From Light to Life: Inno­va­tions in Pho­ton­ic Wear­ables Sem­i­nar, Oulu

Warm­ly wel­come to join the final sem­i­nar orga­nized by the Pho­ton­Wear project.

Today, more and more wear­able elec­tron­ics are used for mon­i­tor­ing health and well­ness. Pho­ton­Wear, a joint­ly-fund­ed co-inno­va­tion project fund­ed by Busi­ness Fin­land and coor­di­nat­ed by VTT Tech­ni­cal Research Cen­tre of Fin­land, devel­oped new opti­cal meth­ods for mea­sur­ing phys­i­o­log­i­cal func­tions and bio­mark­ers to enable mon­i­tor­ing users’ health, such as car­diac func­tion, blood cir­cu­la­tion, and metab­o­lism. In addi­tion, nov­el research tools such as sim­u­la­tions and opti­cal fan­toms were devel­oped to speed up the R & D process. The project part­ners were VTT, GE Health­Care, ElFys, Oura, Bit­tium and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu, with inter­na­tion­al research exchange between uni­ver­si­ties and research insti­tutes. This sem­i­nar will pro­vide an overview of the project results from the research part­ners, as well as insights from the com­pa­ny part­ners. Join us to hear the lat­est devel­op­ments in the field. The sem­i­nar also pro­vides a great oppor­tu­ni­ty to net­work in the field of health and well­ness tech­nolo­gies.

The event is free of charge but requires reg­is­tra­tion. Kind­ly note that the num­ber of par­tic­i­pants is lim­it­ed.

Time: Tues­day, 28th April 2026
Place: VTT, Kaitoväylä 1, Oulu, Fin­land

Reg­is­tra­tions by 20.4.2026.

Agen­da

09:00 — 09:30 Wel­come and cof­fee

09:30 — 09:45 Pho­ton­Wear – overview (project coor­di­na­tor Teemu Ala­jo­ki)

09:45 — 10:15 VTT research results (VTT project man­ag­er Moham­mad Beh­far)

10:15 — 10:45 Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty research results (OU project man­ag­er Teemu Myl­lylä)

10:45 — 11:00 Cof­fee break

11:00 — 11:45 Com­pa­ny part­ner pre­sen­ta­tions (titles and pre­sen­ters to be con­firmed)

11:45 — 12:00 Print­o­Cent — a clus­ter set to boost inno­va­tion and indus­tri­al­iza­tion of Print­ed Intel­li­gence (Satu Väinämö, Print­o­Cent direc­tor)

12:00 — 12:30 Free dis­cus­sion, con­clu­sions, clos­ing

12:30  Light lunch & net­work­ing

This event will be held in Eng­lish.

Con­tact per­son

Teemu Ala­jo­ki

VTT

teemu.alajoki@vtt.fi