Speaker Profile
PMWC LUMINARY AWARD
Scaled modern AI from research into real-world precision medicine applications
Ph.D., Founder, DeepLearning.AI; Managing Partner, AI Aspire, Managing General Partner, AI Fund; Chairman and Co-Founder, Coursera; Adjunct Professor, Stanford University, DeepLearning.AI
Biography
Andrew Ng is one of the most influential leaders in modern artificial intelligence and AI education. He is Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Managing Partner, AI Aspire, Managing General Partner at AI Fund, Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera, and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. He was the founding lead of Google Brain and previously served as VP and Chief Scientist at Baidu, helping move deep learning from research into large-scale real-world use.
Through his teaching, writing, companies, and investments, Ng has helped make AI accessible to millions of learners and practical for researchers, entrepreneurs, engineers, clinicians, and enterprises. His work has shaped how AI is taught, built, and deployed across industries, an impact especially relevant to precision medicine, where responsible AI is becoming central to interpreting complex clinical, molecular, imaging, and multi-omic data.
Talk
Fireside Chat
Agentic AI in medicine
Democratizing AI for clinicians and researchers
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Okan Ekinci, Roche / Navify
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Fei-Fei Li, Stanford (Pioneer)
• Andrew Ng, Stanford / DeepLearning.AI (Luminary)
• Daphne Koller, insitro (Luminary)
Featured Speakers
• Fei-Fei Li, Stanford
• Andrew Ng, Stanford / DeepLearning.AI
• Daphne Koller, insitro
• Andy Beck, PathAI
• Germán Corredor Prada, Emory / Georgia Tech
• Drew Williamson, Emory
• Marina Sirota, UCSF
• Pranav Rajpurkar, Harvard
• Okan Ekinci, Roche / Navify
• Janusz Dutkowski, Data4Cure
• Alex Moreau, Champions Oncology
• Jadwiga Bienkowska, Pfizer
• Sharat Israni, UCSF
Beyond the Glass Slide
What computational pathology sees that humans cannot.
AI-Enabled Companion Diagnostics
From biomarker discovery to patient selection.
The Precision Oncology Operating System
Wiring multimodal AI into the oncology workflow.
AI and Omics Foundation Models
Modeling translational biology across omics, pathology, and clinical data.
From Pilot to Standard of Care
Scaling AI diagnostics in real clinical practice.
PMWC Hall of Impact
Previous Speakers Include
Nobel laureates, technology founders, regulators, CEOs and scientific pioneers who have taken the PMWC stage.
