Day 2: Innovation: Collaboration, Integration & Impact
Friday, 23. October, 2026
9:00 - Keynote Lecture I:
Chair: Georg Widhalm
Title: Precision Neuropathology Everywhere
Speaker: Prof. Felix Sahm
Chair Department of Neuropathology
Heidelberg University Hospital
9:50 - Session 1: AI Meets Medicine – A Dialogue
Chairs: Christoph Bock & Roxane Licandro
- Title: TBA
Stanisa Raspopovic & Speaker II (TBA) - Neuroscientific discovery in the age of high-throughput experimental data
Adam Gosztolai & Guillaume Bellec
10:30 - Coffee Break
11:00 - Session 2: AI Meets Medicine – A Dialogue
Chairs: Georg Widhalm & TBA
- My Patient Is Deteriorating — Can AI See What I am Missing and Tell Me What I Might Do?
Camila Gonzalez & Oliver Kimberger - Novel AI Approaches for Rapid Intraoperative Tissue Characterization
Lisa Körner & Thomas Pinetz - Personalized Medicine: A Biologically Driven View of Disease
Christoph Bock & Georg Savi
12:00 - Lunch Break & Poster Presentations
13:10 - Keynote Lecture II:
Chair: Christoph Bock
Title: TBA
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Nassir Navab
Director of the Laboratories for Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP)
Technical University of Munich and Johns Hopkins University
14:00 - Panel Discussion
Chairs: Georg Widhalm & Lisa Körner
AI in Healthcare: Strengthening Austria's and Europe's Global Competitiveness
Moderator: Margit Laufer - Journalist and ZIB 2 Presenter, ORF
Panelists
- Markus Müller
Rector Medical University of Vienna & Chair of the Supreme State Health Council - Horst Bischof
Rector Graz University of Technology & Chair of the Austrian Government's AI Advisory Board - Ulrike Attenberger
Chair Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna - Ursula Jakubek
Vice President Austrian Science Fund (FWF) - Regina Weinmüllner
Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws) - Georg Langs
Chair Comprehensive Center for AI in Medicine (CAIM)
