Dr. Adam’s experience spans more than 40 years across academia, government, and industry. In academia, as a Distinguished Professor of Computer and Information Systems, Professor of Medicine, my leadership roles included serving as Vice-Chancellor for Research & Collaboration and as the...

Clotilde Aubertin is Director of External Innovation at Haleon, where she leads global open‑innovation and partnership strategies across consumer health and OTC categories. With a multidisciplinary background spanning biology, nutrition, pharmacy, and a PhD in Informationa and communication...

Mamadou Bamba is a dedicated Lecturer in Data Analytics and Researcher in AI at De Montfort University, with a passion for leveraging data-driven insights to drive innovation in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. With a background in computer science and a specialization in data...

Jan Baumbach studied computer science at Bielefeld University in Germany. His research career started at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden (UK) where he worked on computational methods for the integration of molecular biology data. He returned to the Center for Biotechnology in Bielefeld for his PhD ...

Leo Betschart joined the Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center at ETH Zurich (ETHZ) in September 2018 as an Information Consultant Chemistry. Originally from central Switzerland, he had spent his undergraduate years at ETHZ with a focus on organic and bioorganic chemistry. After a...

Gerald Birringer is a Bioinformatics IT Architect with over 20 years of experience designing, building, and operating Research IT and Scientific Computing systems at Boehringer Ingelheim. He has driven multiple waves of technological innovation in genomics, bioinformatics, and computational...

Jerven has nurtured the UniProt Knowledge Graph as a member of the Swiss-Prot group at SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics for the last 17 years. He is responsible for the day to day running of the largest public, free to use and FAIR SPARQL endpoint. The UniProt RDF/KG has been in production...

Dr. Christian Bollensdorff is an experienced cardiac electrophysiologist with a PhD in Biophysics and over 20 years of expertise in scientific innovation, leadership, and project management. His key role in building a new cardiovascular research center from scratch in Qatar highlights his expertise ...

Olivier Bouchard is an Industry Advisor based in France, Paris and is part of the Health and Life Sciences Practice at SAS. He has been at SAS for several years with over 20+ years in the pharmaceutical industry, supporting various software solutions. Olivier is a strong believer in the power of AI ...

Guillaume Breton is the Head of Clinical & Statistical Programming for Oncology at Johnson & Johnson, where he leads global teams supporting late stage development and regulatory submissions across a broad oncology portfolio. He joined J&J in 2024 and brings more than 25 years of...

Catherine Brownstein is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital with a passion for leveraging data, AI, and precision medicine to drive innovation in the fields of pharma and healthcare. With a background in genetics and computational biology, she is...

As Global Head of Patient Safety and Medical Affairs at Roche Digital & Technology, I lead an Organization that is focused on building the digital foundations for proactive patient safety and accelerated science. My focus is on responsible AI, including Agentic AI workflows, to transform...

Pascal Carpentier holds overall responsibility for DNDi’s Information Systems management. With over 20 years of experience in both the private and public sectors, Pascal had the opportunity to develop disruptive e-Health solutions for cardiac diseases therapies at Medtronic. He also has extensive...

Maurizio is a senior biotech executive with deep expertise in oncology R&D, currently serving as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at Transgene (Euronext:TNG). He oversees scientific strategy, portfolio leadership, and the development of individualized cancer vaccines leveraging AI-enabled design...

Thibaut Charrier is a Digital Innovation Lead at Novo Nordisk, where he drives the identification, development, and adoption of AI and data-driven solutions across clinical development. Working at the intersection of science, business, and technology, he helps translate complex clinical and medical ...

Marc Cikes is a healthcare investment professional and board director with a medical and financial background. He has 14+ years of experience as an entrepreneur and senior executive with major healthcare companies. Marc has worked as an advisor for M&A transactions (buy & sell-side) as well ...

Frederik is a Data Scientist working at Boehringer Ingelheim developing advanced analytics solutions leveraging data in the GCP space. He has co-developed several statistical open-source tools and published scientific articles on quality statistics.

Ary is a Sr Principal Healthtech Product Manager with 15+ years of biopharmaceutical and digital health experience. After executing strategic assessments for business development deals and co-developing marketing strategies and investment decisions for major oncology brands, he has spent the past 6 ...

Dave Drodge has been passionately co-creating the future for the last 25 years using digital technology and most recently AI.  He’s worked in 7 industries at organizations like Sony, Amadeus, Novartis, Roche and the WWF (the Panda not the wrestlers) in varied functions (like marketing, product...

