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Future conferences and other scientific and commercial events Please find below a list of conferences and events to take place during the period 2007-20010 .The newly advertised conferences are highlighted in this table. If anyone would like to have further info on these announced events, please contact following people: FORTHCOMIING EVENTS FOR ENABLE PROJECT FORTHCOM NG EVENTS FOR ENABLE PROJECT NAME International Programme in Medical Gerontology (Geriatrics) LOCATION Valletta Malta DESCRIPTION Programme consists of lectures and seminars. Contact International Institute on Ageing 117 St Paul Street Valletta VLT 07 Malta Tel: +356 21-243044/5/6, Fax: +356 21-230248, Email: rbonello@inia.org.mt DATE 4-15 May 2009 CONTACT For more information: http://www.inia.org.mt IST-Africa 2009 Uganda IST-Africa 2009 is the fourth in a series of annual technology research conferences that bring together representatives from leading commercial, government and research organizations’ around the world to bridge the Digital Divide by sharing knowledge, experience, lessons learnt and good practice, and identify opportunities for international research collaboration between Europe and Africa under the ICT Theme and Research Infrastructures (Capacities Programme) of Framework Programme 7 (FP7). A 6 - 8 May 2009 For more information: http://www.istafrica.org/Conference 2009/ 1 Call for Papers on the following Thematic Priorities has been launched: eHealth – Health Information Systems, eInfrastructures, Technology Enhanced Learning and ICT Skills, Digital Libraries and Intelligent Content, Open Source Software Applications, ICT for eInclusion and eAccessibility, ICT for Environmental Sustainability, RFID and Networked Enterprise, eGovernment – Services to Citizens & Business. World Health Care Congress Europe 2009 Brussels, Belgium The World Health Care Congress Europe is a major international forum where over 600 health leaders share bestpractices and successful initiatives for improved delivery and outcomes in Europe. Participating thought-leaders include: health ministers, leading government officials, hospital directors, IT innovators, decision makers from public and private insurance funds, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, and health care industry suppliers The EAPs Working Group on Demographic Change and the Support of Older People is organizing a second workshop on The Future of Family Support for Older People to be held in London, in collaboration with the UK Economic and Social Research Council 'Modeling Ageing Populations to 2030' programme. Autonomia Expo constitutes the largest exhibition of products and services for disability, health, rehabilitation, special education, technology and independent 13 - 14 May 2009 For more information: Contact: Mary.Young@worldcon gress.com The future of family support for older people Central London England 14-15 May 2009 For more information: AUTONOMIA exhibition Athens Greece 15th -17th 2009 May For more information: http://www.autonomi aexpo.org/?p=68 2 living in Greece, also attracting participation from European providers. It also encompasses disability seminars and cultural events. In reality, it is a celebration of disability as difference in living terms, of accessible ways of living, of aesthetics and culture. Its first opening last year had an unprecedented attendance of people with disabilities as well as other stakeholders in the field of disability. The success of Autonomia EXPO lies in remaining closest and responding to consumer needs and demands which exceed stereotypes of disability, and in bringing together people with a common view of an active and achieving disability. World Telecommunication and Information Society Day Global event The purpose of the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD), is to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) can bring to societies and economies, as well as of ways to bridge the digital divide. 17 May 2009 For more information: http://www.itu.int/w tisd/about/index.html Implementing the National Dementia Strategy central London England Keynote address by Ruth Eley (National Programme Lead Older and Disabled People, DH). 19 May is a half-day briefing : Developing the skills of the dementia care workforce. Keynote address by Jeremy Wright MP (Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia) 18-19 May 2009 For more information: http://www.capitacon ferences.co.uk 3 European Conference on Dignity and Hazard in the Elderly Prague Czech Republic The Czech Presidency will organize a conference on Care and Protection of Senior Citizens, the Dignity and Hazard of Elderly, in Prague on 25-26 May 2009 under the patronage of Commissioner pidla, Mirek Topolanek, CZ Premier Minister, Dzamila Stehlikova and Petr Necas, Ministers of Czech Government. The programme will include general issues on elder abuse, health aspects of LTC and elder abuse and neglect, position of the elderly in current Europe and developing explanations of abuse. The conference aims at improving the quality of the diagnosis, treatment and care of people with dementia. New and exciting research projects will be presented with the keynote lecturers at the conference being the foremost experts on dementia from Belgium and other parts of Europe. A one day conference for those concerned with the delivery and management of effective, evidencebased healthcare 25-26 May 2009 For more information: http://www.eu2009.c z/event/1/710/ 19th Alzheimer