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Transforming Tumor Boards: AI Agents and the New Era of Personalized Cancer Care

How AI is reshaping the future of healthcare and medical research

Collaborators: Silica in space with Richard Black and Dexter Greene

What’s Your Story: Nicole Forsgren

Abstracts: February 29, 2024

What’s Your Story: Jacki O’Neill

Collaborators: Prompt engineering with Siddharth Suri and David Holtz

Episode 7: The road ahead

Episode 6: Healthcare Agent Orchestrator

Episode 5: Breakthroughs in AI

Episode 4: A distribution channel for AI innovation

Episode 3: Collaborating faster

Episode 2: A multi-disciplinary approach

Episode 1: Tackling complex healthcare challenges

AI Frontiers: Rethinking intelligence with Ashley Llorens and Ida Momennejad

Abstracts: March 21, 2024

Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali

Abstracts: April 16, 2024

Abstracts: May 6, 2024

Ideas: Exploring AI frontiers with Rafah Hosn

What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu

Ideas: Designing AI for people with Abigail Sellen

Abstracts: May 20, 2024

Abstracts: July 18, 2024

Collaborators: Sustainable electronics with Jake Smith and Aniruddh Vashisth

Ideas: Solving network management puzzles with Behnaz Arzani

Abstracts: July 29, 2024

What’s Your Story: Emre Kiciman

Collaborators: AI and the economy with Brendan Lucier and Mert Demirer

Abstracts: August 15, 2024