

Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Understanding and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders
September 7 and 8, 2022
Prague, Czech Republic
Contact: conference@indrc.cz
About the Event
The INDRC Conference is organized as an event of the Czech EU Presidency held on the occasion of the meeting of the Council of EU Ministers for Health.
Conference goals:
Program
September 8, 2022
INDRC Conference
Venue: Kaiserštejnský palác, Malostranské náměstí 23/37, Praha 1
Dress code: Business casual
8:00 – 8:40 | Registration |
8:40 – 9:00 | Grand Opening Ing. Jozef Síkela, Minister of Industry and Trade of Czech Republic, Czech Republic Roman Kraus, Chairperson, Committee on Health, Senate of Czech Republic, Czech Republic |
9:00 – 9:20 | Welcome Keynotes Martin Tolar, MD, PhD, Founder, President & CEO of Alzheon, Inc., USA, Chairman of INDRC Executive Board Presentation: History, Mission & Founding of INDRC Institute Vít Dočkal, PhD, INDRC Director Presentation: INDRC Goals & Strategic Vision for R&D in Neurodegeneration |
9:20 – 9:40 | Honorary Speech: Ara Khachaturian, PhD, Executive Vice President of Campaign to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease, USA, Chair of INDRC Scientific Advisory Board Presentation: New Opportunities to Advance Global Brain Health Initiatives |
9:40 – 11:00 | Keynote Presentation 1: Prof. Ing. Vladimír Mařík, DrSc., Scientific Director of Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Republic, INDRC Executive Board Member Presentation: Towards Artificial General Intelligence in Data Spaces Keynote Presentation 2: John Hey, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Alzheon, Inc., USA, INDRC Executive Board Member Presentation: Alzheimer’s as a Systems Neurodegenerative Brain Disease: Advances in Disease-Modifying Therapeutics and Application of Real-World and Big Data Tools Keynote Presentation 3: Prof. Jacques Touchon, MD, PhD, Montpellier School of Medicine, University of Montpellier, France Presentation: Interest of Brain-Gut Photobiomodulation Treatment in Alzheimer’s Disease Keynote Presentation 4: Sundar Subramaniam, Chairman of IBCC Capital Management, Chairman of Knome & Sialix, General Partner of Higher Moment Capital, USA Presentation: Commercializing Academic Research – Current Trends |
11:00 – 11:20 | Coffee Break & Networking Networking area: Exhibition posters & booth of donors, industry sponsors, venture capital & private equity investors |
11:20 – 11:40 | Stanislav Fořt, PhD, Research Scientist at Anthropic, Inc., USA Presentation: What I Can Build, I Still Might Not Understand – Parallels Between Understanding Deep Neural Networks and the Brain |
11:40 – 12:00 | Research Associate Prof. Jean-Marie Bouteiller, PhD, Center for Neural Engineering & Institute for Technology and Medical Systems Innovation, University of Southern California, USA Presentation: Breaching the Multiscale Complexity of Neurodegenerative Disorders Using Convergent and Synergistic Computational Approaches |
12:00 – 12:20 | Prof. Jort Vijverberg, MD, PhD, Medical Director of Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Netherlands, INDRC Executive Board Member Presentation: Innovative Designs and Endpoints in Neurodegenerative Clinical Trials |
12:20 – 12:40 | Prof. Virend Somers, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic, USA Associate Prof. Tomáš Kára, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic, USA & Brno Municipal Hospital of Merciful Brothers, Czech Republic Presentation: Sleep and Heart-Brain Interaction – a Role for AI |
12:40 – 14:00 | Networking Lunch Networking area: Exhibition posters & booth of donors, industry sponsors, venture capital & private equity investors |
14:00 – 14:20 | Jakub Dvořáček, Deputy Minister of Health of Czech Republic, Czech Republic Presentation: Feedback and Opportunities with European Health Data Space |
14:20 – 14:40 | Petr Kocis, PhD, Founder & CEO Biopharmatica, Fmr. Global Head of Drug Discovery Sciences & Technologies, Exploratory Chemistry, AstraZeneca, USA Presentation: Navigating the Treacherous Brain Proteins Space with AI Tools – the Good, the Bad and the Really Exciting |
14:40 – 15:00 | Prof. Ing. Josef Šivic, PhD, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Prof. Jiří Damborský, PhD, Director of Loschmidt Laboratories, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, ICRC, St. Anne’s University Hospital, Czech Republic Presentation: The Novel Method of Combined In-Silico & In-Vitro Drug Development |
15:00 – 15:20 | Pavel Hroboň, MD, Lead Partner at Advance Healthcare Management Institute, Czech Republic, INDRC Executive Board Member Presentation: The Role of AI in Advanced Patient Care |
15:20 – 15:40 | Coffee Break & Networking Networking area: Exhibition posters & booth of donors, industry sponsors, venture capital & private equity investors |
15:40 – 16:40 | Panel Discussion: Igniting Breakthroughs – Sparks & Investments in Innovation Last Mile Moderator: Martin Tolar, MD, PhD Panelists: Ondřej Bartoš, General Partner at Credo Ventures, Czech Republic Ing. Andrea Ferancová-Bartoňová, Managing Director at Espira Investments, Czech Republic Stanislav Fořt, PhD, Research Scientist at Anthropic, Inc., USA Sundar Subramaniam, Chairman of IBCC Capital Management, Chairman of Knome and Sialix, General Partner at Higher Moment Capital, USA Prof. RNDr. Václav Snášel, CSc., President of Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Petr Šíma, Partner at DEPO Ventures, Czech Republic |
16:40 – 17:40 | Conference Conclusions & Open Discussion Martin Tolar, MD, PhD, Ara Khachaturian, PhD, Vít Dočkal, PhD |
17:40 – 21:00 | Dinner & Wine Tasting |
September 7, 2022
INDRC closed meetings and Welcome Reception
Venue: The Residence of the Mayor of Prague
Contact: conference@indrc.cz
Dress code: Business casual
15:00 | INDRC Executive Board Meeting Executive Board Members |
16:30 | INDRC Assembly Meeting |
18:00 | INDRC Scientific Advisory Board Meeting Scientific Advisory Board Members |
19:00 – 21:30 | Welcome Reception Greetings Jaromír Beránek, Chairman for IT and Smart City Committee, Capital City of Prague Prof. Vlastimil Válek, MD, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health of Czech Republic Ing. Jozef Síkela, Minister of Industry and Trade of Czech Republic |
Organizing Committee

Martin Tolar, MD, PhD

Vít Dočkal, PhD

Ara S. Khachaturian, PhD

Pavel Hroboň, MD, MS
Supporting team:
Aneta Bernardová
Eva Doležalová
Lenka Uldrijanová
Registration
A special thank you to our conference partners for their generous support and to all those that attended our first INDRC conference.