CAST-USA Opens 34th Annual Conference & Global Innovation Summit in Pennsylvania: Some 400 Expected, Nobel Laureate Among Keynote Speakers
The Chinese Association for Science and Technology, USA (CAST-USA) opened its 34th Annual Conference & Global Innovation Summit on October 31 at the Crowne Plaza Philadelphia - King of Prussia in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, drawing scientists, university professors, medical experts, entrepreneurs and technology innovators from across the United States to the Greater Philadelphia area, with some 400 attendees expected for a full day of keynote addresses, panel forums and an innovation and entrepreneurship competition. On the evening of October 30, a welcome reception was held at the KPMG Philadelphia office at 1735 Market Street in Center City Philadelphia, where about 120 members and guests from across the country gathered. According to the association, the official proceedings volume for the 34th Annual Conference & 2026 Global Innovation Summit was formally released at the reception, kicking off the annual meeting. Hosted by the CAST Greater Philadelphia Chapter (CAST-GP), the main conference ran from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on October 31, with keynote speeches, parallel forums, an innovation and entrepreneurship competition, youth exchange sessions and awards. Topics covered super intelligence (SI), biopharmaceuticals, healthcare, fintech, innovation and entrepreneurship, laws and regulations, career development and youth science and technology education. According to the association's published speaker list, keynote speakers included Drew Weissman, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Hongjun Song, a member of the National Academy of Medicine; and Ge Wang, director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Weissman shared the Nobel Prize for discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines. Founded and registered in New York in 1992, CAST-USA is a nonprofit professional organization of Chinese-American scientists and technologists, with nearly 10,000 members and more than 40 chapters and liaison offices in the United States and China. The annual conference is the association's flagship event; this year's edition was hosted by the Greater Philadelphia chapter, in a region home to a dense concentration of universities, hospitals, life-science companies, financial institutions and technology firms. Organizers said this year's conference was expected to be one of the largest in CAST-USA's recent history by attendance. The agenda, speaker list and proceedings are published on the association's official website, CAST-USA.us.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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