2026 SPEAKERS
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JOE BEECHEM
Spatial Biology Chief Scientific Officer & Advisor
Bruker, USA -

SARAH BEST
Laboratory Head & Fundamental Biology Lead
Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Australia -

Carlo Bifulco
Chief Medical Officer & Medical Director
Providence Genomics & Providence Cancer Institute, USA -

JENNIFER BOROWSKY
Anatomical & Molecular Pathologist, Queensland Health, Australia
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Saška Brajković
Senior Director, Research & Development
Bio-Techne Spatial, Switzerland -

Oliver Braubach
Director of Research & Development
Bruker Spatial Biology, USA -

TULLIA BRUNO
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh, USA -

JARED BURKS
Professor, Hematopoietic Biology & Malignancy
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA -

Chris (Ao) Chen
Senior Vice President, MGI, USA
Chief Scientist, STOmics, USA -

Caroline Cooper
Anatomical Pathologist
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia -
Jessica Da Gama Duarte
Laboratory Head, Department of Cancer Medicine, School of Translational Medicine
Monash University, Australia -

Rong Fan
Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Yale University, USA -

Alistair Forrest
Head of Systems Biology and Genomics Laboratory & Associate Director, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
University of Western Australia, Australia -

FERNANDO GUIMARAES
Associate Professor & Group Leader
Frazer Institute, University of Queensland, Australia -

ANNABELLE GURWITCH
Best Selling Author, USA
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Ruby Huang
Program Director, Smart MHI Program, International College
National Taiwan University, Taiwan -

SAMUEL KIMMEY
Oregon Physics, USA
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FLORIAN LEISS
CEO
Revolune, Denmark
Head of Field of Business Biopharma & Clinical
ZEISS Microscopy, USA -

Helen McGuire
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health
University of Sydney, Australia -

BEN MEADOWS
Chief Commerical Officer
Quanterix, USA -

Amanda Oliver
Team Head, Barrier Immunity Lab
QIMR Berghofer, Australia -

Miranda Orr
Associate Professor
Washington University in St Louis, USA -

MAINTHAN PALENDIRA
Academic Director of Sydney Cytometry Core Facility
The University of Sydney, Australia -

JIWOON PARK
Postdocoral Researcher
Weill Cornell Medicine & Harvard Medical School, USA -

JASMINE PLUMMER
Founding Director of the Center for Spatial Omics
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA -

Hoifung Poon
Chief AI Officer
Recursion, USA -

VICTOR PUELLES
Professor of Complex Tissue Analysis at Aarhus University and University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
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Niro Ramachandran
Global Head of Marketing
10x Genomics, USA -

Cande Rogert
Vice President and Global Head of Advanced Science, Illumina
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Agus Salim
Associate Professor in Biostatistics University of Melbourne, Australia
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Somponnat Sampattavanich
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Mahidol University, Thailand -

DENIS SCHAPIRO
Group Leader in Spatial Omics
Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany -

Christian Schürch
Professor
University Hospital Tübingen, Germany -

Michael Schnall-Levin
Chief Technology, Strategy Officer & Founding Scientist
10x Genomics, USA -

MARTIN SMITH
Director of the Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics
University of NSW, Australia -

Mitchell Stark
Associate Professor and NHMRC Investigator Fellow, Frazer Institute
University of Queensland, Australia -

MATT TRAU
Director, Centre for Personalised Nanomedicine
The University of Queensland, Australia -

Orazio Vittorio
Associate Professor
The University of NSW, Australia -

PAUL WARING
Director of Translational Pathology Consulting Services Ltd
Oxford, UK -

JAMES WILMOTT
Senior Scientist, Melanoma Institute Australia & Associate Professor
The University of Sydney, Australia -

Joe Yeong
Director of ImmunoPathology
Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Selected oral presenters
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Richard Drake
Medical University of South Carolina, USA
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YUQI TAN
Stanford University, USA
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JINDAN YU
Emory University School of Medicine, USA
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