Day 1
Tuesday, April 4
(All times are US Eastern Time)
12:15 pm ET – 12:45 pm ET
Introducing the Open-Source Library for Testing NLP Models
David Talby – CTO at John Snow Labs
12:45 pm ET – 1.05 pm ET
Foundation Models For Biomedical NLP
Elliot Bolton – Research Engineer at Stanford CRFM
1:05 pm ET – 1:25 pm ET
BioGPT: Generative Language Models for Healthcare and Beyond
Tao Qin – Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research
Renqian Luo – Researcher at Microsoft Research
Yingce Xia – Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research
1:25 pm ET – 1:45 pm ET
Green AI
Roy Schwartz – Senior Lecturer School of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2:00 pm ET – 2:30 pm ET
A Path Towards an Automated and Inclusive Clinical Research
Azadeh Mobasher – Principal Data Scientist at Genentech
Few-shot Learning in Production
Moshe Wasserblat – NLP Research Manager at Intel
Measuring and Mitigating Bias in Healthcare Language Models
Gaurav Kaushik – Founder at ScienceIO
2:35 pm ET – 3:05 pm ET
Automated Medical Data De-Identification and Obfuscation
Veysel Kocaman – Lead Data Scientist at John Snow Labs
Jiri Dobes – Head of Solutions at John Snow Labs
Long Document Abstractive Summarization with Large Language Models
Natalia Vassilieva – Director of Product, Machine Learning at Cerebras Systems
Medication Instructions – Variability Primed for Disruption through NLP
Paulo Pinho – VP & Medical Director of Innovation at Availity Clinical Solutions
3:10 pm ET – 3:40 pm ET
Leveraging Healthcare NLP Models in Regulatory Grade Oncology Data Curation
Brooke Gruman – VP of Product at COTA Healthcare
Sudhakar Velamoor – VP of Engineering at COTA Healthcare
Towards an Artificial Intelligence-enabled Social Media Listening Solution to Inform Early Patient-focused Drug Development Strategies
Prathamesh Karmalkar – Lead Data Scientist – Text Analytics, NLP & AI at Merck Group
Erica Spies – Director, Strategy Innovation & Capabilities at EMD Serono
3:45 pm ET – 4:15 pm ET
Operationalizing NLP Models
Saira Kazmi – Executive Director Enterprise Data and Machine Learning Engineering at CVS Health
Patient Similarity through Representation Learning from Medical Records
Nasser Ghadiri – Associate Professor at Isfahan University of Technology
Day 2
Wednesday, April 5
(All times are US Eastern Time)
12:15 pm ET – 12:45 pm ET
Evaluating Large Language Models on Clinical & Biomedical NLP Benchmarks
Veysel Kocaman – Lead Data Scientist at John Snow Labs
12:45 pm ET – 1.05 pm ET
Prototypical Networks for Interpretable Diagnosis Prediction
Betty van Aken – Research Associate / PhD Student: Deep Learning and NLP at Berlin University of Applied Sciences Berlin (BHT)
1:05 pm ET – 1:25 pm ET
EHR-Safe: Generating High-Fidelity and Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Electronic Health Records
Sercan Arik – Research Scientist at Google
Jinsung Yoon – Research Scientist at Google
1:25 pm ET – 1:45 pm ET
Large Language Models for Parsing Clinical Text
Monica Agrawal, PhD – Researcher at MIT
2:00 pm ET – 2:30 pm ET
Extracting Disease Severity Measures from Unstructured Clinical Notes Using Spark NLP
Vikas Kumar – Sr Data Scientist at OMNY Health
Lawrence Rasouliyan – Head of Biostatistics and Data Science at OMNY Health
Suicide Classification for News Media using NLP
Celia Lozano – Head of Data & Analytics at Bosonit
Extracting Big Value from Big Data in Unstructured Content
Paul Edelblut – Vice President, Global Operations at Vantage Labs
2:35 pm ET – 3:05 pm ET
Sentiment Analysis of Insurance Claims Using Spark NLP
Lovedeep Saini – Data science Manager at Gallagher
Natural Language Processing for Drug Discovery: The State of Practices, Opportunities, and Challenges
Suneel Kumar BVS – Director of AI & Drug Design at Molecular Forecaster
A Scalable System to Identify Adverse Events from Consumer Reviews
Sergiy Tkachuk – IT&D Senior Manager – Global Data Science at Reckitt
Piotr Szymczak – Data Scientist at Reckitt
3:10 pm ET – 3:40 pm ET
Unlocking the Power of NLP in Healthcare: The Promise and Perils of Large Language Models
Morteza Noshad – Senior ML/NLP Scientist at Vida Health
Transforming Clinical Decision Support and Analytics Through NLP
Elia Lima-Walton – Director Data Science and Clinical Analytics – Health at Elsevier
Smart Shortcuts for Bootstrapping a Healthcare NER Project
David Berenstein – Developer Advocate Engineer at Argilla
3:45 pm ET – 4:15 pm ET
Automated Extraction of Medical Risk Factors for Life Insurance Underwriting
Muhammet Santas – Data Scientist at John Snow Labs
Marcela Granados – Global Insurance Leader at Databricks
Using NLP to Structure Medical Records and Identify Patients with Abnormalities
Jéssica dos Santos de Oliveira – Head of Data at NeuralMed
How to Build a Question Answering Application with Haystack in 30 Minutes
Julian Risch – Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Deepset