"The medical and healthcare sector presents a different set of challenges. Medical device manufacturers (the largest of which are always represented at IDTechEx's events) have followed trends towards more comfortable, flexible convenient and accessible products over several decades. As such, even individual wearable products in this sector have already achieved $1bn in annual sales. Advances in materials, wireless communication, data storage/analysis and more have started to make an impact. Attendees will hear from large players like Bayer Healthcare, discussing their key technology needs. Touch Bionics will show just how far the ultimate wearable, prostheses, have come over the years. Biolinq will show us the future of chemical sensing via skin patches. Cyrcadia Health will show how they have innovated to revolutionize early breast wellness screening."