“[Jack’s talks] are a force of nature.”

talks

I am much better at public speaking than keeping websites up to date - but hopefully this is a helpful sample. Also, unfortunately there’s nothing I can do for the older talks behind paywalls

Serving as MC

  • Chief AI Officer Summit, MC for a four track summit on FIX DESCRIPTION practical AI adoption in clinical trials & healthcare operations (Oct 2026)

  • AI Builder Summit: Healthcare, MC for an interactive summit on practical AI adoption in clinical trials & healthcare operations (March 2026)

Product launches

Data Ecosystems

Bioinformatics & neuroscience explainers

  • SelectScience webinar, Nextflow on Velsera: a data-driven journey from failure to cutting edge (17 Feb 2025)

  • Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) meeting: Analyzing HTAN data in the Cancer Genomics Cloud, Durham, NC (2 Nov 2022)

  • BioTechX EU: Catalyzing immunotherapy via improved prioritization of neoantigens. (5 Oct 2023)

  • BioIT World: Microsatellite Instability & Tumor Heterogeneity Boston, MA (17 May 2018)

  • BioIT World: Graph Genome Tools for Precision Medicine (Talk) Boston MA (May 24 2017)Wolfram Data Summit: Leveling the Playing Field for Cancer Genomics (Talk) Fairfax VA (Sept 22 2016)

  • Festival of Genomics: Precision Medicine in the Million Genome Era(Plenary talk) Boston MA (June 29, 2016); San Diego CA (Sept 20, 2016)

  • University of Florida Computational Neural Engineering Seminar: Vestibular prosthetics to restore the 6th sense (Invited talk) Gainesville, Florida (Feb 13, 2015)

  • Center for Neuroprosthetics Retreat: The Brains Behind Locomotion (Talk) Chexbres, Switzerland (October 6, 2012)

Interoperability, FAIR, & why not sprinkle in live demos?

  • FAIR Data Symposium @ BioIT: Building on a FAIRly Strong Foundation to Connect Academic Research to Translational Impact (15 April 2024)

  • BioIT World: FAIR Hackathon: Intro, Boston, MA (4 May 2022)

  • NIH ODSS Data Science Town Hall: Data Integration within the NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability (NCPI) Effort, Virtual (28 April 2022)

  • CFDE Council of Councils meeting: Cloud credits & using them on CAVATICA, Virtual (14 Oct 2021, with Adam Resnick)

Engagement & educating the bioinformatics workforce

  • CI4CC: Human Learning: Training the next generation of data scientists & informaticians to leverage massive cloud data ecosystems, Napa, CA (19 Oct 2019)

  • International Lymphoma Epidemiology Conference: Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC) for NGS studies, (June 26, 2019)

Brain-machine interfaces and machine learning

  • University of Florida Biomedical Engineering Dept: Restoring cortical control of locomotion after spinal cord injury in rats (Invited talk) Gainesville, Florida (Feb 11, 2015)

  • Human Cyber Physical Systems Interaction Conference: Brain-spinal interfaces to augment locomotion after spinal cord injury (Invited talk) Paris, France (Sept 22, 2014)

  • Brain-Mind Institute Days: Cortical intervention in locomotion: not necessary but efficient? (Talk) Villars, Switzerland (June 20, 2013)

  • HYCON2-AD3 on Medical and Biological Systems: Reconnecting and controlling the spinal cord: a brain-spinal interface (Invited Keynote) Paris, France (June 5, 2013)

  • DYSCO ‘Study Day’: Modulating the brain to move machines (Invited Keynote) Mons, Belgium (May 24, 2013)

  • Leuven.Inc: Connecting to the brain - 'A Mind Machine Interface': Restoring lost connections with a brain-spinal interface
    (Invited talk) Leuven, Belgium (April 24, 2013)

  • IEEE EMBC NER: Recording Vestibular Evoked Potentials Induced by Electrical Stimulation of the Horizontal Semicircular Canal in Guinea Pig(Invited Session) Cancun, Mexico (April 28, 2011)

  • Bio-Robotics Network Zurich: Back to basics: Advancing the state of BMI(Talk) Zurich, Switzerland (December 3, 2010)

let’s work together