BC Platforms' & Accenture Precision Medicine & Data Science Seminar, Singapore (2023)

Precision Medicine & DataScience Seminar

Tuesday June 7, 2022 | Singapore, Pan Pacific Hotel, Meeting Room Ocean 3-5 | HybridExperience

The Revolution in Precision Medicine and Population Healthcare through Data Enablement and Collaboration in the Clinical Research and Life Science Space

How do you maximise the value for society and research in your Clinical and Omics data collections? How do you best utilise Real World Data in cooperation between healthcare services, clinical research and life science companies? Can portability issues with AI and algorithms for population healthcare and preventive care be addressed by collaborations between countries, private and public entities? These and several more topics will be discussed, exemplified and demonstrated.

Join BC Platforms and Accenture for an enriching day, together with a panel of local and international experts from the industry, government and academia, as they discuss their views and experiences. Topics include National Precision Medicine projects, Pharma & Healthcare collaboration, as well as leading edge data science research implementation. Exchange ideas and share your experiences with our international audience. Our stellar line-up of speakers include: Prof.JamesBachelor from The University of Southampton, UK; Prof.TõnuEsko from University of Tartu, Estonia; and from Singapore, Prof.PatrickTan, Executive Director of the Genome Institute of Singapore and Assoc.Prof.NeerjaKarnani from BioInformatics Institute A*STAR.

PROGRAM

Timezone Singapore, SGT

Morning
8:30-8:55	Registration & Coffee (25 min)
9:00-9:15 (Video) The Data Sciences Institute	Opening words Mrs Karen Tay Koh, Board Member and Chair of Audit Committee, BCPlatforms
9:15-9:20	HE Antti Vänskä, Ambassador to the Embassy of Finland Singapore
9:20-10:05	Keynote: Transforming Health in Singapore through Precision Medicine Prof. Patrick Tan, Executive Director of the Genome Institute of Singapore
10:15-10:30	1st Tea Break (20 min)
10:30-11:00	Deep Tech Architecture of Trusted Research Environments Mr Niko Hurskainen, Chief Technology Officer, BC Platforms See Also Lilly Hall Of Life Sciences - Company and contact details Global Life Sciences Solutions Singapore Pte Ltd. Export data And Contact-Great Export Import 20 Best Tuition-Free Colleges and Universities 2021 Science has figured out why Silicon Valley keeps forking over millions to charismatic screw-ups like WeWork founder Adam Neumann
11:00-11:45	Harnessing Multi-Dimensional Data to Advance Human Health and Potential with Precision Medicine Assoc. Prof. Neerja Karnani from BioInformatics Institute A*STAR
11.45-12:05	On the topic of developing functioning population healthcare tools Mr Nino da Silva, Deputy Managing Director and CCO EMEA & APAC, BC Platforms
12:05 - 1:05 pm	Lunch Break (1h) Lunch will be hosted for all in-person guests
Afternoon
1:10-1:50	Navigating the Path to Cooperations with Life Sciences Industry. Creating a Rewarding Result for your Citizens. Prof. Tõnu Esko,Vice Director of Development and Head of Estonian Biobank Innovation Center at Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Estonia
1:50-2:35	Collaborating for fun? Personalised Genomic Medicine and the Challenges of Data Squishing Prof. James Batchelor from The University of Southampton, UK
2:35-3:20	Methodology for Implementation of AI in Healthcare Dr Kelly Quek, Data Engineer Consultant, Accenture, Singapore
3:20-3:35	2nd Tea Break (15 min)
3:35-4:05	IT Security and RWD Collaborations. Clalit's Program for Supporting Life Science Research Dr Shay Ben-Shachar, Director Of Precision Medicine and Genomics at Clalit Research Institute, Israel
4:05-4:40	Panel Discussion: Developing Collaborations - Is it Building or Buying? or Buying and Building? Prof. James Batchelor, Dr Dennis Wang, Mr Niko Hurskainen, Mr da Silva (Moderator)
4:45-5:00	Closing words (Video) #AIPOSSIBLE & Data Science Toolbox Mr Nino da Silva, Deputy Managing Director and CCO EMEA & APAC, BC Platforms

Dresscode: Business Casual

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Speakers

HE Antti Vänskä

Ambassador to the Embassy of Finland, Singapore

Ambassador Antti Vänskä arrived in Singapore in June 2019 to assume his position as Head of Mission at the Embassy of Finland.

Mr Vänskä joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in 1996 and has served on several
interesting assignments both home and abroad.
Prior to Singapore Mr Vänskä served four years as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Finland in Washington DC, USA. Earlier in his career, Mr Vänskä has worked in the Embassy of Finland in Berlin, Germany (2001 – 2004) and in the Consulate General of Finland in St Petersburg, Russia (1997 – 2001).

