LOS ANGELES, CA — (Marketwired) — 04/24/13 — XPRIZE and Nokia are pleased to announce the Judging Panel and Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) for the first competition in the $2.25 million Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE, a fixed-date series of two separate and consecutive competitions over two years to develop sensing technologies that capture meaningful information about a consumer-s state of health and surrounding environment.
The Judging Panel is comprised of nine thought leaders and industry experts who have cross-functional and relevant expertise in sensors, sensing and mobile health technologies. Judges will be tasked with reviewing team submissions made during the Judging Phase and selecting the most credible entries in the areas of accuracy and consistency, demonstration quality, technical innovation, human factors, market opportunity, originality and user experience.
The Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE Judging Panel consists of:
Chief of the Diagnostics, Disease Surveillance, and Threat Detection Division within the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
, Former Director of Healthcare Innovation for the Microsoft Health Solutions Group and founded and led the Microsoft Healthcare Innovation Lab
, Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics, UCSD
, Founder and CEO of AnthroTronix
Senior Scientist, Strategic Analysis, Inc.
, Chief Technology Officer, West Health Institute
, Founder & CEO LinkedObjects
, Head of Digital Health Strategy, Popper & Co. and Founder, Digital Health Group
, Founder and CEO, Kesembe Inc.
“We are very pleased with the caliber of individuals on the Judging Panel and Scientific Advisory Board members, and the diverse skill sets they bring to the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE,” said Mark Winter, Senior Director, Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE. “The goal of this competition is to stimulate the development of a wide array of new sensors that will help to enable the mobile health industry. Our Judging and Scientific Advisory Board members operate at the forefront of the mobile health revolution and fully understand the significance of biosensors and sensing to the future of personalized healthcare.”
The SAB includes three industry leaders who are highly regarded in their respective fields of expertise including precision medicine, biomedical informatics, sensors and sensing technologies, mass storage solutions, nanotechnologies, and health and wellness applications. In addition to establishing qualifications for the Judging Panel and approving their appointment, the SAB also advised XPRIZE and Nokia on the development of the judging criteria and final competition guidelines and will continue to provide expert input and oversight on the management and operations of the competition.
Members of the SAB include:
, Executive Director, FutureMed, Medicine Track Chair, Singularity University, Founder & CEO, IntelliMedicine, Inventor of the MarrowMiner
, Director, Head of Sensor and Material Technologies Laboratory, Nokia
, Co-Founder and CEO of Impatient Science
“We have some of the top influencers and thought leaders across multiple industries serving as members of the Judging Panel and Scientific Advisory Board,” said Henry Tirri, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Nokia. “Their collective minds will ultimately determine the winner of the competition based not only on a team-s objective performance, but also the impact and viability of their technology as determined by the Judging Panel. As such, it was critical to appoint judges and SAB members who have cross-functional backgrounds and relevant expertise beyond just the field of health technology.”
Registration for the first Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE officially closed on April 5, 2013, with 33 teams from eight countries competing for a prize purse that includes a $525,000 Grand Prize and up to five Distinguished Awards, each valued at $120,000. During the Qualifying Round, the next phase of the challenge, the Judging Panel will assess team submissions and narrow the field down to 10 finalists. The Final Round, which will take place in September 2013, will bring competitors and judges together, providing teams with the chance to present their sensing technology in a live setting. The winner of the first challenge will be announced at the conclusion of the Final Round judging phase in early October 2013.
For more information about the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE, please visit .
Founded in 1995, XPRIZE, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is the leading organization solving the world-s Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in research and development worth far more than the prize itself. The organization motivates and inspires brilliant innovators from all disciplines to leverage their intellectual and financial capital for the benefit of humanity. XPRIZE conducts competitions in five Prize Groups: Education; Exploration; Energy & Environment; Global Development; and Life Sciences. Active prizes include the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE, the $10 million Archon Genomics XPRIZE presented by Express Scripts, the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, and the $2.25 million Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE. For more information, go to .
Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have become an integral part of the lives of people around the world. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people use their Nokia to capture and share experiences, access information, find their way or simply to speak to one another. Nokia-s technological and design innovations have made its brand one of the most recognized in the world. For more information, visit .
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