The Program

"Radically transforming our health systems using digital, data and artificial intelligence"

Prof. Martin Curley, Director, Digital Health Ecosystem Innovation Value Institute, Maynooth University

Dr. Antonio Santocono, President of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Handicrafts, and Agriculture of Padua

Prof. Gilberto Muraro, President of the Cassa di Risparmio Foundation of Padua and Rovigo

Moderator: Gaia Padovan, Mediaset journalist

Daniela Mapelli – Rector, University of Padova

Gaudenzio Meneghesso – General Co-Chair, Department of Information Engineering

Roberto Vettor – General Co-Chair, Department of Medicine

Angelo Paolo Dei Tos – Dean, Padova School of Medicine

Giuseppe Dal Ben – General Director, Padova Hospital

"Pushing Medical Frontiers: AI-Driven Breakthroughs in Medicine"
Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Cambridge, UK

"From Hype to Ripe: Implementing AI in Health Systems"
Yael Ophir, Executive Director HealthIL

“Crowdsourcing with Multi-institutional EHR to Improve Reliability of Real World Evidence - Opportunities and Challenges”
Tianxi Cai, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

“Complexity in health and disease: a network perspective to personalized medicine”
Manlio De Domenico, University of Padova, Italy

“AI for Future Digital Healthcare: Towards Decentralized Care”
Björn Eskofier, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

“From molecular elucidation of pathogenesis to personalized medicine: the opportunities of new biomedical technologies”
Rosario Rizzuto, University of Padova, Italy

“Exposomics approach as a tool to predict and prevent the disease”
Matej Oresic, Örebro University, Sweden

“Beyond genomics - AI as an enabler for next-generation pathology”
Jens Rittscher, University of Oxford, UK

“AI in Cancer Genomics: Challenges and Future”
Fabio Vandin, University of Padova, Italy

“Statistical modeling of spatial transcriptomics data”
Davide Risso, University of Padova, Italy

“Unmet clinical need: the role of AI in clinical decision and support system”
Mario Luca Morieri, University of Padova, Italy

“AI and regulations”
Giusella Finocchiaro, University of Bologna, Italy

“More than an afterthought: don’t make AI fair, make fair AI”
Alessandro Fabris, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Bochum, Germany

“Risks and reliability. The European way in the ethical regulation of AI”
Fabio Grigenti, University of Padova, Italy

“AI task autonomy and the ethics of medical supervision”
Guglielmo Tamburrini, University of Naples, Italy

Giusella Finocchiaro, Alessandro Fabris, Fabio Grigenti, Gugliemo Tamburrini

“Leveraging genetics for AI-based personalized medicine of common multifactorial disorders”
Alessandro Doria, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

“Explainable AI in Medicine: towards a foundational definition”
Carlo Combi, University of Verona, Italy

“Explainable and reliable AI for healthcare”
Panagiotis Papapetrou, Stockolhm University, Sweden

“Actionable and responsible AI in medicine”
Pietro Liò, University of Cambridge, UK

“The DARE initiative: a national flagship on digital prevention”
Lorenzo Chiari, University of Bologna, Italy

“Multi-scale computational modelling of oncological and neurological data”
Michele Piana, University of Genova, Italy

“Wearable devices in clinical research and prevention”
Dario Gregori, University of Padova, Italy

“Learning across 16M patients: platforms and applications in acute care”
Sebastien Ourselin, King’s College London, United Kingdom

“AI for medical image analysis: “ExaMode and beyond”
Henning Muller, HES-SO Valais Techno-Pôle, Switzerland

“Machine Learning Development Operations (MLOps) for healthcare”
Filippo Lanubile, University of Bari, Italy

“Il Polo Strategico Regionale (PSR) della Regione del Veneto”
Dr. Idelfo Borgo, ICT and Digital Agenda Directorate - Regione Veneto

“The new quantum networks: the experimental project of Regione Veneto”
Prof. Paolo Villoresi, University of Padova

“Development of AI-based solutions in clinical settings on distributed infrastructures in a multicentric context: challenges and opportunities”
Prof. Marco Nobile, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

“Data as a tool for governance”
Prof. Paolo Ghezzi, Infocamere

“Cybersecurity as a strategic lever”
Prefect Bruno Frattasi, Director General of Italy's National Cybersecurity Agency

“The interdependence of human, environmental, animal, and social health”
Massimo Paolucci, Curator of the Planetary Health Festival

“Planetary health: the vision and actions”
Stefano Vella, Professor of Global Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

“Health, Prevention, and Safety in the Veneto Regional System”
Francesca Russo, Directorate of Prevention, Food Safety, and Veterinary - Regione Veneto

“Understanding and Developing Planetary Health”
Ludovico Baldessin, Administrator of Edra/Healtival

“Health from space exploration? Challenges and opportunities”
Cesare Lobascio, Thales, Alenia Space

“Space Exploration to Improve Healthcare Services and Human Health”
Gabriele Mascetti, Italian Space Agency

“Human Physiology in Space”
Paola Verde, Italian Air Force

“Living healthily in space”
Paolo Nespoli, Former ESA Astronaut

Moderator: Luciano Flor, Former General Director of Healthcare for Regione Veneto

Umberto Comberiati, Chief Executive Officer Teva Italia

Domenico Lucatelli, Market Access Director, Angelini Italia

Onofrio Mastandrea, Regional Vice President, General Manager Italy, Incyte

Federico Viganò, Member of the Board of Directors, Federchimica Assobiotec

Moderator: Rossana Boldi, Former Vice President of the XII Commission (Social Affairs), Chamber of Deputies

Moderator: Enrico Rossi, Head of Relations with the Regions Motore Sanità

Antonio Tomassini, President of the Parliamentary Initiative Association for Health and Prevention

Stefano Bellon, Vice President of the Advanced Biomedical Research Foundation

Francesca Pasinelli, General Director - Telethon

Marcello Allegretti, Head of Scientific Office - Dompé Pharmaceuticals Spa

Graziella Pellegrini, Director of Research and Development - Holostem Srl

Paolo Fundarò and Federica Draghi, CEO - Xgen Venture and Business Development Manager - Xgen Venture

Moderator: Annamaria Zaccheddu, Scientific Communicator - Telethon Foundation