Speaker Profile
PMWC LUMINARY AWARD
Transforming science and medicine with Generative AI
President & Co-Founder, OpenAI
Biography
Greg Brockman is the President and Co-Founder of OpenAI, where he currently leads the company’s Scaling organization—focused on expanding the technical infrastructure and systems needed to support OpenAI’s rapid growth and increasingly capable models. He has played a central role in shaping OpenAI’s mission and in bringing transformative technologies like ChatGPT, DALL·E, and Codex to millions of people and businesses around the world.
Before OpenAI, Greg was the CTO of Stripe, where he built and led the engineering team during a period of rapid scale. He studied mathematics at Harvard and computer science at MIT before leaving to pursue a career at the forefront of technology.
Greg is a technologist and builder, deeply invested in ensuring artificial general intelligence is developed safely and benefits all of humanity. He regularly speaks on the future of AI, responsible deployment, and the infrastructure powering the next generation of intelligent tools.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Alex Morgan, Khosla Ventures and Gad Getz, Broad Institute
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Steve Wozniak, Apple
• Greg Brockman, OpenAI
Fireside Chat
• Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures
• Greg Brockman, OpenAI
Target Discovery: Beyond Genomics – Revealing Hidden Layers of Biology with AI
• Chair: Cindy Lawley, Olink
• Aritro Nath, City of Hope
• John Quackenbush, Harvard
• Massa Shoura, Phinomics
• Omar Serang, DNAnexus
Foundation Models of Human Cancer Biology to Predict Clinical Outcomes
• Ron Alfa, Noetik
Mechanistic Modeling of the Human Immune System: A Data-Integrated Approach to Target and Biomarker Discovery
• Liat Dassa, CytoReason
Biological Foundation Models: Harmonizing Data to Accelerate Drug Discovery
• Vitalay Fomin, Numenos
From Prediction to Translation: AI and In Vivo Validation to Improve Drug Development Success
• Gabriel Musso, BioSymetrics
Interpretable AI for Biomarker Discovery: Accelerating Drug Development and Advancing Precision Medicine
• Chair: Shivanni Kummar, PATHOMIQ
• Dale Muzzey, Myriad Genetics
• Sanoj Punnen, University of Miami
• Mark Burkard, UI
Can AI Really Create the Next Blockbuster Drug? Closing the Loop from Drug Discovery to Development
• Chair: Amar Das, Guardant Health
• Ari Caroline, Weave Bio
• Dina Katabi, Emerald/MIT
• Andrei Georgescu, Vivodyne
• James Zou, Stanford
Gemini Digital Twins Accelerate Precision Medicine
• Collin Hill, Aitia
Scaling Rare Disease Discovery with AI: From Genomic Data to Therapeutic Insights
• Lisa Gurry, GeneDx
Limited Sample Models for Faster Lead Discovery, High Accuracy, and Regulatory Grade AI
• Lalin Theverapperuma, Expert Intelligence
Enabling Targeted Precision Drug & Gene Delivery with Predictive AI
• Andre Watson, Ligandal
Is AI the New Drug or the New Therapeutic Modality
• Chair: Alex Morgan, Khosla Ventures
• Michael J. Kahana, Nia Therapeutics
• Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Xaira
