Health & AI

AI is revolutionizing healthcare by introducing innovative solutions and cutting-edge applications. The growing availability of multimodal healthcare data is reshaping medical practices, enhancing clinical decision-making, refining research protocols, supporting precision medicine, and fostering the development of innovative therapies. Moreover, AI enables a shift towards personalized and holistic care, moving beyond traditional methods to deliver tailored solutions and a comprehensive perspective on patient well-being.

However, these opportunities come with notable challenges. Issues such as data quality and bias, effective implementation in drug development, diagnostics, and clinical decision support, as well as ethical and privacy considerations, must be addressed.

This session will bring together AI experts, healthcare professionals, researchers, and decision-makers to discuss these critical issues. The goal is to explore how we can unlock AI’s potential in healthcare while overcoming the challenges to create responsive AI systems that prioritize the well-being of all.

Welcome Speech
- Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, President, EPFL

Session 1 - AI for Health: Assistance and Discovery
- Guillermo Sapiro, Augustine Family Professor, Princeton University; Distinguished Engineer, Health AI Lead, Apple
- Emmanuel Abbé, Full Professor, Chair of Mathematical Data Science, EPFL

Session 2 - LLM for Medicine
- Mary-Anne Hartley, Professor, Yale School of Medicine & EPFL  

Session 3 - Next-generation Medical Therapies
- Nikita Popov, Head of Artificial Intelligence Strategy Office, Novartis
- Tom Oxley, Founding CEO, Synchron

Moderation 
- Antoine Bosselut, Professor, EPFL  

Person for information & event registration
Margot Zbinden, Event Project Manager
margot.zbinden@epfl.ch
075 434 27 97

Person for media requests
Gaël Hurlimann, Head of Communication
gael.hurlimann@epfl.ch
076 570 14 76