Conference Programme
8–10 September 2026
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Day 1 – Tuesday 8 September
8:00 am
Opening of the Sorbonne
8:15 am
Attendee registration and welcome coffee with viennoiseries
9:15 am
Introduction by Nature Editors and PITOR Institute
Magdalena Skipper, Joao Monteiro and Alexandre Loupy
9:40 am
Day opening lecture: Should we fear AI?
Philippe Aghion – Nobel Prize Laureate
Chaired by Magdalena Skipper
10:20 am
Keynote: Computational Intelligence and Organ Allocation on a Global Scale
Alvin Roth – Nobel Prize Laureate
Chaired by Alexandre Loupy
11:00 am
Imaging and diagnostic models
Chaired by Alexandre Loupy and Sadra Bakhshandeh
11:00 am
From Pixel to Patient: AI for Multimodal Medical Imaging
Julia Schnabel
11:30 am
Foundation models bridging molecular information and pathology
Guangyu Wang
12:00 pm
Building Trustworthy AI for Clinical Decision-Making
Roxana Daneshjou
12:30 pm
Short Talk Presentation (selected from submitted abstracts)
Disparate privacy risks from medical AI: a new axis of health inequality
Moritz Knolle, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
2:15 pm
Meet the Nature editors
Joao Monteiro, Magdalena Skipper, George Caputa, Lorenzo Righetto, Monica Wang, Ananya Rastogi, Sadra Bakhshandeh and Wanying Wang
3:15 pm
Keynote: Towards conversational diagnostic artificial intelligence
Alan Karthikesalingam
Chaired by George Caputa
4:30 pm
Foundation models and drug discovery
Chaired by Roxana Daneshjou and George Caputa
4:30 pm
Six Aging Clocks Confirmed Biological Age Reversal in Phase IIa Trial of a Novel Therapeutic Discovered Using Aging Research and Generative AI
Alex Zhavoronkov
5:00 pm
Building AI for Biological Reasoning: Towards Biological Artificial Superintelligence
Thomas Clozel
5:30 pm
Short Talk Presentation (selected from submitted abstracts)
When AI meets the emergency department: rethinking how we evaluate clinical AI
Austin Schoeffler, Stanford University
5:45 pm
Short Talk Presentation (selected from submitted abstracts)
Testing levels of LLM agent autonomy in inpatient treatment decisions: a prospective, silent-mode evaluation of vancomycin dosing
Yixing Jiang, Stanford University & Kameron C. Black, Stanford Health Care
6:00 pm
Roundtable: Opportunities and limits in implementing AI in healthcare
Effy Vayena, Demilade Adedinsewo, Jessilyn Dunn, James Zou, and Marco Marsella
Moderated by Alexandre Loupy and George Caputa
7:00 pm
Poster session with wine and cheese
8:30 pm
Closure of the Sorbonne
Day 2 – Wednesday 9 September
8:00 am
Opening of the Sorbonne
8:00 am
Welcome coffee with viennoiseries
9:00 am
Introduction of the day by Stéphanie Rist, French Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and Disability
9:30 am
Keynote: The ethics of AI in healthcare
Effy Vayena
Chaired by Lorenzo Righetto
10:10 am
Equitable care with AI
Chaired by Lorenzo Righetto and Marc Raynaud
10:10 am
Leveraging AI for Improved Healthcare in Africa - Turning Challenges into Opportunity
Ciira Maina
10:40 am
When symptoms aren’t enough: redefining maternal cardiac screening using AI-powered tools and digital biomarkers
Demilade Adedinsewo
11:10 am
Hybrid (human-AI) collective intelligence
Jayanth Komarneni
11:40 am
Bedside to bench: AI and the new science of medicine
Ziad Obermeyer
12:10 pm
Short Talk Presentation (selected from submitted abstracts)
Making AI in health work for women
MaryAnn Ferreux, Health Innovation Kent Surrey and Sussex
1:30 pm
AI in the clinic: from trials to implementation
Moderated by Monica Wang and Wanying Wang
1:30 pm
From trials to implementation – the case of AI-supported breast cancer screening
Kristina Lång
2:00 pm
Deployment Is Not Adoption: Building Resilient Clinician-AI Interaction
Jacqueline Shreibati
2:30 pm
AI for more healthy years
Wiro Niessen
3:00 pm
Short Talk Presentation (selected from submitted abstracts)
Mobile AI microscopy for universal diagnosis: from blood cancers to neglected tropical diseases
Miguel Luengo-Oroz, Spotlab
3:45 pm
Keynote
James Zou
Chaired by Ananya Rastogi
4:25 pm
Robotics and wearable technologies
Chaired by Ananya Rastogi and Emmanuel Mignot
4:25 pm
Building intelligent systems to detect cardiopulmonary emergencies at scale
Jake Sunshine
4:55 pm
Robot-human teaming in surgery: from teleoperated surgical systems to autonomous humanoid robots
Michael Yip
5:25 pm
The digital physiome: wearables for disease detection and monitoring
Jessilyn Dunn
5:55 pm
Embodied AI for Collaborative Autonomy in the Next-generation Surgical Robotics
Qi Dou
6:25 pm
Short Talk Presentation (selected from submitted abstracts)
Toward interpretable, physiology-grounded AI for personalized stress assessment
Saina Charkas, University of Twente
6:40 pm
Poster session with wine and cheese
8:15 pm
Closure of the Sorbonne
8:30 pm
Conference dinner
Maison des Polytechniciens (Hôtel de Poulpry)
The dinner is not included in conference registration and must be booked separately.
Day 3 – Thursday 10 September
8:00 am
Opening of the Faculty of Medicine
8:00 am
Welcome coffee with viennoiseries
9:15 am
Multimodal and agentic AI
Chaired by Joao Monteiro and Alexandre Loupy
9:15 am
AI in Organ Transplantation and Clinical Trials
Marc Raynaud
9:45 am
Multimodal, Generative, and Agentic AI for Healthcare
Faisal Mahmood
10:15 am
AI agents in oncology
Jakob Kather
10:45 am
Multimodal and Agentic AI for Precision Medicine
Kang Zhang
11:15 am
Short Talk Presentation (selected from submitted abstracts)
Bias as a feature, not a bug: leveraging multi-model disagreement for trustworthy clinical AI
Farhad Abtahi, Karolinska Institutet
11:30 am
Keynote
Michael Howell
Chaired by Joao Monteiro
12:10 pm
Closing remarks from Nature and PITOR
Alexandre Loupy and Joao Monteiro
12:30 pm
Light closing lunch
