Draft Agenda

8–10 September 2026

Programme subject to minor updates as additional speakers are confirmed.

Day 1 – Tuesday 8 September 2026

8:00 am
Registration & Breakfast
9:00 am
Introduction by Nature & PITOR
9:10 am
Opening session: The impact of AI in healthcare
Al Roth, Stanford University
10:10 am
Break
10:40 am
Imaging and Diagnostic AI models
10:40 am
Julia Schnabel, Technical University of Munich
11:10 am
Marc Raynaud, PITOR
11:40 am
Talk 3
12:10 pm
Early career researcher speech
12:25 pm
Lunch break
2:00 pm
Keynote: Towards conversational diagnostic artificial intelligence
Alan Karthikesalingam, Google DeepMind
2:40 pm
Drug discovery & foundation models for biology and medicine
2:40 pm
Jean-Philippe Vert, Bioptimus
3:10 pm
Alex Zhavoronkov, Insilico Medicine
3:40 pm
Guangyu Wang, Houston Methodist Research Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College
Foundation models bridging molecular information and pathology
4:10 pm
Early career researcher speech
4:25 pm
Coffee break
5:00 pm
Roundtable: Opportunity and limits for implementing AI in patient care
Moderator: Alexandre Loupy & George Caputa
6:00 pm
Poster Session with wine and cheese

Day 2 – Wednesday 9 September 2026

8:00 am
Opening of the Sorbonne
9:00 am
Keynote: The ethics of artificial intelligence in health care
Effy Vayena
9:40 am
Equitable care with AI
9:40 am
Ciira Maina, Centre for Data Science and AI (DSAIL)
10:10 am
Demilade Adedinsewo, Mayo Clinic
10:40 am
Jayanth Komarneni, Human Dx
11:10 am
Ziad Obermeyer, University of California Berkeley
11:40 am
Break
12:00 pm
Meet the Nature Editors
1:00 pm
Lunch break
2:20 pm
Keynote: Digital twins in medicine
Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Cambridge
3:00 pm
AI in the clinic: from trials to implementation
3:00 pm
Kristina Lang, Lund University Cancer Centre
3:30 pm
Roxana Daneshjou, Stanford University
4:00 pm
Jacqueline Shreibati, Google Research
4:30 pm
Coffee break
6:30 pm
Poster Session with wine and cheese
8:30 pm
Gala Dinner

Day 3 – Thursday 10 September 2026

8:00 am
Opening of the Sorbonne
9:00 am
Keynote
Speaker and title to be announced
9:40 am
Multimodal and Agentic AI
9:40 am
James Zou, Stanford University
10:10 am
Faisal Mahmood, Harvard Medical School
10:40 am
Jacob Kather, Dresden University of Technology
11:10 am
Early career researcher speech
11:25 am
Closing Session

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