SDSC-Connect: Translating AI to Clinical Practice

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SDSC-Connect: Translating AI to Clinical Practice
A Program of the Zurich AI Festival

Centered around the pivotal question, 'From Promise to Practice: What do clinicians need from AI?', this edition of SDSC-Connect brings together keynote speakers, thought leaders, and expert panelists to offer diverse insights into current challenges and emerging solutions, supported by focused presentations and real-world case studies. The program explores four critical areas at the intersection of AI and healthcare: Research, Validation, Practice and Trust.‍

Leveraging the collective expertise of leading voices in the health and biomedical domain, participants will gain deep insights and a distinctive learning experience that connects clinical needs with technological innovation, with the potential to connect with pioneers and peers and initiate conversations around collaboration.

Join the participants in pursuing key learning goals:
· Connect with leaders in clinical research, practice, and AI.
· Explore four essential focus areas: Research, Validation, Practice, and Trust.
· Build meaningful links across Switzerland, Europe, and the global clinical AI community.

Target audience: 
Researchers, medical doctors, AI experts, data scientists, industry representatives (pharma, biotech) from the health and biomedical domain.

Confirmed speakers:
· Prof. Dr. med. Susanne Wegener, Senior Physician, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zürich (USZ)
· Prof. Dr. Charlotte Bunne, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Life Sciences Department, EPFL
· Prof. Dr. Michael Moor, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich
· Prof. Dr. Gunnar Rätsch, Head of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich
· Prof. Dr. Annie Hartley, Professor and Director, LiGHT (Laboratory for Intelligent Global Health and Humanitarian Response Technologies), EPFL
· Prof. Dr. Jean Louis Raisaro, Head of the Clinical Data Science Group at the Biomedical Data Science Center, Vaud University Hospital (CHUV)
· Dr. Snežana Nektarijevic, Senior Data Scientist, Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)
· Dr. Sukalp Muzumdar, Head of GenAI Adoption, Scailyte
· Dr. Sabine Goldhahn, Lecturer at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich
· Dr. Jasmin Barman-Aksözen, Scientist and patient advocate for rare diseases, University of Zürich (UZH), ProRaris and International Porphyria Patient Network (IPPN)
· Dr. Alessandro Blasimme, Health Ethics and Policy Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST), ETH Zürich

Moderators:
· Dr. Nora Toussaint, Head of Biomedical Data Science, Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)
· Prof. Dr. Guillaume Obozinski, Deputy Executive Director and Chief Data Scientist, Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)
· Prof. Dr. Julia Vogt, Assistant Professor, Lead Biomedical Data Science Group, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich
· Dr. Anna Fournier, Principal Data Scientist, Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)

Agenda:

 9:30  Arrivals | Welcome Coffee & Snack

10:00 Welcome Address

10:10 Keynote 
· “From Promise to Practice: What do clinicians need from AI?” by Prof. Dr. med. Susanne Wegener, USZ

11:00 Session 1: Research
· Moderation: Prof. Dr. Guillaume Obozinski, SDSC
· "Virtual Cells and Digital Twins: AI in Personalized Oncology” by Prof. Dr. Charlotte Bunne, EPFL
· “Towards tool-using medical reasoning models” by Prof Dr. Michael Moor, ETH Zurich

12:00 Networking Lunch

13:00 Session 2: Validation
· "From Theory to Therapy: Advancing Critical Care with AI" by Prof. Dr. Gunnar Rätsch, ETH Zürich
· Expert talk by Prof. Dr. Annie Hartley, EPFL

14:00 Session 3: Practice 
· Moderation: Dr. Anna Fournier, SDSC
· Case study: “Clinical AI journey - from raw data to bedside deployment” by Prof. Dr. Jean Louis Raisaro, CHUV, and Dr. Snežana Nektarijevic, SDSC
· Industry expert talk

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Session 4: Trust
· Moderation: Dr. Sabine Goldhahn, ETH Zürich
· Expert panel discussion with expert speakers incl. Dr. Jasmin Barman-Aksözen (Patient advocate, UZH), Dr. Jean Louis Raisaro (CHUV) and others

16:15 Wrap up
16:30 Networking Apéro
18:00 End of event

We look forward to welcoming you in Zurich!