CERN tech nominated for innovation award at 2022 Geneva Health Forum

At the 2022 Geneva Health Forum, CERN showcased how technologies and innovation behind high-energy physics can contribute to innovations within medical applications

The Geneva Health Forum
The Geneva Health Forum was held from 3 to 5 May, 2022 at the Centre International de Conférence de Genève (CICG). (Image: CERN)

At the 2022 Geneva Health Forum, CERN showcased how technologies and innovation behind high-energy physics can contribute to innovations within medical applications. CAFEIN, a federated learning platform for collaborative AI training, was one of the seven finalists nominated for the Jet d’Or innovation award.

Other technologies were the CERN’s COVID Airborne Risk Assessment tool; Planetwatch, a CERN spin-off providing a solution to generate, validate, analyse and record air quality data; MARCHESE, a portable device to recognise and monitor human beings; CS4OD, CERN science for open data, and BAQlab, a startup to tackled radon gas.