It is my sincere pleasure to extend an invitation to you to the inaugural International Conference on Aging, Innovation and Rehabilitation (ICAIR) in Toronto, Canada on Monday, May 8, 2023. This unique event is designed to drive cross-collaboration across multiple disciplines by attracting the world’s leading scientific, health-care, engineering and entrepreneurial minds.
As our populations age, health systems in Canada and around the world must plan for an incoming tidal wave of demand for health services and treatments. We also have a duty to develop new treatments, cures and solutions that can help those living with disease and disability. Doing so has the potential to improve quality of life and help people live in their homes longer.
The ICAIR organizing committee is dedicated to helping advance the development of new products, services, treatments and research that can significantly enhance the lives of the disabled, elderly and those living with long-term illness. We invite you to join us in Toronto at the meeting point of care, research and education as we investigate new frontiers for the treatment of Aging, Innovation and Rehabilitation.
Dr. Milos R. Popovic
Chair, ICAIR organizing committee
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 each day with the impacts of illness, disability and aging.
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.
ICAIR is being hosted jointly by The KITE Research Institute at the University Health Network (UHN) and the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute (RSI) at the University of Toronto and includes significant input and participation from other clinical, and research institutions and hospitals.
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:
We look forward to receiving your submissions. Please contact Majid Janidarmian at majid.janidarmian@uhn.ca if you have any further questions.
From precision medicine to predictive algorithms, science, medicine, and technology seek to address a variety of human problems by producing data and designing tools to help us understand our world and ourselves. But without careful consideration of the social dimensions of innovation, we risk reinforcing longstanding forms of inequality and injustice, and even producing new forms of discrimination that are hidden behind a veneer of technological neutrality. In this talk, Ruha Benjamin examines a range of contemporary issues at the nexus of data and democracy, so that we can think together about the social values embedded in these platforms and systems, and expand our collective vision around who gets to design the future.
Traditionally, rehabilitation technology has been relatively inaccessible, with high costs and a complex operating environment. Despite these challenges, the market will continue to grow over the next decade as the need for therapies increases.
The fragmented rehabilitation technology industry must transform to cater to such demand and enter a new stage of development. Users are becoming more demanding, requesting accessible, affordable, evidence-based clinical solutions that address diverse clinical needs. At the same time, the industry struggles to remain commercially viable.
There are enormous opportunities to benefit from this market trend by developing a robust and sustainable large-scale, scalable ecosystem. The rehabilitation technology industry has to make this turning point in its evolution, heading towards consolidation and standardisation to create an open-platform, vendor-neutral ecosystem that will ensure affordability and accessibility for all. Vendors can create customised solutions on this open platform as part of an integrated proposition that combines robotics, AI, data analytics, IoT, remote digital healthcare, VR, and RaaS. This combination of technologies will create the right value to provide the right solution at the right time and with the right accessibility.
IISART's incoming President, Zen KOH, examines the rehabilitation technology industry's past, current, and future state in this talk. He will present a hypothesis on a novel concept: "Rehabilitation Technology 4.0", an ecosystem that optimises value chains based on digitalisation through consolidation and standardisation that will empower patients and providers alike to fulfil their ultimate goal: recovery.
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. The UHN Foundation, through the philanthropy of its donors, plays a vital role in turning the ideas of KITE’s clinicians and scientists into home, community and hospital-based advancements and innovation.
With $50,000 available in total prizes, the stakes are higher than ever. Don’t miss your chance to build the future of healthcare!
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.
For more information, please visit POWER PLAY page.
This event is taking place at the end of ICAIR's main program. If you haven't registered for ICAIR and you'd like to attend Kite PowerPlay only, please register below (space is limited). If you've signed up for ICAIR, you've automatically been registered for Power Play.
The schedule of events at ICAIR includes keynote remarks, TED-talk like programs, poster viewing and judging, elevator pitch sessions for up-and-coming scientists, and an entrepreneurial pitch competition that includes sizeable monetary prizes. The program details will be released in March 2023.
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.
Our sponsorship and exhibitor package is available for download below. To support ICAIR and for any further inquiries, please contact Sophia (Yue) Li or Anthony Palma.
