Until recently, it was often said that the field of science had become increasingly specialized. As knowledge in individual fields deepens and becomes more technical, communication among researchers tends to become more difficult. However, in recent years, a countervailing trend has emerged, 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 to 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. These researches are regarded as the origins of deep learning and quantum annealing, once again highlighting the remarkable connections between different scientific disciplines. We are now witnessing how the seemingly separate fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and information technology are deeply connected and are driving enormous technological innovation.
   The CBI Society began as the CBI Research Group in 1981 and became a formal academic society in 2000. The year 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of its founding. Since its beginning, CBI has focused on promoting the convergence of science in areas such as chemistry, biology, and information science. The Nobel Prizes mentioned above seem to acknowledge the long-standing efforts of many interdisciplinary researchers.
   At this milestone, the conference will focus on the impact of deep learning and AI technologies on the life sciences, and present the latest research in areas such as drug discovery, protein structure prediction, molecular design, and large-scale data analysis. We hope this conference will serve as a platform for collaboration among researchers, engineers, and business leaders from diverse fields - chemistry, biology, information science, drug discovery, medicine, the environment, and energy - fostering new partnerships 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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