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From Google Glass to Dementia Care

EU-Startups Podcast··6 October 2026·21 min

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Dr. Babak Parviz, CEO and founder of NewDays.ai Key points: After building everything from Google Glass to healthcare businesses at Amazon, dementia represented a deep, human problem worth building a company around AI can already make a meaningful difference for dementia patients and their families, but the real goal is improving lives, not impressive demos Europe and Asia's ageing populations at scale make them especially important testing grounds for new models of dementia care Small companies can do things in healthcare that tech giants sometimes cannot Cautious approach to health data and AI regulation may not just slow innovation - it could help build better and more trusted products