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The Penn Artificial Intelligence and Technologies Collaboratory for Healthy Aging (PennAITech) is an initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, funded by the National Institute on Aging, aiming to advance innovation to support aging.
We are excited to partner with the Institute on Aging at the University of Pennsylvania for the Sylvan M. Cohen Annual Retreat on November 21, 2025 with the theme "Aging Reimagined: Innovation in the Era of AI." We have an exciting line up of speakers.

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October 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Join us for our next webinar on November 13th (12-1pm EST) when Dr. Sudeshna Sil Kar from Emory University School of Medicine presents "Fractal-based Retinal Vascular Features are Associated with Alzheimer's Disease- A Preliminary Study."

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October 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Join us on October 9, 2025 (noon-1pm ET) when Dr. Danielle Mowery will be presenting "Meeting Patients Where They Are: How Mobile Technology and Data Science is improving Continuity of Care for Patients in their Homes" at our monthly webinar.

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September 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Join us on September 11th, 2025, 12-1pm EST, when Dr. Pamela Toto from the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences presents "The Healthy Home Laboratory: Implementing Smart Ways to Age in Place."
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September 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Our webinar series continues this Fall with another line-up of global experts isuch as Pamela Toto, Danielle Mowery, Sudeshna Sil Kar, Bo Xie, Nathan Price, Zhi Huang, Michael Cary, Mia Tackney, Paul Barr and Bárbara Barbosa Neves.

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September 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Check out our August newsletter here:

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August 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Learn more about the project by Dr. Emily Moin and her team entitled "Identifying determinants of access to specialist palliative care for patients with ADRD", one of our awardees, here:

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July 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 4: Rose Li from the a2 Collective discussing opportunities for future funding and resources with our awardees.
June 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 4: Dr. Deepak Ganesan from MassAITC delivered a captivating keynote on New Directions in Wearable Health Tech, Designing with Fabrics, Skin and Everyday Surfaces.
June 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 4: Dr. Deepak Ganesan from MassAITC delivered a captivating keynote on New Directions in Wearable Health Tech, Designing with Fabrics, Skin and Everyday Surfaces.
June 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 4: A captivating keynote presentation on Longevity Tech: Service Systems of Tomorrow by Sheng-Hung Lee.
June 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 4: Thank you to Drs Kevin M. Baumlin, Kevin Mahoney and Jake Prigoff for participating on a stimulating panel on funding and entrepreneurship!
June 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 4: Jamie Sweet on how to present like a Pro.
June 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 4: Lexi Voss and Tex Kang presenting on Prototyping and Testing.
June 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 3: Dr. Peter Abadir from Johns Hopkins University gave a stimulating keynote on Engineering Innovation for Aging: From Collaborative Design to Impact.
June 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 3: Dr. Alison Buttenheim engaged us in Ideation exercises during the Human Centered Design and Design Thinking session on ideation.
June 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 3 is about to start and members of our Planning Committee are already hard at work.
June 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 2: Dr. Walter Richard Boot delivered a powerful keynote on the Potential and Pitfalls of LLMs for Supporting Older Adults' Information Search and Decision Making.
June 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 2: Dr. Li Shen and members of his lab, Drs Shu Yanh, Tianhua Zhai and Bojian Hou presented a great overview of ways to harness AI and LLMs for Alzheimer's and Aging Studies based on their own impressive research portfolio.
June 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 2: Dr. Mai Lee Chang provided a thought provoking keynote presentation on AI Agents, Affiliation and Advance Planning for Aging in Place.
June 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 2: Dr. Sara Jacoby discussing Community Engagement and Diagnosis
June 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 2: Marion Leary, PhD, MPH, RN in a Fireside Chat with Neil A. Ray, MD, Mikael Avery and Jonathan Zhu discussing the Empathy and Define phases of the design process
June 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 1: Dr. Lori Rosenkopf talking about the Entrepreneur Mindset.
June 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 1: Fire Side Chat with Dr. Mark Yim from Penn Engineering and Dr. Pamela Cacchione discussing experiences with design thinking in robotics
June 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Summer Innovation Institute Day 1: Dr. Derek Griffith discussing Health Equity.
June 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM