See schedule.
*Approval and RSVP is required to participate in the CHIL Unconference.
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Registration & Check-In
9:00 AM – 9:10 AM | Opening Remarks
9:10 AM – 10:00 AM | Keynote: Chris Longhurst – Evidence-based Medicine in the AI Era
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM | Invited Talk: Pang Wei Koh – Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics
10:20 AM – 10:45 AM | Coffee Break
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM | Poster Session 1
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM | Sponsor Lunch Talk & Exhibits: Luca Foschini – Sage Bionetworks
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM | Research Roundtables Session 1
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM | Doctoral Symposium: Lightning Talks
2:15 PM – 2:40 PM | Coffee Break
2:40 PM – 3:00 PM | Mental Health Talk: Tim Althoff – Quantifying Harm: The Frontier of Contextual Safety Evaluation in Mental Health AI
3:00 PM – 3:20 PM | Mental Health Talk: Saadia Gabriel – Multi-Objective Alignment of Language Models for Personalized Psychotherapy
3:20 PM – 3:40 PM | Mental Health Talk: Harini Suresh – Towards Practitioner-Informed Governance for AI in Mental Health
3:40 PM – 4:10 PM | Mental Health Panel: Moderated by Lucy Wang
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM | Doctoral Symposium: Poster Session
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM | Closing Remarks
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Registration & Check In
9:00 AM – 9:10 AM | Opening Remarks
9:10 AM – 10:00 AM | Keynote: Jessilyn Dunn – The Digital Physiome: Wearables for Disease Detection and Monitoring
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM | Best Paper Talks
10:20 AM – 10:45 AM | Coffee Break
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM | Poster Session 2
11:30 AM – 12:45 PM | Lunch Break & Sponsor Exhibit
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM | Research Roundtables Session 2
1:45 PM – 2:35 PM | Keynote: Raj Manrai – Teaching Large Language Models to Reason like Expert Clinicians
2:35 PM – 3:00 PM | Coffee Break
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM | Interactive Translation Talk: Nikesh Kotecha – Operationalizing AI at Stanford Healthcare: From Data Foundations to Agentic Workflows
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM | Interactive Translation Talk: Jean Feng – AI at an Urban Safety-net Hospital
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM | Interactive Translation Talk: Clara Lin – Escaping Pilot Purgatory: The Operational Realities of Scaling Healthcare AI in a Pediatric Organization
3:35 PM – 4:20 PM | Interactive Translation Panel Moderated by Samuel Finlayson
4:20 PM – 4:30 PM | Closing Remarks