We at the Pistoia Alliance’s Centre of Excellence for AI/ML in Life Sciences are finalizing plans for the Workshop in Boston on 9 Oct (day prior to our main conference in Boston) and are announcing the upcoming Datathon and webinars in the Fall of 2018.

Boston AL and ML Workshop Update:

• This event is very popular with over 90 attendees, but we are still adding participants to the waitlist. Sign up to attend.
• Hear presentations & panels from over 20 industry leaders including Pfizer, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Shire and many others.
• We expect the workshop to be highly interactive:

o Ask questions from panelists on the current key topics in AI/ML for Life Sciences: best practices in data management, data science algorithms, and use cases in AI in drug discovery, and the lessons learned in practice.

o Take part in all-hands brainstorming session.

o Network and share best practice with your peers from life sciences in “Birds of the Feather” discussion during lunch and breaks.

o Discuss the training and retraining needs as Life Science adopts AI - what do we need to do next

More details on the Boston Workshop

Datathon:

• Run in collaboration with Elsevier and Cures Within Reach in October and November
• Help cure rare diseases and win awards!
• Scientific challenges: predict likely drug candidates, any possible side effects (adverse events) and any drug-drug interactions that might arise from treating comorbidities
• Launch will be 1 Oct 2018 with follow up at the Boston workshop, followed with a webinars on the approach
• Introductory & launch Webinar 1 Oct 2018. Register for launch
• More details to follow

Please contact us for more information

Webinar Updates:

• Upcoming talk: Maximizing Value from Healthcare Data Using Machine Learning in collaboration with the PRISMe Forum on Oct 18th – sign up to attend – note date change from Sept to Oct
• Plans for the future webinars - welcome ideas for autumn series
• This summer we conducted two webinars as Intros to ML and AI, and demystifying key issues. Catch up with these recordings

Future emerging projects aligned to AI & data

• Imaging and QC of clinical images - interest from GSK and Bayer. Working up idea
• Crowding source bioassay annotation using FAIR approaches and BAO ontology

Please join the interest group for these as we work up idea and test out the business case

Welcome to submit your own ideas

Pistoia Alliance AI and ML CoE is growing

We would like to announce Dr. Vladimir Makarov joining as Project Manager for the AI CoE. Dr. Makarov is based in California, where he is works as a pharmaceutical industry consultant and a college professor, and occasionally publishes papers on mathematical modeling in biology.

Community area and details

https://pistoiaalliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PUB/pages/106889308/AI+Deep+learning+Community+of+Interest+CoI

How you can contribute right now:

• Come to our Boston Workshop on 9 Oct 2018
• What public datasets would be valuable going forward?
• What projects should the CoE focus on?
• Propose ideas for future webinars?

Sign up to Community Group

As always please get in touch with questions or ideas

Best wishes

Vladimir and Nick