Life Science Industry Meets Data Science 2024 Verified listing

The Life Science industry is being redefined by the recent progress in data science and artificial intelligence. New solutions and novel opportunities are developing at a very fast pace.

The first “Life Science Industry Meets Data Science” symposium aims to explore cutting-edge innovations and foster exchanges between industry and academia. Focusing on the fields of bioprocesses, biopharma and health, the symposium aims to showcase how data-driven solutions can be deployed and inspire members of both the industrial and academic communities.

Keynote speakers will share their insights into how data science drives advancements in these life science domains. Additionally, during the company session, entrepreneurs will discuss innovative solutions to address unmet needs.

Program

08:30 Registration & Welcome coffee

09:00 – 09:10 Welcome 

Generative AI

• 09:10 - 09:50: Keynote: Arnd Lülsdorf - Google (Key Account Director for Life Sciences): Make (Gen)AI useful for everyone -  Life Sciences specific use cases
• 09:50 - 10:20: Amazon Web Services - Dr. Yin Cai (Technical Business Development Manager Genomics & Precision Medicine): Generative AI in Healthcare & Life Science for today and tomorrow

10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break & Networking

• 10:50 - 11:20: Novigenix (Lausanne) - Dr. Noushin Hadadi (Director of Data Science & Bioinformatics): AI-Powered RNA Analytics Driving Innovation in Precision Medicine
• 11:20 - 11:50: SIB - GenAI in STRING DB - Dr. Damian Szklarczyk (UZH) The STRING database - data flow from the experiment to the discovery

Genomics and Genetics

• 11:50 - 12:30, Keynote: Thomas Wieland - Foundation Medicine (Senior Director for Strategic Operations): Data in Cancer Genomics

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch & Networking

• 13:30 - 14:00 Scailyte - Dr. Sukalp Muzumdar (Senior Data Scientist)
• 14:00 - 14:40: Crowdsourcing/collective intelligence session: TrueYouOmics - Dr. Andres Lanzos (Chief Scientific Officer)

14:40 – 15:10 Coffee break & Networking

Precision Medicine & Health

• 15:10 - 15:50, Keynote: Prof. Henning Müller (HES-SO Valais-Wallis and University of Geneva): Multimodal machine learning for histopathology images: results from the ExaMode project
• 15:50 - 16:20: Celerato - Claudio Molina (Quality Management & Form Development): Precise Data for Precision Medicine
• 16:20 - 16:50: Precomb - Dr. Jens Kelm (Co-founder and CEO): High-throughput and physiological-relevant functional drug screening in the age of Precision Medicine

16:50 – 18:00 Apero & Networking