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Abstract Submission & Review

The review process will be coordinated by the editorial team of Nature Medicine. Reviewers will rate abstracts based on scientific merit and potential for impact on healthcare value at scale within 10 years, especially for medically fragile and costly population segments. Examples of fragile and costly patients are those receiving inpatient care, frail seniors seeking to maintain independence at home, or children with chronic illnesses or social health risks. Submitted abstracts should describe the topical background, methods, results and implications for improving the value of care, and indicate the category in which these should be considered among the six described above. Abstracts can be considered for oral presentations in a maximum of 2 categories. All authors whose abstracts exceed a threshold score to be determined after review may opt to have their abstract published, via an online appendix, to a report on conference proceedings. This will not be indexed in PubMed but will be available online. Publication of conference proceedings papers in this format do not generally preclude consideration of the full manuscript in other scientific journals, provided the submission provides a substantive extension of results, methodology, application, analysis, conclusions and/or implications over the conference proceedings paper. If figures or any other part of the paper is reproduced from the conference proceedings article, authors must be responsible for securing any necessary rights. The Nature Research policy can be found here: https://www.nature.com/authors/policies/preprints.html The 2nd and 3rd place winners in each category will have the opportunity to participate in the session topic Q&A as well as present a poster during the conference. Submission Details Deadline: April 30, 2019 The maximum abstract length is two pages (excluding references). Figures and images may be included in the abstract. All submissions should be in 11-point Times New Roman font with 1” margins on all sides. Because reviewers will be blinded to the author’s identities, do not include the names of authors, institutions, or any other identifying information in the initial submission. Research that has been previously published elsewhere or is currently in submission may be submitted. Please direct questions about abstract submission to Javier.Carmona@us.nature.com and about the conference to pac-conference@stanford.edu. To submit an abstract please email to javier.carmona@us.nature.com with the subject line “FAC Abstract Submission.” 

Registration Information

	Early (by 5/1)	Regular (by 9/18)
Industry	$700	$950
Academics	$350	$500
Students	$75	$85

The registration fee includes:- Admission to all conference sessions  - Lunch and coffee breaks on Sep 18 - 19 NOTE: Your registration is not valid until you have successfully paid and received a printable confirmation page and an email confirmation. Cancellations must be sent in writing to meetingplanning@stanford.edu. If a cancellation is received before August 18, 2019, 50% of the registration fee will be refunded. No refunds will be extended after August 19, 2019 or for "no-show" attendees.

 

Faculty Leaders: Kate Maher and Carissa Carter

 In mid-July, a working group focused on AI for the environment convened to outline future directions that would leverage AI to address pressing environmental challenges, ranging from biodiversity and conservation biology to water availability and sustainable communities.  The group focused on the concept of building a thrivable planet for all species – not just one that is merely habitable.  With the backdrop of the Stanford Educational Farm, we leveraged a human-centered design process to focus on how we might harness AI to uniquely address a range of stakeholder needs. Our objective was to develop an array of prototype projects that lead to insights about future directions for AI in the environmental and sustainability realms. Project prototypes included halting slavery in the seafood industry, intelligent tools for ensuring water and food security, and intelligent approaches for managing species migration. Based on these projects, we identified the following overarching themes that would be exciting to pursue through collaborative research: (1) Predicting, detecting and mitigating or incentivizing environmental transitions, (2) quantifying well-being and compatibility with one’s environment,  (3) environmental justice and human rights, (4) opening of new data streams and achieving interoperability of existing data streams.