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Welcome to hubXchange's AI in Drug Discovery Xchange, San Francisco 2026.

This event brings together senior-level scientists and executives from the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors to tackle key challenges in Data Quality, Target Identification, Lead Generation & Optimization, Drug Response Prediction and Drug Design & Modeling.

Attendees can engage in roundtable discussions, pre-booked 1:1 meetings, presentations, and networking sessions with top industry experts, to foster collaboration and find innovative solutions to accelerate AI in Drug Discovery.

Take advantage of this unique highly interactive meeting format designed for maximum engagement, collaboration and networking.

San Francisco | Wednesday 9th September 2026 | 08:00am - 06:10pm

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08:00
  1. Registration
    30 mins
    • Data Quality
    • Target Identification
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
    • Drug Response Prediction
    • Drug Design & Modeling
08:30
  1. Opening Address & Keynote Presentation:
    30 mins
    • Data Quality
    • Target Identification
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
    • Drug Response Prediction
    • Drug Design & Modeling
09:05
  1. Data Quality
    Talking with the Data: Building AI Agent Infrastructure for Collaborative Drug Discovery
    60 mins
    • Data Quality
  2. Target Identification
    Using transcriptomics, GWAS and single cell data together with advanced applied AIML models to uncover novel therapeutic targets
    60 mins
    • Target Identification
  3. Lead Generation & Optimization
    Use of AI to reduce timeline of lead generation to optimization
    60 mins
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
  4. Drug Response Prediction
    Improving in-vivo predictability of AI models trained on in-vitro data
    60 mins
    • Drug Response Prediction
  5. Drug Design & Modeling
    Using AI to model ligand binding to target proteins and affinity predictions
    60 mins
    • Drug Design & Modeling
10:10
  1. 1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break
    30 mins
    • Data Quality
    • Target Identification
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
    • Drug Response Prediction
    • Drug Design & Modeling
10:45
  1. 1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break
    30 mins
    • Data Quality
    • Target Identification
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
    • Drug Response Prediction
    • Drug Design & Modeling
11:15
  1. Morning Refreshments
    10 mins
    • Data Quality
    • Target Identification
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
    • Drug Response Prediction
11:25
  1. Data Quality
    Sponsor-Led Roundtable: Accelerating Drug Discovery: AI's role in sifting through scientific knowledge
    60 mins
    • Data Quality
  2. Target Identification
    Sponsor-Led Roundtable: Augmented intelligence in drug target identification: separating facts from fables and fiction
    60 mins
    • Target Identification
    How can augmented intelligence improve confidence in target identification when biological evidence is incomplete or conflicting What signals or criteria are most effective for separating true disease ...
  3. Lead Generation & Optimization
    Sponsor Led Roundtable: Breaking the Ground Truth Data Barrier - Using advanced quantum chemistry to provide high-quality training and co-inference data for physics- and AI-enhanced prediction of molecular properties
    60 mins
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
  4. Drug Response Prediction
    Sponsor Led Roundtable: Creating Shared Standards for Reproducible Progress in AI Drug Response Prediction
    60 mins
    • Drug Response Prediction
    What sources of variability most commonly undermine reproducibility in AI driven drug response prediction models How can shared standards be defined without constraining model innovation and explorato ...
  5. Drug Design & Modeling
    Sponsor Led Roundtable: Variability in preprocessing pipelines reduces confidence in results
    60 mins
    • Drug Design & Modeling
    • How does variability in data preprocessing pipelines impact the reliability of structure based and ligand based modelling outcomes • Which preprocessing steps introduce the greatest uncertainty into ...
12:25
  1. Networking Lunch
    60 mins
    • Data Quality
    • Target Identification
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
    • Drug Response Prediction
    • Drug Design & Modeling
13:25
  1. Spotlight Presentation:
    30 mins
    • Data Quality
    • Target Identification
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
    • Drug Response Prediction
    • Drug Design & Modeling
14:00
  1. 1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break
    30 mins
    • Data Quality
    • Target Identification
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
    • Drug Response Prediction
    • Drug Design & Modeling
14:30
  1. 1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break
    30 mins
    • Data Quality
    • Target Identification
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
    • Drug Response Prediction
    • Drug Design & Modeling
15:00
  1. Afternoon Refreshments
    10 mins
    • Data Quality
    • Target Identification
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
    • Drug Response Prediction
    • Drug Design & Modeling
15:10
  1. Spotlight Presentation:
    30 mins
    • Data Quality
    • Target Identification
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
    • Drug Response Prediction
    • Drug Design & Modeling
15:45
  1. Data Quality
    Poster Presentation: Integrating Protein Structure Prediction into AI Pipelines: Ensuring Data Quality for Reliable Drug Discovery
    20 mins
    • Data Quality
    Accurate protein structure prediction is increasingly central to AI driven drug discovery, yet variability in structural data quality continues to limit model reliability. This poster explores the cha ...
  2. Target Identification
    Poster Presentation: Tracing the history and model tractability of datasets
    20 mins
    • Target Identification
    Tracing the history and tractability of datasets is critical for confident target identification, yet dataset provenance and suitability are often poorly understood. This poster examines how historica ...
  3. Lead Generation & Optimization
    Poster Presentation: Developing drug substances using AI-driven computational solutions with increased efficacy and reduced side effects
    20 mins
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
    Developing drug substances with improved efficacy and reduced side effects remains a central challenge in lead generation and optimization. This poster explores how AI driven computational solutions a ...
  4. Drug Design & Modeling
    Poster Presentation: Translating Real-World & Multi-Omic Data into Target Prioritization for Drug Discovery
    20 mins
    • Drug Design & Modeling
    Translating real world and multi omic data into actionable target prioritization remains a significant challenge in AI driven drug discovery. This poster explores how heterogeneous data sources, inclu ...
  5. Drug Response Prediction
    Poster Presentation: Training AI models on cell line and patient-derived data to improve response prediction
    20 mins
    • Drug Response Prediction
16:10
  1. Data Quality
    From fragmented to foundation ready, building trusted multimodal data ecosystems for scalable AI in drug discovery
    60 mins
    • Data Quality
  2. Target Identification
    Enabling drug discovery through high dimensional data: Elucidating novel druggable nodes by connecting disease biology to chemical space through transcriptomics
    60 mins
    • Target Identification
  3. Lead Generation & Optimization
    Harnessing AI-powered de novo design to navigate the hit-to-lead optimization journey
    60 mins
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
  4. Drug Response Prediction
    Applying omic data analytics with real world evidence to predict personalised drug response.
    60 mins
    • Drug Response Prediction
  5. Drug Design & Modeling
    The peptide brain challenge: leveraging AI to unlock efficient blood-brain barrier penetration
    60 mins
    • Drug Design & Modeling
17:10
  1. Drinks-Canape Reception
    60 mins
    • Data Quality
    • Target Identification
    • Lead Generation & Optimization
    • Drug Response Prediction
    • Drug Design & Modeling

EVENT INFORMATION

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DATES

San Francisco
Sept 9, 2025

Wednesday 9th September 2026

 

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DoubleTree by Hilton San Francisco Airport Hotel

DoubleTree by Hilton
San Francisco Airport Hotel
835 Airport Blvd, Burlingame
California, 94010-9949

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Complimentary Registration is only available for Senior Scientists & above, in Pharma & Bio Tech, with an active drug pipeline.

 

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