Wellness as a Service World Summit.™ Mountain View, CA, USA • NOV 08-09, 2018

Julien Penders

Co-Founder/COO

Bloom Technologies

Full Bio

Julien Penders is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Bloom Technologies, a consumer health company changing maternal health and prenatal care thru wearable technologies and data analytics. Passionate entrepreneur in digital and mobile health, Julien is committed to the development of technologies that empower people with their own health, towards disease prevention and a healthier life. In the last 10 years, Julien has been heading international teams through the development of innovative and creative product concepts that are currently being deployed on the market and shaping the future of health and wellness.

Prior to founding Bloom, Julien was Program Director at imec where he led the wearable healthcare activities. In this position, Julien led wearable health projects for market leaders in both the medical and consumer spaces, covering all aspects of system design from IC to algorithms to system and clinical validation. A few notable examples include the development of a cardiac monitoring patch that was successfully taken to FDA, the development of low-power headsets for brain monitoring, and the development of the reference sensor module for Samsung’s Simband platform announced in 2014.

He has (co-) authored over 60 papers and 7 patents in the field of wearable technologies and connected health. He has been a keynote or invited speakers at multiple public events and conferences, including TEDx and the Creativity World Forum. He was general co-chair for the Wireless Health conference in 2013 and 2014. He serves on the IEEE Technical Committee on Biomedical Health Informatics, and sits on the Program Committees for several international conferences. Julien was a 2004/2005 fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Systems Engineering from University of Liege, Belgium (2004), and a M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University, MA (2006).

Session

Bringing Clinically Accurate Data into the Hands of Consumers for the First 1000 Days of Life