2022 Annual Conference
The TAMEST 2022 Annual Conference, Forward Texas: Imperatives for Health, will explore how Texas can build the vibrant, healthy communities of tomorrow and address topics like health care, education, infrastructure and infectious disease. It will also be an important opportunity to examine the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, its long-term impacts on our communities and discuss the innovative solutions and interventions that happened as a result.
Annual Conference
In January of each year, TAMEST hosts an annual conference where the state’s top researchers, corporate leaders and university presidents and chancellors can come together to discuss cutting edge research within a broad array of fields including life sciences, medicine, aerospace and energy.
While the topics for each conference varies year over year, the goal of each conference—being able to connect academia, industry, legislature and members—remains unchanged. Topics have included brain health, aerospace, sustainability, cancer, materials science and engineering and more.
Attendees include TAMEST members, their designated protégés and special invited guests. Learn more about past conferences below.
2020 Annual Conference: Innovating Texas
Exploring how basic research leads to new technologies, products and companies and showcasing avenues to commercialization for researchers across an array of disciplines.
2019 Annual Conference: Brain Health
Investigating topics like mental health, healthy aging, neurological disease prevention, technological advances in mapping the brain and the neuroscience research priorities and challenges ahead.
2018 Annual Conference: Aerospace
Exploring the potential in Texas for greater research and development in aerospace, specifically in the areas of human space flight, aeronautics and commercial space exploration.
2017 Annual Conference: Sustainable Future
Examining key issues like energy, health, water and transportation and the challenges we face ensuring an equitable, efficient supply of them in the coming century.
2016 Annual Conference
Highlighting recent developments in materials science and engineering that are and will be leading to qualitative changes in the way products are manufactured, the way medicine is practiced and the way energy is provided to our society.
2015 Annual Conference
Focusing on cancer research, encompassing highlights of current problems, new mechanistic information, technology and therapeutic considerations for a disease that is now the second leading cause of death in the United States.
2014 Annual Conference
Highlighting the important role of computational science and engineering in the advancement of scientific research across the disciplines.
