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8 The Official Daily Tag 3 Mittwoch 11 November 2020 Conferences eMEC 2020 Medical electronics at the pulse of time The third edition of the electronica Medical Electronics Conference eMEC was a very special event for the electronics and medical technology industry Because of the corona restrictions this years edition could not take place as a facetoface event at the ICM Munich as usual However the organizers Messe München and WEKA Fachmedien did manage to transform the industry highlight into the digital world and create a twoday medical electronics universe Around 100 experts immersed themselves in a virtual world of events at eMEC 2020 Under the motto Medicine meets Electronics there were not only topclass keynotes and bestcase studies but also numerous opportunities for networking and exchange Once again this year Prof Dr Oliver Hayden Heinz Nixdorf Chair for Biomedical Electronics and Reinhard Keil ARM together with Joachim Kroll WEKA Fachmedien led through the respective daily program They not only acted as a connection between the speakers in their virtual lecture room and the participants in front of the screens but also scrutinized the experts with questions Portable safe and mobile Stefan Steyerl Analog Devices opened the eMEC this year After a short greeting from Barbara Müller Messe München Prof Dr Oliver Hayden and Joachim Kroll Steyerl addressed in his keynote speech the topic that currently interests people worldwide the most the corona pandemic He said that it had shown how fragile healthcare systems are while at the same time accelerating the introduction of telemedicine solutions including remote monitoring of patients and testing technologies Steyerl said However reliable portable and remote patient monitoring systems depend on precision measurements The remaining lectures on the first day of the event showed that this is not only a question of mathematics in the end Under the topic cluster Safety Security & Regulatory the speakers among others from Keysight Texas Instruments and Rohde & Schwarz showed that even the smallest sensor has to meet high demands and requirements This is a challenge for technology and developers AI needs data The second day of eMEC 2020 was exciting as well as the opening speech by Olaf von Wackerbarth GE Healthcare showed His keynote speech focused on AI technologies and how their use is changing medicine and medical technology Von Wackerbarth warned We dont get these AI innovations for free In addition to money our most intimate data is absolutely necessary To make AI work it has to learn from data Innovation brings progress and in medicine this progress touches our lives and our quality of life von Wackerbarth concluded Of course this not only applies to algorithms from the field of artificial intelligence AI but also to hardware which is becoming increasingly smaller and more mobile mHealth applications have gained in popularity particularly in the corona pandemic By giving physicians the ability to monitor their patients in real time even outside the office mHealth solutions already offer significant added value This was also demonstrated by the presentations given by Maxim Integrated RRC and Balluf among others me ● electronica Embedded Platforms Conference Embedded systems the foundations of electronics The electronica Embedded Platforms Conference is the communication platform for suppliers of components tools software and solutions It demonstrates the requirements and challenges that face embedded platforms now and in future as well as the solutions that are available now and will be in future The highlight topics of the first digital electronica Embedded Platforms Conference on November 11 and 12 include smart sensors wireless connectivity lowpower design and intelligent edge and many more Today the following topics will take center stage in more than 20 sessions across the two simultaneous tracks Sensors & IT track 1 and Software & Tools track 2 Track 1 will see the participation of companies including ST Engineering Qualcomm and Würth Elektronik Track 2 will include speakers from Blackberry Brinkmann Elektronik and Swissbit The electronica Embedded Platforms Conference is available as a video stream on the electronica platform at an attendance fee of €295 plus VAT ●