program

08:30 Registration / Welcome Coffee

09:00 Welcome message


Session 1: Medtech Industry in Switzerland       Chairperson: Francisco Faoro

09:15 Keynote: Jasmin Waser (Thommen Medical AG): The Impact of Innovative Swiss Engineering and Simulation in New Implant Development

09:45 Flash Presentations Exhibitors and Posters (1 min. each)

10:15 Break (Exhibition and Poster)


Session 2: Additive Manufacturing       Chairperson: Michael de Wild

10:45 Keynote: Reto Nardini (m4m): Air contamination during Titanium 3D printing

11:15 Marc Knebel (Evonik Operations GmbH): PEEK polymer 3D printing as alternative to metals for next-generation implants

11:30 Keynote: Daniel Seiler (PoC-App): MDR compliant implant production at the Point of Care

12:00 Pierre-Antoine Gay, Tony Journot, Stephan Ramseyer (University of Applied Sciences, Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie, CH), Gabriel R. Reisinger, Beni Winet (KKS Ultraschall, CH), Jerome Berjonneau, Paul Caignieu (Stryker, France): Eco-friendly electropolishing of 3D printed medical implants


12:15 Lunch (Exhibition and Poster)


Session 3: Materials & Surfaces      Chairperson: Katharina Maniura

13:30 Keynote: Jakob Schwiedrzik (EMPA Thun): Tuning performance of biomaterials through composition and structure

14:00 Cynthia Sin Ting Chang (ANAXAM): Microstructures, phase and mechanical characterization of Al2O3-ZrO2-TiO2 coating produced by atmospheric plasma spraying

14:15 Keynote: Nadja Rohr (University Center for Dental Medicine Basel UZB): Zirconia in dentistry - the story of a schizophrenic material

14:45 Michael Striebe (Rösler Schweiz AG): Surface Finishing of orthopaedic Implants – New Technologies and monitoring   Methods


15:00 Break (Exhibition and Poster)


Session 4: Clinical & Regulatory      Chairperson: Christiane Jung

15:30 Keynote: Daniel Delfosse (Swiss Medtech): The regulatory challenges for Swiss manufacturers and suppliers

16:00 Jean Geringer (Mines Saint-Etienne): Ceramic implant=safe? Not sure. Some improvements.


Session 5: AI in MedTech       Chairperson: Martin Stöckli

16:15 Keynote: Vincent Hickl (EMPA St. Gallen): Segmentation models trained on synthetic images for quantitative analysis of bacterial colonies

16:45 Laura Link (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)): Improving Medical Device Development by leveraging Databases

17:00 Keynote: Dominic Mathis (Claraspital, Basel): Artificial Intelligence in Orthopaedics: Current Applications and Future                 Prospects

17:30 Roundup


Poster: Author & Title

  1. Larissa Wasmer, D. Seiler, J. Hänggi, G. Ragonese, M. de Wild (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and Politecnico di Torino): Real-Time Control of Selective Laser Melting for Fabrication of Miniaturized Structures

  2. Joël Matthey (Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie): Advanced selective titanium anodization for creating machine-readable codes

  3. Ton Loontjens (Bioprex Medical): Towards Biocompatible Immobilized Antibacterial Coatings on Titanium which kill bacteria on contact

  4. Yanik Streit (Empa, Dübendorf): Heterogeneity in surface oxides of Ti-based implants

  5. Martina Cihova, Roberto Cestaro, Zoe Bischoff, Patrik Schmutz (Empa, Dübendorf): Cobalt-based implants: can carbides improve their performance?

  6. Mustafa Yalcinkaya, Arie Bruinink, Martina Cihova, Patrik Schmutz (Empa, Dübendorf): Towards an accurate prediction of magnesium biocorrosion by closer mimicking the in-vivo environment

  7. Jessica Kloiber, Ulrich Schultheiss, Viktoria Anetsberger, Helga Hornberger (OTH Regensburg): Influence of different potentials during electropolishing on the corrosion behavior of a magnesium alloy

  8. Michael Hiltl (Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH): Überwachung der technischen Sauberkeit von Implantaten mit korrelativer Mikroskopie

  9. Simon Burkhard (METAS): Sub-micron X-ray CT accuracy thanks to metrological scan trajectory

  10. Stefan Jakobs (RMS Foundation): Grain size measurement of ceramic materials using deep learning



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