Dear colleagues,
we would like to welcome you to our symposium "Shaping the Future of Medical Decisions" in Göttingen, the city of science. The goal of the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare is to bring together leading experts from various fields — including medicine, artificial intelligence, ethics, law, social sciences, entrepreneurship, and engineering — to discuss the integration of AI technologies into clinical practice. Together, we aim to develop best practice guidelines, explore ethical and regulatory challenges, and inspire the next generation of scientists and clinicians. We are thrilled to have you join us in shaping the future of medical decision-making and look forward to our discussions, networking and exchange of ideas.
with best regards, the organization team
Frauke Alves, Anne Schwerk, Andrea Markus
Programm
Day 1 | Monday, 6th October 2025
AI ´ s current role in Diagnostics and Decision-Support
Chairs: Frauke Alves and Anne Schwerk
08:15 Registration and coffee
09:00 Welcome by representatives of MPI-NAT and UMG
Holger Stark, MPI-NAT | Wolfgang Brück, UMG Göttingen
09:10 Welcome
Frauke Alves, UMG/MPI-NAT
09:15 Keynote: Multimodal Medicine: A New Era of Intelligence in Health
Jackie Ma, Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin
AI in Diagnostics and Decision Support
Chairs: Ramin Yahyapour, N.N.
10:00 Clinical Digital Twins for AI-driven Medical Decision Support
Björn Eskofier, FAU Erlangen
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 AI Decision Support in Nephrology, Telemedicine, and Chatbots
Klemens Budde, Charité, Berlin
11:30 Predictive Deep Learning for Medicine and Healthcare
Anne Christine Hauschild, JLU Gießen
11:50 Towards Trustworthy AI: Concept Bottlenecks and Uncertainty in Clinician-Centred Decision Support
Christopher Banerji, King‘s College London, UK
Examples of application tools
Chairs: N.N., N.N.
12:10 QSHIFT: Decision-Making in the Age of Quantum AI
Faisal Kwaileh, Charité Berlin
12:25 Synthetic Data in Medical Diagnostics
Frauke Wilm, MIRA vision microscopy GmbH, Erlangen
12:40 Lunch & Foto
Innovation through Data Integration
Chairs: Constanze Schmidt, Jana Zschüntzsch
13:45 Selected young scientists
Rising voices in AI
14:15 Future Data Integration: Experience from Screen4Care
Josef Schepers, BIH Berlin
14:45 Impact of Medical Informatics
Dagmar Krefting, UMG, Göttingen
15:15 Empowering health data in hospitals for AI-based clinical decision support systems and data-driven research
Moritz Augustin, Tiplu GmbH, Berlin
15:45 Coffee break
Walk to Aula am Wilhelmsplatz, Göttingen
Shaping the future of medical decisions
Chair: Inga Bergen
17:00 Welcome by the President of the University of Göttingen
Axel Schölmerich, Univ. Göttingen
17:05 Keynote: The future of Inclusive AI technologies
Mei Lin Fung, People Centered Internet, Palo Alto, CA
17:35 Keynote: Privacy by Design: Support for Patients and Families on the Rare Disease Diagnostic Journey in the Age of Ubiquitous AI
Liz Goodman, Univ. College Dublin, IRE | Huw Williams, SMARTlab, Dublin, IRE
18:05 Panel Discussion: The future and current state of medical decision making
Moderation: Inga Bergen
Panelists: Klemens Budde, Björn Escofier, Pedro Kringen, Dagmar Krefting
19:00 Dinner/Evening program Deutsches Theater
Day 2 | Tuesday, 7th October 2025
Regulation and Ethical AI-driven Medicine
Chairs: Silke Schicktanz, Monika Rimmele
09:00 AI from a political perspective
Greeting by Grant Hendrik Tonne, nds. Minister für Wirtschaft, Verkehr, Bauen
09:05 Keynote: AI and Sustainability, Risk and Security
Pedro Kringen, Trustworthy AI Lab HiØ, Fredrikstad, N
09:50 Regulatory Challenges for Artificial Intelligence
Andreas Propp, Dierks+Co, Berlin
10:20 Rising voices in AI
Selected young scientists
10:50 Coffee break
11:15 Conversational and voice AI solutions
Julia Hoxha, Zana, Berlin
11:45 Explainable AI in Medical Decision-Making
Anne Schwerk, IU -International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
12:15 Keynote: AI to Propose Personalized Therapies for Cancers
Peter Horvath, Helmholtz Munich
12:45 Lunch – Collaboration and Partnership
Patient-centricity
Chairs: Lena Conradi, Friederike Braulke
13:45 Is regulatory science ready for adaptive AI? A manufacturer’s perspective on generalizability, fine-tuning, and trust in medical devices
Kay Brosien, x-cardiac, Berlin
14:15 Towards a Patient-centric research: steps for Patient Involvement
Juan-José Ventura, Cancer Patients Europe, Brussels, BEL
14:45 Panel discussion: Impact of new digital technologies on medical practice, e.g. social, ethical, and regulatory aspects
Rik Van Heijningen, Brussels, BEL | Ferdinand Knieling, Erlangen | Liz Goodman, Dublin, IRE | Stefan Rieken, Göttingen | Juan-José Ventura, Brussels, BEL | Monika Rimmele, Capgemini, Berlin | Jascha Stein, Oldenburg | Julia Hoxha, Berlin
16:15 Breakout session
- Match-making for collaborative research (Frauke Alves, MPI-NAT, Göttingen)
- Workshop: White paper on guidelines for best practice (Anne Schwerk, IUB, Berlin)
16:15 Coffee break and walk to MPI Sonnensystemforschung
17:00 Guided tour through the institutes of Campus Göttingen/ MPI Sonnensystemforschung
18:00 Speed Dating
18:30 Evening program / Dinner at MPI Sonnensystemforschung
Day 3 | Wednesday, 8th October 2025
From invention to market – Entrepreneurship in the medical field
Chairs: Elisabeth Zeisberg, N.N.
