Welcome
Dear friends and colleagues,
On behalf of our organizing committee it is my great pleasure to invite you to attend the second annual International Conference on Aging, Innovation and Rehabilitation (ICAIR) on May 6 & 7, 2024 in the great city of Toronto, Canada.
ICAIR is a one-of-a-kind event that is designed to drive cross-collaboration across multiple disciplines by attracting the world's leading scientific, health-care, academic, engineering, technology and entrepreneurial experts.
Health-care providers worldwide face many new and unknown challenges as our aging populations create new demands for treatments, services and resources. Advances in rehabilitation technology have the potential to significantly improve the lives of those living with disease, disability, and the impacts of aging.
We invite you to join us in Toronto at the meeting point of care, research and education at ICAIR 2024. Your attendance will help to accelerate the development of new products, services, treatments and solutions designed to help those in our communities who are most in need now and for years to come.
Dr. Milos R. Popovic
Chair, ICAIR organizing committee
About
The International Conference on Aging, Innovation & Rehabilitation drives discovery, collaboration and invention in the health-care and age tech sectors.
ICAIR is designed to inspire academics, clinicians, scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators to develop solution that improve the lives of people living with the effects of aging, disability and illness.
Join us at the historic Carlu event venue in downtown Toronto, Canada on May 6th & 7th for ICAIR 2024.
Why Attend
ICAIR is a unique conference destination designed to help researchers, academics, students, entrepreneurs and other innovators share research and academic success stories, build and foster relationships across disciplines, and encourage cross-pollination of communication, research and ideas.
Your Host
ICAIR is being hosted by the KITE Research Institute at the University Health Network (UHN) and is being co-presented by the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto, and includes significant input and participation from other clinical, research and academic partners.
Venue
Location: The historic Carlu in downtown Toronto
Address: 444 Yonge St. - #7, Toronto, ON, M5B 2H4
Website: https://www.thecarlu.com/
Phone: 416-597-1931
For Authors
The International Conference on Aging, Innovation and Rehabilitation (ICAIR) will showcase cutting edge research from Toronto and around the world.
Here's what to expect when you submit a poster for consideration:
- Every registrant will have the option of submitting a poster, which will be reviewed by the ICAIR scientific advisory committee. Only one, first authored poster can be submitted per person and each author is eligible to present. Selected posters will receive notification of acceptance.
- Trainees(student)/post-doctoral fellow registrant submitting a poster will also be asked to indicate if they would like to be considered for a three minute talk on the main stage.
- Lastly, if you are a trainee(student)/post-doctoral fellow registrant, you will be asked to indicate if you would like your research to be considered for publication in a Special interdisciplinary Issue of the Journal of BioMedical Engineering Online. Your submission will require approval from your academic advisor and will be peer reviewed by the ICAIR scientific advisory committee.
We look forward to receiving your submissions. Please contact kite.icair@uhn.ca if you have any further questions.
ICAIR 2024 Organizing Committee
Milos R. Popovic, Chair
Mary Lam
Sharmini Atputharaj
Lesley Fullerton
Janitha Shanmugarajan
Andrew Turner
Shoshana Teitelman
Anthony Palma
Alison Novak
Jessica Boafo
Peter Athanasopoulos
Jarrett Churchill
Polina Andrievskaia
Michael Grace-Dacosta
Sophia (Yue) Li
Andrew Whitmell
Susan Gorski
Sebastian Gonzalez Pardo
Jose Ongpin
ICAIR Keynote Speakers
Dr. Stanisa Raspopovic
Bio
Dr. Stanisa Raspopovic is an assistant professor of neuroengineering in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests focus on the development of innovative devices for treatment of neurologically disabled persons (amputees and diabetics).
Elise Roy
Bio
Elise Roy is a deaf human centered designer, former lawyer, and motivational speaker who works in the vanguard of the disruptive innovation movement. She is a passionate proponent of the notion that when we design for disability, we often develop solutions that are better than when we design for the norm.
Power Play
The healthcare industry has enormous potential to leverage innovative and disruptive technologies and strategies in order to deliver insightful, meaningful and affordable care.
The KITE Research Institute will host the Power Play Pitch Competition to help accelerate innovation and commercial success.
The research arm of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, KITE, is a world leader in complex rehabilitation science and is dedicated to improving the lives of people living with the effects of disability, illness and aging.
We are looking for energetic, innovative and passionate healthcare innovators who can address an unmet need in the healthcare industry, through preventative healthcare solutions, treatment and management of disabling injuries and illnesses, restorative assistive devices to help restore function, diagnostic tools, digital health, and others.
We welcome innovators involved in all stages of product and technology development, from concepts and prototypes to finished products and services and start-up companies, and who need capital to help bring their innovations to the next stage.
