and wearables application area. The speakers and speaker topics were very engaging and thought provoking, and there was plenty of valuable networking opportunities at breakfast, lunch, and the cocktail reception - extremely important connections were made for our startup company."
Ian Campbell, CEO and Founder, NextInput
"Thanks to MEMS Journal for hosting an excellent conference this week! We really enjoyed all the presentations and the networking."
Geoff Charubin, Executive Advisor and Business Consultant, mCube
"I am very happy I got a chance to attend Wearable Sensors and Electronics 2015. The conference was very valuable with excellent presentations and opportunities to network with experts and researchers. I certainly hope to attend again next year."
Nikki Hallgrimsdottir, Silicon Valley Sales Manager, CST of America
"The conference was great. We made some valuable contacts that we are pursuing as a result of the different discussions."
Karthik Karathur, Sr. Manager, Knowles
"The conference was a very well organized event. A well balanced mixture of different sensor, technology and also material related, high-quality talks. I made several new contacts with high potential for collaboration – excellent networking event! Many thanks to the MEMS Journal team!"
Malte von Krshiwoblozki, R&D Project Manager, Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration
"Wireless Sensors and Electronics 2014 far exceeded my expectations. The collection of talks/topics were well thought out and the contents has a lot of information and insight. The networking opportunity was excellent. Congratulations to the organizers and speakers."
Mehran Mehregany, PhD, Director and Professor, Case Western Reserve University
"Wearable Sensors 2015 provides a timely forum for industrial executives and academic researchers to exchange emerging ideas, future opportunities and solutions to the challenges."
Tingrui Pan, PhD, Associate Professor, UC Davis
"The conference was very well organized and the topics presented were very carefully chosen and they had covered a wide range of issues pertinent to wearable sensors and electronics. I could certainly take a great deal of information on broad range of topics from technical design issues to security and legal problems from very knowledgeable speakers. In all, this was among the most informative conferences I have ever attended."
Farhad Razavi, Sr. Staff Engineer, MFLEX
"The conference has been very enjoyable and I am glad I participated. Great organization and great attendees."
Michele Reitz, Principal Research Analyst – Semiconductors, Gartner
"Excellent mix of technology and application talks coupled with networking opportunities. Nice to see a meeting where such a high proportion of the attendees were present for the entire conference."
Jason Rouse, PhD, Technical Marketing Manager, Wacker Chemical
"Wearable Sensors and Electronics 2015 exceeded my expectations. As a presenter, I was pleased with the caliber of the attendees as well as the other speakers. The program was well planned with informative content. One of the best aspects was the networking opportunity. I look forward to the next event."
Paul Wagner, Chairman/CEO, Minnesota Wire
"It was a great conference that MEMS Journal put together, and they have done a fantastic job selecting the most fascinating and demanding topics in wearable electronics."
Pulin Wang, PhD, Managing Director, Stretch Med
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