EVENTS
Wearables, Agentic AI, and Living Labs: The Future of Health Innovation
This webinar examines how wearable technologies, mobile health platforms, agentic AI, and Living Labs can advance health innovation beyond traditional research settings. It explores how continuous sensing and intelligent conversational systems can enable personalized, data-driven, and context-aware health support, and how real-world Living Labs can help researchers evaluate technologies with communities in practical and culturally responsive ways.
Amir M. Rahmani, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the UCI Institute for Future Health and a professor in the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing and the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His interdisciplinary research spans artificial intelligence for health, wearable and mobile sensing, health informatics, machine learning, and physiological signal analysis.
External Webinar | Penn AI and Tech Collaboratory for Healthy Aging
Prof. Amir M. Rahmani presented Wearables, Agentic AI, and Living Labs: The Future of Health Innovation as part of the Penn AI and Tech Collaboratory for Healthy Aging webinar series.
About the Webinar
This webinar explored how wearable technology, mobile health platforms, and agentic artificial intelligence are helping move healthcare research beyond traditional laboratory settings. Prof. Rahmani discussed how continuous sensing and intelligent conversational systems can support personalized, data-driven, and context-aware approaches to health.
The presentation also highlighted the role of Living Labs—real-world environments where emerging technologies can be designed, tested, and evaluated with communities—and considered how culturally aware health technologies can contribute to more inclusive and effective innovation.
Event Details
- Date: Thursday, March 12, 2026
- Time: 12:00 PM Eastern Time / 9:00 AM Pacific Time
- Location: Online
- Organizer: Penn AI and Tech Collaboratory for Healthy Aging
- Recording: Watch the webinar on YouTube
- Event information: University of Pennsylvania Almanac
This is an external Penn webinar featuring Prof. Rahmani as the invited speaker.

