Our 2026 Speakers

Festival speakers have been carefully selected due to their expertise in the field, their presentation style, and the insights they can share to help attendees make tangible progress with their work. See our speaker pledge for more information on how every session is optimised to deliver value to you, our Festival attendees.

On this page you can review the entire speaker faculty. Click on each speaker to see their bio and their session title/time.

Keynote Speakers

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Justin H. Johnson

Executive Director, Oncology Data Science, AstraZeneca Oncology R&D
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Aziz Nazha

Global Head, AI Innovations, Incyte
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Stacey Gabriel

Executive Vice President, Platforms and Scientific Execution, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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Melina Claussnitzer

Director, Broad Diabetes Initiative, Broad Institute
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Manolis Kellis

Professor of Computer Science, MIT
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Leroy Hood

CEO & President, Phenome Health & Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)
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Justin Scheer

VP, In Silico Discovery, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines
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John Tallarico

Global Head of Discovery Sciences, Novartis
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John Chan

Global Head of Digital, Informatics and AI, Novartis
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J. Craig Venter

Founder, Chairman, and CEO, J. Craig Venter Institute

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    Speaker profile image for Aayudh Das

    Aayudh Das

    Senior Computational Biologist, Stratus Therapeutics
    Speaker profile image for Abhay Moghekar

    Abhay Moghekar

    Biofluid Biomarker Core Leader, Clinical Core Co-Leader, Johns Hopkins Hospital 
    Speaker profile image for Adam Mico

    Adam Mico

    Principal Data and Analytics Strategist, Moderna
    Speaker profile image for Aidan Daly

    Aidan Daly

    Computational Scientist, New York Genome Center 
    Speaker profile image for Anas Al Zabiby

    Anas Al Zabiby

    Multi-omics Data Science Expert II, Discovery Sciences at Biomedical Research, Novartis
    Speaker profile image for Andrea Calabria

    Andrea Calabria

    Senior Director of Data Science and Computational Biology, Tessera Therapeutics
    Speaker profile image for Andrea Oza

    Andrea Oza

    Clinical Genomic Analyst and Genetic Counselor, Broad Clinical Labs
    Speaker profile image for Ángel Gálvez Merchán

    Ángel Gálvez Merchán

    Scientist II, Computational Biology, eGenesis
    Speaker profile image for Aparna Parikh

    Aparna Parikh

    Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
    Speaker profile image for Arthur Liberzon

    Arthur Liberzon

    Director, AI Research Lead for Omics, Oncology Data Science, AstraZeneca
    Speaker profile image for Asaf Rotem

    Asaf Rotem

    Senior Director of Translational Medicine, AstraZeneca
    Speaker profile image for Aziz Nazha

    Aziz Nazha

    Global Head, AI Innovations, Incyte
    Speaker profile image for Banishree Saha

    Banishree Saha

    Global Biomarker Lead, Takeda
    Speaker profile image for Bart Naughton

    Bart Naughton

    Head of Global Discovery Computational Biology, Eisai
    Speaker profile image for Benjamin Sun

    Benjamin Sun

    Director, Head of Population Health Omics, Informatics and Predictive Sciences, Bristol Myers Squibb
    Speaker profile image for Bharat Thyagarajan

    Bharat Thyagarajan

    Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Vice Chair for Translational Research, University of Minnesota
    Speaker profile image for Bruno Matuck

    Bruno Matuck

    Principal Investigator, The Oral Systems Biology Lab, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
    Speaker profile image for Caleb Lareau

    Caleb Lareau

    Assistant Member, Computational and Systems Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Speaker profile image for Chandra Saravanan

    Chandra Saravanan

    Director of Pathology, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
    Speaker profile image for Chenxu Zhu

    Chenxu Zhu

    Assistant Professor and Core Faculty Member , New York Genome Center 
    Speaker profile image for Christina Jackson

    Christina Jackson

    Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania
    Speaker profile image for Christina Leslie

    Christina Leslie

    Principal Investigator, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Speaker profile image for Chun-Chieh Lin

    Chun-Chieh Lin

    Assistant Professor of Pathology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
    Speaker profile image for Cigall Kadoch

    Cigall Kadoch

    Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Speaker profile image for Dan Gusenleitner

    Dan Gusenleitner

    Director, Computational Biology, Bayer
    Speaker profile image for David Ting

    David Ting

    Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
    Speaker profile image for David van Dijk

