The Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center presents the 13th Marilyn R. Lindenauer Distinguished Speaker Series
Invited Speaker: Konrad Kording, PhD, Penn Integrated Knowledge Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Topic: What Can AI Do For People With Cerebral Palsy?
Lunch: 12-1pm (complimentary)
Lecture: 1-2pm
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how we work, think, and practice medicine.
In this year’s Lindenauer Lecture, Konrad Kording, PhD, will unpack how modern AI really works, and how clinicians and innovators can use it not just for answers, but as a collaborator to spark new ideas, test assumptions, and strengthen decision-making.
He’ll then look ahead to the future of diagnosis, drawing on his work using video-based AI to detect movement patterns linked to cerebral palsy. From the mechanics of how AI works to the real-world ways it may reshape diagnosis in cerebral palsy and beyond, this talk will explore both the promise, and the hard questions, these technologies raise for medicine.
Come ready to engage. Expect lively discussion and sharp questions as we explore what AI can, and cannot, do in medicine.
The Lindenauer Lecture 2026 is especially meaningful this year as it’s part of Creating Connections: Lifespan Care, our full day education event with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation. This is a special opportunity to learn alongside and exchange ideas with educators and the community. The lecture is free to attend and includes lunch.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Konrad Kording, PhD
Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Director, CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains Program
Kording’s groundbreaking interdisciplinary research uses data science to advance a broad range of topics that include understanding brain function, improving personalized medicine, collaborating with clinicians to diagnose diseases based on mobile phone data and even understanding the careers of professors. Across many areas of biomedical research, his group analyzes large datasets to test new models and thus get closer to an understanding of complex problems in bioengineering, neuroscience and beyond.