Day 1: Foundations: Governance, Ethics & Translation
Thursday, 22. October, 2026
10:00 - Opening
Vice Rector Michaela Fritz
Welcome Remarks from the Conference Organizers
10:30 Session 1 - Foundations: Governance, Ethics & Translation
in cooperation with Department for Ethics and Law in Medicine, Univ. Vienna
- Keynote: Regulation of Medical AI: Current Trends in the EU
Prof. Dr. Karl Stöger
Professor of Medical Law and Director of the Institute of Ethics and Law in Medicine
University of Vienna - When Patients Turn to AI: Ethical Perspectives on Patient-Initiated Use of GenAI in Healthcare
Dr. Elisabeth Langmann
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society (IEHHS)
University of Augsburg - AI and Religion(s) — Current Initiatives and Perspectives
Prof. Dr. Sigrid Müller
Professor of Theological Ethics and Deputy Director of the Institute of Ethics and Law in Medicine
University of Vienna
12:15 - Poster Session Lightening Talks
13:00 - Lunch Break and Poster Session
14:30 Session 2 - Human-Centered AI: Society, Performance & Practice
- Keynote: AI in Medicine: What Gets Lost When Medicine is Made Computable?
Univ.-Prof.Dr. Ulrike Felt
Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Department of Science and Technology University of
Vienna - Injury Reduction and Performance Optimization
Dr. Dario Cazzola
CEO & Co-Founder, Forceteck
15:30 - Coffee Break
16:00 Session 3- From Models to Meaning
- Vision Language Models for 3D Medical Imaging
Prof. Dr. Björn Menze
Professor of Biomedical Image Analysis and Machine Learning
University of Zurich; Department of Quantitative Biomedicine - Foundation Models: The End of Task-Specific AI or the Beginning of New Problems?
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Med. Univ. Harald Kittler
Medical University of Vienna, Department of Dermatology - The critical role of causal inference in clinical reasoning
Giovanni Angelotti
SUPSI-Dalle Molle Institute For Artificial Intelligence, Lugano, Switzerland
17:30 - Wrap Up by AIM