Europe Conference "Stars for help" Brussels Belgium 28th -30th 2009 May For more information: http://www.alzheime r2009.eu/en/home.ht ml Health Services Research Network and National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery Organization joint conference Birmingham England 3-4 June 2009 For more information: http://www.nhsconfe d.org/HSRNandSDOc onference First AEGIS (Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards) project's Research In Motion UK Ltd, Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom The FP7 AEGIS project started in September 2008. It will develop an Open Accessibility Framework (OAF) consisting of open source accessible interfaces and accessibility toolkits for 4 - 5 June 2009 For more information: http://www.aegisproject.eu/user_foru m.html 4 User Forum and Workshop developers, alongside accessible applications and open source assistive technologies for users. It will produce this framework through user research and prototype development with current and next generation ICT. With this in view, the project is inviting end-users of assistive technology to its first panEuropean User Forum on 4 June 2009 to hold discussions and get a better understanding of users' needs in relation to accessible desktop, mobile and internet applications. On the next day, a workshop will present the preliminary findings of the project. Key stakeholders from relevant areas are expected to participate (such as end users' representatives and organizations, EC representatives, technologies developers). Algarve, Portugal. The use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in Healthcare Services is the main mechanism to improve efficiency and effectiveness. This conference aims to draw together information systems, practitioners and management experts from all quadrants involved in developing computer technology to improve healthcare quality. Topics related to e-Health are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: A. Research Issues 21-23 June 2009 For more information: IADIS International Conference e-Health 2009 - 5                   Computers and Primary Care Clinical Data Visualization Standards e-Health Architectures Healthcare Data Architecture and Terminology Standards Federated Electronic Health Records Personalized Medicine Health Informatics and Education Human Computer Interaction Infrastructure and Architecture Internet and Medicine Interoperability issues IT and Patient Care Nursing Informatics RFID and localization techniques Usability and Ubiquity in e-Health e-Health Virtual Communities Business Process Management Systems Second Life for Healthcare Support and Education B. Management Issues         Case Studies Management Change Confidentiality and Privacy e-Health Collaborative Strategies and Techniques e-Training Healthcare Management Dashboards Legal issues Balanced scorecards models to improve Hospital Performance and Productivity 6        Business Intelligence in Healthcare e-Health to improve Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety. Healthcare Information Systems Regulatory issues Security in e-Health Service Models Social implications Stakeholders involvement C. Applications                   Clinical Information Systems Data Mining and Clinical Studies Medical Guidelines e-Health Decision Support Systems e-Logistics and e-Pharmacy Intelligent Medical Systems Mobile Applications Patient Electronic Health Records Healthcare Portals to inform and connect Patients with Physicians Patients and Public Health Social Networks in Healthcare contexts e-Health Marketing e-Procurement and e-Commerce Telemedicine Automatic Identification and Data Collector Systems Unified data processing and communication Systems Web Based Applications e-Health 2.0 7 National Falls Awareness Day UK By taking part and holding an event for National Falls Awareness Day, you can help raise awareness of the risk of falling in older age and improve the lives of generations to come. Last year, 620 events were held throughout the UK and abroad, helping to keep thousands of older people active. The theme for this year is falls on buses. 23 June 2009 For more information: http://www.helpthea ged.org.uk/engb/AdviceSupport/Ho meSafety/FallPreventi on/NFAD/ pHealth 2009 Oslo, Norway The 6th international workshop on Wearable Micro and Nanosystems for Personalized Health Key topics for the conference are:       Biomedical micro and nano sensors Lab-on-a-chip diagnostics ICT for solutions for patient selfmanagement Wearable systems Health and life management and personalized interactions Business vision and experiences, and implementation viability 24 June 2009 26 June 2009 For more information: http://www.sintef.no /Projectweb/pHealth2 009// 19th International Association of Gerontology World Congress Paris (France) The conference will focus on:  New technologies imaging, stem Gerontechnology (biomarkers, cells…) / 5-9 July 2009 For more information: http://www.paris200 9.org/site/view8.php 8   Network of excellence Integrated models of care / Demography / Economy / Retirement policies / Gerontology in developing countries Social policy and social welfare Metabolic syndrome / Diabetes / Obesity / Nutrition / Food Mechanisms of aging / Longevity / Centenarians Ways of affecting the ageing process / Anti-ageing Education and multidisciplinary training / Primary care Frailty / physical exercise / Osteoporosis / Rehabilitation / Sarcopenia / Falls Intensive care / Long-term care / End of life / Ethics Alzheimer’s / Dementia Cognitive