AWS Healthcare & Life Sciences Symposium
Event Details
Date & Time: | April 24 - 25, 2019 Day One (April 24): 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM Day Two (April 25): 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM |
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Location: | The Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02115 | ![]() |
Agenda
Day One
Healthcare & Life Sciences at Scale: Wednesday, April 24th
On day one, learn from industry thought leaders about how they are improving patient care and driving better outcomes with innovative, secure, and compliant technology solutions at scale. Spend the morning exploring the intersection between the healthcare and life science industries to see how companies are changing the way they engage with patients through AI/ML and personalization of an individual’s health journey.
The afternoon will feature healthcare and life science specific breakout sessions for you to dive deep into various topic areas and learn directly from AWS customer experiences. We will end with a cross-industry panel discussion on key trends for 2019.
Time | Session | |
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM | Registration and Breakfast | |
9:30 AM – 10:15 AM | Welcome & Keynote Ryan Hamilton, Senior Vice President, Cerner |
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10:15 AM – 11:15 AM |
Session 1: Incorporating AI/ML to drive innovation in healthcare and life sciences Manu Tandon - CIO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Alex Ermolaev - Director of AI, Change Healthcare Kate Mulroney - Sr. Director & Global Lead, Big Data Analytics Center of Excellence, Novo Nordisk |
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11:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Session 2: Transforming digital engagements for better patient care | |
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM |
Healthcare Track Unlocking patient records insights through AI/ML |
Life Sciences Track Modernizing clinical trials |
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM |
Healthcare Track Healthcare interoperability and the cloud |
Life Sciences Track AI/ML for patient selection |
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM |
Healthcare Track Intelligent automation for patient engagement |
Life Sciences Track Technology enabled pharmacovigilance Thomas Viethen- Senior Study Medical Expert, Bayer AG |
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
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3:00 PM – 4:00 PM |
Healthcare Track Powering precision medicine at scale |
Life Sciences Track Driving engagement with digital therapeutics |
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM | Break | |
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM | Panel Discussion: Where do we go from here? Trends to watch in 2019 John Doyle- Vice President and Lead for Healthcare Innovation, Pfizer Kelly Summers- Digital Medicine Expert Brett Davis- General Manager, Deloitte ConvergeHEALTH Faraz Shafiq- Chief Data and AI Officer, Cambia Health |
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5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Networking Reception & Happy Hour |
Time | Sessions | |
8:30AM – 9:30AM | Registration and Breakfast | |
9:30AM – 10:15PM | Welcome and Keynote | |
10:15AM – 11:15AM | Session 1: Incoporating AI/ML to drive innovation in healthcare and life sciences | |
11:15AM – 12:00PM | Session 2: Transforming digital engagements for better patient care | |
12:00PM – 1:00PM | Lunch | |
1:00PM - 4:00PM | Healthcare Track and Life Sciences Track Talks | |
4:15PM - 5:00PM | Panel Discussion: Where do we go from here? Trends to watch in 2019 | |
5:00PM - 7:00PM | Networking Reception & Happy Hour |
Day Two
Healthcare & Life Science Upstarts: Thursday, April 25th
Day two features dual tracks. In the healthcare track, you’ll hear lessons learned from upstarts breaking down traditional silos, mining untouched lodes of data, and delivering real-world impact through new cloud capabilities spanning natural language and voice, medical imaging, analytics, and interoperability. In the life sciences track, you’ll learn from biotech upstarts who are leveraging the cloud to accelerate science, maximize capital, minimize risk, and deliver new superpowers to the clinic at an unprecedented pace.
Time | Session |
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8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Registration and Breakfast | |
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM |
Healthcare Track Data is the new oil, interoperability is your drill rig The API armageddon in healthcare is coming and only the cloud can save us Rebuilding Puerto Rico's healthcare infrastructure in the cloud Enterprise data strategies: engaging clinicians as consumers through the workflow |
Life Sciences Track Unraveling, understanding and manipulating the genome Moore’s law and the engineering of organisms Bringing CRISPR out of the lab to democratize diagnostics Parallelizing gRNA design using AWS cloud computing |
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Break | |
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Healthcare Track Signals, patterns and populations: insights from analytics at scale Electronic phenotyping at scale: augmenting critical human activities for value based care processes Bringing the power of a platform to more than 3,000 US hospitals Accelerating the Healthcare industry to value-based reimbursement Draining the data swamp for healthcare |
Life Sciences Track Taking multiomics from bench to bedside Creation of a cloud-based infrastructure to drive the development of personalized drugs for hearing loss Targeting tumor mutations for personalized cancer immunotherapy Title TBD Andrew Kernytsky, Ph.D - Head of Genomics and Computational Biology, CRISPR Therapeutics |
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Networking Lunch | |
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM |
Healthcare Track Seeing beyond the image: augmenting human performance Tearing down the walls to bring the cloud to healthcare The power of deep learning to scale breast cancer screening…everywhere Unlocking imaging's strategic advantage The time is now |
Life Sciences Track From science fiction to reality with machine learning Advancing therapeutic R&D with machine learning Uncovering the deep origin of infectious disease with genomics and AI Leveraging ML to speed up drug development The only path to precision medicine: millions of genomes and AI |
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Break | |
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM |
Healthcare Track Talk to me: new interfaces between humans and systems How to make voice technology successful for medical documentation: 3 key lessons Your health speaks: vocal biomarkers and the potential for direct measures of health from voice Title TBD John Brownstein - Chief Innovation officer, Boston Children's Hospital |
Life Sciences Track The lab of the future is already here High throughput production of mRNA Breaking the R&D speed limit Accelerating drug development: The role of IT as a strategic partner |
Time | Sessions | |
8:30AM – 9:00AM | Registration and Breakfast | |
9:00AM – 10:30AM | Healthcare Track and Life Sciences Track Talks | |
10:30AM – 11:00AM | Break | |
11:00AM – 12:30PM | Healthcare Track and Life Sciences Track Talks | |
12:30PM – 1:30PM | Networking Lunch | |
1:30PM – 3:00PM | Healthcare Track and Life Sciences Track Talks | |
3:00PM – 4:00PM | Break | |
4:00PM – 5:30PM | Healthcare Track and Life Sciences Track Talks |