Matthias Glatz is a digital transformation and product management leader specializing in regulated biopharma environments, with deep experience across Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, Clinical Safety, GxP systems, data platforms, and applied AI. As Product Management Lead for...

Dr Sarang Hashemi is a digital health researcher specialising in clinical decision support, behavioural decision theory, and human decision-making. His doctoral research developed and evaluated a multidimensional model for desining CDS alerts, which defines and sequences the key building blocks of...

Hana Hassanin is a distinguished Professor in Translational and Experimental Medicine at the University of Surrey, where she also serves as the Medical Director of the Surrey Clinical Research Facility (CRF) and Founding Director of NIHR Royal Surrey CRF. With a strong background in both academia...

Lars Hulstaert is Director of Data Science within Johnson & Johnson’s R&D organization, where he leads teams developing AI solutions to support clinical study design, planning, and execution. He combines strong academic rigor in machine learning with a software engineering background and...

I am a Biomedical Engineer (sitting then in the intersection between Math, Computer Science, Data Science and Life Sciences) with an extensive background in Software Engineering, Data Science and ML/DL applied to different contexts, such as Biotech Manufacturing, Healthcare and DevOps, just to...

I am a Swiss Board Certified Internist and Associate Professor (PD) at the University of Zurich, currently leading Medical Affairs for Immunology and Infectious Disease at Roche Pharma. Previously, as Chief Medical Partner at Roche Diagnostics, I orchestrated a 240-person global network and oversaw ...

Dr. Steven Jerome completed his PhD at Columbia University in the Chemistry Department under the supervision of Richard Friesner. While at Columbia, he contributed to tools for molecular docking and protein structure refinement. After Columbia, he joined Schrödinger as a scientific developer...

Jane, a recognised national leader in health and care data and analytics, is Co-CEO for AphA (Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts) and an independent health & care data and analytics consultant with 30+ years in the NHS in Senior management.  She has extensive experience managing...

Issa Kildani is the Managing Partner and Founder of Ambrosia Ventures, a boutique strategic consulting and M&A advisory firm operating at the intersection of life sciences, compliance, and capital efficiency. His firm partners with biotech, pharma, medtech, and digital health leaders to de-risk ...

Achim Kless, PhD has over 25 years of experience in research & development within pharmaceutical industry. He was working on several indications like diabetic polyneuropathy, Osteoarthritis, chronic low back pain and Complex regional pain syndrome. Starting in early target and drug discovery he ...

Björn is a neurobiologist PhD with an acquired passion for data science and data analytics. After a detour into the financial industry he started his career in the healthcare sector in 2018 at Roche where he is now working as a Principal Quality Data Scientist. Apart from delivering advanced...

Agata Krason is a Clinical AI Scientist and Senior Medical Imaging Data Scientist at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, where she works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, medical imaging, and clinical data science to accelerate precision oncology. Her work focuses on building clinically...

Dr Rohit Kumar spearheads the development of cutting-edge Data and AI platforms for Drug Development, with a specific focus on early phases of CMC. With over 18 years of experience in software development, research, innovation, and technical leadership, he leads with a results-oriented mindset to...

Dr. Sherman Leung is the Head of Research Operations at Wesley Research Institute - the research partner of UnitingCare. UnitingCare is the largest private employer in Queensland, Australia encompassing four hospitals (The Wesley Hospital, St. Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, Buderim Private...

Oleksandr Levenets is Program Director of Medicinal Chemistry and AI at Oncodesign, where he leads the integration of AI and machine learning into small molecule drug discovery within the Nanocyclix® platform. His work focuses on macrocyclic compounds, kinase selectivity, and data-driven approaches ...

Thomas is a computational scientist specializing in cheminformatics, computational chemistry, and data-driven drug discovery. He studied Computer Science at ETH Zürich, focusing on Theoretical Computer Science in his Master’s, before completing a PhD in Computational Statistics and Metabolomics at...

Andrea Lucarelli is a seasoned Senior Innovation Manager at Roche, with a strong background in driving cutting-edge solutions in the diagnostics and healthcare industries. With a proven track record of leveraging data, AI, and precision technologies to fuel innovation, Andrea is at the forefront of ...

As a highly strategic, visionary and result-driven data scientist and digital health thought leader, I am dedicated to orchestrating and delivering innovative digital health solutions, from early scientific exploration through to regulatory approval and on-market product insights.

Manuela Maronati is a seasoned leader in the pharmaceutical industry, currently serving as the Senior Vice President and Global Asset Head for Neuroinflammation and Rare Diseases at UCB. With a strong background in drug development and strategic planning, Manuela has a proven track record of...

