Exhibitors

Thank you to our exhibitors and sponsors for their support of the 2022 International Symposium.

Agilis Consulting Group

Agilis is your trusted human factors partner for the global medical market. Our services include regulatory consulting, risk analysis, worldwide study design, conduct and reporting, training and labeling development, and HF post-market surveillance. Choosing Agilis as your human factors partner provides the advantage you need to navigate the complex global regulatory landscape and achieve successful human factors submission the first time!

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BCPE

The certification you gain from BCPE will help you differentiate yourself amongst your peers, signaling to future employers that you have achieved proficiency regarding human centered design considerations. You demonstrate understanding of: full perspectives of a problem; physical and cognitive limitations of humans; context of use and influence of the environment that affects behavior; seeing the value of features to a user, yet identifying what design characteristics are needed. Visit us at our booth!

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Castle IRB

Castle IRB is an AAHRPP accredited, independent Institutional Review Board (ethical review board) that was established in 2019. Our IRB may be new, but our team and IRB Members have decades of experience reviewing human factors research involving human participants. The primary purpose of a review is to assure the protection of the rights, safety and welfare of the participants. Castle IRB has been collaborating with HF researchers to streamline the ethical review process, and provide expert guidance to ensure your research is compliant with regulatory requirements.

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Emergo Global

The Emergo HFR&D team has decades of cumulative experience serving medical and non-medical industry clients. The common thread across hundreds of product development projects has been helping clients succeed.

We helped client succeed by:

Ensuring that human factors research and design efforts have complied with regulatory requirements and industry standards
Ensuring that the right level of creativity and energy has been expended to ensure that the end product delivers an excellent user experience.
Guiding them to make appropriate levels of investment in human factors research and design to achieve their commercial goals.
Delivering trustworthy advice on how to leverage internal and external resources to bring safe, effective, usable, and satisfying products to market.

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Exponent

Exponent is a multi-disciplinary engineering and scientific consulting firm that brings together more than 90 different disciplines to solve engineering, science, regulatory, and business issues facing our clients. Exponent UX provides human factors support across the entire product lifecycle, informed by five decades of experience in failure analysis. The team currently boasts around 20 Ph.D.-level researchers, working across eight labs totaling 6,000 sq ft of state-of-the-art research space.

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Fieldwork

Fieldwork is committed to connecting our clients with the right users, in the right environment, to conduct quality human factors research. With facilities dispersed across the United States and the ability to recruit your ideal target audience for human factors usability testing, Fieldwork will handle the project logistics so that you can focus on the research. Spacious conference rooms equipped for human factors testing, and attached observation rooms with one way viewing.

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Noble International

Noble, an Aptar Pharma company, provides our clients with the products and services to help their brands succeed and their patients achieve better health outcomes. We combine our deep understanding of the challenges and anxieties that patients face when having to self-administer their treatment to help achieve better outcomes at every step in the product and development journey through our patient training/onboarding products, training videos, market insight services, and our Human Factors + program.

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PA Consulting

PA Consulting is an innovation and transformation consultancy. We work across the healthcare ecosystem to help our clients deliver meaningful and impactful outcomes for patients, clinicians, families and caregivers. We provide end-to-end product development for medical devices and combination products, with human-centered design at the core. PA’s human factors team has a collective 100+ years of experience, with significant industry expertise. We are ISO 13485 certified and have usability labs in the US and UK.

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Rare Patient Voice, LLC

Rare Patient Voice helps people living with rare and non-rare diseases and medical conditions share their voices. We connect them with opportunities to share their opinions with companies developing devices, products, and services to improve lives. RPV’s community of over 100,000 was built through attending healthcare awareness events and working with patient advocacy and support groups worldwide. We cover 700+ conditions and have completed over 6,000 projects in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

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ReSight Global

ReSight Global is a family of curious UX and human factors researchers helping you deliver outstanding experiences to your customers. Our UX and human factors research agencies in the US (Bold Insight), Japan (Uism), China (XplusX), Germany and Switzerland (uintent), as well as our partners in over 40 countries offer a broad set of tools and methods, seamlessly extend your reach to understand users across borders, and reduce the challenges often associated with global user research.

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THAY Medical Limited

THAY Medical are a specialist Human Factors and Usability Engineering consultancy who partner with clients to focus on medical devices and their users. From our bases in the UK and Sweden, we support our clients all around the world and bring a passion to ensuring all users can safely and effectively use medical devices. We pride ourselves on complying with global regulations that are industry standard for medical devices – such as IEC 62366-1 and ISO 14971.

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THRIVE Consulting, LLC

THRIVE is an award-winning, ISO 9001 certified product development and innovation strategy firm. We work with ambitious leaders to build brands and experiences that people love through Informed Design™. Our work gives leaders, teams, and organizations the courage and conviction to move confidently forward and design what's next. You can find our innovations positively impacting lives in homes, hospitals, and businesses around the world. Contact us today at thrive thinking.com or 404.228.7342