What a day!
On Friday 17th of April, the RADAR-base community came together for our third symposium, hosted in the beautiful Gibbs Building at the Wellcome Trust. And we couldn’t have asked for a more inspiring day.
With almost 100 attendees joining us from academia, healthcare, and industry, the symposium was far more than a showcase of technology. It was a celebration of the collaborations, ideas, and shared mission driving the future of mobile health, remote monitoring, and wearable technologies.
From insightful keynote talks and engaging panel discussions to posters, demos, and networking conversations that carried on well beyond the sessions, the energy throughout the day reminded us exactly why this community matters so much.
Inspiring talks from leaders across digital health
We were honoured to welcome an exceptional group of speakers, including Will Dixon (University of Manchester) and Dimitris Spathis (Google), who shared exciting perspectives on AI, digital phenotyping, wearable sensing, and the future of real-world health data.
Throughout the day, speakers shared innovative applications of RADAR-base technology across multiple health domains, highlighting how open and scalable digital platforms can support impactful research and improve our understanding of health in everyday life.
Industry collaboration driving innovation
A huge thank you also goes to our industry partners, Garmin, Huawei, Empatica, PsychPlus and mySkin, whose continued collaboration and support are helping push the boundaries of wearable and mobile health research.
Attendees also had the chance to explore two exciting live demos from Empatica and DigiTherapix showcasing new tools and applications built using RADAR-base technologies.
A fascinating discussion on the future of wearables
One of the standout moments of the symposium was our panel discussion on the future of wearables and population-scale health research, featuring experts from UK Biobank, Our Future Health, and the Wellcome Trust.
The panel explored the opportunities and challenges surrounding large-scale digital health studies, AI-driven healthcare, participant engagement, and the growing importance of interoperable and open-source platforms in research and data sharing.
Posters, prizes, and community
The symposium also featured a vibrant poster session with 10 posters presented by members of the community, covering topics ranging from passive sensing and clinical studies to infrastructure and analytics.
Congratulations to all presenters, and especially to the winners of our three poster prizes:
- Wearable-Derived Physical Activity and Symptom Outcomes in Adults with ADHD [Katie Cunningham-Rowe];
- ADHD Remote Technology and ADHD Transition: Predicting and Preventing Negative Outcomes (ART-transition) – An Adolescent Prospective Cohort Study Protocol [Aislinn Bowler];
- Towards Open Respiratory Acoustic Foundation Models: Pretraining and Benchmarking [Yuwei (Evelyn) Zhang].
We are especially grateful to our main sponsor Onsentia helping support the event, and to Garmin for sponsoring the poster awards.
Thank you!
Most importantly, thank you to everyone who attended, presented, volunteered, and contributed to making RADAR-base Symposium 2026 such a success.
Seeing so many people come together to exchange ideas, build collaborations, and shape the future of digital health is exactly what makes this community so special.
Here’s to many more!🚀
Stay connected with us:
🌐 https://radar-base.org
📧 radar-base@kcl.ac.uk
[Brilliant photos by Nathan Clarke 📸]
