Speaker Profile
PMWC PIONEER AWARD
Pioneer of personal computing who engineered the foundation for today’s AI revolution.
Co-Founder, Apple
Biography
A Silicon Valley icon, technology entrepreneur, and philanthropist for more than four decades, Steve Wozniak has helped shape the computing industry through his design of Apples first line of products the Apple I and II and his influence on the Macintosh. In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniaks Apple I, followed by the Apple II, which helped launch the personal computer revolution. He is listed as the sole inventor on four Apple patents.After completing his degree in electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley, Wozniak founded Unuson, producer of the US Festivals a landmark fusion of technology and music. His achievements have been recognized with the National Medal of Technology from President Ronald Reagan, induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and the Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment.A committed advocate for education and innovation, Wozniak has championed technology access in schools and supported institutions such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Tech Museum of Innovation, and the Childrens Discovery Museum of San Jose. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling autobiography iWoz and continues to advance technology education as co-founder of Woz U and Efforce, a blockchain-based sustainability platform.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chairs:
Gad Getz, Broad Institute & Alex Morgan, Khosla Ventures
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Greg Brockman, President & Co-Founder, OpenAI
• Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, Apple
Fireside Chat
• Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures
• Greg Brockman, President & Co-Founder, OpenAI
Target Discovery: Beyond Genomics – Revealing Hidden Layers of Biology with AI
• Keynote: Stephen Quake, CZ Biohub
• Chair: Cindy Lawley, Olink
• Aritro Nath, City of Hope
• Massa Shoura, Phinomics
• Omar Serang, DNAnexus
Foundation Models for Human Biology: Accelerating Immunotherapy Discovery Through Multimodal AI
• Ron Alfa, Noetik
Systems Integration for Drug Discovery and AI
• Hugo Lam, Genentech
Interpretable AI Models for Multi-Modal Biomarker Discovery in Drug Development
• Vitalay Fomin, Numenos
Closing the Loop: Coupling AI with In Vivo Validation
• Gabriel Musso, biosymetrics
Interpretable AI for Biomarker Discovery: Accelerating Drug Development
• Chair: Rajat Roy, PATHOMIQ INC
• Shivanni Kummar, MD, OHSU
Can AI Really Create the Next Blockbuster Drug? Closing the Loop from 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
Enabling Targeted Precision Drug & Gene Delivery with Predictive AI
• Andre Watson, Ligandal
Is AI the New Drug?
• Chair: Alex Morgan, Khosla Ventures
• Michael J. Kahana, Nia Therapeutics
