Day 2: Innovation: Collaboration, Integration & Impact
Friday, 23. October, 2026
9:00 Keynote Lecture I:
Chair: Georg Widhalm
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
9:30 Session 1: AI Meets Medicine – A Dialogue
Chairs: Christoph Bock & Roxane Licandro
- AI and Neural Applications
Stanisa Raspopovic & Clinical Partner - Neuroscientific discovery in the age of high-throughput experimental data
Adam Gosztolai & Guillaume Bellec
10:20 Coffee Break
10:50 Session 2: AI Meets Medicine – A Dialogue
Chairs: Gregor Kasprian & Barbara Kiesel
- My Patient Is Deteriorating — Can AI See What I am Missing and Tell Me What I Might Do?
Camila Gonzalez & Oliver Kimberger
Dr. Mathias Maleczek — High Fidelity Simulation - Novel AI Approaches for Rapid Intraoperative Tissue Characterization
Lisa Körner & Thomas Pinetz - From single-cell biology to investigator-initiated clinical trials - a case study from dermatology
Christoph Bock & Georg Stary
12:00 Lunch Break & Poster Presentations
13:10 Keynote Lecture II:
Chair: Christoph Bock
AI in the Operating Room: Roboting Surgery and Intervention
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
- Ulrike Attenberger
Chair Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna - Horst Bischof
Rector Graz University of Technology & Chair of the Austrian Government's AI Advisory Board - Nikolaus Forgó
Head of Department of Innovation and Digitalization in Law, University of Vienna & Member of Austrian Government AI Advisory Board - Georg Langs
Chair Comprehensive Center for AI in Medicine (CAIM) Regina Weinmüllner
Austria Wirtschaftsservice (AWS)