Thursday, October 22, 2026

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM

AusMedtech Breakout Room

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Laronix is Australia's leading medtech innovator in next-Gen artificial larynx devices for voiceless people. Human voice loss is an untreated problem affecting 150 million people worldwide. Conventional solutions are highly invasive, and they sound robotic or hoarse and whispery and male, even for women. Laronix is a global innovator in this domain and has commercial artificial larynx products powered by advanced Voice AI across over 40 US and Australian hospitals. This session shares the exciting story of how Laronix's AI-powered voice-restoration technology crossed paths with one of the world’s leading technology companies. How did an Australian medtech innovator build a meaningful collaboration with Google, and how did it all begin? How did Laronix's collaboration with Google lead to a global breakthrough in ultra-realistic voice restoration technologies for voiceless people? The session will also share the challenges, learnings, and outcomes along the way. Dr Farzaneh Ahmadi (Laronix CEO) and Ramesh Heidary, Customer Engineer, Health Tech and Life Sciences from Google will share the practical journey behind the collaboration and showcase the technology in action, demonstrating its potential to restore a natural, personalized voice for people who have lost their ability to speak. The discussion will reveal how global technology partnerships can help advance Australian innovation and accelerate its global impact.

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