About Wellbeing (SIB-WellB)

This SIB’s main focus is to provide a common place for the multidisciplinary community of people interested in the different dimensions of wellbeing to meet, discuss and innovate together. It aims to create innovative approaches to empower the society and its individuals though the use of technologies that may positively impact their overall wellbeing. It identifies the main characteristics of everyday living in order to drive research and innovation towards addressing the main challenges that have to be addressed to empower the individuals and society in their quest for wellbeing.
This SIB intends to empower not only people with a compromised state of personal wellbeing but also healthy people like their relatives and caregivers and others capable of maintaining and improving their personal condition. Improving awareness of personal state and persuading positive changes in lifestyle and habits can be accomplished by producing means to interface systems with humans. SIB participants have an opportunity to cooperatively develop technologies focusing on improving the different dimensions of human wellbeing. This includes creation of unobtrusive sensing means to identify the relevant physical, physiological and psychological parameters and consequently develop comprehensive models of the human wellbeing. The envisioned wellbeing technologies and applications should be accessible to anyone, anytime and anywhere, including minorities and developing regions.


Summit
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL ENHANCEMENT
Find the right talent for your company, foster education and training initiatives, support student competitions, share your innovative training program: this track is aimed to facilitate SIBs members towards informative exchange about education and professional enhancement so to implement innovative approaches to college and university educationand make sure the academic environment is able to match the expectations of the business one. Read more about this track...
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MARKET TRENDS & SOCIETY
Men and women who have changed the world. Companies that perform outstandingly. Case history to get inspired from. Unique chances to be in touch with the most reknown innovators. This is what the “Market Trends and Society Impact” track is for. SIBs members who are eager to understand the world they live in, to identify the innovation trends that will make it a better place, to discover how their commitment could influence not only further technological developments but also engaging ICT in a positive way for societal changes, find here what they need. Read more about this track...
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FUNDING & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
The shape of funding is changing. SIBs community enables to investigate any opportunity, present projects, upload prototypes, get recognition and feedback from the grassroots community so to maximize any information about funding and investment and help members to access the counterparts they need to further develop their businesses. Read more about this track...
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- Presentation of innovation Services
- Elevator Pitch competition
- Panels
- Workshops
- Keynote presentations
- Exhibits
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & STANDARDS
Like no other environment, SIBs community enables their members to play an active and effective role into the definition of standards, regulations and policies. No one better than the innovators themselves know what work for them and how crucial the right policy may be. This track is for any member who wish to propose, share and evalutate current and future innovation policy, and is ready to play a leading role into transforming it. Read more about this track...
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RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Matchmaking is crucial to any business. Whether it is aimed to skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing or facilities; whether among governments or universities and other institutions, or among private organizations, to ensure that scientific and technological developments are accessible to a wider range of users who can then further develop and exploit the technology into new products, processes, applications, materials or services is this track’s main objective. Read more about this track...
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DISSEMINATION & PERSONAL RECOGNITION
Share insight and your wisdom with the most qualified audience from the innovation environment: this track enables SIBs members to maximize the impact of their ideas, business, products, services by making the world aware about them. Whether through a keynote speech or a dedicated publication, their impact on innovation will find its way to the right audience. Read more about this track...
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