The International Summit on Digital Twin Medicine 2026 will feature plenary keynotes, invited presentations and expert roundtables exploring the scientific foundations, enabling technologies and clinical translation of digital twin medicine.
The programme will bring together perspectives from medicine, artificial intelligence, longitudinal multi-omics, medical imaging and digital health, with a particular focus on translating emerging research into clinically meaningful applications.
All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8). The programme is subject to change.
Thursday 12 November 2026
| Time | Programme |
|---|---|
| 09:00–09:30 |
Registration |
Opening Ceremony and Plenary KeynotesChair: Mingguang HE, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
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| 09:30–09:35 |
Opening by the ChairMingguang HE, Chair Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 09:35–09:40 |
Opening RemarksChristopher CHAO, Senior Vice President (Research and Innovation), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 09:40–09:45 |
Opening RemarksLi JIN, President, Fudan University; Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 09:45–09:50 |
Opening RemarksDavid Sampson, Vice President, NEJM Group |
| 09:50–09:55 |
Opening RemarksMichael Snyder, Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics, Stanford Medicine |
| 09:55–10:15 |
Plenary Keynote 1Topic: AI-powered Medical Innovation, Accelerating Precision Healthcare Lanjuan LI, Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering; The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine |
| 10:15–10:35 |
Plenary Keynote 2Topic: Foreseeing Life: From Health Monitoring to Personal Digital Twins Jian WANG, Co-founder and Chairman, BGI Group |
| 10:35–10:40 |
Hong Kong Declaration on Digital Twin Medicine |
| 10:40–10:45 |
Group Photo and End of CeremonyLeaders and distinguished guests |
| 10:45–11:00 |
Coffee Break |
Invited Presentations and Expert RoundtableChairs: Rui-Ping XIAO; Jianfeng FENG |
|
| 11:00–11:15 |
Invited Presentation 1Topic: AI-empowered Drug Discovery and Development Rui-Ping XIAO, NEJM |
| 11:15–11:30 |
Invited Presentation 2Topic: Digital twin brains at the cellular level Jianfeng FENG, Fudan University |
| 11:30–11:45 |
Invited Presentation 3Topic: Ocular Digital Twins for Precision Eye Care Mingguang HE, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 11:45–12:20 |
Expert RoundtableTopic: The Future of Digital Twin Medicine Moderator: Xin ZHOU, Fudan University Invited panellists: Mingguang HE; Jianfeng FENG; Chengqi ZHANG; Ewen Harrison; Charlotte Haug |
| 12:30–13:30 |
Lunch SeminarTopic: TwinLife: A digital twin for your health Zongyuan GE, DigiTwin Health Limited Topic: From Wearable Sensing to Digital Twins: Multimodal Behavior Recognition for Longitudinal Health Monitoring Yuchen DU, Centre for Eye and Vision Research (CEVR) |
Scientific Session IMedical Digital Twins: AI Modelling, Computing Platforms and Clinical Translation Chairs: Chengqi ZHANG; Ewen Harrison |
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| 13:30–13:50 |
Keynote Presentation 1Topic: Harnessing AI to Improve Surgical Care Ewen Harrison, NEJM AI |
| 13:50–14:05 |
Keynote Presentation 2Topic: Multi-Agent Artificial Intelligence for Personalised Human Digital Twins Chengqi ZHANG, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 14:05–14:20 |
Keynote Presentation 3Topic: Explore the representation link between World Medical AI Model and Digital Twins Zongyuan GE, DigiTwin Health Limited |
| 14:20–14:35 |
Keynote Presentation 4Topic: Virtual Patient Simulation Lawrence Wing-chi CHAN, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 14:35–14:50 |
Keynote Presentation 5Topic: Digital Twins and Physical AI for Healthcare Yongnan JI, NVIDIA |
| 14:50–15:10 |
Session Discussion and Q&A |
| 15:10–16:00 |
Poster Session and Coffee Break |
Scientific Session IIAI, Multi-omics and the Scientific Foundations of Personal Digital Twins Chairs: Shea-ping YIP; Jianfei ZHAO |
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| 16:00–16:20 |
Keynote Presentation 1Topic: Scientific publishing in the age of LLMs Charlotte Haug, NEJM AI |
| 16:20–16:35 |
Keynote Presentation 2Topic: Digital Twins for Personalized Psychiatry Weixiong ZHANG, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 16:35–16:50 |
Keynote Presentation 3Topic: Development and Application of a Foundation Model for Human Genomes Xin JIN, BGI |
| 16:50–17:05 |
Keynote Presentation 4Topic: AI in Cancer: Data-Driven Gut Microbiome Discovery and Potential Translation Jun YU, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 17:05–17:20 |
Keynote Presentation 5Topic: RAFT Polymers for Wearable Sensing and Closed-Loop Therapeutics San Hoa Thang, Monash University |
| 17:20–17:40 |
Session Discussion and Q&A |
Friday 13 November 2026
| Time | Programme |
|---|---|
Scientific Session IIIOrgan- and Disease-Specific Digital Twins Chairs: Lei LI; Jing CAI |
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| 09:30–09:45 |
Keynote Presentation 1Topic: AI-empowered Precision Cancer Imaging and Radiotherapy Jing CAI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 09:45–10:00 |
Keynote Presentation 2Topic: AI-Enabled Cardiac Digital Twins for Personalised Cardiovascular Medicine Lei LI, National University of Singapore |
| 10:00–10:15 |
Keynote Presentation 3Topic: Brain-Inspired Neural Networks for Visual Object Recognition Anqi QIU, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 10:15–10:30 |
Keynote Presentation 4Topic: Decoding Microbial Triggers of Autoimmunity Using Human Immune Organoids Xin CHEN, Stanford University School of Medicine |
| 10:30–10:45 |
Session Discussion and Q&A |
| 10:45–11:00 |
Coffee Break |
Scientific Session IVFrom Longitudinal Deep Omics to Precision Health Chairs: Jethro Johnson; Leming SHI |
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| 11:00–11:15 |
Keynote Presentation 1Topic: Reference Materials as a Common Ruler for the AI-Omics Era Leming SHI, Fudan University |
| 11:15–11:30 |
Keynote Presentation 2Topic: Searching for Microbiome-Immune Interactions Relevant to Chronic Inflammatory Diseases Jethro Johnson, University of Oxford |
| 11:30–11:45 |
Keynote Presentation 3Topic: AAgATLAS Autoantibody Reactomics: A New Dimension in Multi-Omics for Therapeutic Target Discovery Xiaobo YU, National Center for Protein Sciences |
| 11:45–12:00 |
Session Discussion and Q&A |
| 12:00–12:10 |
Closing Remarks |
Venue
Hampton by Hilton Shenzhen Nanshan Qianhai
Tower C, No. 5209 Menghai AvenueShenzhen 518052, China
