PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley

Join Us at PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley!

Get ready to dive into the future of personalized medicine with PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley. This in-person event brings together the brightest minds and innovators right in the heart of Silicon Valley.

PMWC 2026 — March 4–6, Santa Clara Convention Center
Co‑hosted with Stanford & UCSF • 2,500 attendees • 12 tracks + 4 educational tracks • 90 exhibitors
Register: www.PMWCintl.com/registration/

Rockstar speakers/honorees: www.PMWCintl.com/speakers/

Greg Brockman, President & Co-Founder, OpenAI
Transforming science and medicine with Generative AI

Judy Faulkner, Founder & CEO, Epic
Ranked #2 Most Influential Person in Healthcare in 2024

Mary E. Brunkow, Senior Program Manager, ISB
Just Awarded 2025 Nobel Laureate!!

Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, Apple
Pioneer of personal computing who engineered the foundation for today’s AI

Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures
UNEP Entrepreneurial Vision Laureate

William Moerner, Harry S. Mosher Professor, Stanford
Nobel Laureate

Reunion Panel: 25+ Years of the Human Genome — What Made It to the Bedside
J. Craig Venter & Lee Hood & Brook Byers & Ralph Snyderman

Priscilla Chan, Founder/Co-CEO, Chan Zuckerberg Institute
Advancing AI-driven spatial biology through the Billion Cells Project

Carl June, CAR-T Therapy Pioneer
2024 Breakthrough Prize Laureate (Life Sciences)

Jeffrey Balser, Genomic Biobanks & Precision Health
President & CEO, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC)

Zachary Ziegler, Co-Founder & CTO, OpenEvidence
Bringing Clinical Grade AI directly to doctors at OpenEvidence

Irv Weissman, Stanford
Pioneered Stem Cell Biology, Enabling Cell & Gene Therapies

Dennis J. Slamon, HER2/Herceptin pioneer
Lasker “America’s Nobels” & Gairdner Laureate

David Sinclair, Aging & Epigenetics
TIME 100; NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

David Entwistle
CEO of Stanford Health Care

Track 2: AI & Computational Medicine (3 days):

AI in Imaging & Predictive Simulation — Chairs Sharat Israni (UCSF); sessions on radiomics/radiogenomics, contrast‑free MRI & low‑dose CT, and quantitative imaging biomarkers.

AI in Clinical Decision Support & Real‑World Evidence — Chairs William Oh (Yale) & David Reese (Amgen); Nigam Shah (Stanford) honored; David Entwistle (Stanford Health Care) and Karan Singhal (OpenAI) on safe, scalable clinical AI; interoperability + data quality that actually moves the needle.

AI in Drug Discovery & Computational Biology — Curated by Gad Getz (Broad) & Alex Morgan (Khosla Ventures); Greg Brockman honored; Keynote: Vinod Khosla. Sessions include target discovery beyond genomics (with Stephen Quake), the “messy middle” of translational AI (Ari Caroline, Dina Katabi), foundation models for chemistry/biology, predictive tox, and “Is AI the new drug?” (Michael J. Kahana).

Track 3: Precision Diagnostics (3 days):

Liquid Biopsy — Early Detection & Screening — Chair Victor Velculescu (JHU); trial design for population‑scale screening, pre‑symptomatic detection, integrating imaging + LBx, and pre‑analytics that don’t sink your assay.

Liquid Biopsy — Therapy Guidance & Monitoring — Chair Adrian Lee (Pitt); Dennis J. Slamon (UCLA) honored; sessions on neoadjuvant→adjuvant MRD timing, serial ctDNA‑guided switching (incl. SERENA‑6), and multi‑omics monitoring (methylation/fragmentomics/EV/ctRNA).

Spatial Biology & Single‑Cell Multi‑Omics — Chair Christina Curtis (Stanford); William Moerner honored; with Joakim Lundeberg (SciLifeLab) and more on tissue architecture, tech benchmarking, and clinical‑grade pipelines.

Track 1: Next‑Gen Therapies (3 days):

Engineered Cell‑Based Therapies — Chair Cindy Perettie (Kite); PMWC awards to Michel Sadelain & Arie Belldegrun; CAR‑T design, delivery, and what’s next.

Immunotherapies & Targeted Therapies — Chair Ira Mellman; checkpoint “2.0” strategy, ADCs in the checkpoint era, and future targets with Jedd Wolchok, Levi Garraway, and industry leads.

RNA, Stem Cell & Gene‑Based Therapies — Chair Catriona (Cat) Jamieson (UCSD); keynote on bioorthogonal chemistry (yes, the clinical implications); plus translation‑minded gene editing and delivery.

Track 4: Integrated Precision Medicine (3 days):

Systems Integration & Variant Interpretation — Honoring Mark Daly (Broad) and Gordon Sanghera (Oxford Nanopore); real‑time nanopore in clinic; Human Genome 25‑Year Reunion (Venter/Hood/Byers/Snyderman).

Integration & Implementation of Precision Medicine — Featuring Euan Ashley (Stanford); practical sessions on hospital‑level PM programs, beyond‑oncology rollouts, and payer‑relevant outcomes.

Precision Aging & Longevity — Honoring Steve Horvath & Nir Barzilai; biomarkers that matter (Luigi Ferrucci, Sara Hägg, Daniel Belsky), epigenetic rejuvenation (delivery counts), and trial endpoints that aren’t wishful thinking