Areas of Focus
Aging
- Treatments for Pain and Physical Decline
- Promotion of Mobility
- Support of Independent Living
- Study of Disease Areas
- Investigation of Illness and Frailty
- Examination of Dementia and Memory
- Study of Neural and Physical Decline
- Falls and Injury Prevention
Innovation
- Identification of New Technologies
- Neuromodulation and Brain Tech (implants/interfaces)
- Innovative Designs and the Development of Wearable Technologies, Smart Textiles, Robotic Systems
- Robotics for Therapy, Social Interaction and Care
- Artificial Intelligence
- Disruptive Technologies and Business Models
- Fostering Invention
- Research Commercialization
- Drug Discovery for Neuro, Muscular and Bone Diseases
Rehabilitation
- Telerehabilitation
- Restoration of Function
- Prevention of Injury and Infection
- Deployment of New Treatments
- Promotion of Independence
- Advocacy of Reintegration and Active Living
- Improvements in Pediatric, Geriatric, Musculoskeletal and Cardiac Care
- Improved Participation
- Treatment of Age-Related Diseases (Neurodegeneration, Arthritis)
Registration
For Sponsors and Exhibitors
The International Conference on Aging, Innovation and Rehabilitation (ICAIR) is an important cross-disciplinary event that brings together the leading researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs currently working to improve the lives of people around the world who live with the impacts of illness, disability and aging.
- ICAIR will feature TED-style talks by renowned players in the rehab space
- ICAIR will feature educational keynote speeches by top rehabilitation engineers, scientists and clinicians
- ICAIR is the first research-based conference of its scale and style hosted by the Kite Research Institute at UHN
- ICAIR provides a platform for rehabilitation professionals to exchange their ideas, get inspired and form research partnerships
- At ICAIR, you will reach over 1000 of the world's leading minds in rehabilitation research and technology
- ICAIR will feature a pitch competition that will attract top entrepreneurs, innovators and start-ups.
- ICAIR offers competitive sponsorship packages for industry partners to become an integral part of the conference
Our sponsorship and exhibitor package is available for download below. For those who are interested, please contact kite.partnerships@uhn.ca.
2023 Sponsors and Exhibitors
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Conference Videos
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About ICAIR
The International Conference on Aging, Innovation & Rehabilitation drives discovery, collaboration and invention in the health-care and age tech sectors.
ICAIR is designed to inspire academics, clinicians, scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators to develop solution that improve the lives of people living with the effects of aging, disability and illness.
Join us at the historic Carlu event venue in downtown Toronto, Canada on May 6th & 7th for ICAIR 2024.
Why Attend
ICAIR is a unique conference destination designed to help researchers, academics, students, entrepreneurs and other innovators share research and academic success stories, build and foster relationships across disciplines, and encourage cross-pollination of communication, research and ideas.
Your Host
ICAIR is being hosted by the KITE Research Institute at the University Health Network (UHN) and is being co-presented by the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto, and includes significant input and participation from other clinical, research and academic partners.
Welcome
Dear friends and colleagues,
On behalf of our organizing committee it is my great pleasure to invite you to attend the second annual International Conference on Aging, Innovation and Rehabilitation (ICAIR) on May 6 & 7, 2024 in the great city of Toronto, Canada.
ICAIR is a one-of-a-kind event that is designed to drive cross-collaboration across multiple disciplines by attracting the world's leading scientific, health-care, academic, engineering, technology and entrepreneurial experts.
Health-care providers worldwide face many new and unknown challenges as our aging populations create new demands for treatments, services and resources. Advances in rehabilitation technology have the potential to significantly improve the lives of those living with disease, disability, and the impacts of aging.
We invite you to join us in Toronto at the meeting point of care, research and education at ICAIR 2024. Your attendance will help to accelerate the development of new products, services, treatments and solutions designed to help those in our communities who are most in need now and for years to come.
