The world-renowned CES Innovation Awards® program is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products. Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the awards highlight the most transformative tech innovations, spanning 36 product categories, from education and enterprise to film, logistics and travel.
These winners of the annual awards also have a chance to display their innovation at the CES Innovation Awards Showcase, one of the most powerful tech events in the world, held annually every January.
Ahead of the annual showcase, the CES Innovation Awards® 2026 honorees have been announced. With over 3600 product submissions this year, the products that made the final cut represent those with the most exceptional designs and solutions.
Deep Care, a German health tech start-up based in Ludwigsburg that specializes in AI-supported prevention in the workplace, was named an Honoree in the Digital Health category in recognition of the ‘Isa Resilience Coach’ – a product that recognizes signals of stress in every life. The team will travel to Las Vegas this January for the CES conference.
Building healthier habits with AI
Deep Care impressed the judges on the Digital Health panel thanks to its unique product that offers a standout solution to stress management through the Isa Resilience Coach.
The company’s original product, Isa, is already being used by over 250 companies and health insurance companies across Europe. The Isa Resilience Coach brings the technology forward to consumers. In addition to musculoskeletal and metabolic prevention functions, the new Resilience Coach now extends the system to recognise cognitive and mental stress.
The Isa Resilience Coach is a sensor-based assistance system that recognises stress signals in everyday working life in order to take early countermeasures. The product helps to tackle burnout, improve work-life balance and reduce physical risks associated with office work.
The compact device is able to analyze things like breathing rate, gaze behaviour and micro-movements through a locally operated AI tool. In turn, the product offers immediate notifications that allow users to recognize when behaviours need to be addressed.
For example, Isa recognises how long users are concentrating on a task and helps them to find a healthy balance between focus and recovery – long enough to get into the flow, but not so long that productivity decreases.
These insights are delivered with privacy as a paramount consideration. The product is fully compliant with data protection regulations, without a camera or cloud connection.
According to Dr. Milad Geravand, CEO & co-founder of Deep Care, “We spend eight hours a day sitting down, usually for our entire working lives. Many people already use wearables such as Whoop or Oura to optimise leisure habits such as sleep, training or recovery.”
“However, our working habits in particular, even though they make up the majority of our everyday lives, usually go unnoticed. This is exactly where Isa comes in,” added the executive.
Smart Health support for every desk
Up to now, the focus for Deep Care has been on occupational health management. However, despite a high response, budgets in this area are limited. Deep Care therefore wants to increasingly address end consumers directly.
“If we take our goal of achieving a real social impact seriously, we cannot rely solely on employers or health insurance companies,“ said Geravand.
“Our vision is clear: every person who regularly works at a desk should have access to smart health support,“ he continued.
Since its foundation in 2020, the company has been developing technologies that promote movement, ergonomics and mental health in everyday working life – scientifically sound, intuitive to use and fully compliant with data protection regulations. With the aim of putting artificial intelligence at the service of human health, Deep Care is one of the German pioneers in the field of digital health and makes prevention tangible where it has the greatest impact: in everyday life.
Global reach for the Isa Resilience Coach
The CES award is not just recognition for Deep Care, but also a strategic milestone: it marks the start of the company’s positioning as a strong lifestyle health brand and its imminent market entry in the USA.
The company has been accepted into the German Accelerator Programme, has already founded its own US company, Deep Care Inc., and is holding initial talks with US partners from the corporate health and insurance sectors and potential lighthouse customers. Initial pilot projects are in preparation.
According to a statement from the company, the Isa Resilience Coach is scheduled to go on sale in early 2026.
