PAST/FUTURE ISG WORLD CONFERENCES
The 2024 ISG World Conference of Gerontechnology to be held in Frankfurt, Germany will be the 14th.
See below for the location, dates, attendance, number of countries represented, chairs and host organizations of previous conferences. Abstracts of presentations at prior conferences can be found in Gerontechnology (https://journal.gerontechnology.org) the official journal of the Society.
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Location |
Date |
Participants |
Countries |
Chair/Host Organization |
Presentations by type |
1 |
Eindhoven, the Netherlands |
August 26-29, 1991 |
150 |
11 |
Herman Bouma/U. Technology, Eindhoven (TU/e) |
Free Papers=21 |
2 |
Helsinki, Finland |
October 1996 |
400 |
19 |
Vappu Taipale/STAKES, Helsinki |
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3 |
Munich, Germany |
October 10-13, 1999 |
200 |
10 |
Richard Pieper/U. Munich |
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4 |
Miami, USA |
November 9-12, 2002 |
151 |
13 |
Neil Charness/CREATE Florida State U., Georgia Tech, & U. Miami |
Symposia=2 |
5 |
Nagoya, Japan |
May 25-27, 2005 |
240 |
21 |
Matsuo Nagamachi General Chair, Kazuo Yamaba, Organizing Chair. Ken Sagawa Program Chair. |
Symposia=7 |
6 |
Pisa, Italy |
June 4-6, 2008 |
235 |
23 |
Paulo Dario/Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems (ARTS) Laboratory |
Symposia=6 |
7 |
Vancouver, Canada |
May 27-29. 2010 |
407 |
29 |
Andrew Sixsmith, General & Program Chair, Gloria Gutman, Organizing Chair/Simon Fraser U. Gerontology Research Centre |
Symposia=28 |
8 |
Eindhoven, the Netherlands |
June 27-30, 2012 |
368 |
32 |
J.E.M.H. van Bronswjck/Eindhoven U. of Technology. Note: this was a joint meeting of ISG & ISARC – Int’l Symposium on Automation & Robotics in Construction |
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9 |
Taipei, Taiwan |
June 19-21, 2014 |
239 |
24 |
Yeh-Liang Hsu/Yuan Ze U. Gerontechnology Research Ctr. |
Symposia=99 |
10 |
Nice, France |
Sept. 28-30, 2016 |
342 |
32 |
Alain Franco & Phillipe Robert/Innovation Alzheimer |
Symposia=29 |
11 |
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA |
May 7-11, 2018 |
180 |
19 |
William Kearns/U.of South Florida |
Symposia=11 |
12 |
Trondheim, Norway (Virtual) |
Oct 7-9, 2020 |
219 |
25 |
Espen Aspnes/SINTEF |
Symposia=24 |
13 |
Daegu, Korea (Hybrid) |
Oct 24-26, 2022 |
296(104)*** |
22 |
Yeong-Ran Park/Korean Chapter ISG & KAPASS |
Symposia=25(5)*** |
14 |
Frankfurt, Germany |
Sept 9-11, 2024 |
Barbara Klein/ Frankfurt UAS / Austrian-German-Swiss Chapter |
Symposia= |
* includes 36 Master Class posters **includes keynotes & Gerontotech Platform presentations ***number online shown in brackets
Geographic Distribution of Participants
Conf. No./loc. |
Africa |
Asia |
Europe |
Oceania |
N. Amer |
S.Amer. |
1 Netherlands |
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2 Finland |
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3 Germany |
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4 USA |
3% |
10% |
25% |
1% |
60% |
1% |
5 Japan |
0% |
74% |
19% |
0% |
7.5% |
0% |
6 Italy |
2% |
28% |
63% |
1% |
7% |
0% |
7 Canada |
0% |
11% |
33% |
2% |
53% |
0.2% |
8 Netherlands |
1% |
23% |
58% |
1% |
14% |
3% |
9 Taiwan |
0% |
64% |
22% |
2.5% |
10% |
1% |
10 France |
0.3% |
14% |
68% |
1% |
15% |
0.3% |
11 USA |
0 |
14% |
22% |
5.5% |
55% |
3% |
12 Norway (Virtual) |
0 |
17% |
56% |
0.4% |
25% |
1% |
13 Korea (hybrid) |
0 |
71% |
17% |
0 |
9% |
2% |