decline / MCI Why geriatrics? Psycho-geriatrics / depression / delirium Cardiac failure / atherosclerosis / vascular disease and hypertension / COPD / cerebrovascular disease Gender-specific medicine Menopause / Ageing male Cancer advances in geriatrics Ageing and disasters Family and care giving / Agingenvironment interactions / /                9 19th World Congress of Gerontology Paris France The World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics represents a unique and irreplaceable event attended by experts from around the world to discuss the lates. CONGRESS MAIN THEMES 5-10 July 2009 For more information: http://www.gerontolo gyparis2009.com/site /view8.php New technologies (biomarkers, imaging, stem cells … ) / Gerontechnology - Network of excellence / Integrated models of care - Demography / Economy / Retirement policies / Gerontology in developing countries - Social policy and social welfare - Metabolic syndrome / Diabetes / Obesity / Nutrition / Food - Mechanisms of aging / Longevity / Centenarians - Ways of affecting the ageing process / Anti-ageing Education and multidisciplinary training / Primary care Frailty / physical exercise / Osteoporosis / Rehabilitation / Sarcopenia / Falls - Intensive care / Long-term care / End of life / Ethics - Alzheimer’s / Dementia / Cognitive decline / MCI Why geriatrics? - Psycho-geriatrics / depression / delirium - Cardiac failure / atherosclerosis / vascular disease and hypertension / COPD / cerebrovascular disease 10 - Gender-specific medicine / Menopause / Ageing male Cancer advances in geriatrics Ageing and disasters - Family and care giving / Agingenvironment interactionst findings in the field of ageing. 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Wellbeing (WISHWell’09) Barcelona, Spain The workshop will bring together researchers from both industry and academia from the various disciplines to contribute to this the inaugural year of the International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-Being (WISHWell 2009). Healthcare environments (within the hospital and the home) are extremely complex and challenging to manage from an IT and IS perspective, as they are required to cope with an assortment of patient conditions under various circumstances with a number of resource constraints. Pervasive healthcare technologies seek to respond to a variety of these pressures by integrating them within existing health care services. It is essential that intelligent pervasive healthcare solutions are developed and correctly integrated to assist health care professionals in delivering high levels of patient care. It is equally important that these pervasive solutions are used to empower patients and relatives for self- 19th July 2009 For more information: http://jod.ucc.ie/WIS HWell09.html 11 care and management of their health to provide seamless access for health care services. Areas of interest:             Health monitoring from the home, office Mobile health monitoring Next generation telehealth/telecare Systems to encourage well-being and healthy lifestyles Ambient assisted living Case Studies Decision Support Systems (DSS) within healthcare Support for independent living Support for rehabilitation Environments supporting carers Pervasive Technologies Pervasive data management architectures 19-24 July 09 For more information: http://www.hcii2009. org/ HCI2009 International 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, CA, USA The Conference focuses on the following major thematic areas:  Ergonomics and Health Aspects of Work  with Computers  Human Interface and the Management of  Information  Human-Computer Interaction  Engineering Psychology and Cognitive  Ergonomics  Universal Access in HumanComputer  Interaction  Virtual and Mixed Reality 12 MIE 2009 Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina 10th AAATE Conference “Inclusion between past and future, AT from adapted equipment to inclusive environments” Florence, Italy Internationalization, Design and Global  Development  Online Communities and Social  Computing  Augmented Cognition  Digital Human Modeling  Human Centered Design The main theme of MIE 2009 is MEDICAL INFORMATICS IN A UNITED AND HEALTHY EUROPE. New medical, biomedical, and health informatics bridges must be built between the western and eastern parts of the European world. For this purpose, a panel of high-level scientists and health care managers will be invited to participate and give keynote speeches, tutorials, and organize in-depth workshop discussions As technology develops rapidly and an Information Society is approaching, the concept of Assistive Technology seems to be moving away from adopting the most appropriate device/s for each user in order to overcome the limitations to her/his activity to the design and set up of the total environment in which people live, supported by suitable functionalities (services) and, when necessary, by additional support devices integrated within the environment. At present, these two perspectives are deeply intertwined, from both a technological and a social point of view. The main aim of the conference is just to provide an opportunity to clarify the differences and the common points  30 August 2009 2 September 2009 For more information: 31 August 2009 2 September 2009 For more information: http://www.aaate200 9.eu/ 13 between them and to better define a way for the future. Vienna, Austria The "AAL forum" will serve as a platform and meeting place for the AAL Joint Programme. Beyond this, the forum will present, discuss