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Do you wonder what the future of our mental healthcare and well-being looks like? How digitalization could offer new opportunities here? And what is needed to make this happen?

Congratulations to all (inter)national expert speakers and participants of the incredible MindTech Summit – Innovating Digital Behavioral Health, who deep-dived into this important societal topic. The summit focused on improving the access to and increasing the effectiveness of mental healthcare offered.

The program also addressed the importance of engagement by showing that the collaboration between academia and industry is paramount to researching how digitalization and technological innovations can contribute to solving complex behavioral health issues.

We are therefore proud to have supported this inspiring and essential summit as a partner and host at our Erasmus Data Collaboratory | House of AI at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Our program manager immersive tech Frederike Manders also shared her key insights related to the main topic.

The MindTech Summit aims to catalyze advancements in behavioral healthcare by addressing pressing challenges, promoting innovation, and fostering collaborations between academia and industry. The ambition is to build strong partnerships to create and commercialize cutting-edge technology solutions in behavioral healthcare within the next five years.

Key themes driving this mission are:

1. AI-driven solutions: exploring transformative AI applications in behavioral health.

2. Collaboration challenges: discussing obstacles in bringing technical solutions to end users.

3. Bridging the gap: fostering a dialogue and partnerships between academia and industry.