🧠 The AI Collective Toronto | Biology Meets AI
🧬 Biology Meets AI | Powering Biological Innovation through Artificial Intelligence
Join us for an inspiring evening at the intersection of biology and artificial intelligence, where code meets cells and machine learning accelerates our understanding of life itself.
Presented by The AI Collective, Toronto Chapter, Biology Meets AI is a curated gathering at the forefront of bioinnovation. We’ll explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the life sciences from decoding the brain and genome to reshaping diagnostics, precision medicine, health data, and ethical care.
Whether you're a researcher, data scientist, healthcare professional, student, or simply bio curious, this event is for you. If you’re building models with biological data, reimagining patient care, or shaping public health strategy, come take part in the conversation driving the future of health and technology.
🎤 Featured Speaker
Adib Fallahpour:
Adib is a Machine Learning engineer at Cohere, and a researcher at Arc Institute, UHN, and Vector Institute. His research focuses on advancing AI in biology and healthcare. He studies CS and Neuroscience at the University of Toronto and formerly founded and led GenAI Genesis, Canada's largest AI hackathon.
He will be presenting BioReason, the first multimodal reasoning model in biology. BioReason integrates a DNA foundation model with a large language model (LLM) to enable direct processing and reasoning with genomic information, enabling AI to reason how mutations could lead to disease.
⌚ Event Schedule
6:00 – 6:30 PM → Check-in & Networking
6:30 – 6:45 PM → Welcome & Opening Remarks
6:45 – 7:30 PM → Speaker Presentation followed by Questions
7:30 – 8:00 PM → Group Discussions
8:00 – 9:00 PM → Open Networking & Community Building
❔Why Attend?
Discover how AI is accelerating breakthroughs in biology and health
Connect with professionals across data science, medicine, research, and biotech
Be part of a growing movement using AI to drive innovation in care, health equity, and discovery
❔ Who Should Attend?
AI engineers, software developers, and ML researchers working in biology or medicine
Students and professionals in biology, computer science, data science, neuroscience, biomedical engineering, psychology, or public health
Healthtech founders, biotech innovators, clinicians, and researchers
Policymakers, investors, and academics exploring AI’s impact on the future of health
🤝 Special thanks to New Stadium for supporting this event.
New aims to connect and showcase the technocreative community in Toronto, encouraging collaboration and innovation.
Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!
The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 70,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.
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