1:00pm  Registration Opens

2:00pm  Opening Remarks & The State of Play: Future Interfaces in Health, Medicine & Wellness

3:00pm  AR/VR Demonstrations & Networking Exercise

Browse 20 demonstrations of AR, VR and related technologies in health, medicine, and wellness, including new hardware and software applications.

5:00pm  Setting the Stage: Problem Definition & Group Exercise

6:00pm  Welcome Reception & Demonstrations

8:00pm Close

 8:00am  Breakfast & Morning Meditation

9:00am  Opening Remarks
Setting the stage for a day of provocation, discussion and interaction between experts.

9:30am  Technology Forecast
Leaders in technology and R&D forecast developments in XR technologies and what these developments will mean in the context of health, medicine and wellness, including convergence with advances such as 5G and artificial intelligence.

10:30am  Coffee & Networking

11:00am Morning Working Groups

Business Models
A recent report from the industry group VRARA framed the challenge for executives and entrepreneurs building new products and services with future interface technologies: “Tech companies are looking for markets, physicians are looking for applications, and medical institutions are looking for innovative tools to differentiate themselves and provide better patient care.” The technologies and the markets are evolving at the same time, but not necessarily in tandem. How can we marry new technologies with problems and opportunities to generate profitable business models, not just tomorrow but today?

User Experience & Design

Virtual and augmented reality, spatial computing, and advanced technologies such as neural and brain computer interfaces will fundamentally change the way we interact with information, with devices, with our bodies and with one another in the years ahead. But from sorting out user experience and design questions from task based assistance to making patients and consumers comfortable with new and peculiar interfaces and devices, from answering complicated service design questions to addressing privacy concerns, human centered design is crucial. What are emerging best practices?

12:30pm  Lunch Available

1:00pm  Afternoon Working Groups

Education & Tools
Virtual and augmented reality technologies are finding immediate use in the realm of medical and health education, as 3D visualization creates increasingly efficient and economical means to share information, run simulations and replace more cumbersome methods. At the same time, XR devices and applications offer the opportunity to rethink and redesign older processes, diagnostic tools, and interactions. What are the people building these new applications learning, and what patterns can we identify from their experiences?

Efficacy & Impact
At the heart of the question over the role of whether XR will transform human-computer interaction in health, medicine and wellness is whether the efficacy and impact of these promising technologies will be borne out in practice. Measurement and evaluation is critical to the advance of the field. Entrepreneurs and technologists designing the tools and applications of the future must plan to assess efficacy and impact, and to meet regulators, managers and other critics with clear evidence of success. How can we design applications, products and services that prove their worth?

2:30pm Coffee Break & Networking

3:00pm Collaboration Design Exercise

RLab has a unique opportunity to convene a broad collaboration in this area, drawing in industry executives and innovators, entrepreneurs, university researchers, health and medical institutions, the City of New York and more to consider what is possible. Building on what we’ve discussed together, RLab invites you to help us set the agenda for the year ahead in a collaborative exercise intended to create new partnerships and help us build new programs to serve you.

4:30pm Reporting Out & Concluding Remarks

5:00pm Close