It is my sincere pleasure to extend an invitation to you to the inaugural International Conference on Aging, Innovation and Rehabilitation (ICAIR) in Toronto, Canada on Monday, May 8, 2023. This unique event is designed to drive cross-collaboration across multiple disciplines by attracting the world’s leading scientific, health-care, engineering and entrepreneurial minds.
As our populations age, health systems in Canada and around the world must plan for an incoming tidal wave of demand for health services and treatments. We also have a duty to develop new treatments, cures and solutions that can help those living with disease and disability. Doing so has the potential to improve quality of life and help people live in their homes longer.
The ICAIR organizing committee is dedicated to helping advance the development of new products, services, treatments and research that can significantly enhance the lives of the disabled, elderly and those living with long-term illness. We invite you to join us in Toronto at the meeting point of care, research and education as we investigate new frontiers for the treatment of Aging, Innovation and Rehabilitation.
Dr. Milos R. Popovic
Chair, ICAIR organizing committee
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 each day with the impacts of illness, disability and aging.
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.
ICAIR is being hosted jointly by The KITE Research Institute at the University Health Network (UHN) and the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute (RSI) at the University of Toronto and includes significant input and participation from other clinical, and research institutions and hospitals.
From precision medicine to predictive algorithms, science, medicine, and technology seek to address a variety of human problems by producing data and designing tools to help us understand our world and ourselves. But without careful consideration of the social dimensions of innovation, we risk reinforcing longstanding forms of inequality and injustice, and even producing new forms of discrimination that are hidden behind a veneer of technological neutrality. In this talk, Ruha Benjamin examines a range of contemporary issues at the nexus of data and democracy, so that we can think together about the social values embedded in these platforms and systems, and expand our collective vision around who gets to design the future.
Traditionally, rehabilitation technology has been relatively inaccessible, with high costs and a complex operating environment. Despite these challenges, the market will continue to grow over the next decade as the need for therapies increases.
The fragmented rehabilitation technology industry must transform to cater to such demand and enter a new stage of development. Users are becoming more demanding, requesting accessible, affordable, evidence-based clinical solutions that address diverse clinical needs. At the same time, the industry struggles to remain commercially viable.
There are enormous opportunities to benefit from this market trend by developing a robust and sustainable large-scale, scalable ecosystem. The rehabilitation technology industry has to make this turning point in its evolution, heading towards consolidation and standardisation to create an open-platform, vendor-neutral ecosystem that will ensure affordability and accessibility for all. Vendors can create customised solutions on this open platform as part of an integrated proposition that combines robotics, AI, data analytics, IoT, remote digital healthcare, VR, and RaaS. This combination of technologies will create the right value to provide the right solution at the right time and with the right accessibility.
IISART's incoming President, Zen KOH, examines the rehabilitation technology industry's past, current, and future state in this talk. He will present a hypothesis on a novel concept: "Rehabilitation Technology 4.0", an ecosystem that optimises value chains based on digitalisation through consolidation and standardisation that will empower patients and providers alike to fulfil their ultimate goal: recovery.
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:
We look forward to receiving your submissions. Please contact Majid Janidarmian at majid.janidarmian@uhn.ca if you have any further questions.
The healthcare industry has enormous potential to leverage innovative and disruptive technologies and strategies in order to deliver insightful, meaningful and affordable care.
UHN Foundation, in partnership with the KITE Research Institute, will host the second 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. The UHN Foundation, through the philanthropy of its donors, plays a vital role in turning the ideas of KITE’s clinicians and scientists into home, community and hospital-based advancements and innovation.
With $50,000 available in total prizes, the stakes are higher than ever. Don’t miss your chance to build the future of healthcare!
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.
For more information, please visit POWER PLAY page.
This event is taking place at the end of ICAIR's main program. If you haven't registered for ICAIR and you'd like to attend Kite PowerPlay only, please register below (space is limited). If you've signed up for ICAIR, you've automatically been registered for Power Play.
Our sponsorship and exhibitor package is available for download below. To support ICAIR and for any further inquiries, please contact Sophia (Yue) Li or Anthony Palma.