Symposium
on “Artificial Intelligence and Health”
as part of AI Week
Date and Venue
December 11, 2025
Tel Aviv University
Steinhardt Museum of Natural History
Free registration, symposium in English.
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AI Week is a major international conference held annually at Tel Aviv University, dedicated to presenting groundbreaking advances in artificial intelligence research and applications. It brings together leading industry figures and renowned researchers.



Program
8:30 : Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:00 : Opening Remarks
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Mrs. Shani Edri, Director of Scientific Relations Division, Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, Israel (MOST)
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H.E. Frederic Journès, Ambassador of France
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Dr. Muriel Haim, President of France-Israel Foundation (FIF)
9:15 : Keynote Address: The Role of AI in Transforming Healthcare
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Speaker: Prof. Dina Ben Yehuda, Director of the Hematology Department Hadassah Medical Center, Israel
9:45 : Panel Discussion 1: AI Innovations in Healthcare
Moderator: Avi Raveh, Deputy Chief Scientist, Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, Israel
Panelists:
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Prof. Emmanuel Bacry, CSO Health Data Hub, CNRS
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Mati Gill, CEO Aion Labs
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Dr. Ayelet Akselrod-Ballin, Head and CTO of AI Center, ARC Innovation, Sheba
Medical Center -
Assaf Barnea, Managing Partner, Sanara Capital & Sanara Ventures / Former
Chairman, Israel Export -
Dr Christel Gérardin, MD, PhD, Physician-Engineer, Internist at AP-HP, Faculty
Member, Sorbonne University - AI in Healthcare & Medical Education Coordinator
"Building Trust in Clinical AI: AP-HP's Multi-Scale Approach to Healthcare
Innovation" -
Inbar Blum, Director Planning and Development Growth Division, Israel Innovation
Authority
11:15 : Coffee Break
11:45 : AI in Diagnostics
Moderator: Prof. Emmanuel Bacry, CSO Health Data Hub, CNRS
Panelists:
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Prof. Xavier Jouven, Head of Department of Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Nephrology & Transplantation at European Hospital Georges Pompidou
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Prof. Pierre Brousset, Head of the Department of Pathology at the University Cancer Institute of Toulouse – Oncopole, and member of the French National Academy of Medicine. « Expectations and limitations of artificial intelligence in pathologic diagnosis »
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Dr. Dan Valsky Schatz, Head of Generative AI @I Next Data, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
“GenAI transforming Healthcare” -
Ilay Marom, Cofounder & COO Nanose Medical
13:00 : Lunch Break
14:00 : AI in Treatment and Patient Care
§§§ Presentation Gold Medal iGEM Team 2025: Shir Shance, Idan Eyni, Michael Kovaliov- Co-captains Tel Aviv University iGEM 2025 §§§
“Data-Driven Optimization of Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Using ML”
Moderator: Prof. Karen B. Avraham, Dean Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Panelists:
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Dr. Dafna Laifenfeld, Cofounder & CSO Neurokaire “A window to the brain: computer vision and AI in mental health”
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Dr. Muriel Dahan, R&D Director Unicancer “AI in Research, Treatment and Patient Care, focus on Oncology”
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Dr. Stephane Chaillou, Chief Digital Information Officer, Institut Gustave Roussy
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Prof Shai Rosenberg, Senior neuro-oncologist at Hadassah Ein Kerem and head of the Cancer Computational Biology Lab
15:15 : Panel Discussion 2: Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of AI in Healthcare
Moderator: Mrs. Inbar Blum, Israel Innovation Authority
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Dr. Oren Asman, A Lawyer and a Bioethicist. Senior Lecturer, the Department of Nursing, Co-Director of the Bioethics and Law Center, Faculty of Medicine and Director of the Samueli Initiative for Responsible AI in Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Mrs. Sandrine Richard, Former lawyer, independent expert, lecturer, board member of Docaposte and Ethik IA, associate researcher at the CRGN, head of Fundamental Freedoms and Digital Law at the Digital Humanities Chair (HumNum), Colonel in the Citizen Reserve of the French Gendarmerie.
Discussion Points:
- Ethical considerations in AI applications
- Regulatory frameworks in Israel and France
- Ensuring patient privacy and data security
15:45 PM: Closing Remarks and Future Directions
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Avi Raveh, Deputy Chief Scientist, Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, Israel
Prof. Xavier Jouven
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