On Wednesday, August 22, 2018, Presence will launch its AiMIE Symposium (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Inclusion and Equity).  This symposium, meant as a companion to the HIAI (Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence) Symposium in April, will take place in the CEMEX auditorium, at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. (including a closing reception).  Please register here.

The AiMIE (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Inclusion & Equity) Symposium explores how AI can help address the deeper problems of access and inequity in healthcare. The Stanford Presence Center is grateful for funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and our partnerships with the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS).

Engaging physicians, scientists, public health professionals, humanists, ethicists, technologists, policy leaders, activists, legal professionals, non-profits, funders, patients, and the larger community, we plan to focus on the hope, the hype, the promise, the peril of AI in medicine, with a specific focus on equity and inclusion.

The speaker and panelist list is growing and currently includes Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality;  Victor Dzau, President of the National Academy of Medicine; Glenn Cohen (Harvard Law School); Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Justice of the Supreme Court of California; David Buckeridge, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University, and John Auerbach, President and CEO of TFAH (Trust for America's Health). From Stanford we have: Stanford’s President Marc Tessier-Lavigne; Geoff Cohen; Emma Brunskill; Jonathan Chen; Mark Cullen; John Ioannidis; Margaret Levi; David Grusky; Sanjay Basu; Nirav Shah; Roberta Katz; and Abraham Verghese. 

Topics will include (but are not limited to): demystifying the ABCs of AI and ML (machine learning); the current realities of poverty in America; the need and importance of improving the evidence base through data diversity; neutralizing the algorithmic bias and related problems; the barriers and challenges; the possible power of AI/ML in Medicine.

 Presence expects a sell-out crowd, similar to their April 17th symposium, which registered 350 guests from four continents and included physicians, engineers, VCs, ethicists, scientists, trainees and more.

Presence also has limited funds to support travel stipends for attendees who are public health focused. If you would like to apply for one of our limited $500 stipends, please email presence1@stanford.edu and include: your name, role, organization, why this event is important to you and your work, and why this stipend is important for your attendance.