Dr. Milos R. Popovic
Chair, ICAIR organizing committee
Venue
Location: The historic Carlu in downtown Toronto
Address: 444 Yonge St. - #7, Toronto, ON, M5B 2H4
Website: https://www.thecarlu.com/
Phone: 416-597-1931
Areas of Focus
Aging
- Treatments for Pain and Physical Decline
- Promotion of Mobility
- Support of Independent Living
- Study of Disease Areas
- Investigation of Illness and Frailty
- Examination of Dementia and Memory
- Study of Neural and Physical Decline
- Falls and Injury Prevention
Innovation
- Identification of New Technologies
- Neuromodulation and Brain Tech (implants/interfaces)
- Innovative Designs and the Development of Wearable Technologies, Smart Textiles, Robotic Systems
- Robotics for Therapy, Social Interaction and Care
- Artificial Intelligence
- Disruptive Technologies and Business Models
- Fostering Invention
- Research Commercialization
- Drug Discovery for Neuro, Muscular and Bone Diseases
Rehabilitation
- Telerehabilitation
- Restoration of Function
- Prevention of Injury and Infection
- Deployment of New Treatments
- Promotion of Independence
- Advocacy of Reintegration and Active Living
- Improvements in Pediatric, Geriatric, Musculoskeletal and Cardiac Care
- Improved Participation
- Treatment of Age-Related Diseases (Neurodegeneration, Arthritis)
Organizing Committee
Milos R. Popovic, Chair
Mary Lam
Sharmini Atputharaj
Lesley Fullerton
Janitha Shanmugarajan
Andrew Turner
Shoshana Teitelman
Anthony Palma
Alison Novak
Jessica Boafo
Peter Athanasopoulos
Jarrett Churchill
Polina Andrievskaia
Michael Grace-Dacosta
Sophia (Yue) Li
Andrew Whitmell
Susan Gorski
Sebastian Gonzalez Pardo
Jose Ongpin
Keynote Speakers
ICAIR Keynote Speakers
Dr. Stanisa Raspopovic
Bio
Dr. Stanisa Raspopovic is an assistant professor of neuroengineering in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests focus on the development of innovative devices for treatment of neurologically disabled persons (amputees and diabetics).
Elise Roy
Bio
Elise Roy is a deaf human centered designer, former lawyer, and motivational speaker who works in the vanguard of the disruptive innovation movement. She is a passionate proponent of the notion that when we design for disability, we often develop solutions that are better than when we design for the norm.
For Authors
The International Conference on Aging, Innovation and Rehabilitation (ICAIR) will showcase cutting edge research from Toronto and around the world.
Here's what to expect when you submit a poster for consideration:
- Every registrant will have the option of submitting a poster, which will be reviewed by the ICAIR scientific advisory committee. Only one, first authored poster can be submitted per person and each author is eligible to present. Selected posters will receive notification of acceptance.
- Trainees(student)/post-doctoral fellow registrant submitting a poster will also be asked to indicate if they would like to be considered for a three minute talk on the main stage.
- Lastly, if you are a trainee(student)/post-doctoral fellow registrant, you will be asked to indicate if you would like your research to be considered for publication in a Special interdisciplinary Issue of the Journal of BioMedical Engineering Online. Your submission will require approval from your academic advisor and will be peer reviewed by the ICAIR scientific advisory committee.
We look forward to receiving your submissions. Please contact kite.icair@uhn.ca if you have any further questions.
Power Play
The healthcare industry has enormous potential to leverage innovative and disruptive technologies and strategies in order to deliver insightful, meaningful and affordable care.
The KITE Research Institute will host the Power Play Pitch Competition to help accelerate innovation and commercial success.
The research arm of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, KITE, is a world leader in complex rehabilitation science and is dedicated to improving the lives of people living with the effects of disability, illness and aging.
We are looking for energetic, innovative and passionate healthcare innovators who can address an unmet need in the healthcare industry, through preventative healthcare solutions, treatment and management of disabling injuries and illnesses, restorative assistive devices to help restore function, diagnostic tools, digital health, and others.
We welcome innovators involved in all stages of product and technology development, from concepts and prototypes to finished products and services and start-up companies, and who need capital to help bring their innovations to the next stage.
Registration & Submission
Sponsors and Exhibitors
The International Conference on Aging, Innovation and Rehabilitation (ICAIR) is an important cross-disciplinary event that brings together the leading researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs currently working to improve the lives of people around the world who live with the impacts of illness, disability and aging.
- ICAIR will feature TED-style talks by renowned players in the rehab space
- ICAIR will feature educational keynote speeches by top rehabilitation engineers, scientists and clinicians
- ICAIR is the first research-based conference of its scale and style hosted by the Kite Research Institute at UHN
- ICAIR provides a platform for rehabilitation professionals to exchange their ideas, get inspired and form research partnerships
- At ICAIR, you will reach over 1000 of the world's leading minds in rehabilitation research and technology
- ICAIR will feature a pitch competition that will attract top entrepreneurs, innovators and start-ups.
- ICAIR offers competitive sponsorship packages for industry partners to become an integral part of the conference
Our sponsorship and exhibitor package is available for download below. For those who are interested, please contact kite.partnerships@uhn.ca.
2023 Sponsors and Exhibitors
Bronze Sponsor
Trainee Networking Sponsor
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Exhibitors
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Academic Exhibitors
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Power Play Exhibitors
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