Training courses: Health AI Labs
Course Description
Artificial Intelligence in medicine and healthcare has been a conference topic for too long. It is time for it to become a tool in the hands of those who live clinical practice and research every day. Bring your laptop, your curiosity, and a willingness to get your hands dirty. Due to its condensed format as an intensive hacking session, this event requires dedicated interactive participation with the implicit promise to stay until the conclusion of the evening sprint. A waiting list will be set up to manage attendance restrictions.
Important Dates
- Lab date: 1 September 2026
Venue
LID Laboratory, Fourth Floor
Statistics Building (CU002), Sapienza University of Rome
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Selection procedure
Seats are limited and attendance is managed through a waiting list. Submission of the expression-of-interest form does not guarantee admission, but applicants will be contacted when registration opens and practical instructions become available.
Instructors
- Nikolaos Petsas, Clinical Neuroscientist and Health Statistics Specialist, Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Piergiacomo M. Cacciamani Fanelli, Biomedical Engineer and Medical Doctor, CEO and Founder of Integra Engineering Solutions S.r.l., Italy
- Enrico Armiento, Pediatric Resident, Bambino Gesù Hospital, Rome, Italy
- Bamdad Kianmehr, Data Engineer and Research Collaborator, Department of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Organizers
- SIIAM, Italian Society of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- CIBB 2026
Contacts
For conference-related queries, please contact: cibb2026@uniroma1.it
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the lab, participants will be able to:
- Use AI-assisted development tools to establish a practical software development workflow
- Translate clinical and healthcare challenges into concrete prototype objectives
- Deploy a development environment and design the architecture of a medical AI prototype
- Build, test, and debug a functional prototype with support from technical and clinical mentors
- Present the developed prototype and communicate its intended healthcare application
Resources and tools covered
Prerequisites
Participants must bring their own laptop.
Registration form
Programme
Tuesday, September 1, 2026 |
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| Time | Learning Experience | Topic |
| 14:00-14:45 | Kick-off and live demonstrations |
Kick-off and Inspiration - Tooling Shallow Dive Fast-paced demonstrations of development tooling, including Replit, Codex Flow, and Antigravity, to establish an assisted development workflow |
| 14:45-15:15 | Team formation |
Team Formation and Match-making Connecting clinical challenges with technical builders and defining immediate project objectives |
| 15:15-16:45 | Build Sprint I |
Environment deployment Initialization of code bases Structural prototype architecture design |
| 16:45-17:00 | Networking Break and Review | |
| 17:00-18:15 | Build Sprint II |
Prototype development and debugging Rotating support from mentors to address technical and methodological obstacles |
| 18:15-19:00 | Demonstrations and closing |
Demo Hour and Closing Remarks Live presentation of the functional medical AI prototypes developed by the participating groups |