MIT CSAIL and STEMM Global Launched a Virtual Summit on AI in Healthcare

BOSTON - Aug. 21, 2020 - PRLog -- MIT CSAIL and STEMM Global Launched a Virtual Summit on AI in Healthcare

To galvanize AI experts to action, support healthcare innovation and avoid future pandemics, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab in collaboration with STEMM Global Scientific Community launches an AI in Healthcare Summit, Online October 1-2, 2020

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Boston, August 18th, 2020 — Today, MIT's (https://www.csail.mit.edu/) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and STEMM Global (https://stemm.tech/) Scientific Community announced that they will gather thought leaders from all over the world at a virtual summit dedicated to AI in Healthcare on October 1-2, 2020. The aim of the summit is to boost effective collaboration among leading AI academics, healthcare experts and business leaders to support innovation in healthcare.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, the future is now. Scientists, AI researchers, healthcare experts and business leaders will come together to discuss how AI is helping to address the ongoing healthcare crisis and look at the technologies being developed now that will change the future of healthcare. It is now crucial that we launch and drive innovation and development of AI for good.

The summit provides a platform to enable collaboration around cutting edge research including contact tracing, vaccines, ethics, diagnostics, precision medicine, electronic healthcare records and more. The program is focused on the ways that AI helps address the biggest challenges in the healthcare industry and features panel discussions uniting experts across business and academia.

The first day of the summit is dedicated to existing technologies. The program explores current healthcare applications of AI — spanning diagnostics, patient care, robotics, and more. Both established researchers and inspiring start-ups provide their point of view. Critical issues raised by using AI in healthcare are also considered, including diversity and access to healthcare services.

The second day of the summit covers the promises of AI for the future. AI experts discuss how AI will help to overcome public health challenges, and which technologies will transform the field in the future. The impact and necessity of global regulation, ethics, and privacy — key topics of interest in the professional community — will also be discussed.

Panel sessions include:

• AI's Impact Today
• The Rush for Treatments and Vaccines: AI's Processing Power
• The Importance of Diversity in AI and Healthcare
• Emerging Technologies: Startups Changing Healthcare
• Possibilities for Tomorrow: The Promise of AI
• Transformative Technologies: Advancements Through AI
• Global Healthcare Policy: Security, Ethics, and Data governance
• Covid-19 and Public Health Challenges: AI's Impact

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