AIMed Program

Chair: Bartłomiej Papież PhD, MSc

8:40-9:00
Piotr Sankowski PhD
Professor, University of Warsaw (Poland); Director, IDEAS Research Institute
To be announced

9:00-9:20
Andreas Maier PhD
Professor and Head, Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
What next in medical AI?

9:20-9:40
Kostas Marias MSc PhD
Professor of Medical Image Processing, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Hellenic Mediterranean University (Greece);
Head, Computational BioMedicine Laboratory (CBML), Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas (FORTH-ICS)
What’s next in AI for precision oncology

9:40-10:00
Petra Ritter MD PhD
Professor for Brain Simulation, BIH & Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Director for International Affairs at Charité (Germany);
Lead, European Testing and Experimentation Facility for Health AI and Robotics (TEF-Health)
AI testing and experimentation facility for health AI and robotics (TEF-Health)

10:00-10:20
Katarzyna Witkowska PhD
Strategic Partnerships Director at Genomics England (UK)
Genomics England case study: Translating research into care - building trust through national genomic programmes and implementing AI for translational impact

10:20-10:40
Gary Collins PhD
Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Birmingham (UK); TRIPOD Steering Group
Inside black box: Transparent reporting for AI for healthcare

10:40-11:10
Q&A and panel discussion

Chair: Dan Perri MD

11:30-11:50
Thomas Lüscher MD
President of the European Society of Cardiology; Director of Research, Education & Development and Consulting Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital Trust and Professor of Cardiology at the Imperial College in London (UK);
Director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University Zurich (Switzerland)
AI Cardiovascular Medicine and beyond

11:50-12:10
Nadeem Sarwar PhD
Senior Vice President, Global Head, Disease Prevention & Global Head, Metabolic Disease Strategy of Enveda; Honorary Professor, School of Medicine, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Shifting the paradigm from reactive to preventive medicine: The critical role of data & AI

12:10-12:30
Bright Huo MD
McMaster University (Canada)
Health advice from GenAI platforms: What is the current landscape, and where is it going?

12:30-12:50
Julian Dobranowski MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Imaging, McMaster University (Canada)
AI in radiology: Challenges and opportunities. We are still here.

12:50-13:10
Sameer Shaikh MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, McMaster University (Canada); CEO, Inflective AI
From classroom to clinic: Building the competency framework for an AI-enabled medical workforce

13:10-13:40
Q&A and panel discussion

Chair: Piotr Szymański MD, PhD

14:20-14:40
Emer Cooke MSc MBA
Executive Director, European Medicines Agency
To be announced

14:40-15:00
Ricardo Baptista Leite MD
CEO, HealthAI – The Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health (Switzerland)
From robots to humans: Building global trust in AI-powered healthcare

15:00-15:20
Karl Broich MD PhD
President, Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (Germany);
Honorary Professor for Psychiatry and Clinical Neuropsycopharmacology, University of Bonn (Germany)
Not gatekeepers, but guardians of trust: Regulators as enablers of AI-driven medicine

15:20-15:40
Aneta Tyszkiewicz MA
Director, Data Digital, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
Building trust and understanding in AI use in the medicine lifecycle: Company practices

15:40-16:20
Q&A and panel discussion
Special Guests: Tomasz Maciejewski (Deputy Minister of Health), Rafał Rosiński (Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs)

Chair: Dan Perri MD

16:40-17:00
Karla Childers MSc
Vice President, Bioethics, Policy & Partnerships, Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Johnson&Johnson
Trust by design: Bioethics, AI, and responsible data stewardship

17:00-17:20
Angeliki Kerasidou MA, DPhil
Associate Professor in Bioethics, Ethox Centre, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
AI, trust and future provision of health care

17:20-17:40
Rebecca Brendel MD JD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Francis Glessner Lee Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Field of Legal Medicine;
Director, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics (USA)
Dimensions of responsibility in AI in medicine

17:40-18:10
Q&A and panel discussion

Friday, May 8, 2026 (8:00 PM)
Stara Zajezdnia
ul. Świętego Wawrzyńca 12, 31-060 Kraków

This event is not financed by member companies of INFARMA, MedTech Europe, or EFPIA.

