Speaker Profile
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Solutions and Platform, Microsoft
Biography
Joe Petro leads innovation, strategy, product, engineering, and customer success teams delivering integrated AI healthcare experiences that enhance the clinician–patient relationship, improve outcomes, and expand access to care. His organization develops generative AI–powered clinical workflow and productivity solutions for physicians, nurses, radiologists, and revenue cycle professionals—including Microsoft Dragon Copilot, Dragon Medical One, PowerScribe, and PowerShare—along with the platform that supports extensibility and democratization of AI through an expansive healthcare-specific partner ecosystem.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Sharat Israni, UCSF
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Joe Petro, Microsoft
• Curtis P. Langlotz, Stanford University
Keynote: The Future of AI in Medical Imaging
• Curtis P. Langlotz, Stanford University
From Foundation Models to Digital Twins: AI Reshaping Clinical Imaging
• Chair: Alexander Weir, Canon Medical
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Joe Petro, Microsoft
• Curtis P. Langlotz, Stanford University
Fireside Chat
• Eric Horvitz, Microsoft
• Curtis P. Langlotz, Stanford University
Building Biological Digital Twins: Computational Models Linking Data to Disease Mechanisms
• Martin Stumpe, Danaher
Core AI Methods for Precision Medicine Foundations
• Chair: Sharat Israni, UCSF
• James Zou, Stanford University
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Olivier Gevaert, Stanford University
AI & Omics Foundation Models Powering Translational Research
• Chair: Janusz Dutkowski, Data4Cure
• Alex Moreau, Champions Oncology
• Jadwiga Bienkowska, Pfizer
Radiomics & Radiogenomics: Precision Imaging for Oncology
• Chair: Chris Hare, Canon Medical
• Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, Quibim
• Kevin Blyth, University of Glasgow
• Maria del Mar Alvarez Torres, Columbia University
Clinical Workflow Integration & Decision Support in Imaging
• Chair: Sharat Israni, UCSF
• David S. Liebeskind, UCLA
• Rajesh Shah, UCSF
• Roxana Daneshjou, Stanford University
