Boom Forum SF

​​Boom Forum brings you face to face with the technologists defining this decade. 

​​Join us for an exclusive discussion with Jean-Philippe Vert, leading expert in AI for life sciences. He is a co-founder of Bioptimus, a company building transformative foundation models, backed by Boom Capital. Prior to Bioptimus, Jean-Philippe led the Google Brain team in Europe.

​​Jean-Philippe will bring us up to speed on the advances of AI in healthcare, giving us the outlook for 2026.

​​Boom Forum is a new series to share where the world is going with current and prospective Limited Partners, and their friends. Space is extremely limited.

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​​About Boom Capital

​​Boom Capital backs the scientists and founders building the future before it’s understood. Spun out of Eric Schmidt’s venture firm, Innovation Endeavors, and founded by Celestine Schnugg, Boom is an early investor in frontier technologies sourced through our in-house scientific society.

​Boom is in the earliest rounds of Merlin (IPO in Q2 2026), Swarm (acquired by SpaceX), Monod Bio (founded by Nobel laureate David Baker), Mammoth Bio (founded by Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna) and Impulse Space (founded by the CTO and cofounder of SpaceX).

​About Jean-Philippe Vert

​Jean-Philippe Vert is co-founder and CEO of Bioptimus, a pioneering Al-first biotech company building foundation models to transform our understanding of biology and accelerate biomedical innovation, and professor (on leave) at PSL University.

​A leading figure in Al for biology, Jean-Philippe has over 25 years of experience at the frontier of machine learning and life sciences. Prior to his current roles, he was the Chief R&D Officer at Owkin and a Research Lead at Google Brain. Prior to moving to the industry he has held professorships at ENS Paris, the Curie Institute and Mines ParisTech, was a visiting Miller professor at UC Berkeley, and began his research career at Kyoto University.