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MAY 4, 2023 | MUNICH, DE
Accelerating Life Sciences with AI
Life sciences research continues to grow rapidly in scientific importance and impact on society. New discovery methods based on artificial intelligence (AI) are finding application in basic scientific research and in clinical environments. In addition, cross-fertilization across different sub-disciplines promises to accelerate time to discovery in strategic research projects.
This full-day technical event covers a wide range of topics, including analytics in life sciences, AI for clinical applications, and state of the art AI/HPC architectures for data management and storage. Experts from across the life sciences and IT community will be welcomed at Helmholtz Munich at the Neuherberg campus, close to Munich.
This in-person event will also feature a tour of the Helmholtz Biorepository. For those unable to attend the event in person, an online streaming link will be made available to view the sessions online.
Featured Speakers
Prof. Dr. FABIAN THEIS
Director of the Institute for Computational Biology
DR. ANNA LENA EBERLE
Product Manager, Life Sciences
DR. DAVID RUAU
Head of Strategic Alliances, Drug Discovery AI, EMEA, NVIDIA
VALENTIN PLUGARU
CTO
FILIP NOLLET
Head of Seeds R&D Informatics Dev Ops
Agenda
TIME
COMPANY
SESSION
9:00AM (CET)
Dr. Alf Wachsmann
Head of DigIT Infrastructure & Scientific Computing,
Helmholtz Munich
Welcome to Helmholtz Munich
9:10AM (CET)
Dr. David Ruau
Head of Strategic Alliances, Drug Discovery AI, EMEA,
NVIDIA
Accelerating Generative AI in Drug Discovery
9:40AM (CET)
Filip Nollet
Head of Seeds R&D Informatics Dev Ops,
BASF Agricultural Products
Tackling Data Management Challenges for Next Generation Sequencing
10:10AM (CET)
Panel
10:40AM (CET)
Break
11:00AM (CET)
Prof. Dr. Fabian Theis
Director of the Institute for Computational Biology,
Helmholtz Munich and Technical University of Munich
Helmholtz Munich – Towards a Healthier Society in a Rapidly Changing World
11:15AM (CET)
Valentin Plugaru
Chief Technology Officer,
LuxProvide
Simplifying AI-Driven Life Sciences and the Headache of Data Security
11:45AM (CET)
Dr. Robert Esnouf
Director of Research Computing,
Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics
A Pragmatic Approach to Governance and Compliance for Biomedical Data
12:15PM (CET)
Panel
12:30PM (CET)
Lunch
2:30PM (CET)
Paul Wallace
Director of Product Marketing,
DDN
2:40PM (CET)
Dr. Anna Lena Eberle
Product Manager,
Carl Zeiss MultiSEM GmbH
Next Generation EM – High-Throughput Serial Section Acquisition with ZEISS MultiSEM
3:10PM (CET)
Dr. Tingying Peng
AI Group Leader,
Helmholtz Munich
AI in Microscopy: Go Beyond the Limit of Hardware
3:30PM (CET)
Dr. Marie Piraud
Head of AI Consulting,
Helmholtz Munich
Empowering Helmholtz Researchers with AI
3:40PM (CET)
Bom Singiali
HPC Team Lead,
Helmholtz Munich
HPC and AI/ML Scientific Computing Services at Helmholtz Munich
4:00PM (CET)
Dr. Jean-Thomas Acquaviva
Research Team Leader,
DDN
AI and Life Science: A Data Infrastructure Perspective
4:30PM (CET)
Panel
5:00PM (CET)
Closing Remarks
5:00PM – 6:30PM (CET)
Networking Reception
Join us after the event for drinks and meet with speakers and fellow attendees
For those attending in-person, we are planning a tour of the Helmholtz Biorepository
The Joint Biobank Munich (JBM) is an association of the biobanks of the Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), and the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Helmholtz Munich currently stores around one million biosamples from more than 50,000 individuals, frozen at up to minus 180 degrees. The biobank is fully automated, and samples are sorted and selected by computer-controlled robots. The biobank’s focus lies on epidemiological studies and on collecting samples for the purposes of understanding how diseases such as cancer, diabetes or heart attacks develop, and to find out how genetic predisposition and environmental factors can affect disease progression.
WHEN
May 4th 2023
8:30AM (CET)
Registration & Coffee
5:00PM – 6:30PM (CET)
Networking Reception
WHERE
Campus Neuherberg
Ingolstädter Landstraße 1
85764 Neuherberg
VENUE
Helmholtz Diabetes Centre
Building 3620, Room 041
AccomModation
There are a number of hotels with good access to Munich airport, the main station in Munich, and transport to Helmholtz Munich.
Helmholtz Munich is 15-20 minutes from the main station. Take the U2 U-Bahn from Hauptbahnhof to Am Hart, and then a short hop on Bus 294 or 295 to the Neuherberg campus.
Bayerstrasse 21
80335 München
Bahnhofplatz 1
80335 München
Schützenstraße 1
80335 München
