The availability of sensors that can conveniently conform in shape to their imposed working environment has existed for quite some time with the earliest being for aerospace applications. Most recently, there has been an exponential growth in the field of flexible, printed and organic large-area electronics and sensors driven by applications including physiological/activity monitoring in wearables for e-Health, sports/recreational and military personnel and the Internet of Things (IoT). These new electronics and sensors are fabricated on flexible plastic substrates or are printed/woven into fabrics, which offer advantages including low unit cost, mechanical robustness, shape conformity, light-weight and low-profile. The creation of these “non-classical” platforms is enabled by the high-throughput manufacturing processes of devices including for those over large areas using various technologies including Roll-to-Roll printing.
The extensive list of speakers, who represent the international “who’s who” in this topical area, will present several of the more interesting printed/flexible/stretchable and e-fabric/smart fabric sensor technologies, their current and future applications and products that they enable. In addition to these sensors, we will address several other electronic functionalities and the challenges of their packaging and integration with other functional element of basic wearable and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Finally, barriers to the successful commercialization of these sensors and recommended strategies for market success will be presented.
Agenda
9:00am-9:20am Welcome and Introduction to Printed/Flexible/Stretchable and E-Textile/Smart Fabric Sensors and Sensor-Based System
Roger Grace, Founder and President, Roger Grace Associates
9:20am-9:40am Charting the Opportunities for Sensor Integration in Smart Fabrics
Michelle Farrington, Vice President of Strategic Growth, Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA)
10:00am-10:20am Fabric EEG Sensor System for Consumer Devices
Jamie Alders, Vice President of Product, Neurable
10:20am-10:35am Morning Break
10:35am-10:55am Med Tech e-Textile Development and Commercialization in Regulated Markets
Pratyush Rai, Ph.D., Founding Engineer and Chief of Research & Development, Nanowear
10:55am-11:15am Upscaling Large Area Printed Sensors for Mass Market Application Needs
Ashok Sridhar, Business Development Manager, TNO @ Holst Centre
11:15am-11:35am Selection of Thin Flexible Batteries and their Integration into Wearables and IoT Devices
Konstantin Tikhonov, Ph.D., Vice President of R&D, Imprint Energy
11:35am-12:00pm Session Q&A
12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm-1:10pm Welcome and Introduction to Printed/Flexible/Stretchable and E-Textile / Smart Fabric Sensors and Sensor-Based Systems
Roger Grace, Founder and President, Roger Grace Associates
1:10pm-1:30pm Combining Materials, Processing and Know-How for Next Generation Wearables, Plus Roadmap
Stan Farnsworth, Chief Marketing Officer, OE-A
1:30pm-1:50pm Reliable Wearable Gas Sensors for Ubiquitous Applications: Still a Fantasy or 2022 Reality
Radislav A. Potyrailo, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, General Electric Research
1:50pm-2:10pm Progress in Wearable, Printed, Gas Sensors for Bridging the Cost-Performance Gap in Medical, Environmental, Energy and Space Applications
Joseph Stetter, Ph.D., President and CTO, KWJ Engineering
2:10pm-2:30pm From Healthcare to Care for Health: The Workplace Vitality Hub as a Rout Towards Commercialization
Sywert Brongersma Ph.D., Director Strategic Partnership, imec
2:30pm-2:45pm Afternoon Break
2:45pm-3:05pm Sustainable and Scalable Printing of Nano and Microelectronics Using Direct Assembly of Nanomaterials
Anthony Childress, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Northeastern University
3:05pm-3:25pm Enabling End-to-End Specialized Healthcare with Printed Electronics Sensing Technology
Melanie Wendrikat, Manager Market Strategy – Printed Electronics, Henkel A.G
3:25pm-3:45pm Summary and Conclusions to Printed/Flexible/Stretchable and E-Textile / Smart Fabric Sensors and Sensor-Based Systems
Roger Grace, Founder and President, Roger Grace Associates
3:45pm-4:00pm Session Q&A
