The 17th World Congress of ISPO was held in Kobe, Japan from 5-8 October 2019 under the guiding theme “Basics to Bionics”. See here the congress and exhibition in numbers:
- 4,400 participants from 97 countries (63% Japanese participants
- 154 exhibitors from 38 countries (including 35 organisations in the International Community Lounge)
- 5 Keynote presentations
- 24 Symposia
- 28 Instructional Courses
- 348 Free Papers
- 129 Posters
- 154 exhibitors from 38 countries
- 31 travel grant recipients
Highlights of the congress included:
- Knud Jansen lecture presented by David Constantine (Motivation)Â view
- Keynote lectures delivered by Bob Gailey, Saeed Zahedi and Gubela Mji
- IC2A Inspirational Lecture delivered by Desmond Tung view
- Forchheimer Prize awarded to Lis Sjoberg, Helen Lindner and Liselotte Hermansson for their paper “Long-term results of early myoelectric prosthesis fittings: A prospective case-control study” view
- Brian & Joyce Blatchford Team Prize for Innovation awarded to the “Coapt Engineering” project by Blair Lock, Levi Hargrove and Todd Kuiken view
- Exhibition on Robotics
