Round table 1
"How can the Internet of Things meet the current challenges of the health sector ?
The health sector faces various challenges especially depending on the countries, on the managing system and on the objectives. Among the current challenges, we could mention the definition of decisional process, the funding method, the relationship between the patient and the medical staff or an universal access to health care. All its challenges aim to improve the level of health worldwide.
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Internet of Things appears to be a powerful tool to meet health challenges’. Indeed, innovations brought by IoT impact deeply the health sector. For example, we can find devices for smartphone which ease diseases’ detection, connected devices to prevent diseases or to re-educate joints or muscles, applications which collect medical devices’ data in order to improve diagnostic and many other IoT applications to the health sector.
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Our panellists from different backgrounds and countries will discuss the improvements to the health sector brought by IoT. Are they effective? Is IoT the future of healthcare?
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They will also debate the correlation between innovations and health policies. Do we innovate to face the health sector’s challenges or health policies adapt itself to innovations?
Round table 2
"Entrepreneurship and academic research: goals, methods, links and synergies"
This panel discussion will question differences and common features of entrepreneurship and academic research. We are used to distinguish these two activities but are they as far from each other as we think?
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One fact lets us think that they don’t. There are several researchers who run startups or companies beside their academic activities, especially in the medical field. Anyway, to develop a specific idea or concept, an entrepreneur will need the expertise of a researcher or an engineer. It shows that the two activities may be complementary.
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Our panellists will discuss the links existing between entrepreneurship and academic research focused on health sector. How close are connections between these two activities? How can one activity enrich the other? While running a startup for example, how is the work articulated between these two components of success?
