Wednesday, December 4th, 2019

Speakers/Sponsors Welcome Reception
Location: The Sin Bin Bar, The Mont Hotel
1-4 Merrion Street Lower, Dublin 2
6:00pm-9:00pm

Day 1 – Thursday, December 5th, 2019

8:00am – Registration & Light Breakfast

9:00am-9:30am

Introductions, Welcome and Setting The Stage
Robert Fine, Executive Director, International Virtual Reality and Healthcare Association (IVRHA)

9:30am-10:30am

Keynote Presentation:  Virtual Reality and Healthcare: The Past, The Present and The Future
Dr. Walter Greenleaf, Behavioral Neuroscientist, Stanford University

10:30am-11:00am – Break

11:00am-11:30am

Talking Sense or BreatheVR
Deepa Mann-Kler, Visiting Professor in Immersive Futures, Ulster University

11:30am-12:00pm

The VR Experience at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
Dr. William P. Levin, Medical Director, Global Network Operations, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

12:00pm-1:00pm – Lunch

1:00pm-1:30pm

Multi-User Roleplay in VR – A Live Demonstration Using VR to Support Therapists and Young Adults with Autism for Social Skills Development
Rohan Freeman, CEO, Sinespace

1:30pm-2:00pm

How The Royal College of Surgeons Ireland is Using Virtual Reality To Improve Training
Donncha Ryan, Lead Technology Officer, Surgical Training, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland

2:00pm-2:30pm

The State of Virtual Reality and Healthcare in the Middle East
Dr. Sana Farid, General Surgeon, CEO and Co-Founder, Munfarid

2:30pm-3:00pm

Independence Insight – Overcoming Aphasia by Using AR Smart Glasses
Dr. Lars Riedemann, Physician-Scientist, Department of Neurology, Heidelberg University Hospital

3:00pm-3:30pm – Break

3:30pm-4:00pm 

Solving The Emergency in Surgical Expertise with Immersive Technology – VR + Haptics + Cloud + AI = Better Patient Outcomes
Vicky Smalley, Chief Technology Officer, FundamentalVR

4:00pm-4:30pm

Future Therapies in Neuroscience and Virtual Reality: Leveraging The Power of Embodiment
Charlie Pearmund, Managing Director, Virtual Bodyworks

4:30pm-5:30pm

Medical Education vs. Distraction: How Is VR Content Being Most Successfully Created and Utilized? (What Is The Data Behind It?
Moderator: Amy Hedrick, CEO and Co-Founder, Cleanbox Technology
Dr. Arnaud Bosteels, Head of Virtual Reality Unit, Head of Anesthesiology, Clinique Saint-Jean Brussels
Camille Donegan, General Manager and Producer, Virtual Reality Ireland
Kevin Moss, Product Development Director, Rescape Innovation
Louisa Spring, Co-Founder, MotusXR
Donncha Ryan, Lead Technology Officer, Surgical Training, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland
Dr. Sana Farid, General Surgeon, CEO and Co-Founder, Munfarid

We would like to greatly thank Sinespace for supporting the conference and sponsoring the reception.

5:30pm-7:00pm – Reception

Day 2 – Friday, December 6th, 2019

8:00am – 9:00am – Registration & Light Breakfast

9:00am – 9:15am

Day 1 Recap – Day 2 Ahead
Robert Fine, Executive Director, International Virtual Reality and Healthcare Association (IVRHA)

9:15am-10:00am

Keynote Presentation: Twenty Years of Bringing Technology Into Hospitals – Shared Expertise
Dr. Susan Mazer, Co-Founder, Healing Healthcare Systems

10:00am-10:30am

Immersive Art As Therapy
Sarah Ticho, Founder, HatsumiVR, Healthcare Lead at Immerse UK

10:30am-11:00am – Break

11:00am-11:30am

The Irish Experience with Simulation and VR in Training Surgeons
Dr. Sean Tierney, Professor of Surgical Informatics, Dean of Professional Development and Practice, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland

11:30am-12:00pm

Twenty Years of Chronic Pain Data from China, and Virtual Reality’s Role to Play
Dr. Diane Gromala, Canada Research Chair, Computational Technologies for Transforming Pain, Simon Frasier University

12:00pm-1:00pm – Lunch

1:00pm-1:30pm

Virtual Reality Across The Patient Care Continuum
Dr. Robert Louis, Skull Base and Pituitary Tumor Program, Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute, Hoag Memorial Hospital

1:30pm-2:00pm

TBA
Chris Brickler, CEO and Co-Founder, MyndVR

2:00pm-2:30pm

Making VR Accessible To The Tremor Afflicted Population
Stamatina Rentouli, XR Innovation Specialist, Neurostorm Studios

2:30pm-3:00pm – Break

3:00pm-3:30pm

How Adaptive Resistance Can Be Used to Motivate Enhanced Physical Exertion within Physiologically Controller Immersive Game Play
Joey Campbell, Researcher/Lecturer, Immersive Environmental Design, Cork Institute of Technology

3:30pm-4:00pm

VR Neurofeedback Paradigm for Training and Assessment of Brain Functions
Dr. Stavros Skouras, Principal Investigator on Neurofeedback Regulation Networks, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen

4:00pm-4:30pm

DEEP: Playful Approaches to Anxiety Management Using Biofeedback
Niki Smit, Co-Founder and Designer, Monobanda

4:30pm-5:00pm

Implementing a VR Playground in Childrens Hospitals
Freek Teunen, Co-Founder, MedKitVR
Jason Van Eunen, Co-Founder, MedKitVR

5:00pm – Adjourn

*Subject to change.