Singapore  ·  October 5 — 11, 2026

Nobel Heroes & AI4SCI Summit

Forum · Gala Dinner · Exhibition

Where Nobel-calibre scientific insight meets the builders of the AI century.

Organizers
Symbiosis Science
Laureates City Holdings
Advaita Lab
Host
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
Programme

A full spectrum of dialogue

One week in Singapore, in three strands — the Forum, the Gala Dinner and the Portrait Exhibition.

The flagship two-day summit programme. Nobel Laureates, AI pioneers, leading academics, tech executives and global investors, in high-level discussion around AI for Science, scientific discovery, and the interplay between intelligence, industry and long-term capital.

Each day is co-hosted with one of Singapore's leading universities — Day One with Nanyang Technological University, Day Two with Singapore Management University.

Dates
October 5 — 6
Day One · NTU
09:00 — 17:00
Day Two · SMU
09:00 — 16:30
Access
By invitation
Nobel Heroes & AI4SCI Summit — Day One key visual, Singapore, October 5, 2026
Co-hosted by Symbiosis Science × Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Day One
Monday · 5 October
Morning · Nanyang Technological University
Registration
Welcome & Opening
Opening RemarksNikolaus Turner, Lindau Nobel Laureate Foundation
Nobel Laureate Panel IAI for Discovering New ScienceSir Konstantin Novoselov · Prof. Benjamin ListChair: NTU Provost
Q&A
Break
Nobel Laureate Panel IIAI for Future Health, Longevity and HumanityProf. Fred Ramsdell · Sir Christopher PissaridesChair: NTU Senior Vice President (Health & Life Sciences) and Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Q&A
Private Lunch
Afternoon · Nanyang Technological University
FiresideAI-Driven Scientific Discovery: From New Hypotheses to Global ImpactSir Christopher Pissarides · Prof. Benjamin List · Dr. Zhou Jinfeng
Keynote IProf. Lin William Cong, Nanyang Technological University
Break
Panel IFrom Foundation Models to Scientific Intelligence: How AI Is Transforming DiscoverySir Konstantin Novoselov · Prof. Huaxiu Yao · Prof. Dacheng Tao
Keynote IIChristy Chen, Cit Labs
Break
Panel IIWomen Leadership for the Next Scientific Era: Science, Technology, and CapitalLili Wang · Amanda Chen · Katrina Zhang
Young Scientist Showcase & ClosingFrontier Ideas: The Next Generation of Scientific DiscoverySelected young scientists, including researchers from NTU, each pitch an emerging research direction.
Evening · Conrad Singapore Orchard
Gala Dinner
Nobel Heroes & AI4SCI Summit — Day Two key visual, Singapore, October 6, 2026
Co-hosted by Symbiosis Science × Singapore Management University
Day Two
Tuesday · 6 October
Morning · Gardens by the Bay
Exhibition Opening & Opening CeremonyNobel Heroes, Nobel Laureates — Silver Leaf, Gardens by the Bay
Private Lunch
Afternoon · Singapore Management University
Registration
Welcome RemarksProf. Alan Chan, Provost, SMU
Opening RemarksNikolaus Turner, Lindau Nobel Laureate Foundation
Setting the StageAt the Nexus of Technology, Economy, and Society: The Future of Work, Longevity, and Urban LivingDr. Cheong Wei Yang, SMU
Nobel Dialogue IImmunising Society for Longevity: Purpose, Prevention, ResilienceProf. Fred Ramsdell · Prof. Benjamin List · Sir Christopher Pissarides · Prof. Paulin Straughan · Prof. Seonghoon KimModerator: Dr. Cheong Wei Yang
Break
Nobel Dialogue IIScaling Sustainability in Cities: Citizen Awareness to Drive Technology AdoptionProf. Benjamin List · Prof. Omar M. Yaghi · Sir Konstantin Novoselov · Prof. Clayton Miller · Prof. Terry van GeveltModerator: Prof. Winston Chow
Nobel Dialogue IIIPriming Humans with AI: Redefining How We Work, Learn, and ResearchSir Christopher Pissarides · Prof. Omar M. Yaghi · Sir Konstantin Novoselov · Prof. Fred RamsdellModerator: Prof. Archan Misra
Closing RemarksDr. Cheong Wei Yang, SMU
Evening
Private Dinner

Proposed agenda · subject to change

Five Frontiers

The Themes

The frontier conversations shaping the next era of science, intelligence and capital.

