Speakers

David Metcalf has more than 25 years of experience designing and researching web-based and mobile technologies converging to enable learning and healthcare. Dr. Metcalf is Director of the Mixed Emerging Technology Integration Lab (METIL) at UCF's Institute for Simulation and Training. The team has built mHealth solutions, simulations, games, eLearning, mobile, enterprise IT systems for Google, J&J, VA, U.S. military, UCF's College of Medicine, and many others. Recent projects include Lake Nona’s Intelligent Home and transmedia, adaptive learning projects using mobile, AR, and sims. Dr. Metcalf encourages spinoffs from the lab as part of the innovation process and has launched Merging Traffic and several other for-profits and non-profit ventures as examples. In addition to research and commercial investments, he supports social entrepreneurship in education and health. Dr. Metcalf continues to bridge the gap between corporate learning, simulation techniques, non-profit and social entrepreneurship. AI, blockchain, cybersecurity, IoT, simulation, mobilization, mobile patient records and medical decision support systems, visualization systems, scalability models, secure mobile data communications, gaming, innovation management and operational excellence are current research topics. Dr. Metcalf frequently presents at industry and research events shaping business strategy and technologies used to improve learning, health, and human performance. For more information, see http://metil.org. He is the co-editor/author of HIMSS Voice Technology in Healthcare (2020), HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare (2019), Blockchain Enabled Applications (2018), Connected Health (2017), HIMSS mHealth Innovation (2014), and the HIMSS best-seller mHealth: From Smartphones to Smart Systems (2012).