Industrial Forum Activities

Industrial Forum Annual Meeting 2025

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6th Annual Meeting of the de.NBI Industrial Forum 2025

"Converge of AI, Data Science, and Biological Data: Current Frontiers in Life Science"

Thursday, November 27th: 1:00-4:00 pm (CET)

Save the date for this year's 6th edition of the Annual Meeting of the de.NBI Industrial Forum. An event offering the opportunity to showcase new services and research from the de.NBI & ELIXIR Germany network as well as industrial use cases from Industrial Forum Members.

Date
Thursday, 27 November 2025

Venue
Online (Zoom); This event will be held remotely, you will receive the log-in details after your registration.

Agenda

The participation is free of charge.

The abstracts will be made available soon. All times CET.

13:00	Opening and Welcome Introduction to the de.NBI ELIXIR-DE networks and latest developments
13:10	Mathis Bode - Head of ATML Extreme-Scale AI and Simulation at Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich· Presentation title: "Driving Bioinformatics with Jupiter and JAIF"
13:30	Prof. Boas Pucker - Institute for Cellular & Molecular Botany, Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Bonn Presentation title: "Computational Approaches to Unraveling Biosynthetic Pathways in Plants"
13:50-14:00	Coffee break
14:00	Dr. Philip Wenig - Founder & CEO, Lablicate GmbH Presentation title: "OpenChrom®: Data Harmonization and feature extraction of chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy data as a solid base for decision making
14:20	Dr. Karin Schork - Department of Medicine - Medical Proteom-Center, Ruhr University Bochum Presentation title: "Machine learning in proteomics: a use case from our de.NBI consulting service"
14:40-14:50	Coffee break
14:50	Robin Röhm - Co-Founder & CEO, Apheris AI GmbH Presentation title: "Federation in Life Sciences: Solving the Data Bottleneck in AI Drug Discovery"
15:10	Dr. Sebastian Lobentanzer -Accessible Biomedical AI: Transparent Systems and Meaningful Benchmark,Helmholtz Munich & German Center for Diabetes Research, Munich, Germany & Open Targets, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK Presentation title: "Epistemically Transparent Agentic AI"
15:30	Dr. Astrid Rheinländer - Bayer AG, Pharmaceuticals R&D Presentation title: "Turning terabytes into insights in the era of LLMs"
15:50	Final discussion, wrap-up and goodbye

Information on last year's meeting on "AI Ventures in the Life Science - Needs, Challenges, Opportunities" can be found here:

Annual Meeting of the de.NBI Industrial Forum 2024 - AI Ventures in the Life Science - Needs, Challenges, Opportunities

Information on all of the prior Annual Meeting's can be found here:

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