"Imaging Beyond Borders,
Shaping A Sustainable Future"
20 - 23 August 2026 | Singapore EXPO
SGCR-WIRES:
Time
Conference Day 1 - Friday, 21 August 2026
08:15 - 09:45
Sustainability Competition (TBA)
09:45 - 10:30
AM Tea Break
10:30 - 12:00
Opening Ceremony
12:00 - 12:30
FY Khoo Lecture
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch/Symposium
14:00 - 15:30
Imaging Informatics - (more than) 101
RISPACS, Enterprise Imaging, Standards and More
1. DICOM and Beyond
Ravi Shrestha, United Kingdom
2. Why Enterprise Imaging!
Oliver Nickalls, Singapore
3. Procedure Naming – The Logic or Lack Of
Lim Kheng Choon, Singapore
4. The Evolution of PACS in the Age of AI
Alex Towbin, United States of America
5. Clinician-Industry Collaboration in Informatics
Ramdas Senasi, United Kingdom
6. How to do R&D with Industry
Masahiro Jinzaki, Japan
Moderators:
Oliver Nickalls, Singapore
Steven Wong, Singapore
15:30 - 16:15
PM Tea Break
16:15 - 17:45
17:45
AI – (more than) 101
Quickfire Session
1. How to Develop a Radiology AI Strategy with LLMs
Yong Han Ting, Singapore
2. Agentic AI impact on Radiology
Bayarbaatar Bold, Mongolia
3. Bots and RPA – The Other Way to AI
Praveen Yogendran, Singapore
4. Bots and RPA – The Other Way to AI
Tham Seng Choe, Singapore
5. AI for Non Rads – What the Rest of the Medical Teams Think? Same Same or Different?
Jim Whitfill, United States of America
6. Why Humanity Needs AI?
Ramdas Senasi, United Kingdom
7. Beyond Radiology AI – The Rest of the Hospital Too
Charlene Liew, Singapore
Moderators:
Jim Whitfill, United States of America
Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Japan
End of Conference Day 1
Time
Conference Day 2 - Saturday, 22 August 2026
08:15 - 09:45
Shih-chang Wang Prize in Radiology Competition (TBA)
09:45 - 10:30
AM Tea Break
10:30 - 12:00
Beyond Imaging AI – The Shifting Sands
Speakers Choice Topics and Panel on Imaging and Healthcare AI changes
1. TBA
Merel Huisman, Netherlands
2. TBA
Jan Beger, Germany
3. TBA
Shez Partovi, United States of America
4. TBA
Alvin Soon, Singapore
5. TBA
Daiju Ueda, Japan
6. TBA
Panel of Experts
7. Q&A
Moderators:
Charlene Liew, Singapore
Wen-Jeng Lee, Taiwan
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch/Symposium
13:30 - 15:00
CRS Leadership (TBA)
15:00 - 15:45
PM Tea Break
15:45 - 17:15
CyberSecurity for your Radiology Dept and Hospital
All about Cybersecurity – Facts Figures and More
1. TBA
Jim Whitfill, United States of America
2. TBA
Alexander Towbin, United States of America
3. TBA
Steven Wong, Singapore
4. TBA
Ravi Shrestha, United Kingdom
5. TBA
Anh Tranh Nguyen, Singapore
6. Q&A
Moderators:
Jim Whitfill, United States of America
Ravi Shrestha, United Kingdom
17:15
End of Conference Day 2
Time
Conference Day 3 - Sunday, 23 August 2026
08:15 - 09:45
AI Deployments in Asia Oceania - What is the Local Situation?
1. TBA
Alvin Soon, Singapore
2. TBA
Daiju Ueda, Japan
3. TBA
Arunnit Boonrod, Thailand
4. TBA
Gaurang Raval, India
5. TBA
Bayarbaatar Bold, Mongolia
6. TBA
Farhana Fadzli, Malaysia
7. TBA
Joon Yong Jung, South Korea
6. Q&A
Moderators:
Meral Huisman, Netherlands
Wen-Jeng Lee, Taiwan
09:45 - 10:30
AM Tea Break
10:30 - 12:00
Thoracic Malignancies - Updates and Perspective on Management
1. Airway and Lung Malignancies
Jeffrey Klein, United States of America
2. Pleural Malignancies
Jeffrey Klein, United States of America
3. Mediastinal Malignancies
Janardhana Ponnatapura, United States
4. Thoracic Malignancies: A Surgeon's Perspective
Chen Jianye, Singapore
5. Q&A
Moderator:
Janardhana Ponnatapura, United States of America
12:00 - 13:30
Thriving with AI or the opposite? From LLMs and VLMs to Agentic AI
1. The need for AI Education in Radiology/Medicine
Jan Beger, Germany
2. Where is the Humanity in AI – Are VLMs the Answer?
Merel Huisman, Netherlands
3. Singapore AI Regulations – The Fun Parts
Tham Seng Choe, Singapore
4. Need for Foundation Models?
Arunnit Boonrod, Thailand
5. AI Post-Deployment Monitoring Program in Radiology
Alan Matsumoto, United States of America
6. Planning for Disaster
Alexander Towbin, Germany
Moderators:
Alvin Soon, Singapore
Tan Min-On, Singapore
13:30 - 14:30
Closing Ceremony
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The Asian
Oceanian Society
of Radiology
Singapore
Radiological
Society
College of
Radiologists,
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