From AI hype to tangible impact

At The Festival of Genomics and Biodata, we focus on what actually works: deploying AI across diagnostics, genomics and drug discovery, building AI‑ready datasets, integrating multimodal data, and scaling models beyond proof‑of‑concept. 

AI is moving rapidly from experimentation to implementation across genomics, diagnostics and drug discovery.

But, what’s actually working?

At The Festival you'll discover how leading organisations are putting AI to work across the life-sciences pipeline, with two designated theatres focussed on AI namely the AI in Drug Discovery Stage and the AI-Enabled Diagnostics Stage.

Cut through the hype, benchmark against peers and learn what it takes to scale.

Don’t forget to visit the exhibition floor where we have a large range of technology provider and solution provider companies to meet your needs.

By attending you'll get to explore: 

  • From pilot to practice: how organisations are moving promising AI applications beyond proof-of-concept and into real-world workflows.
  • AI-enabled diagnostics: the latest approaches to genomic interpretation, digital pathology and multimodal diagnostics and how to address the challenges of validation, regulation and clinical adoption.
  • AI in drug discovery: discover how AI is being applied to target identification, functional genomics, protein design and other stages of the R&D pipeline from top pharmaceutical companies.
  • The data behind AI: what it takes to build AI-ready datasets and make multimodal biological data usable at scale.
  • Foundation and agentic models: where the latest advances are creating genuine opportunities and where the science, data and infrastructure still need to catch up.
  • Responsible implementation: practical approaches to bias, validation, human oversight, governance and regulation.
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Speakers

You’ll hear from leaders applying AI across genomics, diagnostics and drug discovery and building foundation models, integrating multimodal datasets and deploying AI at scale to deliver real scientific and clinical impact. 

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Edith Heard

Director and Chief Executive
The Francis Crick Institute
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Julio Saez-Rodriguez

Head of Research
EMBL-EBI
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Slavica Dimitrieva

Associate Director, Oncology Data Science
Novartis
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Matthew Hurles

Director
Wellcome Sanger Institute
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Gosia Trynka

Science Director
OpenTargets
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Alessandra Vigilante

Reader in Bioinformatics
King's College London
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Elif Ozkirimli

Head of Computational Science Products
Roche
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Adam Cribbs

Co-Founder & CTO
Entelo Bio
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Aldo Faisal

Professor of AI & Neuroscience
Imperial College London
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Aleix Lafita

Associate Director, Translational Sciences
GSK
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Alex Koers

Associate Director, Bioscience
AstraZeneca
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Alexander Deng

Consultant in Genomic AI
NHS Genomic AI Network
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Alireza Moayyeri

Senior Director RWE
UCB
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Amaka Offiah

Professor of Paediatric Musculoskeletal Imaging
University of Sheffield
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Caroline Weis

Director, AI for Science
GSK
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Claudia Lindner

Senior Research Fellow in Translational Medical Imaging
University of Manchester
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Daljeet Bansal

NPIC Director of Operations
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
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Damian Smedley

Professor of Computational Genomics
Queen Mary University of London
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David Leslie

Director of Ethics and Responsible Innovation Research
The Alan Turing Institute
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Dr Maria C Suciu

Head of Discovery
Genomics Ltd
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Elina Nagaeva

Postdoctoral Researcher
UK DRI
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Elisabetta Leo

Senior Director, Early Development Asset Lead
Ipsen
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Fazeleh Hoseini

AI Privacy Researcher & Project Lead
AI Sweden
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Georgia Whitton

Senior Bioinformatician
The Francis Crick Institute
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Georgios Baskozos

Associate Professor
University of Oxford
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Helena Andres Terre

Associate Director, AI & Advanced Analytics
UCB
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Holger Klein

Senior Principal Scientist Computational Innovation
Boehringer Ingelheim
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Ian Simpson

Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Director UKRI Artificial Intelligence CDT in Biomedical Innovation
University of Edinburgh
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Inga Prokopenko

Professor e-One Health and Head of Statistical Multi-Omics
University of Surrey
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Jake Taylor-King

Chief Innovation Officer
Relation Therapeutics
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James Campbell

Bioinformatics Training Developer
The Francis Crick Institute
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Jay Moore

PhD Student
UK DRI
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Joseph Halstead

Lead Bioinformatician
All Wales Medical Genomics Service
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Lennard Lee

Chief Medical Officer
The University of Oxford
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Liz Merrifield

Informaiton Governance Lead
Wales Gene Park
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Loukas Theodosiou

Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
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Majd Saleh

Senior Data Scientist
Servier Institute of Therapeutic Innovation
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Marc Boubnovski Martell

Machine Learning Researcher
Novo Nordisk
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Mrinal Joshi

Research Assistant
UK DRI
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Nathan Skene

Group Leader
Imperial College London
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Oisin Brady

PhD Student
Cardiff University
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Quan Nguyen

Senior Research Fellow and Group Leader
The University of Queensland
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Remy Adriaensen

Lead OSR Discovery Breeder Europe
BASF
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Sarah Coupland

Professor and Honorary Consultant in Pathology
University of Liverpool
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Shaheer Saeed

Lecturer in Computational Biomedical Engineering
Queen Mary University of London
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Sneha Jha

R&D Lead
The Queen's University Belfast
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Sonam Vadera

RCR AI Course Lead
The Royal College of Radiologists
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Torsten Haferlach

Co-Founder and CEO
Munich Leukemia Laboratory (MLL)
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