09:00 Keynote: Innovation, Technology-Management & Entrepreneurship
Stefanie Heiden, LU Hannover
09:30 A Life Science Start-up Journey
Tim Witney, King‘s College London, UK
10:00 Clinical Translation of Innovative Therapies
Emmet McCormack, UiB Bergen, N
10:30 LLMs in clinical practice
Nils Schweingruber, UKE Hamburg
10:50 Coffee break
From invention to clinic application
Chairs: N.N., N.N.
11:20 Optogenetic restoration of hearing
Tobias Moser, UMG Göttingen
11:30 Tba
Tim Salditt, Univ. Göttingen
11:40 Tba
Miltenyi Biotec, Bergisch-Gladbach
11:50 Perspectives: “Life Science Valley Niedersachsen”
Sven Wagner, Sartorius, Göttingen
12:10 Discussion round
All speakers | chairs | Liat Nissimov-Brück, Göttingen
13:00 Lunch – Collaboration and Partnership
Innovative technologies for the medical future
Chairs: Susan Boretius, Philipp Ströbel
14:00 4D Imaging: Extended Reality in Surgical Practice
Moritz Queisner, Charité, Berlin
14:25 Shedding light and sound on rare pediatric diseases
Ferdinand Knieling, University Clinic Erlangen
14:50 Novel imaging strategies for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal cancer
Stephan Rogalla, Stanford, US
15:15 SWIM to go Deep and SLIDE to Go Fast: Nonlinear Optical Strategies for Bioimaging
Luigi Bonacina, Univ. Geneva, CH
15:40 Coffee break
Translational AI and Imaging Innovation – Expert Pitches and Panel
Clinicians from UMG: Hanibal Bohnenberger, Stefan Rieken, Christine Stadelmann, Anna Hell, Christiane Lex, Ali Seif
16:00 Topics:
- Automatised light sheet microscopy as diagnostic tool
- Multiphoton microscopy for 3D imaging
- High Throughput Tomography
- Lifetime imaging for image-guided surgery
- Automated Spatial Omics Landscape Analysis
- Deep Learning-Based Methods for Advanced Bioimages
- Learning Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers
Imaging experts: Luigi Bonacina, Geneva, CH | Fernanda Ramos Gomes, Göttingen | Christian Dullin, Göttingen | Angelika Svetlova, EMBL Hamburg
AI experts: Constantin Pape, Göttingen | Philipp Wieder, Göttingen | Riccardo Scodellaro, Göttingen | Dagmar Krefting, Göttingen
17:00 Discussion on FUTURE Innovations
ALL speakers
17:30 Concluding remarks/Farewell
Frauke Alves
Registration
Registration fees:
- Students: € 100
- Academics and others: € 150
Registration covers admission to all scientific sessions, coffee breaks, lunches and social events/dinners. Accommodation and travel costs are not included in the registration. Early career researchers working in a field related to AI in Healthcare are encouraged to submit an abstract. Of all submitted abstracts, six will be selected for oral presentation. Poster presentations are possible during coffee breaks. The number of participants will be limited to 100. Priority will be given to early registration.
To register, please send the completed registration form and abstract (optional) to Wiebke Timner at the following email address: timner(at)mpinat.mpg.de
Upon receipt of your registration you will receive a confirmation email, after which please transfer the registration fee to the following account. Please make sure to add the payment reference: 1601300/ Symposium AI Healthcare/ “your name”.
Sparkasse Göttingen
IBAN: DE55 2605 0001 0000 0004 48
BIC/SWIFT Code: NOLADE21GOE
Payment reference (Verwendungszweck): 1601300/ Symposium AI Healthcare/ “your name”
Registration deadline: 31. August 2025
Location
The event will take place in Göttingen:
Lecture Hall
Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences - City Campus
Hermann-Rein-Str. 3, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
Arrival with Public Transportation
With the ICE (high speed train) towards Kassel or Hannover to Göttingen. After arriving in Göttingen, take the number 21 bus from Göttingen main station (Hauptbahnhof) towards Nikolausberg and get off at the Robert-Koch-Straße stop. The entrance to the institute is about 100 meters further on the opposite side of the street. Alternatively: From Göttingen main station, take the WEST exit and take a cab to the Max Planck Institute at Hermann-Rein-Straße 3.
Accomodation
You can find an overview of accommodation options here: https://www.goettingen-tourismus.de/uebernachten/hotel-uebersicht/
Organising Committee
Frauke Alves, University Medical Centre, Göttingen
Andrea Markus, Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen
Anne Schwerk, International University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
Contact
Wiebke Timner
Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
City Campus, Hermann-Rein-Str. 3, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
Ph: +49-(0)551-20131615; email: timner(at)mpinat.mpg.de
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