I’m a Senior Biostatistician at Boehringer Ingelheim with experience across multiple sectors, united by a deep passion for healthcare innovation. Over the years, I’ve contributed to both human pharmaceutical and animal health domains, bringing statistical rigor and strategic insight to diverse...

Nikolina is a senior scientific leader in pharma R&D, currently leading the global Digital Biology organisation within AI & Data Innovation at Novo Nordisk. Her work spans early target discovery, translational evidence generation and clinical genomics, with a focus on applying biology-led...

Michael Oellerich, MD, HonMD, FADLM, FAMM, FFPath (RCPI), FRCPath, is a chemical pathologist and currently a Distinguished Research Professor at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Faculty (UMG) of the George-August University, Göttingen, Germany. He was Chairman of the Department of ...

As a Principal AI Engineer at Bayer, Matthias has contributed to various projects, focusing on Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Pharmacovigilance and medical image processing in Radiology and Early Drug Discovery. Matthias' background is in computational political science and sociology. He...

With over 30 years of combined experience working with various pharmaceutical laboratories in the field of biometrics, I currently holds a biostatistics and data science position at Roche France within the real-world data unit. Since 2019, I am also responsible for data sharing with researchers...

David Pejoski is Co-CEO of Adoram Therapeutics, a Swiss-based university spin-off company developing breakthrough therapies for cancer and inflammation. With a research background in vaccines and immunology, David has led the preclinical development of novel allosteric modulators that aim to be...

Sid Prabhu is a seasoned professional with over 8 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Currently serving as the Senior Director at Novo Nordisk, Sid is a visionary leader known for his strategic thinking and innovative approach to driving business growth. With a strong background in...

With a PhD in biology, what's special about living systems is my scientific focus, even in the age of AI and learning systems. To understand how scientific progress can translate into health-related impact. How science in our labs can progress into patients. With paradigm shifts as a topic that ...

Dr. Alessandro Riccombeni is Founder and CEO of Axia Medicine, a governed cohort generation platform for pharmaceutical R&D. Axia takes a pharma research question and delivers the multimodal, longitudinal patient dataset required to answer it, end to end, under a single contract, with an...

Dr. Daya Shankar Tiwari is Dean of the School of Sciences at Woxsen University, where he leads five academic departments—Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biotechnology, and Computer Sciences & AI—serving over 5,000 students. Simultaneously, he is the founder and driving force behind VaidyaAI, a ...

Dr Ben Sidders, Chief Scientific Officer at Biorelate, has been working at the forefront of pharma data science for the last two decades. Formerly Executive Director and Head of Early Data Science within Oncology R&D at AstraZeneca, responsible for advancing the company’s understanding of...

David Talby is CEO of John Snow Labs and Pacific AI, helping companies apply regulatory-grade AI to solve real-world problems in healthcare and life sciences. John Snow Labs' medical language models are used by many of the world's largest medical centers, pharmaceutical companies, and...

Dr. Connor Taylor is an Assistant Professor and Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering at the University of Nottingham, where he works at the intersection between chemistry, chemical engineering, and computer science. He aims to lead a research group contributing towards major step...

Simon is a Partner in the Sofinnova Digital Medicine Strategy. He joined us in 2021 after consulting for corporates seeking to develop partnerships with digital health companies. He worked closely with business development functions to identify, assess, and structure strategic investments. Prior...

Mart Vain is the Head of Access & Value at Roche Baltics, where he leads the development of pricing, reimbursement, market access & governmental affairs strategies. His work focuses on the intersection of healthcare innovation and patient delivery, specifically regarding the...

Prof. Dr. Geert van den Bogaart is a Full Professor at the University of Groningen and the University Medical Center Groningen, where he leads the Department of Molecular Immunology. His research bridges fundamental biology and pharmaceutical innovation, with a strong focus on translating insights...

Senior data‑science and digital‑innovation executive with 14+ years of experience driving AI/ML transformation across global biotechnology and pharmaceutical organizations. Demonstrated ability to architect and scale enterprise‑wide AI platforms, introduce cutting‑edge technologies (generative...

Professor Katarzyna Wac, Ph.D., is a Full Professor of Information Systems at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, where she leads the Quality of Life Technologies lab and mQoL Living Lab. She is also an Invited Professor of Health Informatics at the Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the ...

Tim Robert Zander is a business coach, trainer, consultaht as well as lecturer at the Erasmus University Basel (EHS) and author. His work focuses on the intersection of agility, resilience and AI strategy for life-science organisations. With a background in applied R&D and fast growing...