In Finland, Mr Vänskä has served, amongst other positions, as the Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Finland (2010-2014). Earlier, he has worked in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as Deputy Director in the Unit for Russia and as Counsellor in the Unit for Asia dealing for instance with relations between the EU
and the ASEAN.

Mr Vänskä graduated from Turku School of Economics and Business Administration (Finland) with a Master’s degree in Economics. He has also studied abroad in Sweden and in the United States.

Prof. Patrick TanExecutive Director Precision Health Research, Singapore (PRECISE)Topic: Transforming Health in Singapore through Precision MedicineProf. Patrick Tan is the Executive Director (ED) of PRECISE and will oversee the implementation of Phase II of Singapore’s National Precision Medicine Strategy, which aims to transform healthcare in Singapore, and improve patient outcomes through new insights into the Asian genome and data-driven healthcare solutions. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Prof Tan was Programme Director of Operation Stronghold, establishing one of Singapore’s largest COVID-19 testing facilities through a joint effort involving A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), National University Health System, and Temasek Holdings.Read more Prof. Tõnu EskoVice Director and Head of Estonian Biobank Innovation Centre at Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, EstoniaTopic: Biobanks and the Rise of Precision Medicine: Personalised Predictive Medicine ChallengeTõnu Esko, PhD, is a Vice Director of Development and head of Estonian Biobank Innovation Center at Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, where he holds Professor Human Genomics position genomics. Dr Esko is also a Research Scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, USA and visiting researcher at the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He has founded and is co-leading several international consortia. He serves as Scientific Advisory Board member for several global companies.Read more Dr Neerja KarnaniAssoc. Prof. BioInformatics Institute A*STARTopic: Harnessing Multi-Dimensional Data to Advance Human Health and Potential with Precision MedicineDr Karnani is a molecular epidemiologist and clinical data scientist with 20 years of experience working with academia, industry and national platforms. She started her research career at University of Virginia, USA, where she contributed to the first functional annotation draft of human genome (ENCODE consortium). She moved to Singapore in 2013 to join A* STAR's Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS). As the Systems Biology lead at SICS, she developed the multi-omics roadmap for Singapore's National Birth (GUSTO) and Pre-conception (S-PRESTO) cohorts and identified biomarkers of metabolic and mental health adversities in expecting mothers and their offspring. These findings have been patented and licensed by eminent nutrition industries and being translated into future interventions.Read more

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Dr Kelly Quek

Data Engineering Consultant, Accenture, Singapore

Topic: Methodology for Implementation of AI in Healthcare

Dr Kelly Quek is a Data Engineer Consultant at Accenture. She has worked across a variety of disciplines including patients’ segmentation and molecular genome profiling, customers segmentation and profiling, recommendation system, predictive modelling, optimisation, natural language processing, data strategy and implementation, business development and client account planning.

Her most recent work is on INTIENT Research platform – a drug discovery platform powered by Google where she designed ontological level data models and harmonized data across multiple life science data sources for Data Warehouse, DataMart in BigQuery and Knowledge Graph; Utilized language model (Biobert) for entity extraction and Q&A for search engine to perform search on unstructured literature articles.

Holding a PhD in Genomics & Computational Biology from The University of Queensland, she has led and co-authored in several biomedical publications in leading journals. Previously, she was a genomics fellow at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr Shay Ben-Shachar

Director Of Precision Medicine and Genomics at Clalit Research Institute

Topic: IT Security and RWD Collaborations. Clalit's Program for Supporting Life Science Research

Dr Shay Ben-Shachar is the Director of Precision Medicine and Genomics at Clalit Research Institute at Clalit Health Care, the largest HMO in Israel. As part of his role, he's leading Clalit Biobank, established Clalit's Genomic Center and facilitated technologies for the use of human Genetics provided by Clalit and its genetic department.

Ben-Shachar have more than twenty years of experience in medicine and genetics, and has done contributions to the scientific community through research and publications as well as mentoring and advising physicians and students in genetics.

Dr Dennis Wang

Assoc. Prof. University of Sheffield
Adj. Assoc. Prof., NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Principal Investigator, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences & Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore

Dr Dennis Wang is a principal investigator with both SICS and A*STAR’s Bioinformatics Institute, and the lead for SICS’ Bioinformatics platform. Additionally, he holds the positions of Adjunct Associate Professor at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in genomic medicine and machine learning at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Faculty at the University of Liverpool’s Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology.

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Venue & Location

Pan Pacific Singapore

Hotel Meeting Room Ocean 3-5
7 Raffles Boulevard,
Marina Square
Singapore 039595

Location

20-minute drive from Changi International Airport
Five minutes from the Central Business District and The Sands Exhibition and Convention Centre
Centrally located in Marina Bay among three major shopping malls, Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Marina Square and Millenia Walk, via covered sky-bridge
Five-minute walk to nearest MRT station

Antigen Rapid Test (ART) and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Test Services available within Hotel.

Additional Information

Dress code: Business Casual

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