and communicate the AAL field in a holistic view including national, regional, European and international aspects. For more information: http://www.aaleurope.eu/news-andevents/aal-forum2009 First announcement of the "AAL (Ambient Assisted Living ) Forum" event 29 September - 1 October 2009 IDF 20th World Diabetes Congress Montréal, Quebec (Canada) The mission of IDF is to promote diabetes care, prevention and a cure worldwide. IDF is a non-governmental organization in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO) 18-22 2009 October For more information: http://www.congres mtl.com/ Telehealth and Assistive Technology 2009 Cambridge, Massachuset ts, United States of America 4th UK Dementia Congress UK Harrogate International Centre Telehealth and Assistive Technology 2009 is intended to be an international forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the advances in and applications of Telehealth, assistive software technology, assistive ergonomics technology, assistive rehabilitative technology, and assistive medical technology; to exchange the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas The 4th UK Dementia Congress will offer an exciting mix of plenary sessions, parallel sessions and workshops as well as breakfast and lunchtime special 4 - 6 November 2009 For more information: http://www.iasted.or g/conferences/cfp663.html 3rd November to 5th November 2009 For more information: sue@hawkerpublicatio ns.com 14 USAB 2009 - Usability & HCI for eInclusion University of Linz, Austria interest symposia over 2 and half days. There will also be a large exhibition - at which over 40 companies exhibited last year - two wine receptions and a conference buffet. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) pervaded many parts of our daily lives. Due to its flexibility (multimedia connected with multimodality) it offers a huge potential for people with disabilities and others with functional limitations to interact with electronic systems and services. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is the central place to adapt the interaction to a diverse set of user needs as well as the entry for people with disabilities making use of standard accessibility and usability features or using Assistive Technologies (AT) which enable the interaction with HCI. This opens up doors to a more independent participation in many aspects of our “digital lives”. Th enhanced usability and accessibility aspects will be a focus of USAB 2009: - building bridges between accessibility and usability in HCI - motivating to take the growing importance in an aging society into account - addressing psychological as well as engineering aspects - taking into account the strong relationship between Accessibility / AT and HCI / Usability Engineering (UE) Main Topics of the conference are: 9-10 2009 November For more information: http://usab.icchp.org 15 • Assistive Technologies • Design for All • eInclusion: Accessibility, HCI & Usability • HCI: Accessibility, Usability and Aging • Software Accessibility • Web Accessibility • Adaptive Interfaces for Medical Systems • Augmented Cognition (AugCog) • Cognitive Task Analysis • Formal Methods and Methodologies (incl. Agile Methods) • Human Aspects of Future Technologies in Health Care • Human–Computer Interaction in Health Care • Usability in Ambient Assisted Living • Life Long Learning • Usability of Mobile, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing for Medicine and Health Care support • User-Centered Design & Development Methods 11th National Conference on Gerontology and Geriatrics Athens Greece The National Greek Gerontology and Geriatrics Association is organizing the 11th National Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics. The aim of the congress is to bring together scientists, Doctors, psychologists, social workers and caretakers so as to inform them for the latest researches on elderly matters. Soon the will be announced the main 4th – 6th February 2010 For more information: www.gerontology.gr 16 topics of the Conference. 7th World Conference International Society for Gerontechnology Vancouver, Canada This conference brings together people who design, develop, prescribe, research and use technology to enhance the functional capacity and quality of life of older adults. It’s the perfect venue for dialogue between engineers, ICT experts, health and social care professionals, architects, social science researchers and educators and others working in this multi-disciplinary field. Topics to be discussed include cuttingedge innovations in: smart homes and smart materials, robotics, mobile and wireless communication systems, online goods and services, computer games, and applications of new technologies in health and social care. The latter include management of chronic illness in the community and supporting people with dementia living at home or in congregate settings. The conference will also address markets and business issues including: understanding the older consumer, developing effective markets for care technology, connectedness and the digital divide, and knowledge transfer from research into commercial products 27-30 May 2010 For more information: Email: isg2010@sfu.ca The list presented above does not intend to be exhaustive. E-ISOTIS will release a monthly dissemination calendar, hence guiding the consortium members in identifying interesting conferences and events where ENABLE project objectives and its outcomes can be presented and demonstrated to a larger audience. 17 18