Conference Programme

8–10 September

*A select number of abstracts will be chosen for Early Career presentations and incorporated into the session best suited to their theme.

Day 1 – Tuesday 8 September

8:00 am
Opening of the Sorbonne / Registration
9:00 am
Introduction by Nature Editors & PITOR
9:10 am
Day opening lecture: Should we fear AI?
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics
9:50 am
Keynote 1: The model of worldwide organ allocation powered by AI
Alvin Roth, Stanford University
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Imaging and diagnostic models
11:00 am
Julia Schnabel, Google Research
11:30 am
12:00 pm
Roxana Daneshjou, Stanford University
12:30 pm
TBD
12:45 pm
Lunch break
1:45 pm
Meet the Editors
2:45 pm
Keynote 2: Towards conversational diagnostic artificial intelligence
Alan Karthikesalingam, Google Deep Mind
3:25 pm
Foundation models & drug discovery
3:25 pm
Alex Zhavoronkov, Insilico Medicine
3:55 pm
Jean‑Philippe Vert, Bioptimus
4:25 pm
Guangyu Wang, Houston Methodist Research Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College
4:55 pm
Coffee break
5:30 pm
Roundtable: Opportunity and limits in implementing AI in healthcare
Moderator: Alexandre Loupy & George Caputa
6:30 pm
Poster Session with wine and cheese

Day 2 – Wednesday 9 September

9:00 am
Keynote 3: The ethics of AI in health care
Effy Vayena, ETH Zurich
10:15 am
Equitable care with AI
10:15 am
Ciira Maina, Centre for Data Science and AI (DSAIL)
10:45 am
Demilade Adedinsewo, Mayo Clinic
11:15 am
Jayanta Komarneni, Human DX
11:45 am
Ziad Obermeyer, University of California Berkeley
12:15 pm
Lunch break
1:15 pm
Keynote 4: Digital twins in medicine
Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Cambridge
1:55 pm
AI in the clinic: from trials to implementation
1:55 pm
Kristina Lang, Lund University Cancer Centre (LUCC)
2:25 pm
Jacqueline Shreibati, Google Research
2:55 pm
Thomas Clozel, Owkin
3:25 pm
Marc Raynaud, Paris Transplant Group
3:55 pm
Coffee break
4:30 pm
Robotics and wearables technologies
4:30 pm
Jake Sunshine, Google Research
5:00 pm
Michael Yip, University of California at San Diego
5:30 pm
Jessilyn Dunn, Duke University
6:00 pm
Qi Dou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
6:30 pm
TBD
6:45 pm
Poster Session with wine and cheese
8:30 pm
Conference Dinner at Maison des Polytechniciens (Hotel Poulpry)*
*Attendance at the dinner is optional and available for an additional cost.

Day 3 – Thursday 10 September

9:00 am
Keynote 5
James Zou, Stanford University
9:40 am
Multimodal and Agentic AI
9:40 am
Faisal Mahmood, Harvard Medical School
10:10 am
Jacob Kather, Dresden University of Technology
10:40 am
Kang Zhang, Macau University of Science and Technology
11:10 am
TBD
11:35 am
Closing speech by Nature & PITOR
12:00 pm
Closure

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