Conference Agenda

How to leverage LA’s digital ecosystem and talent to foster a biotechnology startup revolution.

Networking

Doheny Eye Institute

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Great companies are born from great ideas and basic research. Academic research labs are the original incubators. Learn about how partnerships with industry are bridging innovation and entrepreneurial development.

Although the eyes are the window to the soul, the voice may be the window to health. Our voices are produced by a complicated dance among the respiratory, laryngeal, and articulatory systems. Disruption in any of these systems produces changes in our voice, which can be seen from babies with autism to the elderly with Parkinson's disease. Here, we demonstrate vocal changes in different disorders and how statistical models can quantify these vocal changes, using baby cries from our ChatterBaby Cry Translator research study.

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This talk will highlight how deep learning AI can be used to extract meaningful patterns from the millions of pixels in a medical imaging exam.

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In this era of big data, imaging devices like microscopes and MRI scanners can capture nanoscale details in five dimensions (x, y, z, time, and color). The resulting volumetric images have immense scientific potential, but there are challenges in managing and visualizing these massive datasets. Most current visualization tools have steep learning curves and require powerful computers to deliver interactive high definition renderings. They also typically lack collaborative features, which creates a barrier to sharing and viewing their multidimensional data with colleagues and the public in real time.  To overcome these challenges, we developed Microscape, a software package for visualizing imaging data in three, four, and five-dimensions (3D+). Microscape runs on multiple devices including PC, Mac, mobile, and in virtual reality. The application can be used locally or via the web, providing collaborative tools for groups of researchers to simultaneously view and control shared 3D+ datasets from remote locations. Our mission is to create open environments for collaborating around 3D+ imaging data.

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The evolution of healthcare is headed towards personalized medicine -- learn how AI will help tailor diagnostics and therapeutics to individual profiles with large-scale analytics.

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Networking

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How might we build bridges between industry and academia to develop innovations enabled by artificial intelligence? What does it take to initiate lasting creative collaborations across these sectors? Some hypothetical answers to these questions will be presented for your consideration and subsequent revision and/or iteration.

State-of-the-art deep learning algorithms for state (surgeon actions and environmental changes) recognition during robot-assisted surgeries.

By Erick Moen

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By Professor Rose Yu at UCSD

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Talk given by Aiden Aceves

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AI dropout & BioscienceLA CEO Dave Whelan will explore the intersection of data, population, and healthcare with Sean Young, Exec Director of the UC Institute for Prediction Technology.

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Welcome

How will our growing knowledge of cancer’s genomic profiles and tumor-specific mechanisms change cancer research? Hear from scientists innovating the next vision for highly specific targeted therapeutics.

Lowering the cost of research and development will mean leaner, more efficient and more equitable labs. Hear about how incubators are powering a future of limitless innovation.

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We collect more real-time data about our lives -- from health to exercise to sleep cycles -- than ever before. How can AI pair with analytics coaches to help make sense of the numbers and help us live our best lives?

Networking

Welcome and Keynot

Antibiotic resistance. Plastic waste. More efficient food and agriculture production. Curing diseases. Hear our experts discuss some of the breakthroughs and solutions that will be possible through synthetic biology.

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Are we ready to take the next step in robotics by engineering and deploying intelligent machines in fields from medicine to assembly work? Hear our panel discuss the latest advances and possibilities.

Amid the challenges presented by climate change to our planet and its ecosystem, learn how biotechnology is innovating sustainable solutions for conservation of biodiversity and protecting responsibly sourced agriculture.

Networking

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