Sparks! Forum - Future Technology for Health

16 Nov 2022, 10:00 → 18 Nov 2022, 21:30 Europe/Zurich

80/1-001 - Globe of Science and Innovation - 1st Floor (CERN)

Sparks! 

You are invited to the second edition of the Sparks! Serendipity Forum, a two-day multidisciplinary science innovation forum and public event, that will take place on 17-18 November 2022 at CERN.

1. PLEASE REGISTER! below for access to CERN, to visits and other social activities 
2. Prior to the event: make sure you have sent us your burning question
3. INFO ON TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION 

Overview Schedule 

16 Nov Pre-event (optional)

Join us for visits of the CERN site, or attend a seminar about respiratory pathogens presented by CERN Occupational Health & Safety and Environmental Protection Unit (registration is required, please indicate your interest in the form below). You are also invited to dinner by the lake in Geneva.

(Those preparing a Talk for 17 Nov have the opportunity to rehearse).

17 Nov Seminar CERN’s impact on medical technology - 14:00 - 15:30 CET (optional)

Manuela Cirilli (CERN Knowledge Transfer) will be holding a seminar about the medical applications of CERN technologies, in discussion with colleagues from other departments.

 17 Nov Sparks! TALKS - 16:00 - 19:30 CET

This is a live production which will be recorded (à la TED). Some of you have been invited to give a talk as speakers, everyone else is invited to attend as audience; There is space for guests of speakers and participants, but the general public will be only online.

18 Nov Sparks! FORUM - 08:30 - 18:00 CET (the forum is a full day activity involving all 50 participants) 

List of participants: https://sparks.cern/participants 

We will be moving away from the traditional conference format and are inviting you to spend the day indulging in in-depth discussions. The 50 participants of Sparks will be led through a dynamic agenda composed of plenary and break-out sessions specially designed for Sparks! to foster multidisciplinary interactions. Get ready to collaborate, agree to disagree, learn and unlearn together.

 Guiding questions: 

1 - Data as the new doctor - How can individuals gain agency over their health and ownership over their data?

2 - Towards Precision Health - What are the main challenges to finally make personalized medicine a reality?

3 - Healthy Ethics - How can we ensure that data feeding into health technology ensures equity?

4 - Global Knowledge Gap - How do we bridge the human expertise knowledge gap around the world?

5 - Big Open Data - What open data sharing examples work and how do we build on this?

6 - Collaboration Models for Health - What stands in the way of making this a reality?

7 - Health Innovation Ecosystem - What mechanisms need to be put in place to advance health technology for the benefit of wider society?

 

2022 Sparks - Travel and Accomodation overall.pdf

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Wednesday 16 November

Talks rehearsals: for public event speakers only

Optional: Seminar: HSE Seminar on Respiratory Pathogens

Convener: Andre Henriques (CERN)

Optional: Visits: Visits group A (same tour as group B, by registration)

Optional: Visits to CERN site. Registration is required ahead of time

Convener: Francois Briard (CERN)

Optional: Visits: Visits Group B (same tour as group A, by registration)

Optional: Visits to CERN site. Registration is required ahead of time

Convener: Francois Briard (CERN)

Meal: Dinner at Restaurant Perle du Lac - downtown Geneva (by registration)

Thursday 17 November

Optional: Visits: Visits group C (same tour as group A and B, by registration)

Optional: Visits to CERN site. Registration is required ahead of time

Convener: Francois Briard (CERN)

Meal: Lunch at Glassbox

Optional: Seminar: CERN’s impact on medical technology

Convener: Manuela Cirilli (CERN)

Sparks! Talks - Public event

1 Digital tools and other efforts for preventing and dealing with future global health challenges

Speaker: Soumya Swaminathan

2 Treating Untreatable Cancers With Gene Therapy

Speaker: Bruce Levine

3 Future of detection and imaging

Speaker: Magdalena Anna Cieslak-Kowalska (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

4 CERN technologies for health

By CERN director for International Relations

Speaker: Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle (CERN)

5 AR/VR technology for brain research

Speaker: Olaf Blanke

6 Rethinking health innovation

Speaker: Els Torreele

7 Genetic Network

Speaker: Andrew Hessel

17:20 Coffee break

8 Biological revolution, synthetic biology

Speaker: Jane Metcalfe

9 Nanomedicine, vaccines without refrigeration and personalised medicine

Speaker: Mark Kendall

10 Omics and aging models

Speaker: Ariel Ganz

11 The bioinformatics revolution

Speaker: Rolf Apweiler

12 AI for heath and the Alpha Fold case

Speaker: Ankur Vora

13 Human Cell Atlas

Speaker: Muzlifah Haniffa

14 Evolving technology changes ethics

Speaker: Juan Enriquez

Meal: Cocktail reception at the Salle du Mirador du Clos, Satigny (by registration)

Friday 18 November

Sparks! Forum: Morning session

All participants' participation required

15 Welcome

Welcome coffee and explanations

16 Plenary 1 - Discussion of key topics (all participants involved)

11:05 Coffee break

17 Break-out 1 - Engage (all participants involved)

Groups are formed around topics, led by a facilitator

Meal: Lunch

Sparks! Forum: Afternoon session

All participants' participation required

18 Break-out 2 - Selection of new proposals (all participants involved)

19 Break-out 3 - Forward thinking (all participants involved)

16:40 Coffee break

20 Plenary 2 - Wrap-up (all participants involved)

Meal: Cocktail reception at CERN (by registration)