Events – Tessa Beinema

Posted on July 1, 2026November 1, 2026
Posted in Events, Presentations

Presenting at ICA 2026 (and Exploring South Africa)

In June 2026, I traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, to attend the International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, one of the leading international conferences in the field of communication science.

Posted on March 6, 2026March 6, 2026
Posted in Events, Invited talks, Outreach, Presentations

AI will always love you

On Thursday, February 26th, I had the pleasure of being invited to present at the KNAW "AI will always love you" session, which is part of their series "Algorithm of our society".

Posted on February 10, 2026November 1, 2026
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Presentation at Etmaal 2026

On 5 and 6 February 2026, I attended the Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap in Papendal, Arnhem, the annual conference for communication researchers in the Netherlands and Flanders.

Posted on November 5, 2025February 4, 2026
Posted in Events, Outreach, Presentations

Attended the VU-UT Alliance day

On November 4, the VU-UT Alliance day took place. There, we presented a poster about our Responsible Chatbot Teams for Human Digital Interactions project (funded by a 2025 VU-UT Seed Grant).

Posted on October 6, 2025February 4, 2026
Posted in Events, Outreach

Robot Interaction Hackathon

On October 2, we held a Hackathon as part of the Robot Interaction course for second-year AI bachelor students at VU Amsterdam.

Posted on September 17, 2025February 4, 2026
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Presenting at MediaPsych 2025

Last week, I attended the 14th Conference of the Media Psychology Division in Duisburg, Germany.

Posted on September 2, 2025February 4, 2026
Posted in Events, Outreach, Presentations

Workshop at RO-MAN 2025

In the week of August 25th, I attended the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Posted on June 6, 2024September 11, 2024
Posted in Events, Outreach, Presentations

Presenting at HealthByTech 2024

On Thursday the 30th and Friday the 31st of May, I attended this year's Supporting Health by Technology conference in Groningen.

Posted on November 17, 2023September 11, 2024
Posted in Events, Outreach, Presentations

Symposium: Digitalising Genetic Counselling

Last week, I co-organised the first symposium on digitalising genetic counselling from the initiative of our eCG Family Clinic project. Hosted at Paushuize in Utrecht, the day featured an interesting programme with international speakers who are experts on health technology in the genetics context. Prof. Dr. Peter van Tintelen from the UMC Utrecht officially opened

Posted on June 5, 2023September 11, 2024
Posted in Events, Invited talks, Outreach, Presentations

Invited talk: AI & Health Conference

On Friday June 2nd, I was invited to present at the AI & Health Conference 2023. This full-day event was organised by the VU Campus Center in collaboration with Amsterdam Medical Data Science.

Posted on November 3, 2022August 9, 2024
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Invited talk: The TechMed Event

On Wednesday, November 2nd, I gave an invited talk as part of the first plenary session of the TechMed Event. In this session about ‘the staffing crisis in healthcare’, I presented the work performed during our Council of Coaches project and on the two resulting open source platforms: the WOOL Dialogue Platform and Agents United.

Posted on January 16, 2022August 9, 2024
Posted in Events, Milestones

PhDone!

A month ago, I successfully defended my PhD thesis! This marked the end of a period of four years at Roessingh Research and Development and the University of Twente, in which I investigated how we could tailor coaching conversations with virtual health coaches.