Until recently, it has been said that the field of science has become increasingly specialized. As knowledge in individual fields deepens and becomes more specialized, communication among researchers tends to become more difficult. However, in recent years, there has been a countervailing trend, with increasing collaboration between disparate scientific fields yielding significant results. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker and the AlphaFold development team for their research on the design and prediction of protein structures based on information science. Advances in AI technologies such as deep learning are bringing widespread changes changes in the fields of life sciences and drug discovery, as we experience on a daily basis. Interestingly, the Nobel Prize in Physics for the same year was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their foundational research on pattern information processing based on the Ising model. We understand that these are the origins of deep learning and quantum annealing, and we are once again deeply impressed by the remarkable connections between different fields of study. We are witnessing how these seemingly disparate fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and information technology are firmly connected and serve as a driving force for enormous technological innovation.
   The CBI Society began as the CBI Research Group in 1981 and became the current society in 2000. The year 2025 will mark the 25th anniversary of the society's founding. CBI has always focused on activities that aim for the convergence of science, such as chemistry, biology, and information science. The 2024 Nobel Prizes mentioned above seem to be a recognition of the efforts of many interdisciplinary researchers.
   At this milestone, the conference will focus on the impact of deep learning and AI technology on life sciences, and introduce the latest research results in drug discovery, protein structure prediction, molecular design, and large-scale data analysis. We aim for this conference to serve as a platform for collaboration among researchers, engineers, and business leaders from diverse fields such as chemistry, biology, information science, drug discovery, medicine, environment, and energy, fostering new collaborations and innovations. We sincerely look forward to the participation of all those interested in the convergence of science. Let us work together to discover new possibilities and explore the next frontiers of science and technology through interdisciplinary collaboration.

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