Molecules, Models & Agents: Accelerating scientific research and development

Molecules, Models & Agents: Accelerating scientific research and development

Join us at GitHub HQ for an evening dedicated to rewriting the developer frontier.

Molecules, Models & Agents (M2A) brings together leaders in AI, life sciences, and high performance computing to explore how foundation models and autonomous agents are transforming scientific discovery. From drug development and materials science to biological research, the event highlights how agentic systems can accelerate experimentation, reason over complex data, and help researchers move from hypothesis to breakthrough, to the clinic and into commercialization faster than ever before.

Spots are limited, so register early and come ready to share what you are working on. Once we hit max capacity the entrance will be closed and no further admittance will be allowed.

Agenda

• 3:00 - 4:00 PM Doors Open and meet and greet

• 4:00 - 4:30 PM Opening Remarks from GitHub and Microsoft

• 4:30 - 6:30 PM Fireside, Panel Discussions and Lightning talks

  • Panel 1: From Data to Discovery: AI Across Digital Health and Digital Biology - moderated by Vega Shah from NVIDIA NVentures with NVIDIA HCLS Inception startup companies including Elipsis, and GenBio (Aaron W. Lifland, PhD, GenBio, Head of Business and Corporate Development)

  • Panel 2: Beyond the Demo: AI Capabilities That Actually Deliver in Early R&D - hosted and moderated by LEK

  • Panel 3: Business Model Construction: Building Future State AI Platforms - hosted and moderated by Baired

  • Lightning Demos

• • 6:30 - 8:00 PM Happy Hour and Networking

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Hosts:

• Baird is a leading global investment bank with deep expertise across healthcare, life sciences, and biopharma, and more than 540 banking associates offering corporations, entrepreneurs, private equity and other financial sponsors a broad range of advisory and financing solutions. Since 2021, Baird has completed over 1,000 transactions, representing and raising over $500 billion in value. Committed to being a great workplace, Baird ranked No. 13 on the 2025 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For© list - its 22nd consecutive year on the list

• NVIDIA provides the accelerated computing infrastructure powering modern AI. Its infrastructure, AI software, and life sciences platforms are enabling breakthroughs in molecular modeling, drug discovery, and scientific research.

• Microsoft delivers the cloud, AI, and data platforms that help researchers and enterprises build, train, and deploy intelligent systems at scale. Through Windows, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure computing infrastructure, Microsoft is accelerating scientific discovery and innovation from on device to cloud.

• GitHub is the world's leading developer platform, helping millions of developers build software with AI. Through GitHub Copilot, open source collaboration, and developer workflows, GitHub is bringing agentic AI capabilities to researchers, startups, and enterprises alike.

Sponsors:

L.E.K. Consulting is a global strategy consulting firm with deep expertise across life sciences and the Pharma Services ecosystem. L.E.K. advises leading pharma services companies, biopharma organizations, investors, and innovators on growth strategy, market opportunities, M&A and commercialization across the drug development lifecycle. Combining deep sector expertise with rigorous analytics, L.E.K. helps clients navigate evolving technologies, business models, and market dynamics shaping the future of drug discovery, development and manufacturing.