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Program

Please note that this meeting will take place as an in-person event in Montreal and will not live-stream content for virtual participation. The meeting content will be recorded and made available as an on-demand program after the conference.

All presentations are scheduled to be live, in-person presentations at the date and time specified below unless noted otherwise. Program in progress.

Thursday, July 10

Friday, July 11

Saturday, July 12

Thursday, July 10

WELCOME AND Opening Keynote Lectures

6:30-7:15 p.m.

Opening Reception

7:30-9 p.m.

Friday, July 11

Continental Breakfast and networking roundtables

7-8 a.m.

Keynote Lecture 2

8-8:45 a.m.

  • 8:05 a.m.
    Marinka Zitnik, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts  

Plenary Session 1: ML/AI for Drug Discovery, Repurposing, and Response Prediction

8:50-10:10 a.m.

  • 8:50 a.m. | Supporting Anticancer Drug Discovery by Knowledge Graph Mining and Cancer Target-focused Cheminformatics Modeling 
    Alexander Tropsha, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • 9:20 a.m. | Charlotte Bunne, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland 

Additional speakers to be announced

Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

Break

10:10-10:25 a.m.

Plenary Session 2: ML/AI for Genomic and Temporal Predictions

10:25-11:45 a.m.

Speakers to be announced

Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

Break

11:45 a.m.-12 p.m.

Collaborative and Interactive Science Session

12-12:45 p.m.

Free time/lunch on own

12:45-2:15 p.m.

Plenary Session 3: Multimodal AI for Clinical Applications in Oncology

2:15-3:45 p.m.

  • 2:45 p.m. | Alignment and integration of spatial multi-omics tumor profiles 
    Ben Raphael, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Additional speakers to be announced

Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

Break

3:35-3:50 p.m.

Plenary Session 4: Bias and Fairness in AI Research and Deployed Models

3:50-5:05 p.m.

  • 3:50 p.m. | Fair AI with generative AI and foundation models 
    Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, York University and Vector Institute, North York, Canada
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Irene Chen University of California, Berkeley, California

Additional speakers to be announced

Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

Break

5:10-5:25 p.m.

Plenary Session 5: Cancer Applications of Foundation Models 

5:25-6:35 p.m.

  • 5:25 p.m.
    Valentina Boeva, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 5:55 p.m. | Evaluating and overseeing large language models for oncology
    Danielle S. Bitterman, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts  

Additional speakers to be announced

Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

poster session/reception

7-9 p.m.

Saturday, July 12

Continental Breakfast and networking roundtables

7-8 a.m.

Keynote lecture 3

8-8:45 a.m.

  • 8:05 a.m. | Accelerating oncology drug discovery with the power of microscopy & AI 
    Anne Carpenter, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Plenary Session 6: ML/AI for Single Cell and Spatial Data, H&E, and Molecular Biomarker Discovery

8:50-10:10 a.m.

  • 8:50 a.m.
    Elana J. Fertig, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Ruppin Eytan, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland

Additional speakers to be announced

Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

Break

10:10-10:20 a.m.

Plenary Session 7: ML/AI for Radiological Imaging

10:20-11:40 a.m.

  • 10:20 a.m.
    Catherine Coolens, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • 10:50 a.m.
    Caroline Chung, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

Break

11:40-11:50 a.m.

Plenary Session 8: How do we make AI research better for society

11:50 a.m.-1:20 p.m.

  • 11:50 a.m.
    Marzyeh Ghassemi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts  
  • 12:20 p.m.
    Jeff Leek, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington
  • 12:50 p.m. | The impact of bringing complex data to the point of care 
    Casey Greene, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado

Closing Remarks

1:20 p.m.