The event is funded through ticket sales.

All conference participants are invited to attend this anniversary party.*
Tickets: €70 available for purchase on-site.

*dinner included

9:00-9:20
Andrzej Ryś MD
former Director for Health Systems, Medical Products and Innovation, European Commission; Co-creator of the European Health Data Space; Board Member of Medical Research Agency, Poland
The EU regulatory landscape: From design to implementation

9:20-9:40
Karl Broich MD PhD
President, Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices; Honorary Professor for Psychiatry and Clinical Neuropsycopharmacology, University of Bonn (Germany)
Unlocking AI in Digital Health Apllications: Opportunities, Challenges, and Compliance Frontiers

9:40-10:00
Q&A and panel discussion

10:00-10:20
Marek Kasztelnik MSc
Gaia AI Factory coordinator, Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH (Poland)
From idea to impact: Building the Gaia AI Factory in the medical AI ecosystem

10:20-10:40
Stefan Brock 
HPE Central Excellence Team (Switzerland) 
From pilot to practice: Trusted & scalable healthcare AI use cases on HPE private cloud AI 

10:40-11:00
To be announced

11:20-11:40
Dawid Rymarczyk PhD
Director of AI Solutions at Ardigen (Poland)
Defeating E-room's law with artificial intelligence: Real world data-driven drug discovery

11:40-12:00
Łukasz Bandała MSc BE
Co-CEO / CTO at Revolve Healthcare (Poland)
Turning AI innovation into a CE-marked medical product

12:00-12:20
Osman Ugur Sezerman MSc PhD
CEO at Epigenetiks (Turkey)
AI-driven multi-source and multiomics diagnostics

12:20-12:40
Szymon Janota 
Chief Executive Officer of Graylight Imaging  (Poland)
How a Polish MedTech collaborates with a tech giant to develop groundbreaking AI solutions in healthcare - a success story

12:40-13:20
Q&A and panel discussion
Moderator: Krzysztof Pyrć MSc PhD (President, FNP Foundation for Polish Science)
Panelists: Marek Magryś B.Eng. (Acting Director, Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH, Krakow, Poland), Michał Warchoł (CTO at Ardigen, Kraków, Poland) and speakers

Chairs: Tomasz Guzik MD PhD, Christine Laine MD MPH

9:00-9:10
Tomasz Guzik MD PhD
Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular Research; Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; University of Edinburgh, UK
Introduction

9:10-9:30
Christine Laine MD MPH
Editor in Chief of Annals of Internal Medicine; Senior Vice President, American College of Physicians
Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and challenges for medical journals

9:30-09:50 
Christian Eichinger PhD
Scientific Director, Oxford PharmaGenesis
Ensuring trustworthy AI in evidence generation and medical publishing

9:50-10:10
Tomasz Guzik MD PhD
Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular Research; Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland; University of Edinburgh, UK
When the research subject becomes the research tool: AI in clinical studies and publication requirements

Chairs: Tomasz Guzik MD PhD, Christine Laine MD MPH

10:30-10:50
Jennifer Hilgart MSc
BMJ Digital Health & AI Clinical Editor
The clinical editor's dilemma: Evaluating AI research for publication in specialty journals

10:50-11:10 
Deborah Dixon
Global Editorial Director, Science and Medical Journals, Oxford University Press, UK
From ICMJE to implementation: Translating AI guidelines into enforceable journal policies

11:10-11:30
Klaudia Gwóźdź
Main Medical Library, Poland;
Małgorzata Caban PhD
PCG Academia
Artificial intelligence in scientific information systems: Examples of applications and challenges – the context of the Polish medical bibliography

11:30-11:50 
To be announced
Ethical frameworks for AI in scientific communication

11:50-12:30 
All speakers
Panel discussion