10th-year anniversary keynote presentation on information reuse and integration

This talk will be jointly given by Drs. Rubin and Chen and will look back at the origins of our conference, our goals, and visions for the future. We will take the audience on a photo tour of memorable moments over the past ten years, which will be interlaced with details of our vision for the future of the society based on science, the new economic reality, and the concept of a “possibility grant” - something that will be brought up in this year´s workshop. Simply put, there is a need for incubators that are based on risk/reward ratios and the track records of senior investigators, where applicable. As a society, we have the need to learn new things, to apply them to solve recognized problems, and to advance them to maximally preclude the occurrence of foreseen and unforeseeable problems alike.