Institut Teknologi Bandung

ICICI BME is a Biennial event. The keynote speakers on this occasion were Prof. Wenny Rahayu (La Trobe University, Australia), Prof. Hong Joo Kim (Kyungpook National University, Korea), Prof. Christophorus Nikou (University of Ioannina, Greece), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jakrapong Kaewkhao (Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University, Thailand), and Assoc. Prof. Suchart Kothan (Chang Mai University, Thailand).

“We are consistent about holding this conference and in this occasion we try to gather various institutions such as ITB, UGM, UI, UNAIR, UNHAS, and other universities. We also invite hospital practitioners because they are users of our technology. But now for the first time it is in the form of design thinking method,” said Prof. Dr. Tati LR. Mengko.

This time’s ICICI BME invited health practitioner to discuss about technology that will be applied, unlike the third ICICI BME that held IT System workshop for midwives where dissemination on the technology was carried out so that midwives could immediately apply the system. That event brought together 200 midwives.

Prof. Tati said it will be great if all the elements meet and her team want to realize that. Besides research development, the conference also aims to connect those elements.

In every conference there is always improvement from the previous ones. Besides conference, there were workshop and paper competition. There were 62 papers that participate. The speaker in Professional Development Workshops was Bryan Ranger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Dr. Gianfranco Giuntoli (Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Australia), Dr. Allya P Koesoema, and Dr. Yoke Saadia Irawan (IEEE SIGHT Indonesia Section, Biomedical Engineering Research Group, ITB).

Bryan explained that design thinking method consists of Identifying problem, breaking it down, building it up, and making it better.