Submit abstracts and register for Mayo Clinic's AI Summit

Submit abstracts and register for Mayo Clinic’s AI Summit

By
Kris Schanilec

April 18, 2025

Explore the latest in artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications in healthcare at Mayo Clinic's 2025 AI Summit: Generative AI, Information Retrieval and Evidence-Based Medicine. The event will take place July 7–8 in Rochester, Minnesota. A virtual attendance option will also be offered.

Mayo Clinic is now accepting abstract submissions for talks, poster presentations and workshops. The deadline to submit abstracts is May 15.

About the summit

The AI Summit will bring together AI experts and the healthcare community to discuss advances in the field and explore opportunities and challenges ahead. The event will be hosted by the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic AI community.

"This summit offers an exciting chance to engage with cutting-edge ideas, collaborate across disciplines and shape how AI can help bring solutions that meaningfully improve healthcare. It's not just about what's possible — it's about what's next, and how we can get there together," says Cui Tao, Ph.D., chair of Mayo Clinic's Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics. Dr. Tao is the Nancy Peretsman and Robert Scully Chair of AI and Informatics.

The summit is open to Mayo Clinic staff and students, as well as the public.

Keynote speakers

Attendees will hear from leading experts through keynote presentations, lightning talks, panel discussions and a poster session. Featured keynote speakers are:

Clark Otley, M.D., chief medical officer, Mayo Clinic Platform
"AI and Healthcare: What the World Needs."
Jeroen van der Laak, Ph.D., professor of computational pathology at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
"Toward Clinical Adoption of AI in Pathology."
Yifan Peng, Ph.D., associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine
"Large Language Models for Clinical Evidence Extraction, Retrieval and Summarization."
Greg Corrado, Ph.D., distinguished scientist and senior director at Google Research
"Accelerating Scientific Breakthroughs With AI."
Matthew Callstrom, M.D., Ph.D., medical director of Generative Artificial Intelligence at Mayo Clinic
"Data-Driven Medicine: Transforming Clinical Insights with Generative AI."

Event chair Hamid Tizhoosh, Ph.D., and co-chair Fred Fan, Ph.D., of Mayo Clinic's Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, will oversee the program.

View the complete agenda.

Register to attend

Early-bird registration is $375 for general attendees and $250 for students. After May 1, rates will increase to $475 for general attendees and $350 for students.

Submit an abstract or workshop proposal

Mayo Clinic invites abstract submissions from people working in AI-related fields. The conference will cover an array of topics — from how AI models can assist healthcare professionals with training, diagnostics, treatment and evidence-based care, to challenges in areas such as AI bias, ethical considerations and the translation of AI research into clinical care.

Presentation formats are: