On May 21, we held a new edition of the workshop entitled “BME@LIU day”. This is an annual event, revolving around Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Linköping University (LIU). For the last 4 years, Gunnar Cedersund has been the chair of the program committee, and we are therefore heavily involved in the arrangement of this conference.
One of the most fun things with this event is that it is growing steadily (see graph above). When Gunnar took over 4 years ago, there were just above 100 participants, and the program consisted of a single track the whole day. Since then, the event has grown in different ways, and we now have multiple parallel sessions, which are co-arranged with various other organizations, and the number of participants has grown to 250. This has also been accompanied with a corresponding growth in the number of students and companies participating in the local arena and poster session throughout the day (see picture below).
This year, we featured two keynote speakers: i) Mikael Forsgren from MathCore, who gave an abridged version of the opening keynote presentation held at the gigantic EASD conference last year, ii) Ralph Maddison, from Australia, who spoke about his SMART home, which features various eHealth solutions and sensors, to aid in a new smart and integrated living situation for heart failure patients. More information about the program and event can be found at the BME Conference website as well as in the news article written by LIU, featuring lots of nice pictures from the event.
