“The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today” Bill Gates.
“In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together” Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures.
The School
The Innovation Technology for Health spring doctoral school is a new educational initiative promoted by "Villa delle Ginestre srl”, “Università del Salento” and “Università di Napoli Federico II”.
The school, with a holistic and global approach, aims to offer advanced and innovative technological and IT knowledge and new frontier methods of digital transformation in healthcare and in the medical field.
The educational offer is characterized by an innovative interdisciplinary training in the field of engineering, computer science and their implications, implementations and technological developments in the field of medical applications addressing a variety of problems, methodological issues and aspects of practical interest, related to innovative technologies for health.
The strength of the school consists in the interaction between the university world and private research structures: on the one hand, universities represent the main pool of technical and scientific skills that provide highly qualified human resources, on the other hand private structures operate concretely in reality of medical health care and rehabilitation services.
The training activities are divided into a series of lessons focused both on the theoretical aspects and on the practical and applicative repercussions in the medical field of the knowledge transmitted. Lessons are held by nationally and internationally renowned professors in the IT fields such as: XR - Extended Reality , BCI - Brain Computer Interface, IoT - Internet of Things, Big Data, Digital Image Processing, Human Computer Interaction, Wearable Devices, AI – Artificial Intelligence.
The school is addressed to a public of public and private research specialists such as doctoral students and company researchers. Furthermore, the school wants to promote the diffusion of ideas and the sharing of knowledge in these research areas among young researchers from Italy and abroad.
Organization
The Doctoral School is organized in April and for its first edition the course will be held in Naples. There are morning and afternoon lessons, for a total of about 30 hours. Lessons will be interspersed with coffee and lunch breaks. The scientific committee has also scheduled a posters session in which the best works (in three different scientific areas) will be awarded during the gala dinner. A final exam for certification of skills is expected at the end of the lessons, with the issue of the certificate of attendance.
Scientific Committee
Pasquale Arpaia
Professor of electrical and electronic measurements Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Lucio De Paolis
Professor of Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications Università del Salento
Annamaria Schena
Health Director of Villa delle Ginestre s.r.l. Villa delle Ginestre s.r.l.Organizing Committee
Umberto Cesaro
Ing. of electrical and electronic measurements Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Ilaria Pistis
Marketing&Communication division Villa delle Ginestre s.r.l.
Annarita Falanga
Organizational Management Villa delle Ginestre s.r.l.
Salvatore Giugliano
IT Counselor Villa delle Ginestre s.r.l.Event schedule
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Discover Naples
Naples is a vast city located on the western coast of Italy facing the Tyrrhenian Sea. This colossal metropolis is the third largest city in Italy behind Rome and Milan with a population of 975,000 and a greater metropolitan population of over 3.1 million. Naples and the surrounding region has been inhabited since the Neolithic period and it has seen some form of continuous human activity through ancient Greek times to the Roman Empire and further.
Throughout history Naples has been the sight of fierce battles and many civilisations have vied to gain power here. Naples port is one of the most important in the Mediterranean and the city has one of the largest economies in Italy. Due to the extensive history of this region, Naples is full of historical buildings, squares and churches plus a host of modern amenities and fantastic nightlife opportunities. Looming in the shadow of the legendary Mt. Vesuvius, this is a truly epic tourist destination.
Brief history of Naples
Parthenope was founded in the VII century BC by the inhabitants of Cuma, a polis of Magna Graecia, to serve as a harbor. The foundation site includes the islet where now is Castel dell’Ovo, and the new town was named after the mythic siren. Between VI and V century BC, after a period of decline following the wars with Etruscans, a new polis, Neapolis, was funded. In Imperial times, Naples and its surroundings increased their fame as an area of great attractiveness, beautiful villas, thermae and theatres where Roman aristocracy were engaged in their “otia”. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Naples, like the rest of Italy, had to suffer subsequent invasions, until it surrenders to Normans in XI century. In 1220 a new conqueror arrives, Frederick II, King of Sicily and Germany, and here he founded, in 1224, the first state University, dedicated to the training of secular administrators, today named after him, as “University of Napoli Federico II”. The Swabians were followed by the dynasties Anjou and Aragonese. During XVII century, Naples was governed by Spanish functionaries, and in XVIII century by the Bourbons, with the brief parentheses of the Parthenopean Republic (1799) and the Napoleonic period. In 1860, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was annexed to the Kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont – Sardinia), and Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoy was proclaimed king of the new state, Kingdom of Italy, in 1861. It is now recognized that the period before Italian unification was characterized by social, scientific and technological achievements.
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- €500.00 Registration fee
- The registration fee covers accommodation, meals, breaks, and transfer