Boston, 29 - 30 September 2026

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Sep 299:10
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Introductory remarks

Keynotes
Anna Abiola, Conference Director, Terrapinn Holdings Ltd
Sep 299:15
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Chair's remarks

Keynotes
Emily Gillen, Head of Global Data Partnerships, UCB
Sep 299:20
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Advancing the development of individualised genetic therapies

Keynotes
Sep 299:40
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Investment trends in AI

Keynotes
Moderator: Rana Lonnen, General Partner, Science Capital Ventures
Issa Kildani, Managing Partner, Founder, Ambrosia Ventures
Pooja Majmudar, Investment Partner, KELES Digital Health
Sarah Johnson, Partner, Advantary Capital Partners
Sep 2910:40
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Roundtables

Roundtables
Agentic AI in Drug Discovery
Stephanie Oestreich, Managing Director, Myeloma Investment Fund
AI adoption in small-scale cell & gene therapy biomanufacturing: opportunities, challenges, and practical pathways
Danyel Evseev, Process Development Lead, Riddell Centre for Cancer Immunotherapy, University of Calgary
AI-Driven Futures: Roadmap to Digital Transformation
Shabana Motlani, Director, USO PS QA & GxP Automation & Analytics, Novo Nordisk
Building the Intelligent Health Ecosystem: Where Pharma Meets AI Powered by Real-World Data
From Bench to Bedside: Smarter Pre-Clinical Strategies to De-Risk Early-stage Technologies
From Complexity to Clarity: Single-Cell, Spatial, and Multi-Omics
Isha Parikh, Bioinformatician, Mount Sinai
Investment Trends in 2026: AI is everywhere, where Capital Is Actually Going (and Why)? Real investor perspectives + live founder feedback
Invite Only: Building the Future of AI & Data Strategy in Life Sciences
Shabana Motlani, Director, USO PS QA & GxP Automation & Analytics, Novo Nordisk
Michael Liebman, Managing Director, IPQ Analytics, LLC
Lei Xie, Professor, Northeastern University
Shihan He, Machine Learning Engineer, Novo Nordisk Inc.
Hong Truong, Principal, Define Ventures
Neil Pfister, Assistant Professor; Head of AI in Precision Medicine Research Group, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Director and associate Professor, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Jake Chen, Endowed Professor and Director, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Samir Hanash, Director, Red And Charline Mccombs Institute For The Early Detection And Treatment Of Cancer, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Preetha Ram, Managing Partner, Pier 70 Ventures
Huda Eldosougi, Chief Technical Advisor, Saudi Food and Drug Authority
Karuna Kantor, Director, Novo Nordisk
Sep 2910:45
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Judges Remarks

Startup Pitches
Christina Waters, Chief Executive Officer, Archer Precision Medicine Advisory
Preetha Ram, Managing Partner, Pier 70 Ventures
Sep 2910:50
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Dirty Data, Broken Deals: The Hidden Legal Risks When AI Meets Drug Development

Startup Pitches
Adaku Nwachukwu, Managing Partner, A N Law Firm, PC
Sep 2911:10
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Would You Put This Biomarker in the Protocol? A Multi-scale Stress Test for Mechanism-driven Phase Ib/II Enrichment

Startup Pitches

Ingenix's Biological Reasoning Engine brings auditable, mechanism-grounded reasoning to the high-stakes decisions in drug development. We demonstrate one: whether a biomarker is ready to enrich or stratify a trial, with the evidence chain behind the call.

Through Modality Fusion, we connect modalities across biological scales: target biology, pathways, omics, model systems, and clinical data – integrated at the representation level into one architecture that reasons over the whole.

We run the stress test on a real biomarker: what makes it enrichment-grade, where the evidence breaks, and how our recommendation held up against the trial's actual readout.

Krzysztof Kolmus, Principal Scientist, Ingenix.AI
Sep 2911:20
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Using Multi-Modal patient data for Reinforcement Learning and Digital Twins for Biology Workflows

Startup Pitches
Sumit Sinha, Founder & CEO, OmicsBank
Sep 2911:40
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Chair's remarks

FAIR Data: Management, Storage and Architecture
Sree Chitoor, Chief Technology Officer, IAVI
Sep 2911:40
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Chair's remarks

Real World Evidence
Catherine Brownstein, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Sep 2911:40
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Chair's remarks

Large Language Models
Dr. Nick (Nemanja) Kovacev, Surgeon/Engineer, OrtoMD Polyclinic
Sep 2911:40
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Sep 2911:40
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Chair's remarks

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Sep 2911:45
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AI-Driven Endpoints: Redefining Clinical Trials for the Next Decade

AI in Clinical Trials
Sep 2911:45
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Digital Transformation Is Not a Line, It's a Circle

Digital Transformation
Sep 2911:45
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Engineering Certainty and Clinical Safety: From Probabilistic to Deterministic AI

Large Language Models
Dr. Nick (Nemanja) Kovacev, Surgeon/Engineer, OrtoMD Polyclinic
Sep 2911:45
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From Foundation to Mechanistic Models—and In Between: Leveraging AI to maximize the value of every patient's data across clinical development

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Sep 2911:45
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Integration of real world evidence in genomics discovery

Real World Evidence
Catherine Brownstein, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Sep 2912:05
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From insights to evidence: AI-enabled real-world intelligence for GLP-1 research

Real World Evidence
Spencer Andrei, PhD, Life Science Director, Truveta
Sep 2912:05
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Generative AI for the Lab: Streamlining Scientific Workflows Through Intelligent Integration

AI in Clinical Trials
Akhil Rachamadugu, Director, Life Sciences, ServiceNow
Sep 2912:05
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In Silico-Enabled Biologics: Transforming Molecular Biology Design Through Integrated Informatics

Digital Transformation
Veronica DeFelice, Director of Biologics, Sapio Sciences
Sep 2912:05
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RenSuper Workstation: An AI-Driven Antibody Discovery Platform From Target to Antibody Leads in Click

AI in Drug Discovery and Development

What if you could move from target to candidate in a single click?

In this session, discover how Biocytogen’s RenSuper Workstation seamlessly integrates large-scale in vivo RenMice immunization, NGS, AI-powered high-throughput screening, and experimental validation to deliver high-quality, development-ready antibody sequences.

Learn how this platform unlocks access to a rich library of experimentally validated, fully human antibodies—complete with data packages to support faster, more confident decision-making. Explore how it enables rapid candidate identification, flexible antibody design, and data-driven workflows, reducing early discovery risk and compressing timelines from years to months.

Icy Niu, Executive Director, Global Business & Marketing Head, Biocytogen
Sep 2912:25
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Accelerating trial selection with AI agents

Real World Evidence
Irfan Shah, Digital Ventures, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Sep 2912:25
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Sep 2912:25
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Excelra

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Norman Azoulay, Vice President, Platforms & Data, Excelra
Sep 2912:25
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Implementation of new age AI solutions and how to keep up with them

Digital Transformation
Sep 2912:25
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Multimodal Multi-Agent Solution for Sales Representatives

Large Language Models
Shihan He, Machine Learning Engineer, Novo Nordisk Inc.
Sep 2912:25
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The Data Dilemma: Storage, Management, and the Privacy Puzzle

FAIR Data: Management, Storage and Architecture
Joel Schwarz, Adjunct Law Professor, Cybersecurity and Privacy, