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.
2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
2021
Aging, eHealth, and COVID-19 
Bo Xie, The University of Texas at Austin, United States Designing Interventions to Support Ageing Well through Telerehabilitation Eling D. de Bruin, ETH Zürich, Switzerland and Karolinska Institute, Sweden 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
Reflections on Older People in Relation to ICT-AI Liz Mestheneos, 50+Hellas and Past-President Age Platform, Greece Technology and Healthcare Transformation: Separate Hype from Reality Nick Guldemond, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Netherlands Technology to Support Active Aging: Where We Are and Where to Go To Miriam Vollenbroek-Hutten, University of Twente, Netherlands
2018
The Increasing Role of IoT and Location to Increase Safety and Autonomy of Seniors Giuseppe Conti, Nively, Italy Digital Public Health: From Online Evidence to Serious Games and Big Data Patty Kostkova, University College London, United Kingdom
2017
The Grey Digital Divide Reima Suomi, University of Turku, Finland 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
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
Cloud Computing and Big Data Can Improve the Quality of Our Life Victor Chang, Aston University, United Kingdom Developing User-centric AAL Systems Juan Carlos Augusto, Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex 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