Keynote Speakers

	Joseph Kvedar, MD The Founder and Director of the Center for Connected Health. A division of Partners HealthCare in Boston, the Center for Connected Health works with Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals, including Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals. Dr. Kvedar is creating innovative programs to leverage information technology – cell phones, computers, networked devices and simple remote health monitoring tools – to help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes.  Dr. Kvedar is internationally recognized for his leadership and vision in the field of connected health and the application of communications technologies to improve healthcare to patients. He is a frequent lecturer and has authored over 70 publications on the subject
	Terrence Masson, BFA, MFA Terrence Masson is an Executive Professor, Head of Animation and Founding Director of Creative Industries at Northeastern University in Boston. He was Conference Chair of the 2010 ACM SIGGRAPH conference and Chair of the SIGGRAPH 2006 Computer Animation Festival. He has directed award winning short animated films, was the sole developer of the original South Park CG animation technique, and has credits in 20 feature films, including three Star Wars movies, Hook, True Lies and Interview with a Vampire.
	Michael Paasche-Orlow, MD, MPH Dr. Paasche-Orlow is an Associate Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine, at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. Dr. Paasche-Orlow is one of the world’s leading researchers in the area of health literacy, and has chaired the Health Literacy Annual Research Conference for the last five years. Dr. Paasche-Orlow has been a champion of health technology for underserved, disadvantaged, and low literacy populations for the last decade, participating in the development and evaluation of several technology-based interventions to remediate low health literacy.
	Rosalind W. Picard, ScD Prof. Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab and co-director of the Things That Think Consortium. She is also co-founder of Affectiva, Inc., delivering technology to help measure and communicate emotion. Prof. Picard published the award-winning book Affective Computing, which was instrumental in starting a new field by that name. Picard has been awarded dozens of distinguished and named lectureships internationally and in 2005 was honored as a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to image and video analysis and affective computing. The author of over two hundred scientific articles and chapters in multidimensional signal modeling, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and affective computing, Picard is an international leader in envisioning and creating innovative technology.