HSMR 2026 Workshop Program

From Code to Care · Friday 26th June 2026 · London, UK

Time Title Speaker Name & Organisation
08:30 - 09:00 Registration & Coffee
09:00 - 09:50 The dVRK experience: Twenty years of open source hardware and software for medical robotics research Peter Kazanzides, The Johns Hopkins University
09:50 - 10:30 An Open-Source Platform to Fight Disease Aaron Timm, CEO Openwater
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Ecosystem Building for an Open Source Implantable Device Platform Chris Rexroth, COSMIIC
11:30 - 12:00 Scalable Policy Training Environment for Robotic Ultrasound: Methods and Challenges Ao Yunke, ETH Zürich
12:00 - 12:30 Spotlights for Sponsor and Posters -
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Panel Discussion Panellists to be confirmed closer to the event day
14:30 - 15:00 From Data Scarcity to Clinical Impact: Open-Source Ultrasound Spine Reconstruction for Scoliosis Monitoring in Senegal Gabriella d’Albenzio, Queen’s University and Dr. Pape Mady Thiao, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:10 From Research Tools to Shared Platforms: Building Accessible Ecosystems in Medical Robotics Quentin Boehler, ETH Zürich
16:10 - 16:50 From Biosignals to Robots: An Open-Source Framework for Physiological Human Sensing in Healthcare Diego Paez-Granados, ETH Zürich
16:50 - 17:00 Poster awards and workshop closure -
17:00 Workshop End