2021 Conference

Day 1 - October 28, 2021

Opening Session
Opening remarks by Andreas Mershin
“What the dog’s nose knows, and what it can teach us” - Dr. Claire Guest
"What have Alan Turing and the Future Science of Smell in Common?” - Prof. Ann-Sophie Barwich, Indiana University
“Talking Scents” - Michael Benson, Author - Space Odyssey, MIT/NASA
Q&A

Session 2
Intro by Karolina Sulich
“E-nose Technology: The Beginning” - Dr. Susan S. Schiffman, PhD North Carolina State University
"Connecting Human Perception to Artificial intelligence, AI.” - Michael McGinley, Laboratory Director St. Croix Sensory, Inc.
“Odeuropa – Olfactory Heritage & Sensory Mining” - Prof.dr. Inger Leemans, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences & VU University Amsterdam, Odeuropa
“Pathways to Instrumenting Scent Detection” - Pat Moran, President at Aptect Corp
“Presence and Intention with Olfaction” - Prof. Matthew Waldman, Keio University
“Combining Peptides , Silicon Photonics and Universal Representation to detect and analyze smells” - Dr. Tristan Rousselle, Founder & deputy CEO at Aryballe technologies
Q&A

Session 4 - Applications of Olfaction Science and Technology
Intro by Dr. Andreas Mershin
"Scentian Bio - a new way to sense the world" - Dr. Andrew Kralicek
"Mimicking dogs to sniff out cancer" - Konstantinos Papakonstantinou
“Diffusion fails to make a stink” - Dr. Gerard McCaul
“Smart-shoe. Smart-wear” - Phil Sarazen
"Improving incontinence care with Enose technology" - Stephanie Brener, Weizmann Institute, MSc student, Machine olfaction
Q&A

Ideathon Session 2
Data, Hardware, Applications, Ethics/law, and Everything Else!
Nikhil Lal / Karolina Sulich / Chris Rose

Closing Remarks
“Beginnings. Hope” by prof. Chris Rose

Day 2 - October 29, 2021

Opening Session Future of Scent
“EI_AI” - Sissel Tolaas, Smell Researcher & Artist
“Olfaction Technology Review”- Nikhil Lal
“Ideation in Space - How olfaction can influence Space Exploration. Conclusions after M5 Sensoria analog astronaut mission at habitat Lunares” - Karolina Sulich
“Sensing the City: Spatial Spectrogramy” - Joris Daniel Komen, PhD Candidate: MIT PhD Candidate: MIT Computation Group
“OVR - Spatial Olfactory Virtual Reality for Behavioral Outcomes” - Aaron Wisniewski, CEO/Co Founder OVR Technology
Q&A

Introduction of Moot Court Competition
The Moot Court Problem - Link to the Story
Introduction - Dimitrios Ioannidis Esq.
Introduction of Justices and Participants - Opening by Clerk of the Supreme Court
Arguments:
Claimant (Dionisio Antonio Mulone and Cassie Nedder)
Respondent (Zelda Bank and Madison Bush) 
Final Deliberation by Judges

Session 2 - Ethics, Vision of the Future where Molecular Recognition is Commonplace
“Olfaction Vindicates Creativity Machine Paradigm” - Dr. Stephen L. Thaler, President, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Imagination Engines Inc.
“Creating a Digital Archive of Scent Objects” - Saskia Wilson-Brown, Founder of The Institute for Art and Olfaction
“Recognizing molecules with nanomaterial corona phases” - Dr. Xun Gong, Strano laboratory MIT
Michael Benson & Chris Rose in conversation

Closing Remarks
“No Conscent: Imminent emanations oblige data subject preeminence” - Prof. David Carroll, associate professor, Parsons School of Design, The New School

Day 3 | Saturday 30th October

Opening session
“Challenges of human centered design driven Innovation” - Prof. Federico Casalegno, Head of Samsung Design Innovation Center and Next Generation Product Strategy
“MITRealNose - nanonose” - Dr. Andreas Mershin, MIT
“Canine and Machine Olfaction in Human Prostate Cancer Diagnosis” - Thomas Johnson, Prostate Cancer Foundation
“Some serious sniffing around: Harnessing dogs to detect GI disease” - Dr. Joshua Korzenik, Director of Crohn's and Colitis Center, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Q&A

Ideathon Sharing Part 1
Presentation of works and Ideas developed during the conference.
Prof. Chris Rose
Mark Araujo
Yujei Wang
Video presentation

Session 1
"Cancer Metabolism: Outrunning Evolution" - Dr. Bruce J. Trock, Director, Division of Epidemiology, Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins Professor of Urology
“Sniff ‘em out early – Early detection is real…and important!” - Dr. Adam Feldman, Urologist | Urologic Oncologist , Director, Combined Harvard Urologic Oncology Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Urology
“Title: Olfaction and Neuroimmunity: Scent as adjuvant in vaccines and mental health” - Dr. Simmie L. Foster MD, PhD Depression Clinical Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
“Seeing the unseen” - Prof. Cecília Roque, Associate Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Q&A

Session 2 - Nosemakers
Dr. Shuguang Zhang MIT Media Lab, Laboratory for Molecular Architecture
"Measuring smell and taste for actionable product development insights" - Dr. Ilya Kolb, Senior Project Manager at Aromyx
“Dogs can do it. Can we do better?” - Dr. Wen-Yee Lee, University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
“Distributed olfaction for augmented awareness” - Dr. Joseph Azzarelli, Azztek
"Bringing Artificial Olfaction from the Lab to the Industry" - Lucas Lopez from Volatile AI
“On demand bio-production of aromas to enhance flavors and food experience for astronauts” - Sara Nejad Designer
Q&A

Ideathon Sharing Part 2
Presentation of Ideathon ideas
Jacob
Julia
Julia
Guest Presentation
”Creating with Scent” - M Dougherty, olfactory artist, designer, and researcher

Closing Remarks: Setting the direction for the future of Scent and Olfaction technologies
“Nosetrodamus” - Joe Davis, Artist/Scientist at Harvard Medical School/MIT
Q&A