01

AI for Science

Accelerating discovery in the age of intelligence

Machine intelligence is compressing the path from hypothesis to breakthrough across every discipline.

02

Open Science

Building the global research commons

Shared data, models and infrastructure as the foundation for borderless, collaborative discovery.

03

Sovereign AI

National intelligence & the future of innovation

Science and AI capability are becoming strategic national infrastructure — and a question of sovereignty.

04

Future of Humanity

AI, health, science & civilization

From longevity to human potential — how science extends healthy life and reshapes what's possible.

05

Future Economy

Intelligence, capital & new growth

New investment models that turn frontier science into durable value for people and economies.

Confirmed · Nobel Laureates

The Laureates

Five Nobel laureates confirmed, with further names to be announced.

Nobel Heroes & AI4SCI Summit — confirmed Nobel Laureates key visual, Singapore, October 5–6, 2026
Confirmed Laureates · Singapore, Oct 5–6, 2026
KNSir Konstantin Novoselov
Sir Konstantin Novoselov
2010 Nobel Prize in Physics
Honorary Professor, University of Manchester · Chair Professor, National University of Singapore Confirmed

Groundbreaking experiments on graphene — the frontier of advanced materials, pioneering two-dimensional crystals and exploring how quantum phenomena, flexible electronics and nanotechnology shape future innovation.

CPSir Christopher A. Pissarides
Sir Christopher A. Pissarides
2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Professor of Economics, London School of Economics Confirmed

Markets with search frictions — and the modern study of how policy, automation and shifting economic structures reshape employment and the future of work.

BLProfessor Benjamin List
Prof. Benjamin List
2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Director, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research Confirmed

Asymmetric organocatalysis — a breakthrough that has advanced drug discovery, materials science and green chemistry, making pharmaceutical and industrial manufacturing cleaner, cheaper and far more sustainable.

OYProfessor Omar M. Yaghi
Prof. Omar M. Yaghi
2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley Confirmed

Founder of metal–organic frameworks and pioneer of reticular chemistry — porous crystals that harvest water from desert air and capture carbon — and a global leader in AI for Science.

FRProfessor Fred Ramsdell
Prof. Fred Ramsdell
2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, Sonoma Biotherapeutics Confirmed

Peripheral immune tolerance and the FOXP3 gene — the vanguard of modern immunology, uncovering how the body regulates immune responses to advance treatments for autoimmune disease, organ transplantation and cancer immunotherapy.

More to come
Further laureates to be announced
Confirmed · Forum · October 5 – 6

Forum speakers

Joining the laureates on stage across the two Forum days, co-hosted with NTU and SMU.

