The 9th European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference (EMBEC 2024), organized by the Slovenian Society for Medical and Biological Engineering was held in the Congress Centre Bernardin in Portorož, Slovenia, from 9 to 13 June, 2024. This international conference was supported by the IFMBE (Prof Leandro Pecchia is Secretary General). The ABSPIE lab successfully represented the School of Engineering of the University of Warwick in this international gathering, which had great participation.

This event aimed to present all traditional bipmedical engineering areas, but also to highlight new and emerging fields, such as Artificial Intelligence in Health Care, Tissue Engineering, Bioinformatics, Neurotechnology, Electroporation-based Treatments, and Technologies for Medicine and Biology. Moreover, it emphasised the role of education, translational research, and commercialization of new ideas.

The ABSPIE Lab contributed to this event on various aspects:

• Prof Leandro Pecchia presented in the "Intelligent Health Monitoring for Precision Medicine: A Global Perspective" session and the "BME Education in Europe" session. He also gave a plenary lecture about Biomedical Engineering for Sustainable Global Health.
• Dr Davide Piaggio gave two presentations, one in the "Biomedical engineering low-resource settings" session, where he presented a smart tool for screening diabetic neuropathies, and one in the "Optimizing Healthcare: Patient-Centered Technology Innovations" session, where he presented the results, best practices, and management of the GATEKEEPER EU project.
• Katy Stokes (PhD student) presented in the "Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare session" her study on wearable sensors and AI for daily blood pressure estimation.
• Wanzi Su (PhD student) was the chair of the "Biomedical engineering in low-resource settings" session (with Dr Ernesto Ladanza), in which he also made two presentations about the new progress of his eye tracking algorithms for neurodegeneration and the results of a systematic literature review on the use of automated pupillometry for eye diseases, funded by the Innovate UK IREACT project and the China Scholarship Council.
• Pedro Checa Rifa (Undergrad in Biomedical Systems engineering) presented a poster on his 3rd year project on an affordable and sustainable spirometer for low-resource settings and co-presented in Dr Davide Piaggio’s oral presentation on the management of large-scale pilot projects (GATEKEEPER EU).

The team would like to thank the support of Dr Georgia Kremmyda, who kindly agreed to co-sponsor the participation of Pedro to the conference. Pedro's abstracts were accepted for poster and oral presentation, a remarkable achievement for a third-year student, proving the excellent quality of teaching of our School and the extensive support we give to our students.

"I sincerely appreciate Dr. Davide Piaggio and the School for offering me, once again, this opportunity. This experience has been invaluable, allowing me to connect with experts from various fields and gain a deeper understanding of current innovations in biomedical engineering. It has also enhanced my presentation skills and enriched my CV, positioning me well for future opportunities." Pedro Checa Rifa