The Future of Us: Digital Insights for Mind, Body, and Learning

Many conditions such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or Long COVID develop gradually, starting with subtle changes in thinking, emotions, and behavior. These changes often appear in everyday life long before they are detected in the clinic. This talk explores how smartphones, wearables, and digital tests can help capture these early changes – and why this could transform early detection.

Many students struggle not because they are unable to learn, but because learning often feels distant, dry, and made for someone else. EduMind explores a simple idea: what if digital learning could begin with a student’s own world? In this talk, I will show how AI can help turn the same school topic into different learning paths, using examples linked to a student’s interests, everyday life, and pace. But this is not about replacing teachers. It is about giving them better tools to guide, adapt, and explain. EduMind combines AI with teaching expertise to make learning more personal, more motivating, and more human. The goal is not more technology for its own sake, but better support for students who learn in different ways.

Millions of women use apps and wearables to track their cycles, symptoms, and pregnancies. We generate a great deal of highly personal data about our bodies every day, yet many real experiences, such as pain, uncertainty and struggles, remain invisible or are dismissed. At the same time, the data we collect often disappears into systems that we neither fully understand nor control.
In this talk, I will explore the gap between devices and everyday life, examining how women make sense of their health experiences, how data can support or fail them, and who benefits from it. Drawing on my research into postpartum experiences and menstrual tracking, I will demonstrate why lived experiences are just as important as medical data and why having control and agency over our personal health data is essential for building trust and fostering a sense of empowerment.
What might women's health look like if we designed it differently — together?