Talbot Symposium 2026

Please join us for the virtual Talbot Veterinary Informatics Symposium on both Thursday, September 24 and Friday, September 25, 2026 for lectures and live Q&A from 12:00 - 4:30pm EDT, followed by a virtual happy hour. 

AVI is pleased to bring together speakers with a wide range of professional experience each year, including clinical practice, academic research, industry, and diagnostics. This year's lectures have a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning in clinical practice and academia, as well as standard terminology.

Lectures will be available on our member online education portal, VetBloom at a later date.

RACE-approved medical CE may be available available for attendees.

Registration opens July 8, 2026.



Thurs, September 24, 2026

What AI Can and Can’t Do: Evaluation, Trust and Data Foundations

12:00 pm - 12:10 pm EDT | 9am PDT | 4:00pm GMT | Fri 2:00am Melbourne, AUS

Opening Remarks from AVI President, Dr. Brian Hur

12:10 pm - 1pm EDT

Veterinary informatics enabling management of inherited diseases in animals

Imke Tammen, BVSc PhD med vet MEd(Higher Education) MBEth


Combined Short Talks

1pm - 1:25pm EDT  | 10am PDT | 5:00pm GMT | Fri 3:00am Melbourne, AUS

Hallucination Check: the Current State of Citations about Five Veterinary Topics in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude

Jeanine Fletcher

1:25pm - 1:50pm EDT  | 10:25am PDT | 5:25pm GMT | Fri 3:25am Melbourne, AUS

Clinical AI/ML Metrics 101: How to Evaluate AI Tools for Veterinary Clinical Practices

Brian Hur, DVM, PhD


2pm - 2:50pm EDT | 11am PDT | 6:00pm GMT | Fri 4:00am Melbourne, AUS

Evaluating language models in structured data extraction from veterinary medical records in the Dog Aging Project

Yumi Chang, DVM, PhD Candidate

3pm - 3:50pm EDT | 12pm PDT | 7:00pm GMT | Fri 5:00am Melbourne, AUS

Structured messages, real-world impact: NAHLN and AHRMS as models for effective data exchange

Julie Green, MS, DVM

4:20 pm - 4:30 pm EDT

Closing Remarks 



4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT   | 8:30pm GMT | 9:30pm London | Fri 6:30am Melbourne, AUS

Networking with attendees and AVI members


Fri, September 25, 2026

Building the AI Enabled Practice: Applications and Systems


12:00 pm - 12:10 pm EDT | 9am PDT | 4:00pm GMT | Fri 2:00am Melbourne, AUS

Opening Remarks from AVI President, Dr. Brian Hur

12:10 pm - 1pm EDT

Cowboy or Clinically Useful? How to Vet AI Tools in VetMed

Adele Williams-Xavier, BVSc, MRCVS, DipECEIM, PhD


1pm - 1:50pm EDT  | 10am PDT | 5:00pm GMT | Fri 3:00am Melbourne, AUS

From Data Storage to Clinical Intelligence: AI and the Future of Veterinary Electronic Health Records


Ann Cliff, DVM


2pm - 2:50pm EDT | 11am PDT | 6:00pm GMT | Fri 4:00am Melbourne, AUS

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Nadia Saklou, DVM, PhD


Combined Short Talks

3pm - 3:50pm EDT | 12pm PDT | 7:00pm GMT | Fri 5:00am Melbourne, AUS

Utilizing AI for teaching client communication and clinical reasoning using the VIN Virtual Clinic

Márton Balogh, DVM

3:25pm - 3:50pm EDT | 12:25pm PDT | 7:25pm GMT | Fri 5:25am Melbourne, AUS

The dynamic imaging frontier: technical architecture of next-generation veterinary echocardiography and ultrasound VLMs

Soledad Alborno

4:20 pm - 4:30 pm EDT

Closing Remarks 


4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT   | 8:30pm GMT | 9:30pm London | Fri 6:30am Melbourne, AUS

Networking with attendees and AVI members



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