Program 2026

AI2Med is Turku’s dedicated event bringing together AI researchers and medical professionals. This one-day event focuses on the growing need for collaboration between computational scientists and healthcare practitioners, covering applications from medical imaging to protein design and clinical text mining.

This event provides a platform for researchers, clinicians, and students to share their work, exchange ideas, and build collaborative networks at the intersection of artificial intelligence and medical research.

AI2Med 2026 brings together five keynote speakers from leading academic and industry teams — Aalto University, ELLIS Institute Finland, LMU Munich University Hospital, AMD Silo AI, AIforia Technologies and CSC – IT Center for Science — alongside a poster session, an expert panel discussion and extended networking. The day is designed to connect researchers, clinicians and students working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and medicine.

📅 Wednesday, Nov 25, 2026

☀️ Morning Session 🌙 Afternoon Session

8:45 – 9:10

Opening and Registration

Name badges, program info

9:10 – 9:15

Welcome & Introduction

Opening remarks from organizers

9:15 – 9:50

Keynote 1

Professor Lalith Kumar Shiyam Sundar

Digital transformation: A prerequisite for AI driven precision medicine

9:50 – 10:35

☕ Coffee Break & Poster Session

🖼️ Posters are up all day — meet the presenters at their boards

📋 Interested in presenting a poster? Register here →

10:35 – 11:10

Keynote 2

Assistant Professor Jiancheng (JC) Yang

Scaling Medical AI from Learning Tasks to Learning Patients

11:10 – 11:45

Keynote 3

Adrian Yijie Xu

Advances of AI in Drug Discovery – Opportunities and Challenges

11:45 – 12:30

Sandwich Lunch & Networking

Lunch is provided for all participants — an open, informal networking hour

12:30 – 12:45

Body & Mind Wake-Up

A guided stretch and live interactive session to reset before the afternoon keynotes

12:45 – 13:20

Keynote 4

Joanna Pylvänäinen

The Way of Taking an AI Product into Clinical Use

13:20 – 13:55

Keynote 5

Jesse Harrison

High-performance computing for AI-driven biomedical research

13:55 – 14:40

☕ Coffee Break & Poster Session

🖼️ Second chance to browse the posters and talk to the presenters

📋 Interested in presenting a poster? Register here →

14:40 – 15:40

Expert Panel Discussion

Panellists to be announced.

15:40 – 16:30

Networking & Collaboration Session

The format is shaped around who registers — full details will be announced closer to the event.

16:30 – 17:00

Closing Remarks & Final Chats

Thank you and see you next year — stay for a group photo, a last conversation and a proper goodbye

Our Keynote Speakers

Five voices from research and industry at the forefront of AI-driven healthcare.

Lalith Kumar Shiyam Sundar

Professor of Digital Transformation in Radiology

LMU Munich University Hospital

Expert in AI applications in PET imaging and digital transformation in healthcare.

Jiancheng (JC) Yang

Assistant Professor & Principal Investigator

Aalto University & ELLIS Institute Finland

Builds medical AI foundation models and clinical “world models” for lung cancer and cardiac care; creator of MedMNIST.

Adrian Yijie Xu

Manager, Life Sciences (Drug Discovery)

AMD Silo AI

Works on machine learning for drug discovery, from molecular design through to translational application.

Joanna Pylvänäinen

Clinical AI Product Lead

AIforia Technologies

Bioimage analysis specialist translating AI microscopy tools from research into clinical products.

Jesse Harrison

Development Manager, AI and Data Analytics

CSC – IT Center for Science

Leads CSC’s AI and data-analytics services and expert support for running AI on high-performance computing platforms.