Speaker Profile
Insitro
Biography
Daphne Koller is CEO and Founder of insitro, a machine learning driven drug discovery and development company. Daphne is also cofounder of Engageli, was the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where she served on the faculty for 18 years, co-CEO and President of Coursera, and Chief Computing Officer of Calico Labs. She is the author of over 300 refereed publications, with an hindex of over 145. Daphne was named one of TIME Magazines 100 most influential people in 2012. She received the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2004), ACM Prize in Computing (2008), ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award (2019), and AnitaB.org Technical Leadership Abie Award Winner (2022). Daphne was inducted into the National Academy of Science (2023), the National Academy of Engineering (2011) and elected a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (2004), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014), and the International Society of Computational Biology (2017).
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Alex Morgan, Khosla Ventures & Gad Getz, Broad Institute
PMWC Award Ceremony
• David Baker, University of Washington (Nobel Laureate, Luminary)
Featured Speakers
• David Baker, University of Washington
• Jack Dent, Chai Discovery
• Dimitri Yatsenko, DataJoint
• Evgeny Kiner, Neosplice Therapeutics
• Alex Morgan, Khosla Ventures
• Gad Getz, Broad Institute
Causal Targets, Not Just Better Molecules
Using AI and human biology to improve target selection before chemistry begins.
Data Is the Moat
What proprietary, longitudinal, and perturbational data really confer advantage.
From Prediction to Patient
Patient stratification, smarter trials, and the handoff from model to clinic.
Designed Biology Meets Drug Development
AI-designed proteins, developability, and what survives contact with reality.
The Target Discovery Bottleneck
Why splicing and other underused biology may expand what is druggable.
PMWC Hall of Impact
Previous Speakers Include
Nobel laureates, technology founders, regulators, CEOs and scientific pioneers who have taken the PMWC stage.
