Speaker

Name: Games for Health Europe Conference
Start: 2025-03-31T09:00
End: 2025-04-01T18:00

Speaker Info

Biography: Roger ter Heide is founder and CEO at ImproVive. He is a creator and producer of interactive experiences, specializing in Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). At ImproVive, he provides solutions for healthcare, business, education, and culture. Some of his impactful projects include the VR game ReAction, aimed at preventing knife violence, MotiVeeR UZeLf, focused on improving ICU care, and OK-Ready training students on preparing an Operating room. Roger has also contributed to projects like Soul Paint, a VR-experience on body mapping, which has earned multiple awards such as SXSW 2025 and Games for Change 2025. He currently focusses on interactive solutions using AI-technology for VR, AR, and 2D and voice platforms.

Summary: Serious games have been evolving over the past 10 years. I was at the first Games for Health conferences and assisted in the awards in those early years. At that moment it was all about bringing two worlds together the Game Developers and Health care professionals. Now see Healthcare professionals are seeing game technology as a part of their toolkit and are actively involved in design and realization. Technologies such as VR, Mixed Reality have matured and are being applied in a wide range of settings for clinical treatment, care and training. Now Generative AI (such as ChatGPT) is expanding possibilities and shortening development times. Finding new solutions that save time but still provide a high-quality care is a necessity to keep healthcare affordable and to provide the same level of care with less people. I will discuss a number of use cases from our own experiences that demonstrate these possibilities with VR-experiences on rehab (MotiVeerUzelf), mental wellness (SoulPaint and Deep), training (OK-Ready, Solutions VR), and the new possibilities we are now creating using AI.