What to expect
The TechConnect Consortium is inviting fellow researchers, practitioners, hospital and healthcare partners and policy makers to join them in Utrecht as the team celebrates its midpoint on the journey.
The TechConnect team seeks to share the initial findings from their ambitious research that has observed over 9 months, the use of advanced digital technologies across 12 case studies in 4 hospital sites. It looks to explore the consequences for the future of work, the better development of advanced digital technologies and the practical steps that organisations can take to ensure a better alignment with humans and the systems.
We will invite similar initiatives to present and contrast their experiences and provide a forum for exploring how the absorptive capacity of teams for an ever-complex relationship with technologies can drive better outcomes for all. We also invite attendees to see first-hand how technologies are transforming healthcare and healthcare workers.
Who should attend
Researchers and academics working on digitalisation, work, and healthcare
Healthcare organisations, hospital managers, and practitioners
Policy makers and representatives from public institutions
Industry and technology providers active in healthcare and digital innovation
EU-funded projects and initiatives working on related themes
Agenda
- 08:30
- Utrecht University - Vening Meineszgebouw A - Lava
Registration and networking coffee
- 9:00
- Utrecht University - Vening Meineszgebouw A - Lava
Welcome

Prof. Na Fu
Chair of Responsible Leadership | Trinity College Dublin | TechConnect Coordinator
- 9:20
- Utrecht University - Vening Meineszgebouw A - Lava
Transitions in practice | Cooperative development for digitalisation of healthcare

Prof. Cornelis van den Berg
Professor Computational Imaging for MRI therapy and diagnostics | University Medical Centre Utrecht
- 9:45
- Utrecht University - Vening Meineszgebouw A - Lava
Keynote | Human-technology complementarity and our future roles

Prof. Chris Ivory
Department of Health Sciences, Innovation and Design | MDU
- 10:10
- Utrecht University - Vening Meineszgebouw A - Lava
TechConnect Index | The compass to guide complementarity

Dr. Laura Piscicelli
Associate Professor | Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development | Utrecht University
- 10:50
- Utrecht University - Vening Meineszgebouw A - Lava
Coffee break
- 11:15
- Utrecht University - Vening Meineszgebouw A - Lava
Transforming skills and technologies | Linked cases and studies in the world of work

Brendan Patrick Sullivan
SKILLAIBILITY

Maija Hirvonen
NewWorkTech
- 12:15
- Utrecht University - Vening Meineszgebouw A - Lava
Networking lunch
- 13:00 - 16:30
- Utrecht University - Vening Meineszgebouw A - Lava
Policy workshop led by

Brendan Rowan
Managing Consultant, Tech, Policy and Skills | BluSpecs
- 13:00
Opening – Who is Who?
- 13:20
Policy Envelope and the TechConnect Outcomes
- 13:40
Skills vs Systems – Discussion
- 14:10
Burning policy questions
- 14:30
Coffee Break
- 15:00
Mapping the points of intervention – key gaps and practices
- 15:40
Translating into action
- 16:10
Discussion
- 13:00 - 16:30
- University Medical Centre Utrecht
Site visit to University Medical Centre Utrecht led by:

Joris Jaspers
Head of Innovation and Associate professor, Medical Technology | UMC Utrecht
- 13:20
Welcome in the UMC Utrecht
- 13:30
- University Medical Centre Utrecht
Robot assisted Surgery | From Master-Slave to a real Intelligent machine with AR and AI
Willem Brinkman & colleagues
- 14:00
- University Medical Centre Utrecht
The Ufound journey | The technology behind the UMC Utrecht device service
Thijs Dijkgraaf & Colleagues
- 14:30
- University Medical Centre Utrecht
Coffee break
- 15:00
- University Medical Centre Utrecht
Technologies in action on the floor | E-health Centre, Robot-OR, Innovation Hub & Prototype facility
- 16:00
- University Medical Centre Utrecht
Close & transition to University Utrecht
- 16:30
- Utrecht University - Vening Meineszgebouw A - Lava
Summary & Closing
- 17:15
- Utrecht University - Vening Meineszgebouw A - Lava
Networking reception