How Hearing Healthcare will Evolve in 2022: Discussion with Kat Penno and Andy Bellavia

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January 4, 2022

In this week’s episode, Dave Kemp chats with Kat Penno, Director of Hearing Health at Nuheara, and Andy Bellavia, Director of Market Development for Knowles Corp.

The 2-part episode provides a deep dive into where things are headed in 2022, including:

  • The increasing sophistication of patient expectations and education
  • Hearing device technology innovations currently underway
  • The evolution of hearing care service delivery models

<strong>Part 1 Transcript Here</strong>

 

<strong>Part 2 Transcript Here</strong>

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About the Panel

Kat Penno is the Director of Hearing Health at Nuheara. Prior to joining Nuheara, Penno was the president and founder of The Hearing Collective, which provides hearing consultations for businesses. She holds a Master of Clinical audiology from the University of Western Australia, where she is currently a guest lecturer.

 

Andrew Bellavia is the Dir. of Market Development for Knowles Corp, a leading acoustic solutions provider to the hearables, smart speaker, mobile, and IoT industries. He has been personally involved in supporting the development of many innovative hearable devices since the beginning with pioneers like Bragi and Nuheara. Andrew is also an advocate for the role technology can play in addressing hearing loss, and in the practical use cases for voice in the coming hearables revolution. When not in the office he can usually be found running the roads of N. Illinois, and until recently, the world, often photographing as he goes.

 

Dave Kemp is the Director of Business Development & Marketing at Oaktree Products and the Founder & Editor of Future Ear. In 2017, Dave launched his blog, FutureEar.co, where he writes about what’s happening at the intersection of voice technology, wearables and hearing healthcare. In 2019, Dave started the Future Ear Radio podcast, where he and his guests discuss emerging technology pertaining to hearing aids and consumer hearables. He has been published in the Harvard Business Review, co-authored the book, “Voice Technology in Healthcare,” writes frequently for the prominent voice technology website, Voicebot.ai, and has been featured on NPR’s Marketplace.

 

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