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Anna Kostikova, Ph.D., Director of Data Science and Machine Learning at Novartis, co-founder of Asylia Diagnostics, advisor and mentor for biotech and life science early-stage companies. Founded 2 companies, ex-Booking, ex-Heineken.

Anna's core specialty is on the intersection of biotech / life science / healthcare and the utilization of AI and machine learning. She is passionate about the unprecedented level of innovation that AI/ML has to offer to life sciences and healthcare. After completing her doctorate degree in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and a series of post-docs, she became fascinated by what technology giants like Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook, are doing with massive data. She went to Booking, one of the leading companies in online travel, and helped to grow the DS/ML team from 20 to 250 specialists, making it one of the largest EU-based data science teams. After several years in tech, she came back to the biopharma and founded InsideDNA (winner of TechCrunch Disrupt), and then Asylia Diagnostics (Catapult Award Winner). Since 3 last years, she leads a data science/ML team at Novartis headquarter in Basel and has been deeply involved in the formation of the entrepreneurial culture in TechxBio.

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Alexey Dosovitskiy is a machine learning researcher. He got a Ph.D. in mathematics from Moscow State University in 2012. He has since worked at the University of Freiburg, Intel, and Google, during which time he crucially contributed to multiple topics at the intersection of deep learning and computer vision: unsupervised learning, generative models, autonomous driving, robotics, 3D understanding, large-scale image understanding models. Recently Alexey moved to an early-stage startup working on applications of ML to RNA design.

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Mikhail Batin is the President and Founder of the Science for Life Extension Foundation (Moscow, Russia) and the Co-Founder and Leader of Open Longevity (an international community and a nonprofit in aging research), the latter being the major focus at the moment. Open Longevity has a vast spectrum of projects: development of open databases in aging biology, running longevity schools, writing books, organizing art residency, and R&D of new automated test systems for potential geroprotectors, and many more.

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Anna Scherer is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalytic, psychotherapist, member of NPSA, International Society of Neuropsychoanalysis. Area of expertise: psychodynamic approach to leadership and management, neuro- and behavioral marketing. Anna is also the Founder of Marketing Evangelist. The idea behind the project is to develop a new business culture based on scientific data and customer-centricity.

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Alexey Knyazev - Doctor of Chemistry, Director of Engineering Chemical Technology Center, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, National Research Tomsk State University. Laureate of the Russian Presidential Prize in the field of science and innovation for young scientists in 2009. Was born on July 28, 1978 in Tomsk.

Aleksey (and his brother Andrey Knyazev, director of the NOVOKHIM company) are the fourth generation of a family of chemical scientists who worked in Tomsk universities. Great-grandmother and great-grandfather graduated from Mendeleyevka (Russian Chemical Technical University named after D.I. Mendeleev) and in the five-year period of chemicalization of the whole country, which began in 1938, they came to develop chemistry in Tomsk. Great-grandfather, Nikolai Pavlovich Kurin, was already with a degree and headed one department at TPI, great-grandmother (Geniya Abramovna) - another, portraits of both hang now in the 2nd building of the Polytechnic University. My great-grandfather also has an obelisk in the 10th building - because after some time he began to study nuclear physics and headed the 43rd department, which trained personnel for the construction of the SCC. The grandfather of Alexei Knyazev, Mikhail Nikolaevich Kurin, also studied in Moscow at the Russian Chemical Technical University, returned to Tomsk and headed the 13th department - the one that deals with research at an experimental nuclear reactor. His wife, Larisa Nikolaevna, came from Novosibirsk and entered the Tomsk State University at the Faculty of Chemistry, where she then worked all her life. She headed the Department of Physical and Colloidal Chemistry, created a laboratory for catalytic research. Alexey Knyazev's mother - Elena Mikhailovna Knyazeva is also catalytic, now she is a teacher at the Department of General and Organic Chemistry at TPU.

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