The 18th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare took place at the facilities of FORTH in Heraklion, Crete from 17 to 18 September 2024, with the active participation and co-organization of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of FORTH, and the Center for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH).

The aim of the conference was to present the recent scientific developments on telemedicine, the technologies designed and developed to face the challenges of Covid-19, and the way healthcare systems should be re-designed in collaboration between industry, academia and decision-makers to create advanced care systems.

The conference featured two public talks. The first, scheduled for Tuesday, September 17th, was given by Mary P. Czerwinski, Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research’s Human Understanding and Empathy (HUE) Research Group, titled "Technology for Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace." The second talk, set for Wednesday, September 18th, was delivered by Nikolaos Maglaveras, Professor of Medical Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, titled "Personalized Health Driven by Digital Health Systems, and Multi-Source Health/Environmental Data, and ML/AI/DL Analytics and Predictive Models." The conference highlighted groundbreaking scientific advancements in cutting-edge pervasive computing technologies and their profound impact on healthcare innovation.

The high impact and interdisciplinary character of the conference attracted internationally renowned scientists from leading Universities and Research Centers abroad, which was a special honor for our island.

The conference was co-sponsored by the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) and was co-organized by Prof. Haridimos Kondylakis (FORTH) and Dr. Andreas Triantafyllidis (CERTH).

For more information: https://pervasivehealth.eai-conferences.org/2024/