Flower UK Health and Life Sciences Day
Flower Labs is hosting an informal one-day event in Cambridge on October 29 to bring together UK-based scientists, engineers and executives advancing privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and federated AI for healthcare and life sciences (HLS).
Flower is an open-source framework that has enabled federated AI deployments involving more than 1 million individuals worldwide, and is trusted by organizations such as Owkin, JP Morgan, Samsung and Mozilla. Originating from Cambridge, Flower has been used within the NHS and more than 150 medical institutions world-wide.
The event will showcase UK research and deployments in federated HLS, deepen understanding of the underlying technology, and demonstrate how Flower supports adoption—from early trials to large-scale production.
Our goal is to accelerate responsible AI adoption in healthcare, keeping HLS organizations in control while maintaining public trust.
Schedule tight on the 29th?
We'll run an executive summary of the day starting at approximately 6pm that will then run into a brief reception and dinner. Come after your main work day and still get a lot of the benefits including networking opportunities. Simply mark this option on your registration.
What to expect from the main program
Talks and discussions featuring UK experts sharing real-world HLS deployments and research using federated and privacy-preserving methods, with topics spanning multiple clinical and research domains. Speakers and detailed agenda to be launched soon.
Collaborative working groups designed to foster partnerships and shape the next generation of cross-institutional projects.
Networking opportunities throughout the day, including lunch and a closing college dinner.
Breakout sessions offering one-on-one technical guidance and feedback from Flower scientists on your own PETs or federated AI initiatives (limited capacity, first-come basis)
Optional tutorials and technical Q&A sessions accessible to participants of all experience levels.
Want to contribute?
You’re welcome to propose a talk or contribution when registering.
Learn more about Flower in HLS
Flower is the world's most widely used open-source framework for federated and PETs. More than 2,500 federations of various sizes have been built on Flower in the past five years. More background about Flower and HLS uses cases can be found here. To see any of the recent health or pharama talk using Flower, you can click any of the links below.
Andrew Soltan (Oxford) — 170k NHS patient trial, Lancet paper [video]
Eden Ruffell (UCL) — Foundation model fine-tuning [video]
Honghao Li (Owkin) — FedECA powered by Flower [video]
Joseph Taylor (NHS) et al. — BloodCounts! [video]
Nikolas Pontikos (UCL) et al. — Taking Eye2Gene global with Flower [video]
Minhaj Alam (UNC Charlotte / Stanford) — FL Diagnosis of Macular Degeneration [video]
Pramit Saha (Oxford) — FL for Medical Image Analysis [video]
David Emerson (Vector Institute) — FL4Health with Flower [video]