    David van Dijk

    Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and of Computer Science, Yale University
    Speaker profile image for Denis Bienroth

    Denis Bienroth

    Software Engineer, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
    Speaker profile image for Diana Merino Vega

    Diana Merino Vega

    Global Senior Director Early Detection, AstraZeneca
    Speaker profile image for Dorothy Sipkins

    Dorothy Sipkins

    Associate Professor, Duke University
    Speaker profile image for Edouard Duquesne

    Edouard Duquesne

    Data & AI Product Delivery Lead - Medical, R&D, Ipsen
    Speaker profile image for Emily Gillen

    Emily Gillen

    Head of Global Data Partnerships, UCB
    Speaker profile image for Emily Rose Holzinger

    Emily Rose Holzinger

    Senior Director of Statistical Genetics, Bristol Myers Squibb
    Speaker profile image for Emre Arslan

    Emre Arslan

    Associate Director, Takeda
    Speaker profile image for Enrique Valezquez Villarreal

    Enrique Valezquez Villarreal

    Assistant Professor, City Of Hope
    Speaker profile image for Eric Ma

    Eric Ma

    Senior Principal Data Scientist, Moderna
    Speaker profile image for Esther Rheinbay

    Esther Rheinbay

    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
    Speaker profile image for Evan Worden

    Evan Worden

    Asistant Professor, Van Andel Institute
    Speaker profile image for Franck Rapaport

    Franck Rapaport

    Director of Target, Disease and Systems Biology Data Science and AI, Sanofi
    Speaker profile image for Gad Getz

    Gad Getz

    Director of the Cancer Genome Computational Analysis Group, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    Speaker profile image for Giovanni Gambi

    Giovanni Gambi

    Postdoctoral Researcher, NYU Langone Health
    Speaker profile image for Gita Pathak

    Gita Pathak

    Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Speaker profile image for Guido Barzaghi

    Guido Barzaghi

    Postdoctoral Fellow in the Tsirigos Lab, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
    Speaker profile image for Hans Bitter

    Hans Bitter

    Head of Computational Science & Data Strategy (R&D leadership team), Takeda
    Speaker profile image for Hayretin Yumerefendi

    Hayretin Yumerefendi

    Associate Director, Novartis
    Speaker profile image for Helena Deus

    Helena Deus

    Lead for Semantic Data Products, Bristol Myers Squibb
    Speaker profile image for Ioannis Vlachos

    Ioannis Vlachos

    Associate Professor of Pathology, Director of the Spatial Technologies Unit, Harvard Medical School
    Speaker profile image for J. Craig Venter

    J. Craig Venter

    Founder, Chairman, and CEO, J. Craig Venter Institute
    Speaker profile image for Jasmine Plummer

    Jasmine Plummer

    Director, Center for Spatial OMICs, St Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Speaker profile image for Jason Weis

    Jason Weis

    PhD Candidate, Boston University
    Speaker profile image for Jennifer Heymont

    Jennifer Heymont

    Associate Director, Scientific Informatics, Eisai
    Speaker profile image for Jeremie Piña

    Jeremie Piña

    Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH
    Speaker profile image for Jim Gould

    Jim Gould

    Director of Postdoctoral Affairs, Harvard
    Speaker profile image for Jing Colatat

    Jing Colatat

    Senior Scientist, Vaccine R&D, Pfizer
    Speaker profile image for John Chan

    John Chan

    Global Head of Digital, Informatics and AI, Novartis
    Speaker profile image for John Rinn

    John Rinn

    Professor, Boulder Department University of Colorado
    Speaker profile image for John Tallarico

    John Tallarico

    Global Head of Discovery Sciences, Novartis
    Speaker profile image for Jonathan O'Connell

    Jonathan O'Connell

    Head of Drug Discovery Automation and Transformation, Takeda
    Speaker profile image for Julia Fox

    Julia Fox

    Director, Data Sciences, Takeda
    Speaker profile image for Julia Paczkowska

    Julia Paczkowska

    Post-Doc, Broad Institute
    Speaker profile image for Julie Filipenko

    Julie Filipenko

    Vice President, Clinical Data Management, Graviton Biosciences
    Speaker profile image for Justin H. Johnson

    Justin H. Johnson

    Executive Director, Oncology Data Science, AstraZeneca Oncology R&D
    Speaker profile image for Justin Scheer

