Conference Schedule
The AI in Health Conference features thematic tracks with invited speakers, technical talks, poster presentations, and networking receptions on September 15-16. There are also add-on workshops available on September 17. Click the dropdowns below (when available) to view the full schedule for each day. More details coming soon.
Conference: September 15-16, 2026
Add-on Workshops: September 17, 2026
Conference Schedule
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Tuesday, September 15
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Time Event Location 8:00 – 8:30am Check-In & Breakfast Exhibit Hall 8:30 – 8:45am Welcome Auditorium 8:45 – 9:30am Keynote Speaker Auditorium 9:30 – 10:00am Networking Coffee Break Exhibit Hall 10:00 – 10:40am "Why Networks Matter: Embracing Biological Complexity"
John Quackenbush
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthAuditorium 10:40 – 11:20am "Towards Precision Autism Through Genome-Scale AI"
Gerald Quon
The University of California, DavisAuditorium 11:20am – 12:00pmm AI for Disease Genomics
Xiuwei Zhang
Georgia Institute of TechnologyAuditorium 10:40am – 12:00pm Technical Talks Room 280 12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch Exhibit Hall 1:00 – 1:40pm "When More Isn’t Better: A Lesson from Rethinking Scale in Multimodal Cell Foundation Models"
Lorin Crawford
Microsoft ResearchAuditorium 1:40 – 2:20pm Interpretable AI in Health
Rohit Singh
Duke UniversityAuditorium 1:00 – 2:20pm Technical Talks Room 280 2:20 – 3:00pm Afternoon Break Exhibit Hall 3:00 – 3:45pm Industry Perspective Auditorium 3:45 – 4:30pm Keynote Speaker Auditorium 4:30 – 6:00pm Networking Reception Exhibit Hall -
Wednesday, September 16
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Time Event Location 8:00 – 8:30am Check-In & Breakfast Exhibit Hall 8:30 – 8:45am Welcome Auditorium 8:45 – 9:30am Keynote Speaker Auditorium 9:30 – 10:00am Networking Coffee Break Exhibit Hall 10:00 – 10:40am Medical Robotics
Gregory D. Hager
Johns Hopkins UniversityAuditorium 10:40 – 11:20am Medical Robotics
Ron Alterovitz
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillAuditorium 11:20am – 12:00pm Medical Robotics
Farshid Alambeigi
The University of Texas at Austin and Texas RoboticsAuditorium 10:00am – 12:00pm Technical Talks Room 280 12:00 – 2:00pm Lunch & Poster Session Exhibit Hall 1:00 – 2:00pm Technical Talks Room 280 / Auditorium 2:00 – 2:45pm Keynote Auditorium 2:45 – 2:50pm Awards Auditorium 2:50 – 3:30pm Closing Social Pre-Function
Workshop Schedules
Attendees can register for add-on workshops separately or in combination with the main conference. All workshops will take place at the BRC venue on Thursday, September 17. Workshops are an additional price, see each workshop for details.
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The Present and Future of AI in Multi-modal Clinical Pathology Symposium
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Thursday, September 17, 2026 | BRC Auditorium
8:30AM - 2:00PMAI is rapidly advancing the field of computational pathology, enabling new ways to extract quantitative and biologically meaningful information from digitized tissue images. This symposium will highlight recent developments across the field and at MD Anderson, including advances in machine learning for diagnosis, prognosis, and biomarker discovery, as well as emerging approaches for integrating histopathology with molecular and clinical data. We will also discuss the growing role of foundation models and agentic AI as part of a broader ecosystem of methods that support scalable representation learning and more flexible analytical workflows.Together, these innovations are reshaping computational pathology, driving new insights into disease biology, and accelerating progress toward precision medicine. This event is planned to be a half-day symposium.
Schedule:
8:30 - 9:00 AM — Check-In & Breakfast
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM — Symposium
12:00 -1:00 PM — Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 PM — Hands-on Tutorial SessionRegistration: $100 — Register here
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Hands-On NVIDIA Workshop
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Thursday, September 17, 2026 | BRC Room 280
8:30AM - 11:00AM
Limited to 100 ParticipantsJoin us for NVIDIA's hands-on technical half day workshop.
Schedule:
8:30 - 9:00 AM — Check-In & Breakfast
9:00 - 11:00 AM — Hands-On Workshop presented by Greg Zynda (NVIDIA)Registration: $75 — Register here
Organizer: NVIDIA
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Microbes and Microbiomes in Health Workshop (Additional Hands-On Training Available)
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Thursday, September 17, 2026 | BRC Room 280
12:30PM - 5:30PM
Limited to 100 ParticipantsJoin us for a half-day workshop titled “Microbes and Microbiomes in Health”. The workshop will feature both computational and biological perspectives for studying microbes and microbiomes relevant to human health. This workshop will bring together experts in computational biology, microbiology, and microbiome science to discuss cutting-edge approaches for studying microbial communities and their impact on health.
Registration: $75 — Register here
Organizer: Todd Treangen and AI2Health Research Cluster with the Ken Kennedy Institute
Associated Hands-On Training — RAD Microbes Boot Camp
Friday, September 18, 2026 | BRC Room 1003 (10th Floor)
Limited to 40 ParticipantsIf you'd like additional hands-on training, you can attend the September 18 RAD Microbes Boot Camp held in tandem with the conference. Please note, this requires a separate registration. Learn from expert bioinformaticians at Rice University and the Texas Medical Center on Reading, Assembling, Analyzing & Deciphering microbial genomes.
Registration: $100 (General Admission); $50 (Students/Postdocs)
This is a separate registration for from the conference and Thursday workshops. Visit the registration page here.
