Sponsors
Thank you to our exhibitors and sponsors for their support of the 2022 International Symposium.
Platinum Sponsor
Intuitive
Since 1995, Intuitive has advanced minimally invasive care through advanced robotic systems, end-to-end learning, and value-added services. As one of the pioneers of robotic-assisted surgery, our da Vinci surgical system is used today by surgeons to deliver a less invasive approach to many types of surgery. And when cancer is suspected in the lung, our Ion endoluminal system enables biopsy of small, hard-to-reach nodules. Working with physicians and hospitals around the world, we’re helping solve hard problems in healthcare.
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Gold Sponsor
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
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Other Sponsors
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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Bold Insight
Bold Insight is a Chicago-based UX and human factors research agency. Conducting user research to inform early product design to executing global human factors validation, we specialize in applying human factors engineering to all phases of product development. We help you create safer and more efficient, effective, and engaging experiences for your users.
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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:
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Ensuring that human factors research and design efforts have complied with regulatory requirements and industry standards
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Ensuring that the right level of creativity and energy has been expended to ensure that the end product delivers an excellent user experience.
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Guiding them to make appropriate levels of investment in human factors research and design to achieve their commercial goals.
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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, Inc.
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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Human Factors MD
Human Factors for medical products is all we do. It is all we have ever done! Since our inception in 2001, we have worked exclusively with pharmaceutical and medical device clients providing HUMAN FACTORS EXPERTISE at every step of the development and regulatory process.
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Healthcare Human Factors
Since 2004, Healthcare Human Factors has partnered with our clients to design safe, innovative, and intuitive products and experiences. We have experience with all aspects of usability engineering, from use-related risk analysis to conducting formative and summative testing on technology ranging from combination products to complex devices such as anesthesia machines and radiation therapy systems. Our embedded position within one of the largest academic health centers in the world equips our team of engineers, researchers, designers, and strategists with deep insights into healthcare as we work with manufacturers in the design and evaluation of next-generation technology.
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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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