    Justin Scheer

    VP, In Silico Discovery, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines
    Speaker profile image for Katy Börner

    Katy Börner

    Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington
    Speaker profile image for Krimish Shah

    Krimish Shah

    Associate Director Regulatory Data Governance Lead, Takeda
    Speaker profile image for Kumar Veerapen

    Kumar Veerapen

    Associate Director of Human Genetics, Takeda
    Speaker profile image for Lauren Celano

    Lauren Celano

    Co-Founder and CEO, Propel Careers
    Speaker profile image for Lauren Gutgesell

    Lauren Gutgesell

    Scientist, Arda Therapeutics
    Speaker profile image for Lauren Wasson

    Lauren Wasson

    Senior Scientist II, Bioinformatics, AbbVie
    Speaker profile image for Lei Xie

    Lei Xie

    Professor, Northeastern University
    Speaker profile image for Leroy Hood

    Leroy Hood

    CEO & President, Phenome Health & Institute for Systems Biology (ISB)
    Speaker profile image for Lindsay Rizzardi

    Lindsay Rizzardi

    Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Speaker profile image for Luca Pinello

    Luca Pinello

    Associate Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital
    Speaker profile image for Luca Zanella

    Luca Zanella

    Research Scientist and Course Director, Columbia University
    Speaker profile image for Manolis Kellis

    Manolis Kellis

    Professor of Computer Science, MIT
    Speaker profile image for Marc Wadsworth

    Marc Wadsworth

    Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer
    Speaker profile image for Marina Darlow

    Marina Darlow

    Incubation Lead, AI Tools for Pharma Research and Reporting, Takeda
    Speaker profile image for Marina DiStefano

    Marina DiStefano

    Director, Clinical Genomic Operations, Broad Clinical Labs
    Speaker profile image for Mark Ebbert

    Mark Ebbert

    Associate Professor, University of Kentucky
    Speaker profile image for Mark Gerstein

    Mark Gerstein

    Professor of Biomedical Informatics , Yale School of Medicine
    Speaker profile image for Martin Bringmann

    Martin Bringmann

    Senior Director Translational Neuroscience, Johnson & Johnson
    Speaker profile image for Martin Hemberg

    Martin Hemberg

    Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
    Speaker profile image for Matthew Glover

    Matthew Glover

    Associate Director, Proteomics, AstraZeneca
    Speaker profile image for Meixue Duan

    Meixue Duan

    Senior Expert, Data Science, Novartis
    Speaker profile image for Melina Claussnitzer

    Melina Claussnitzer

    Director, Broad Diabetes Initiative, Broad Institute
    Speaker profile image for Meredith Brown

    Meredith Brown

    Discovery Fellow, Novartis
    Speaker profile image for Michael Steinbaugh

    Michael Steinbaugh

    Director, Data, AI and Genome Sciences, Merck
    Speaker profile image for Michail Vlysidis

    Michail Vlysidis

    Principal Engineer, Technology, AbbVie
    Speaker profile image for Mitchell Shiell

    Mitchell Shiell

    Product Manager, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
    Speaker profile image for Miten Jain

    Miten Jain

    Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Physics, Northeastern University
    Speaker profile image for Mukesh Verma

    Mukesh Verma

    Chief, Cancer Epidemiology , Genomics Research Program, NCI (NIH)
    Speaker profile image for Nabil Rabhi

    Nabil Rabhi

    Research Assistant Professor, Boston University
    Speaker profile image for Natalia Benova

    Natalia Benova

    PhD Candidate, Leeds Beckett University
    Speaker profile image for Nelson Freeburg

    Nelson Freeburg

    Post-doctoral Researcher, Silverbush Lab, University of Pennsylvania
    Speaker profile image for Neva Cherniavsky Durand

    Neva Cherniavsky Durand

    Senior Scientist, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    Speaker profile image for Niall Lennon

    Niall Lennon

    Senior Director, Genomics Platform, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    Speaker profile image for Nick James

    Nick James

    Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Advanced Research Technologies, University of Rochester
    Speaker profile image for Nikolai Slavov

    Nikolai Slavov

    Professor and Founding Director, Northeastern University
    Speaker profile image for Nima Nouri

