Three NVIDIA GTC conferences held in Europe, Israel, and Washington D.C. saw record-breaking attendance and brought together healthcare leaders to discuss medical innovations using AI. Key announcements included King's College London adopting NVIDIA's AI platform for radiology and pathology, Oxford Nanopore's real-time DNA sequencing powered by NVIDIA, and a new partnership between NVIDIA and Scripps Research to accelerate disease prediction using genomics and health sensors. Startups in areas like 3D medical printing, eye disease prevention, and assisting pathologists were recognized at the events.

1. Key Healthcare Takeaways from GTC Europe, Israel, and Washington D.C.
TAKING THE PULSE OF GTC

2. GTC INSIGHTS IN HEALTHCARE
Three conferences in three weeks! Held around the globe, these GTC
events drove record breaking attendance and brought together
preeminent key opinion leaders, showcased hot AI startups driving
medical innovation, and featured new announcements in the healthcare
industry.

3. BY THE NUMBERS
GTC EUROPE (EMEA)
● 3,752 Attendees
● 140 Inception Partners
● 288 Speakers
● 162 Speaking sessions
● 910 DLI attendees
GTC ISRAEL
● 2,210 Attendees
● 120 Inception Partners
● 7 Topics
● 39 Speaking sessions
● 454 DLI attendees
GTC DC
● 2,033 attendees
● 5 Inception Partners
● 238 Speakers
● 140 Speaking sessions
● 41 Exhibitors
● 18 DLI workshops
● 500+ DLI attendees

4. GTC EMEA: AI GOES TO THE CLINIC
King’s College London is Europe’s first clinical
partner to adopt NVIDIA DGX-2 and the NVIDIA
Clara Platform. A leader in medical research, they
will deploy NVIDIA AI solutions for use in radiology
and pathology to better serve 8 million patients in
the U.K.’s National Healthcare Service (NHS).
Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/10/10/kings-college-london-nvidia-clara/
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5. GTC EMEA: AI-ACCELERATED DNA SEQUENCING
Oxford Nanopore's AI supercomputer puts DNA
and RNA sequencing in the palm of
researchers’ hands. Powered by NVIDIA AGX,
the MinIT runs sequence analysis in real-time,
anywhere--even the most hard to reach
places--enabling researchers across a variety
of scientific disciplines.
Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/10/10/oxford-nanopore-dna-sequencer-nvidia-agx/
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“As data streams faster from our sequencing
devices, GPU technology like NVIDIA’s
becomes central to preserving the real time
properties of our DNA sequencing
technology.” -Gordon
Sanghera, CEO of Oxford Nanopore

6. 140 Inception partners participated in the
Europe’s Hottest Startup Challenge.Two
healthcare startups Axial3D and RetinAI were
runners-up in the competition.
Axial3D produces medical 3D printing software
to advance the standard and efficiency of
surgical intervention.
RetinAI develops preventative treatment for
eye diseases including age-related macular
degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and
glaucoma.
GTC EMEA: AMBITIOUS STARTUPS
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Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/10/10/brighterai-hottest-startup-gtc-europe-inception-awards/

7. GTC ISRAEL: A VIBRANT STARTUP ECOSYSTEM
Among the 4,000 tech startups two Inception
Partners, IBEX Medical and Voiceitt, participated
in the Israel’s Hottest Startup Competition.
IBEX Medical Analytics applies big data and AI to
support pathologists in diagnosing cancer,
accelerate lab workflows and improve clinical
decision making.
Voiceitt enables those with muscle related
speech disabilities to use vocal expressions to be
translated into clear speech in real time with the
goal of providing greater independence.
Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/10/18/gtc-israel-startups-inception-award-winner/
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8. GTC ISRAEL: INCEPTION CHAMPION AWARD
Zebra Medical Vision was the recipient of the
inaugural Inception Champion Award. Using NVIDIA
Tesla K80 GPUs and NVIDIA cuDNN, their work in
the healthcare industry provides a real-time
solution to analyze millions of medical images to
detect and predict disease and help establish
preventative care programs.
Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/10/18/israel-startups-nvidia-dgx-station/
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9. GTC DC: OPENING A NEW WORLD OF PREVENTION
The amount of available genomic and health sensor
data is increasing at an enormous rate. Genomic data
alone is doubling every seven months.
At GTC DC, NVIDIA announced a partnership with
Scripps Research Translational Institute, one of the
world’s most influential research institution on
innovation, to establish a center of excellence for
artificial intelligence in genomics and digital sensors
to accelerate the AI transformation in early disease
prediction and prevention.
Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/10/23/nvidia-scripps-research-partner-ai-genomics-digital-health-sensors/
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10. AI HEALTHCARE INSIGHTS
Listen to AI Healthcare experts from the NIH, OSU
Wexner Medical Center, and Optum deliver their
thoughts on how AI has impacted the healthcare industry
and the opportunity AI provides physicians and patients
going forward.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFM1dXFAtJ8
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11. DEEP LEARNING FOR HEALTHCARE
Developers and researchers can now earn a certification
in Deep Learning for Healthcare Genomics, offered as an
instructor-led workshop.
We’ve also announced three new self-paced, two-hour
electives in Healthcare:
● Medical Image Classification Using the MedNIST
Dataset
● Data Augmentation and Segmentation with
Generative Networks for Medical Imaging
● Coarse-to-Fine Contextual Memory for Medical
Imaging
Source: https://www.nvidia.com/object/dli-workshop-request-form.html
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12. To learn more about NVIDIA in
healthcare, visit:
http://www.nvidia.com/healthcare