09:00h   Introductory remarks
               Prof. Olivier Baudoin, chairman of the BSC 2026

09:10h   Prof. Philippe Schwaller
               École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
               “Teaching Language Models to Speak Chemistry: From Design and Synthesis
                 to Reasoning”

10:00h    Coffee break

10:20h    Dr.Kenneth Atz & Dr. David Nippa
               F. Hoffmann-La Roche
               “Accelerating Small Molecule Drug Discovery through Applied AI, Digitalization, 
                and Automation”

11:10h    Prof. Fernanda Duarte
               University of Oxford
              "Modelling Chemical Reactions with Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials 
               (MLIPs)”