2026 SPEAKERS

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ruby Huang

    Program Director, Smart MHI Program, International College
    National Taiwan University, Taiwan

  • SAMUEL KIMMEY

    Oregon Physics, USA

  • 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

  • Niro Ramachandran

    Global Head of Marketing
    10x Genomics, USA

  • Cande Rogert

    Vice President and Global Head of Advanced Science, Illumina

  • Agus Salim

    Associate Professor in Biostatistics University of Melbourne, Australia

  • 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

  • Richard Drake

    Medical University of South Carolina, USA

  • YUQI TAN

    Stanford University, USA

  • JINDAN YU

    Emory University School of Medicine, USA