SwRI Celebrates Fifth Anniversary of International Human Performance Summit

Southwest Research Institute will hold its annual International Human Performance Summit (IHPS) July 20-21 at its San Antonio headquarters, uniting sports scientists with athletic organizations, academia and military units to explore the latest breakthroughs in human performance research.

“We started this event in 2017 to take research out of the laboratory and put it into practical use across a broad spectrum of applications, from competitive athletics to combat zones,” said Kase Saylor, a research manager in SwRI’s Intelligent Systems Division and co-lead of the Institute’s Human Performance Initiative.

This year’s event will focus on the topics of motion optimization, sprint biomechanics, biomolecular athletes, human digital twin, recovery, and strength and conditioning applications. Speakers include the following experts:

• Johnny Owens, BS, MPT, CEO and Director of Clinical Research and Education for Owens Recovery Science
• John Drazan, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering, Fairfield University
• Robb Rogers, M.Ed., 101st Division Sustainment Brigade (DSB), H2F Directory, 101st Airborne
• Dawn Kernagis, Ph.D., vice chair for Neurosurgery Research, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
• Robin Thorpe, Ph.D., Sports Science, Strength and Conditioning, lead, Red Bull GmbH
• Jill McNitt-Gray, Ph.D., professor, University of Southern California
• Andy Galpin, Ph.D., professor, California State University, Fullerton
• Dimitrije Cabarkapa, Ph.D., Director of Basketball Research, Jayhawk Athletic Performance Laboratory, University of Kansas 

“It is a privilege to host speakers and attendees from so many impressive organizations coming together to share their human performance knowledge across so many disciplines,” said Koen Flores, an SwRI engineer who is co-organizing IHPS 2023.

The Summit registration includes course materials, two days of interactive presentations and discussions, and breakfast, lunch and refreshments. The cost is $300.

The Summit is organized by SwRI’s Human Performance Initiative, which applies a multidisciplinary scientific and engineering approach to better understand and quantify the complex biomechanical and physiological components of physical performance. SwRI scientists and engineers represent diverse technical backgrounds that include biomechanics, computer science, machine learning, systems engineering, sensor fusion, biomedical engineering, physics, statistics and applied mathematics.

For more information, visit https://ihps.swri.org or watch a video here https://youtu.be/kZvQ83bBvJs.