Time
Topic
Speaker/Panelist/Leader
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Registration and Welcome
Benjamin Leinwand, PhD, Stevens Institute of Technology
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
AI in the Biopharma Industry
Wenying Deng, PhD, Regeneron
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Vertical AI for Quality Control
Ralf Saykiewicz, MBA, and Vivek Pratap Singh, MBA, Corseco
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee/Tea Break
Siddhesh Kulkarni, PhD, BMS
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Heads-Up! AI Hackathon Rapid-Fire Pitch-Perfect Showcase and Awards
Matthew Stewart, PhD, FBCS, Pelago Health
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
IPs and Patents
Arne Hans, JD, PhD, Hans Law PLLC
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
AI as Hype, Reality, or Future?
Xiaomai Zhang, MS, HopeAI, Lisa DeTora, PhD, Hofstra University, Matthew Stewart, PhD, Pelago Health, and Harry Kabodha, MS, Varosync
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch: AI and Talent Boom/Doom
Bill Emker, BA, The Lotus Group
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
NextGen AI Talent Development
Owen Clater, Becks and Clates, Tomas Jones, Becks and Clates, and Reece Stone, Stone Consulting
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Quantify R&D Financial and Risk Profiles among Failed Trials
Harry Kabodha, MS, and Ayman Khaleq, MS, Varosync
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Agentic AI, E2E Enterprise, and LLMs
Dhaval Patel, MISE, ChapsVision
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Coffee and Group Photo
Siddhesh Kulkarni, PhD, BMS
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Internship Experiences
Austin Smith, NYU, Lilac Adia Silva-netto, CUNY, and Nathanael Owusu, CUNY
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Digital Health and AgeTech
Ramin Zand, MD, Penn State Health, Marcia Levenstein, ScD, Vivli and AI4Purpose and Advisory, and Julia Cai, Banjo AI
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
AI for Nutraceuticals
May Yamada-Lifton, MBA, Maypro, and Jonathan Scheiman, PhD, FitBiomics
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Trivia Kahoot Contest
Ching-Ray Yu, PhD, Pfizer, and Doug Chapman, AI4Purpose Advisory
05:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Closing
Siddhesh Kulkarni, PhD, BMS, and Marcia Levenstein, ScD, Vivli and AI4Purpose and Advisory