Opening ceremony and greetings on September 17, 2012
Welcome speeches of the conference chairmen

Prof. Dr. med. Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Schmitz-Rode
Chairman of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering

Prof. Dr. Thomas Deufel
State Secretary of Thuringian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture

Frank Schenker
Mayor of Jena

Dr. Arnulf Wulff
Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft Thüringen mbH (LEG Thüringen)

Main speech
Prof. Dr. Klaus Dicke
Rector of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena 

Award ceremony of the Klee-Prize
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Olaf Dössel
Chairman of Awards Committee

Award ceremony of the Award for Patient Safety in Medical Technology
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uvo Hölscher
Chairman of Awards Committee

Musical progamme: cello-quartet of the Faculty for Physics and Astronomy at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (under the direction of Prof: Dr. M. Kaluza)
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Main speech during the social event at  Zeiss-Planetarium Jena on September 18, 2012

Matthias Machnig
Minister of Thuringian Ministry of Economy, Employment and Technology
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Keynotes on September 17 - 19, 2012

Perkutan implantierbare Herzklappen: Patientenfreundliche Therapie durch Medizintechnik
Prof. Dr. med. Hans-Reiner Figulla, MD
Clinic for Internal Medicine I, Jena University Hospital, Germany 

Bioelectric environments for stem cell derived neurons and cardiomyocytes
Prof. Dr. Jari Hyttinen, Ph.D
Director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tampere University of Technology and BioMEdiTech, Tampere, Finland

Optical coherence tomography - from research to routine medical diagnostics
Dr. Michael Kempe, Ph.D
Carl Zeiss AG Corporate Research & Technology, Jena

Strahlentherapie von Krebs mit laserbeschleunigten Ionen – eine Vision
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Roland Sauerbrey
Scientific Director of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres

Information from Graphical Analysis of HRV
Prof. Dr. Phyllis K. Stein, Ph.D
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Director of Heart Rate Variability Laboratory, Washington University School of Medicine, USA

In-vivo Human Molecular Imaging Using PET-MRI Fusion Imaging Technology
Prof. Dr. Zang-Hee Cho, Ph.D
Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute (NRI) of Gachon University of Medicine and Science, Republic of Korea