NTNikolaus Turner
ForumGala DinnerExhibition
Nikolaus Turner
Executive Director & Board Member
Lindau Nobel Laureate Foundation
EMEmad Mostaque
ForumGala Dinner
Emad Mostaque
Founder
Intelligent Internet
Founder of Stability AI and a driving force behind open generative models including Stable Diffusion; active in open and decentralised AI.
ZJDr Zhou Jinfeng
Forum
Dr. Zhou Jinfeng
President
World Academy for Sustainable Development
Vice Chairman & Secretary-General, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF).
LWCProfessor Lin William Cong
Forum
Prof. Lin William Cong
President's Chair Professor · Professor of Finance, AI & Data Science
Nanyang Technological University
DTProfessor Dacheng Tao
Forum
Prof. Dacheng Tao
Distinguished University Professor · College of Computing and Data Science
Nanyang Technological University
MCProfessor Miao Chunyan
ForumGala Dinner
Prof. Miao Chunyan
Associate Vice President
Nanyang Technological University
HYProfessor Huaxiu Yao
ForumGala Dinner
Prof. Huaxiu Yao
Department of Computer Science · School of Data Science and Society
UNC Chapel Hill
CCChristy Chen
ForumGala Dinner
Christy Chen
Co-Founder & CEO
Cit Labs
Creator of Brain2Self · Founding Team, OpusClip
LWLili Wang
Forum
Lili Wang
Managing Director, Alternative Investments
First Capital Global Management
ACAmanda Chen
Forum
Amanda Chen
Partner · Head, International China Practice
RHTLaw Asia
KZKatrina Zhang
Forum
Katrina Zhang
Founder & CEO
WisdomWave Corporation
ACProfessor Alan Chan
ForumGala Dinner
Prof. Alan Chan
Provost
Singapore Management University
CWYDr Cheong Wei Yang
ForumGala Dinner
Dr. Cheong Wei Yang
Vice Provost (Strategic Research Partnerships) · Interim Co-Director, LSEI · Senior Adviser, Ministry of Health
Singapore Management University
WCProfessor Winston Chow
ForumGala Dinner
Prof. Winston Chow
Lee Kong Chian Professor of Urban Climate · Pillar Lead, Urban Systems
Singapore Management University
AMProfessor Archan Misra
ForumGala Dinner
Prof. Archan Misra
Lee Kong Chian Professor of Computer Science · Interim Director, Resilient Workforces Institute
Singapore Management University
PSProfessor Paulin Straughan
Forum
Prof. Paulin Straughan
Interim Co-Director, LSEI · Director, Centre for Research on Successful Ageing (ROSA)
Singapore Management University
SKProfessor Seonghoon Kim
Forum
Prof. Seonghoon Kim
Associate Professor of Economics · Pillar Lead, Building Longevity Economies (LSEI) · Deputy Director, ROSA
Singapore Management University
CMProfessor Clayton Miller
Forum
Prof. Clayton Miller
Associate Professor of Urban Informatics · Urban Fellow (Urban Systems)
Singapore Management University
TGProfessor Terry van Gevelt
Forum
Prof. Terry van Gevelt
Associate Professor of Urban Sustainability · Programme Co-Director, Master of Sustainability
Singapore Management University
Confirmed · Gala Dinner · October 5

Gala Dinner guests of honour

Policy-makers, diplomats and friends of the Lindau community, seated with the laureates and Forum speakers at Conrad Singapore Orchard.

HSKHeng Swee Keat
Gala DinnerExhibition
Heng Swee Keat
Former Deputy Prime Minister
Singapore
Deputy Prime Minister 2019–2025 and formerly Minister for Finance — a long-standing architect of Singapore's economic strategy and innovation agenda.
MAH.E. Mr Mohammad Abdullah Alghamdi
Gala Dinner
H.E. Mohammad Abdullah Alghamdi
Ambassador to Singapore
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
ATH.E. Alex Tilman
Gala DinnerExhibition
H.E. Alex Tilman
Ambassador to Singapore
Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
HNProfessor Helga Nowotny
Gala Dinner
Prof. Helga Nowotny
Vice-President
Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
Professor Emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich · Former President and founding member of the European Research Council.
PBPeter Badge
Gala DinnerExhibition
Peter Badge
Portrait Photographer
Official Nobel Laureate Portraitist
Since 2000, his lifelong commission has been to photograph every living Nobel Laureate — supported by the Deutsches Museum, the Smithsonian and the National Portrait Gallery.
CSCharlie Scott
Gala DinnerExhibition
Charlie Scott
Founder
Tangible Brand Consultants
Confirmed · Guests

Distinguished guests

Leaders from universities, government and industry joining the summit week in Singapore.

HTHProfessor Ho Teck Hua
Prof. Ho Teck Hua
President & Distinguished University Professor
Nanyang Technological University
JSDr Jasbir Singh
Dr. Jasbir Singh
Director, Government Scientific Advisors Office
National Research Foundation Singapore
PLPoman Lo
Poman Lo
Vice Chairman & Managing Director
Regal Hotels Group
ATAylwin Tan
Aylwin Tan
Chief Customer Solutions Officer
CapitaLand Investment
PFDr Peter Fedichev
Dr. Peter Fedichev
Co-Founder & CEO
Gero
The Organising Team

The people behind the week

From Symbiosis Science, Laureates City Holdings, Advaita and our partner labs — your hosts in Singapore.

KZKamala Zhu
Kamala Zhu
Co-Founder | Founder
499 Group · Symbiosis Science
MOMichael Ong
Michael Ong
Founder & Chairman
Laureates City Holdings
AZAkasha Zhu
Akasha Zhu
Co-Founder
Advaita Research · Loka Labs · Paramita VC
EYEva You
Eva You
Co-Founder | Scientific Partnerships
AuraSci · Advaita Lab
LLLillian Li
Lillian Li
Co-Founder
Her Symbiosis
WQWinnie Qiu
Winnie Qiu
Co-Founder
Avinasi Labs

All guests listed are confirmed · further names to be announced

The Host

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Once every year, about 30 Nobel Laureates convene at Lindau to meet the next generation of leading scientists.

