Open Visualization Session Proposal: Cirro Bio - Developing

[mzager]

Proposal

Topic of the session

AI-Powered Visualization in Biology: Unlocking Insights While Protecting Privacy

Type of the session

• Collaborate
• Workshop
• Talk

Estimated duration of the session

1 hour

Date and Time of the session

Open for discussion

Level

• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Advanced

Pre-requisite knowledge

Familiarity with data visualization and AI concepts will be helpful, but no background in biology required.

Describe the session

Biological data is exploding in scale and complexity, from single-cell sequencing to clinical imaging. AI-driven visualization could provide powerful ways to make this data interpretable, interactive, and actionable—but it raises unique challenges when working with sensitive data.

In this talk, I’ll share how we are planning to approach these challenges at Cirro, a cloud-native platform developed at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center for biomedical research. I’ll discuss the privacy, governance, and reproducibility hurdles that come with applying these methods to human health data, and how design and infrastructure choices can mitigate them.

Michael Zager (@mzager) – PDT

Meeting notes and Virtual Meeting Link

Follow-up / Set-up sessions (if any)

[chrisgervang]

Hey @mzager, thanks again for your submission - and for proposing a longer format. To keep the program tight and balanced, we’re standardizing talks at 25 minutes (typically ~20 min talk + ~5 min Q&A). We’ve scheduled AI-Powered Visualization in Biology: Unlocking Insights While Protecting Privacy for October 9, 14:00-14:25 PT.

We’ll send venue access and presentation tech details by email about a week before the summit. In the meantime, please review your session on the website and let us know if you’d like any edits to title, abstract, or speaker info. We also have breaks throughout the summit you can use for extra Q&A or a hallway discussion so folks can dive deeper. Thanks for rolling with the format - we’re excited to feature your work!