    Nima Nouri

    Director, Data Science, AstraZeneca
    Speaker profile image for Parul Doshi

    Parul Doshi

    Chief Data Officer, Cellarity
    Speaker profile image for Parveen Kumar

    Parveen Kumar

    Senior Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim
    Speaker profile image for Paul Kiessling

    Paul Kiessling

    PhD Student, University of Aachen
    Speaker profile image for Pedram Razavi

    Pedram Razavi

    Director, Liquid Biopsy and Cancer Genomics - MSK Biomarker Development Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Speaker profile image for Pedro Milanez-Almeida

    Pedro Milanez-Almeida

    Senior Expert II, Data Science, Novartis
    Speaker profile image for Priyank Patel

    Priyank Patel

    Principal Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim
    Speaker profile image for Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan

    Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan

    Director of Translational Bioinformatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Speaker profile image for Rodney Marable

    Rodney Marable

    Executive Director, Scientific Computing and Informatics, Flare Therapeutics
    Speaker profile image for Ryan Hartmaier

    Ryan Hartmaier

    Senior Director, Translational Medicine, Oncology R&D, AstraZeneca
    Speaker profile image for Samantha Morris

    Samantha Morris

    PI, Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Speaker profile image for Sandeep Burugupalli

    Sandeep Burugupalli

    Head of Data Science BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca
    Speaker profile image for Sarah Spencer

    Sarah Spencer

    AD & Senior Principal Data Science, Novartis
    Speaker profile image for Saurabh Vishnu Laddha

    Saurabh Vishnu Laddha

    Principal Computational Scientist, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines
    Speaker profile image for Shameer Khader

    Shameer Khader

    Executive Director, Precision Medicine and Computational Biology, Sanofi
    Speaker profile image for Shervin Tabrizi

    Shervin Tabrizi

    Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania
    Speaker profile image for Shuwei Li

    Shuwei Li

    Director, Population Analytics & Insights, Data Science DPDS, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines
    Speaker profile image for Simonne Longerich

    Simonne Longerich

    Director of Human Genetics, Boehringer Ingelheim
    Speaker profile image for Smita Krishnaswamy

    Smita Krishnaswamy

    Associate Professor of Genetics and of Computer Science, Yale University
    Speaker profile image for Stacey Gabriel

    Stacey Gabriel

    Executive Vice President, Platforms and Scientific Execution, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    Speaker profile image for Stef James

    Stef James

    Head of Operational Data Strategy, AstraZeneca
    Speaker profile image for Stephen Capuzzi

    Stephen Capuzzi

    Principal Scientist, Data and Computational Sciences, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
    Speaker profile image for Sudeshna Fisch

    Sudeshna Fisch

    Senior Distinguished Scientist, Sanofi
    Speaker profile image for Taekjip Ha

    Taekjip Ha

    Professor, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
    Speaker profile image for Thomas Norman

    Thomas Norman

    Associate Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Speaker profile image for Thu Elizabeth Duong

    Thu Elizabeth Duong

    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCSD, Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego
    Speaker profile image for Tom Lanz

    Tom Lanz

    Senior Director, Multi-Omics and Biomarkers, Pfizer
    Speaker profile image for Viktor Adalsteinsson

    Viktor Adalsteinsson

    Director, Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
    Speaker profile image for Virginia Savova

    Virginia Savova

    Head of Cell-targeted Precision Medicine, Oncology Data Science and AI, AstraZeneca
    Speaker profile image for Vishal Thapar

    Vishal Thapar

    Director, Product Manager, Applied AI Biomarker Development, AstraZeneca
    Speaker profile image for Whitney Heavner

    Whitney Heavner

    Scientist, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
    Speaker profile image for Woody Sherman

    Woody Sherman

    Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, PsiThera
    Speaker profile image for Xiong Liu

    Xiong Liu

    Director, Data Science and AI, Biomedical Research, Novartis
    Speaker profile image for Yang Song

    Yang Song

    Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca
    Speaker profile image for Yasser Riazalhosseini

    Yasser Riazalhosseini

    Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics, McGill University
    Speaker profile image for Yohann Potier

    Yohann Potier

    Senior Director of Data Engineering and Informatics, Tessera Therapeutics
    Speaker profile image for Yunha Hwang

    Yunha Hwang

    Assistant Professor & Co-founder and Chief Scientist , MIT & Tatta Bio
    Speaker profile image for Yuxin Liang

    Yuxin Liang

    Senior Principal Scientific Manager, Genentech