By Kelly Peters
Special to Rice News
The Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University will host the fourth annual AI in Health Conference this month, aiming to forge interdisciplinary, cross-institutional collaborations and showcase innovative artificial intelligence (AI) advancements for health research, medicine and data-driven technology. The event will gather over 450 attendees from academic and industry partners — including collaborators from the world’s largest medical complex, the Texas Medical Center — in Houston for the four-day program.
The program will address a wide range of topics related to the responsible and ethical use of AI in health and medicine, highlighting foundational and translational applications through thematic tracks including AI for modern therapeutics, AI for clinical research and physical AI and medicine. The full conference schedule and speaker lineup is available at the AI in Health Conference website.
- What: AI in Health Conference, hosted by Rice’s Ken Kennedy Institute
- When: Monday, Sept. 22 – Thursday, Sept. 25
- Where: BioScience Research Collaborative, 6500 Main St., Houston, TX 77030
Keynote sessions and thematic tracks will take place Sept. 23-24 with additional programming Sept. 22 and 25. View information about the add-on workshops here.
The Ken Kennedy Institute fosters world-class foundational research in AI and computing and enables their transformative use across diverse disciplines to solve global challenges, adhering to the highest ethical principles and positioning Rice at the forefront of responsible AI. The institute catalyzes research impact through collaborative forums, faculty-led workshops, distinguished lectures and two flagship annual conferences: the AI in Health Conference and the Energy HPC & AI Conference.
Media planning to attend the conference should RSVP with Silvia Cernea Clark at sc22@rice.edu.