With an ageing population that continues to grow, innovation on healthcare beomes more important issue. The theme for this workshop is “Smart, Precision and Preventive Medicine: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions.” We encourage entrepreneurs, professioinals and ventures to join and exchange ideas with outstanding scholars from Harvard Medical school, Cornell Univ., experts from IBM, etc.

Agenda:

1:00 PM-1:30 PM Registration

1:30 PM-2:00 PM Opening Session: Remarks by Taipei Economic and Cultural Office & New York City Economic Development Corporation

2:00 PM-2:40 PM Plenary Session 1: The Current Status and Future of Precision Medicine

2:40 PM-3:40 PM Plenary Session 2: Advancing the Clinic with Emerging NGS Technologies

4:00 PM-4:30 PM Plenary Session 3: Technical Challenges of Integrating Precision Medicine

4:30 PM-5:20 PM Plenary Session 4: Precision Medicine: New Paradigms, Risks and Opportunities for the Pharmaceutical Industry

5:20PM-6:00PM Panel Discussions: Health Data, Information, Knowledge, Security, and Privacy

6:00PM-6:10 PM Closing Remarks

6:10 PM-7:00 PM Dinner & Networking

*Hosted by Taiwan Investment and Trade Office. Click here for more information and to register.