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8th Annual Biomedical Symposium

This symposium brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, academia and industry leaders interested in ever-evolving medical device market and the challenges new technologies. Today’s modern medicine and healthcare continues to improve our lives through innovation and invention of better biomedical devices and products as well as health services through intelligent data and emerging technologies. UCI is at the heart of this exciting evolution to improve lives by working in collaboration with local business leaders, regulators and more. AGENDA 12:30 CHECK IN 1:00 WELCOME TO UCI and CALIT2 - Professor GP LI 1:10 ORANGE COUNTY’S BIOTECH TODAY 1:10 UCI’s Collaboration and Commitment to OC’s Startup Ecosystem ALVIN VIRAY, Associate Director, Applied Innovation, UC Irvine 1:30 Legal Protections for Medical Devices and Data CURTIS HUFFMIRE, Partner, Knobbe Martens 1:50 OC STARTUP LANDSCAPE in BIOMEDICAL Device, Data & Technology 1:50 PathForce Dx – Mohit Kale, CTO 2:10 SIM InSights – Rajesh Jha, CEO 2:30 CellEcho – Mohammad Aghaamoo, co-founder 2:50 Matregenix – Sherif Soliman, CEO 3:10 BREAK 3:20 UCI INNOVATION 3:20 ENN (Engineered Neural Network) – new approach to stroke rehabilitation (An Do) 3:35 PICARD (Patient-Initiated Control Analgesic Remote Dispenser) – biometric bottle to monitor opioid use (Sergio Gago) 3:50 Uterine Suture – a novel technique for treating postpartum hemorrhage (Christine King) 4:05 ARC (Activity Recording CAFE) – a high throughput & automated behavioral phenomic assessment machine vision (Mahtab Jafari) 4:20 Pedi-Syn – Clinical research device & app to measure oral feeding adaptability in preterm infants (William Tang) 4:35 OC INNOVATION 4:35 Leading the way in innovation for over 100 years LINYI XIA, Engineer, Johnson & Johnson 4:50 Healthcare Technology for the digital age SEAN WHITE, Director of Research & Technology, Medtronic 5:05 NETWORKING RECEPTION Last Day to Register is February 1, 2024.

Distinguished Lecture: All-day Augmented Reality Glasses: Promises and Problems

Henry Fuchs Federico Gil Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Many of us foresee a future in which AR eyeglasses are worn all day, replacing, and enhancing our current prescription eyewear. That future may not arrive for a while and predicting its benefits and problems may be as premature and inaccurate as early predictions about the use of mobile phones or about “a helicopter in every garage”. Nevertheless, a few sample applications seem both obvious and promising: 1) continuous physiological monitoring for sudden and long-term health changes, and 2) virtually embodied avatars for guidance in navigation, exercise, and training. I will also talk about the rocky history of head-worn AR systems, which in contrast to the amazing, continuous advances in Integrated Circuit fabrication technology, have gone through multiple bust and boom cycles. I will talk about a few of the historic obstacles and how some were overcome, and others side-stepped. I will summarize a few of the remaining problems, possible paths to their solution, and describe several of our research projects in these areas. Biography Henry Fuchs is the Federico Gil Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been active in interactive 3D graphics and related fields since the 1970s, including rendering algorithms (BSP Trees), graphics engines (Pixel-Planes), 3D reconstruction, office of the future, telepresence, and medical applications. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH Coons Award for lifetime achievement, and an honorary doctorate from TU Wien, the Vienna University of Technology.

CalPlug Fall 2023 Workshop

CALIT2 Building Auditorium at UC Irvine 4100 E Peltason Dr, Irvine

Come join the discussion on batteries as a device, as a plug load, and as storage in relation to energy efficiency and renewable energy, as we continue to work together to find applicable technological solutions to address the climate crisis. Registration closes Oct. 19, 2023 AGENDA | 9:30 a.m. | Check-in CALPLUG & IAC RESEARCH AND PROJECTS 10 a.m. | Welcome Kim Trenbath, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) PLUG AND PROCESS LOADS - LATEST NEWS 10:10 a.m. | Doug Johnson, Consumer Technology Association (CTA) 10:30 a.m. | Katie Gladych, Plug Load Energy Testing to Inform Codes and Standards (PLETICS) & Low Power Mode CALPLUG AND SMART IAC UPDATES 10:50 a.m. | Chelsea Choudhary, Sustainable Manufacturing Alliance for Research and Training Industrial Assessment Center (SMART IAC) ELECTRIC VEHICLES, ENERGY STORAGE & MORE 11:10 - 11:35 a.m. | Efficient & Zero-Net Energy - Ready Plug Loads 
Alan Meier, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) 11:35 a.m. - Noon | One-Cycle Controls and Its Application for Stabilizing Power Grids with High Renewable Penetration Keyue Smedley, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, UC Irvine LUNCH BREAK | Noon - 1 p.m. 1 - 1:25 p.m. | Electric Vehicles as Grid Resources and Plug Loads: Benefits and Opportunities Katherine Dayem, Xergy Consulting 1:25 - 1:50 p.m. | Transportation Network Modeling & Infrastructure Planning Zhaocai Liu, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) 1:50 - 2:15 p.m. | Artificial Intelligence for Electric Vehicle Fleets Rajit Gadh, Dept. of Engineering & Applied Science, UCLA 2:15 - 3 p.m. | PANEL discussion on EVs by Guest Speakers K Smedley, K Dayem, Z Liu, R Gadh, C Choudhary MID-AFTERNOON BREAK | 3:05 - 3:15 p.m. 3:15 - 3:40 p.m. | Driving Electrification with Integrated Batteries Sam D'Amico, Impulse Labs 3:40 - 4:05 p.m.| ReCell: Working to Advancing Battery Recycling 
Jeff Spangenberger, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) 4:05 - 5 p.m. | PANEL discussion on Energy Storage by Guest Speakers 
D Johnson, A Meier, S D'Amico, J Spangenberger, K Gladych NETWORKING RECEPTION | 5 p.m.