Dr. Leslie Saxon, Founder and Executive Director of the USC Center for Body Computing, will be hosting an Innovation and Future Hacking Event on Jan 29 – 30, 2025 at ICT. This 2-day immersive conference is an invite-only occasion for the first cohort of the USC Distinguished Leaders [#uscdistinguishedleaders] program, a new educational venture from the University of Southern California (USC) which enables seasoned professionals to leverage the university’s education and research preeminence to chart new paths of global impact, personal exploration and intellectual enrichment.
“This event, with a specific emphasis on medical and human performance themes, will showcase the roles that both USC ICT and the Center for Body Computing play in USC’s unique interdisciplinary education and novel educational models,” said Dr. Leslie Saxon, who serves as an Expert Advisor on the USC Distinguished Leaders program.
“During their time with us, the first cohort of business leaders will see demos from ICT’s Mixed Reality (MxR) and Medical Virtual Reality Labs, as well as hear from industry leaders on topics such as Digital Health as a Business, Internet 3.0 and Human Performance in the Military,” confirmed Dr. Saxon.
The USC Center for Body Computing (CBC), founded by the renowned cardiologist Dr. Leslie Saxon, focuses on digital tools and technologies to transform health and human performance. Located within the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), a unit of the Viterbi School of Engineering and a Department of Defense (DoD) University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), sponsored by the US Army, CBC’s research programs use state of the art wearable sensors, ethical systems, and cyber secure software platforms, to demonstrate that continuous measurement delivers highly-accurate and holistic health insights to the individual.
CBC works in collaboration with over one hundred partners (DoD, HHS, NIH, FDA) and both medically regulated, and non-regulated, medical and technology companies. Current research tracks include: cORA: 200 participants: 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Liberty 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, Camp Pendleton; Marine Battalion study: 500 Marines, Camp Pendleton; SOCPAC: 350 senior service members: Special Operations Command, Pacific, Camp HM Smith, Hawaii and NTC: 150 Brigade senior leaders, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, CA.
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