Medical Science Talks

AGENDA

October 13th

9 am – 12pm

Afternoon 2pm – 5pm

Impuls- Keynotes & OPEN DISCUSSION

2 pm: SESSION: HEALTHY AGING & AI: USABILITY MEETS SCIENCE

Lizette Spangenberg When AI Can’t See You: Designing Ethical & Inclusive Health AI for Everyone

Thomas Scherer PROMetAGE Graz x Wien: Comprehensive Phenotyping in aging

Open Discussion & Q & A

3 pm: SESSION: AI AS A MEDICAL DEVICE & USER ERRORS

Mariana de Oliveira (The challenges of AI-as-a-medical-device. How do we design for systems where a „user error“ has life-altering consequences?

Elisabeth Hengge & Marcus Hennecke: Infineon microelectronics for connected care and healthy
aging

Open Discussion & Q & A

20min BREAK

4 pm: AGE -INCLUSIVE AI- DISCOVERY – CHANCES AND PITFALLS

Thomas Pock (AI: chances and pitfalls the critical view from basic research) TU Graz, BioTechMed

Kausik Surendran (…Practical Strategies for Age-Inclusive AI- Discover actionable frameworks and design
principles to embed inclusivity across age, ability, and context in intelligent systems)

Open Discussion & Q & A

Age Forward Lab Graz: Key Summary

Afternoon 2pm – 5pm

Paralell Workshop AGE BOMBS

2 -5 pm: Sustainable in the future: Unsorted & Connected

As part of Graz Connects, the Age Forward Lab Graz is
focusing on age diversity and the question of how cooperation
and coexistence across different stages of life can be made
sustainable in the future under the title Unsorted & Connected.

October 14th

CRITICAL OPERATIONS IN HEALTH CARE

Opening 09 am – 12pm

Keynote: Human-Centered Resilience: Bridging Disaster Health Innovation and Critical
Operations for an Uncertain Future

Sevan Gerard & Paul Barach https://disaster.health/

This talk frames the keynote around Disaster Health and preparedness and human-centered resilience as the unifying bridge between medical innovation and critical operations in healthcare and other high-risk industries. It argues that, whether in hospitals or other high-reliability systems, performance, safety, and sustainability depend on designing technology, workflows, and organizations around real human capabilities under stress—aligned with how workers, staff, and healthcare professionals make sense of situations and stay engaged. Recent disasters in Portugal, Switzerland, the USA, and Spain, even as a small sample, point to core systemic deficiencies that will not be addressed by technological advances alone.

10:00 – 10:30 DRINK COFFEE AS LONG IT BECOMES NOT CRITICAL

10:30 – 11:00 Medical support to disaster operations

IMPULS: Sohrab Dalal (NATO, WHO)
Moderation: Gregor Egger

PANEL
Emergency Medicine Med Uni Graz (Lars Kamolz, Philipp Zoidl)
Magdalena Druml (https://noxavis.com/)
Markus Bergen (iMEDCAP)
Florian Wichlas (Dean PMU, no limit surgery)

12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH TIME – ALL YOU CAN EAT AND DRINK

14:00 – 15:00 CBRN preparedness: between routine operations and states of emergency

IMPULS: Christian Resch
(https://dcna.at/index.php/de/medlok.html)

PANEL
Caroline Schober (Disaster resilience in pharmaceuticals: Smart emergency production for national security) RCPE https://www.rcpe.at/en/home/
Julia Kircher (Kurt Zatloukal) Med Uni Graz

15:15 – 15:50 Your team won’t perform in a real crisis? This training closes the gap.

IMPULS: Bernhard Kowalski, Michael Georg Grasser/Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m. b. H. (KAGes)

What if teamwork training changed behavior when it matters most? A European multigold medalist in prehospital emergency medicine and a long-standing executive in critical infrastructure and winner of a cybersecurity award demonstrate practical, evidence-informed methods to train teams for real transfer – so that they can maintain their performance in critical, high-risk moments. The methods are unconventional, and not what you would expect.

15:50 – 16:10 Training, Simulation, Resilience – How to learn from pros and scale it up to population

IMPULS: Surprise

16:10 – 16:50 Panel: Training, Simulation, Resilience – How to learn from pros and scale it up to population

PANEL
Bernhard Kowlaski (Med Uni Graz)
Lukas Swittalek (SOF)
Michael Schneeberger (JR Digital)

16:50 CLOSING: A Look Back and a Look Ahead