Conferences and Events

Conferences and other science-focued events related to the AiChemist project's research area, attended by the project's PIs, fellows and Associated Partners, are listed here.

2025

• ChemAI Kickoff Meeting, 9th January, Paris, France, Subashini Kennedy: "Quantum descriptors for actionable insights on ADMET-related properties" (Poster). 
• Paris Summit for Action on AI, 10th - 11th February, Paris, France, Subashini Kennedy.
• AI in Drug Discovery and Biomedicine, 31st March - 2nd April, Barcelona, Spain, Ola Engkvist:"Applying ML/AI to Drug Design" and Fabian Theis: "Generative AI for modeling single-cell response to drugs".
• Munich Interact 2025 Conference, 3rd-4th April, Munich, Germany, Dina Khasanova: "XAI for Molecules".
• RNA-AI Conference 2025, 4th - 8th May, Ascona, Switzerland. Fabian Theis: "Towards a virtual cell - the need for actionable perturbation models."
• "Club delle 2" Seminar, 14th May, Milan, Italy, Mateusz Iwan.
• Pint of Science Munich, 19th - 21st May, Munich, Germany, Dina Khasanova: "XAI for Molecules".
• QSAR 2025, 3rd - 6th June, Milan, Italy, Mateusz Iwan, Alessandra Roncaglioni, Dina Khasanova, Igor Tetko.
• WATOC, 23th - 27th June, Oslo, Norway, Jan Jensen: "Fast and automated predictions of chemical reactivity using quantum chemistry in the age of machine learning".
• Erasmus Mundus Summer School on Chemoinformatics, 3rd July, Ljulbljana, Slovenia.  Igor Tetko: "How to win challenges? Best practices for model development". 
• Helmholtz Munich Symposium on Generative AI in Molecule Discovery, 4th July, Munich, Germany. Dina Khasanova: "Modern XAI Methods - Hype or Help?" (Poster).
• ICML2025, 13th - 19th July, Vancouver, Canada. Eric Alcaide.
• The 3rd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence, 9th - 11th July, Istanbul, Turkey. Francesca Grisoni, Marcel Hiltscher.
• SaferWorldbyDesign Webinars, 15th July, online. Igor Tetko: "Which Modern AI Methods Provide Accurate Predictions of Toxicological Endpoints? Analysis of Tox24 Challenge Results."
• ISMB/ECCB 2025, 20th - 24th July, Liverpool, UK. Fabian Theis: "Decoding cellular systems: From observational atlases to generative interventions."
• OpenTox 2025 Summer School, 22nd July, online. Igor Tetko: "OCHEM - platform for winning Challenges!"
• ICANN2025, 9th - 12th September, Kaunas, Lithuania, Igor Tetko, Eric Alcaide, Michael Wand.
• Datafest Yerevan, 12th – 13th September 2025, Yerevan, Armenia. Igor Tetko.
• EUROPIN Summer School on Drug Design, 14th – 18th September, Vienna, Austria. Igor Tetko.
• COLM2025, 17th -10th October, Montreal, Canada. Eric Alcaide.
• The 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 25th - 26th October, Bologna, Italy. Dina Khasanova.

2024

• International Leopoldina Symposium on Molecular Machine Learning, 4th - 6th March, Halle, Germany, Ola Engkvist, Francesca Grisoni. 
• Workshop: NAMs - Use and application of QSAR and read-across, 22nd March, Paris, France, Faizan Sahigara. 
• Spring Meeting of the Swiss Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 18th April, Bern, Switzerland, Igor Tetko.
• PhD Meeting at Mario Negri, 28th - 30th May, Milan, Italy, Mateusz Iwan (DC6).
• Strasbourg Chemoinformatics Summer School, 24th - 28th June, Strasbourg, France, all fellows and PIs.
• ICML 2024, 21st - 27th July, Vienna, Austria,  Mike Preuss.
• IEEE Conference on Games, 5th - 8th August, Milan, Italy, Mike Preuss. 
• Scandinavian Community for Quantum Chemistry meeting, 12th - 14th August, Odense, Denmark, Jan Jensen.
• EUROTOX2024, 8th - 11th September, Copenhagen, Denmark, lecture "Computational Toxicology in Drug Safety Igor Tetko.
• ETH-Microsoft Workshop on High-Throughput Computational Chemistry, 11th September, Zurich, Switzerland, Jan Jensen.
• International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, 16th - 20th September, Timisoara, Romania, keynote lecture by Mike Preuss.
• ICANN2024, 17th - 20th September, Lugano, Switzerland. The AIDD and AiChemist consortia will be hosting their own workshop: AI in Drug Discovery!
• SETAC Asia-Pacific 14th Biennial Meeting, 21st - 25th September, Tianjin, China, Igor Tetko.
• EuroQSAR, 22nd - 26th September, Barcelona, Spain, Ola Engkvist.
• MATHIAS2024, 23rd - 26th September, Paris, France, Gilles Marcou.
• KDD 2024, 25th - 29th September, Barcelona, Spain, Andi Hunklinger.
• Elrig Drug Discovery, 2nd - 3rd October, London, UK, Ola Engkvist.
• Conference on Language Modelling, 7th - 9th November, Philadelphia, USA, Eric Alcaide.
• Automated Synthesis Forum, 11th - 12th November, Oxford, UK, Matt Ball.
• European Rosettacon, 11th - 13th November, Copenhagen, Denmark, Noelia Ferruz, Andi Hunklinger.
• ELLIS ML4Molecules Workshop, 6th December, Berlin, Germany, Igor Tetko, Dina Khasanova, Francesca Grisoni.