/ About this event
A session on AI and flexible biosensors during SF Tech Week, hosted by Catalyst Bay. Second edition.
We're bringing together researchers, founders, and investors working on wearable sensing and on-body AI.
What's happening
🟢 Speakers
• Seamus Thomson, PhD - founder of Dynamic Sensing, a stealth startup focused on physiological sensing and at-home data collection to build better health models; spoke at our first edition last year and is joining us again. 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/seamusthomson/?isSelfProfile=false
• Davide Zhang - Senior Designer at Microsoft, working on agentic interactions across devices and in XR. 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidezhang/?isSelfProfile=false
• David Sherrer - Founder & CEO, Helicon Defense. 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwilliamsherrer/?isSelfProfile=false
🟢 Talks on flexible biosensors and on-body sensing, covering neuro and physiological data analytics, wearable form factors, and defense applications.
🟢 Where the AI sits: signal processing, physiological inference, and running models on-device.
🟢 Q&A and open networking before and after.
Who this is for
Researchers in biosensing, wearables, and physiological signal processing. Founders building health hardware. Engineers working on on-device inference for biosignals. Investors covering healthtech hardware.
Hosted by:
About Catalyst Bay: 🔗 https://www.catalystbay.com/
Catalyst Bay started with Techstars Startup Weekend SF hackathons. Now it's a 10,000-person SF community running pitch nights, fireside chats, and meetups for the people building and betting on AI products: founders, investors, engineers, designers, PMs, marketers, and devrels.
About MBC BioLabs: 🔗 https://mbcbiolabs.com/
MBC BioLabs believes startups are the greatest force for positive change in the world. We are dedicated to helping biotech startups succeed – we like to say that we enable awesome. We offer flexible and cost-effective lab space, complete with operational support and millions of dollars worth of state-of-the-art equipment and instrumentation, along with a vibrant community of like-minded individuals tackling the world's biggest problems.
About Empat 🔗 https://www.empat.tech/home
Empat is a startup studio that turns great ideas into successful tech products. Their skilled, enthusiastic team helps founders go from idea to working product, covering design, development and launch. Empat has been a long-time partner of the Catalyst Bay.
About AGI, Ink 🔗 https://theagi.company/?utm_source=luma
AGI, Inc builds on-device models and agents that take actions across any app on phones, tablets, and wearables.
About NANONIT
NANONIT is a materials innovation company developing next-generation biofunctional textiles aims to deliver antimicrobial protection, support wound-care applications. Predict, Protect, and Heal.
Legal
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This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
