AGENDA
April 22, 2026
Check-in & Lite Breakfast
8:00 AM - 9:20 AM
Welcome
9:40 AM - 9:50 AM
Michelle Lee . Founder & CEO • Medra
How to Build Agents for Scientific Discovery in 2026
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM
Andrew White Co-founder & CTO • Edison Scientific
Biology for AI: The next breakthroughs are methods, not models
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Henry Lee CEO • Cultivarium
Unlocking Clinical Response Prediction with Multimodal World Models
10:40 PM - 10:55 AM
Ron Alfa Co-founder & CEO • Noetik
AI at the Bench: Getting More from Each Experiment
10:55 AM - 11:10 AM
Jeremy Elser Head of Science • Palantir
Dealmaking & Partnerships: Who’s Actually Writing the Checks
11:20 AM - 11:50 AM
Sarah Nam VP, Global Head of Partnerships, AI • AbbVie
Jonah Cool Life Sciences • Anthropic
Eli Berlin Co-founder • Terray Therapeutics
Stacy Feld Global Head, External Scientific Innovation • Johnson & Johnson
Chris Leiter, Moderator Founder & General Partner • Atria Ventures
Predictions to Proof: Translating AI into Real Biology
11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
Anna Marie Wagner Co-founder & CEO • Transfyr
Martin Jensen Co-founder & CSO • Gordian Biotechnologies
Alex Morgan, Moderator Partner • Khosla Ventures
Payal Sheth SVP Therapeutic Discovery Sciences • Bristol Myers Squibb
Lunch & Round Tables
12:20 PM - 1:20 PM
How to Train an AI (For Science)
1:20 PM - 1:50 PM
Johnny Hu, Moderator Partner • Menlo Ventures
Yusuf Roohani Assistant Director of Machine Learning • Arc Institute
Peyton Greenside Co-founder & CEO • BigHat Biosciences
Eric Ho Co-founder & CEO • Goodfire
AI Across the Sciences
1:50 PM - 2:20 PM
Joseph Krause Co-founder & CEO • Radical AI
Carina Hong Founder & CEO • Axiom Math
Pete Florence Co-founder & CEO • Generalist
Shahin Farschi, Moderator Partner • Lux Capital
What is Hype and What is Real?
2:20 PM - 2:50 PM
Hani Goodarzi Core Investigator • Arc Institute
Reshma Shetty Co-founder & COO • Gingko Bioworks
Jacob Kimmel Co-founder & President • NewLimit
Gregg Spivey, Moderator AI/ML Partnerships • Lilly
Fireside Chat
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Jorge Reis-Filho Chief of AI for Science Innovation • AstraZeneca
Michelle Lee, Moderator Founder & CEO • Medra
Fireside Chat
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Samuel Stanton Co-founder & Member of Technical Staff • Coefficient Bio
Nan Li, Moderator Co-founder & General Partner • Dimension Capital
Deep Dive Into X-Cell
3:50 PM - 4:05 PM
Ci Chu AI-Enabled Discover • Xaira Therapeutics
Bo Wang SVP & Head of Biomedical AI • Xaira Therapeutics
Data Engine for Autonomous Science
4:05 PM - 4:20 PM
Michelle Lee Founder & CEO • Medra
From Cell Atlases to Medicines, with AI
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Aviv Regev EVP Research & Early Development • Genentech
Happy Hour
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
