Day 1 - Satursday 17 October, 2026

All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
8:50 a.m. WELCOME REMARKS 
9:00 a.m. Keynote Talk

Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich, Germany
Session I: Developing and Embracing AI Technology  
 9:50 a.m. Invited Talk
A vision-centric AI model spatially decodes the perineural niche in pancreatic cancer
Christina Leslie, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
10:15 a.m. Short Talk 
10:30 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
10:50 a.m. Invited Talk
AI for Single-Cell and Spatial Omics: Shaping the Future of Human Biology and Medicine
Rong Fan, Yale University, USA
11:15 a.m. Short Talk
11:30 a.m. Invited Talk
Digital Organ: From 2D Analysis to 3D Reconstruction
Jin Gu, Tsinghua University, China
11:55 a.m. LUNCH
Session II: Exploring Cancer Immunology with AI (Part I)
2:00 p.m. Invited Talk
Gut microbial control of antitumor CD8 T cell trafficking
Marlies Meisel, University of Pittsburgh, USA
2:25 p.m. Short Talk
2:40 p.m. Invited Talk
Hua-Bing Li, Chonqing Medical University, China
3:05 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
3:25 p.m. Invited Talk
Pain neurons control cancer immunosurveillance
Sébastien Talbot, Queen's University, Canada
3:50 p.m. Short Talk 
4:05 p.m. Invited Talk
Tracking Tumour-Reactive T Cells for Biomarker Discovery and Precision Immunotherapy
Tao Dong, Oxford University, UK
4:30 p.m. Poster Session
6:00 p.m. End of day

Day 2 - Sunday 18 October, 2026

All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
Session III: Exploring Cancer Immunology with AI (Part II)
 9:00 a.m. Invited Talk
Regulatory elements of the tumor microenvironment identified through pan-cancer single cell analysis
Zemin Zhang, Chongqing Medical University, China 
 9:25 a.m. Short Talk
 9:40 a.m. Invited Talk
AI-Enabled Spatial Pathology for Precision Immunotherapy in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Chen Wu, Peking Union Medical College, China
10:05 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
10:25 a.m. Invited Talk
Deciphering control of tumor immunology by spatial functional genomics
Brian Brown, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
10:50 a.m. Short Talk
11:05 a.m. Invited Talk
Bing Su, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, China
11:30 a.m. LUNCH
Session IV: Translating into the Clinic
1:45 p.m. Invited Talk
Harnessing Natural Killer cells in cancer
Eric Vivier, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), France
2:10 p.m. Short Talk
 
2:25 p.m. Invited Talk
Alexandra-Chloe Villani, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
3:00 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
3:10 p.m. Invited Talk
Redefining Intra-Tumor Heterogeneity Through the Lens of the Immunopeptidome
Yardena Samuels, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
3:35 p.m. Short Talk
 3:50 p.m. Keynote Talk
Rui-Hua Xu, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, China
4:40 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS 
5:00 p.m. End of day
Preliminary program – subject to change. Last updated: July 15, 2026.

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