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

500–600 undergraduates, PhD students and post-doc researchers from all over the world join them, in an exchange among scientists of different generations, cultures and disciplines.

The meetings focus alternately on physiology and medicine, on physics, and on chemistry — the three natural science Nobel Prize disciplines. An interdisciplinary meeting revolving around all three is held every five years, and the Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences every three. The scientific programme is built on the principle of dialogue — lectures, discussions, master classes and panels designed to activate the exchange of knowledge, ideas and experience.

1951
Founded at Lake Constance
30
Laureates each year
600
Young scientists
Lindau island on Lake Constance
Lindau, Lake ConstanceSince 1951
Young scientists at a Lindau Meeting session
Young scientists in session© Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
The Organizers

Convened together

Symbiosis Science
Science · Intelligence · Discovery

A global platform for science and future intelligence, operating through Nobel Heroes & AI4SCI Summit and Masters of Abstraction.

Kamala Zhu — Co-Founder | Founder. Global innovation ecosystem builder connecting technology, capital, academia and communities across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America since 2018.
Laureates City Holdings
Unique scientific resources and experienced team

A network of 107 global scientific award laureates, young scientists and international institutions, with scientific IP and an ecosystem for research development.

Michael Ong — Chairman. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Ambassador for Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, with 20+ years in private equity and corporate finance.
Advaita Lab
Scientific intelligence infrastructure for the Sovereign Human era

Biological world models, clinical-simulation LabOS, distributed RL and ModelGraph — to make biology computationally legible, experimentally navigable and clinically actionable.

Akasha Zhu — Co-Founder. Builder and investor at the frontier of AI, trust infrastructure and human–AI co-evolution, with 55 granted patents.
Nobel Heroes Events

Past editions

Nobel Heroes Hong Kong 2018
Hong Kong · 2018
Four Nobel Laureates
  • Finn Kydland — Economic Sciences · 2004
  • José Ramos-Horta — Peace · 1996
  • Tim Hunt — Medicine · 2001
  • Aaron Ciechanover — Chemistry · 2004
Nobel Heroes Guangzhou 2024
Guangzhou · 2024
Four Nobel Laureates
  • Aaron Ciechanover — Chemistry · 2004
  • George F. Smoot — Physics · 2006
  • James Fraser Stoddart — Chemistry · 2016
  • Michael Levitt — Chemistry · 2013
Nobel Heroes Hong Kong 2026
Hong Kong · 2026
Five Nobel Laureates
  • Hartmut Michel — Chemistry · 1988
  • Konstantin Novoselov — Physics · 2010
  • Kurt Wüthrich — Chemistry · 2002
  • Louis J. Ignarro — Medicine · 1998
  • Robert C. Merton — Economic Sciences · 1997
New Initiative

Genius Youth Program

Giving promising scientific ideas the opportunity to grow.

An international initiative for emerging research talent in AI for Science and interdisciplinary research — connecting young researchers with important scientific challenges, like-minded peers, and the resources to advance their work.

01
Talent around important questions
Nobel Laureates and senior scientists propose research challenges; young researchers from different disciplines develop proposals and explore them together.
02
Support that sustains the work
Connecting young teams with research funding, academic exchange, data and model access, and experimental collaboration — through the foundation and its partner network.
03
Outputs others can build on
Methods, code, tools, data and evaluations shared in open projects, so others can extend the work.
Launch
Singapore · October 5, 2026
Launched with
AI² Science Foundation
Inaugural cohort
Young researchers from Asia
Format
Presentations · Gala · Recognition
Jointly initiated by
  • Symbiosis Science
  • Avinasi Labs
  • AuraSci
  • AI² Science Foundation

Research institutions, companies and philanthropic partners are welcome to recommend young researchers, propose research challenges, contribute resources, or explore funding and long-term collaboration.

Get involved

We look forward to welcoming
you to the room.

Nobel Heroes & AI4SCI Summit  ·  Singapore  ·  October 5 — 6, 2026

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