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You’ll have been hard pushed not to have heard the word “metaverse” over the past few months.Before you stop reading, this article is not going to be a review of deep tech, but more a heads up that a future world of immersive technology and environments is going to fundamentally …

Henry Jones (CEO, Togetherall) gives his presentation at the November 2021 Congress event on the power of community, with a focus on “Togetherall”, a for-profit social impact business that strives to increase the connectedness of their users to each other.

Mohd Akhtaar (CEO & Founder, Mindful Muslim) discusses his journey through developing the mental health start-up “Mindful Muslim”, which is the world’s first Islamic mental health app.

Commissioned by the Ministry of Health and developed by the Health Navigator Charitable Trust, the assessment framework – known as the Digital Mental Health & Addiction Tool (DMHAT) – will help anyone involved in the design, development and use of e-mental health tools to ensure the products meet acceptable quality …

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had an immense impact infecting 10 million individuals and claiming 500,000 lives globally as of 1 July 2020 (1). The rapid spread was largely enabled by the onset of the outbreak in Wuhan city just prior to the Lunar New Year season, a …

Lack of timely access to effective mental health and addiction treatment services is a major issue worldwide. Individuals, families, workplaces, and societies all suffer as a result. Using digital therapeutic tools can help expand services at a low cost.

An expert international panel from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Singapore present and discuss the successes and challenges they have faced during the implementation of eMental Health services in their respective communities in the midst of a global pandemic.

In this presentation, Cameron Fox (Health Technologies Lead, World Economic Forum) discusses the development of a global governance for digital mental health. His project “Disruptive Technologies in Mental Health” is a joint initiative by the World Economic Forum and Deloitte.

In this Congress presentation, Derek McCormack, Anil Thapliyal and Phil Grady acknowledge the speakers that had led previous topics, summarise the state of eMental health implementation in society, and comment on the exciting future direction of digital mental health.

Despite the exponential growth of available chatbot apps for users to engage with, James Murray ( Vice President, Business Development and Enterprise Partnerships, Woebot Health, USA) and colleagues felt that an empathetic connection was lacking in these user-service interactions, with these interactions feeling more transactional than realistic.