Previous Invited Speakers
The researchers below were distinguished invited speakers at previous ICT4AWE conferences.
We are indebted to them for their contribution to heighten the conference level.
2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
2024
Personalising and Scaling Mental Health Care and Mental Health Research by Digital Means 
Harald Baumeister, Independent Researcher, Germany How to Make User Interfaces More Accessible and Easier to Use for People Who Are Different from Us — Breaking the Spell of the Curse of Knowledge Harold Thimbleby, Swansea University, United Kingdom Barrier and Opportunities to Develop Personalized Services to Foster Active Aging: Lesson Learned from Italian Pilots Laura Fiorini, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
2023
Differential Physiological and Pathological Aspects of the Elderly, to Be Taken Into Account in Health Surveillance and Care Alejandro Rodríguez-Molinero, Consorci Sanitari de l'Alt Penedès i Garraf, Spain Trust in Chatbots: Implications for the Inclusive Design for the Elderly Users Effie Lai-Chong Law, Durham University, United Kingdom Digital Health and the Third Age: Avoiding New Gen Inequalities Claudia Pagliari, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2022
Senior Citizens’ Use of Digital Health Services Prior to and During the Covid-19 PandemicSabine Koch, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Leveraging Existing Technologies and Functionality for Active Ageing Arlene J. Astell, University of Toronto, Canada Digital Health Equity for Older People Ray Jones, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom Emotionally Sensitive Assistive Technology for Ageing Jesse Hoey, University of Waterloo, Canada
2021
Designing Interventions to Support Ageing Well through Telerehabilitation Eling D. de Bruin, ETH Zürich, Switzerland and Karolinska Institute, Sweden Aging, eHealth, and COVID-19 Bo Xie, The University of Texas at Austin, United States Technology and Aging: Supporting our Current and Future Selves Alex Mihailidis, University of Toronto, Canada Robotics to Characterize, Retrain, and Restore Human Movements Sunil Agrawal, Columbia University, United States
2020
Designing for Digital Wellbeing Raian Ali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Digital Phenotyping and Machine Learning in the Next Generation of Digital Health Technologies: Utilising Event Logging, Ecological Momentary Assessment & Machine Learning Maurice Mulvenna, University of Ulster, United Kingdom The Transforming Power of Digitalization Jan Gulliksen, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
2019
Technology and Healthcare Transformation: Separate Hype from Reality Nick Guldemond, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Netherlands Reflections on Older People in Relation to ICT-AI Liz Mestheneos, 50+Hellas and Past-President Age Platform, Greece Technology to Support Active Aging: Where We Are and Where to Go To Miriam Vollenbroek-Hutten, University of Twente, Netherlands
2018
Digital Public Health: From Online Evidence to Serious Games and Big Data Patty Kostkova, University College London, United Kingdom The Increasing Role of IoT and Location to Increase Safety and Autonomy of Seniors Giuseppe Conti, Nively, Italy
2017
The Internet of Aged People Doing Things Daily Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & Leeds Institute of Medical Education, University of Leeds, United Kingdom The Grey Digital Divide Reima Suomi, University of Turku, Finland
2016
Senior Homo Digitalis Hubert Österle, Institute of Information Management (IWI), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Today and Tomorrow - Can ICT Assist Learning and Living? Margaret Ross, Southampton Solent University, United Kingdom
2015
Developing User-centric AAL Systems Juan C. Augusto, Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, United Kingdom Cloud Computing and Big Data Can Improve the Quality of Our Life Victor Chang, Aston Business School, Aston University, United Kingdom Auditory Displays for Ambient Intelligence – Perspectives for Smart EnvironmentsThomas Hermann, CITEC - Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany Community Assessment of Risk Screening and Treatment Strategies (CARTS) - An Update William Molloy, Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, UCC, Ireland PAN-European Research on Technology and Ageing: The Active and Assisted Living (AAL) ProgrammeMarco Carulli, Independent Researcher, Belgium