Keynote Speakers Otto Schmitt: The Schmitt Trigger and his Many Other Major Contributions to Bioelectromagnetism Robert Patterson Were the First Ones Really the First Ones? Jaakko Malmivuo Monitoring of Thoracic Activity Using Electromagnetic Coupling. Daniel Teichmann Adaptive Signal Sampling for High Throughput, Broadband Impedance Spectroscopy Uwe Pliquett The Early History of Impedance Cardiography and Reflections on its Current State. Robert Patterson