AI for Drug Discovery Open Innovation Forum
For AI technologies to be safe and responsible, they must be developed in the open. This is particularly true in healthcare, where the need for transparency, flexibility, and broad accessibility demands an open approach. To help meet this need, Red Hat joins Boston University’s Hariri Institute (home of the Red Hat Collaboratory), the BU Bioengineering Technology and Entrepreneurship Center, the MOC Alliance, IBM, the Cleveland Clinic, and the AI Alliance in cosponsoring a one-day forum on October 30, 2024, launching the AI for Drug Discovery working group within the AI Alliance.
The objective of this forum is to establish a world-class open research community to drive development, evaluation, and large-scale adoption of open source AI foundation models for accelerated scientific advancements. At the heart of this effort is the Mass Open Cloud (MOC), an open, community-driven infrastructure empowering researchers with the scalability and flexibility needed for cutting-edge AI research. Red Hat OpenShift AI, built on the principle of open source collaboration, provides a robust platform for deploying AI models at scale, offering researchers the tools they need to innovate efficiently. Red Hat OpenShift AI uses the underlying Red Hat OpenShift platform, a Kubernetes flavor, to scale the training of AI models and deployment of the applications. Red Hat OpenShift AI on the MOC enables participants to leverage an open and transparent ecosystem, accelerating advancements in drug discovery by fostering collaboration and facilitating impactful scientific breakthroughs.
The forum will consist of an opening session with keynotes and panels highlighting the state of the art in AI technologies and pressing bottlenecks and challenges in drug discovery, followed by breakout sessions to identify and prioritize key AI technologies and activities that should be developed in the open. The event will also include hands-on sessions with opportunities to work with open source foundation models for drug discovery, such as Biomedical Foundation Models. To see a detailed program of speakers, abstracts, and presentation times, visit the event page on the Hariri Institute website.
This event is open to everyone—we encourage anyone interested to join us and participate.
For administrative questions, email BU Assistant Director of Programs & Events at ktd@bu.edu.
Event Details
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
8:30am – 6:30pm ET
Location (only in-person): Boston University, Center for Computing & Data Sciences,
665 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1750 (17th floor), Boston, MA. (To access the upper floors, please use the elevators near Saxby’s café.)
About the AI Alliance
Founded in 2023, the AI Alliance is an international community of technology developers, researchers, and industry leaders who collaborate to advance safe, responsible AI rooted in open innovation.
About the MOC Alliance
The MOC Alliance is a partnership between higher education, medical research centers, government, and industry to provide the structure and resources that will enable collaboration between operators of production cloud services for domain researchers, the open source community developing cloud technologies, and system researchers innovating in the cloud. The MOC Alliance is a founding member of the AI Alliance.
About Red Hat Research
Red Hat Research connects Red Hat engineers with professors, researchers, and students to bring great research ideas into open source communities. Our activities around the world have produced grants from government and industry, papers at top conferences, and results that have landed in open source projects of all kinds. Red Hat Research welcomes participation from research-minded individuals around the world.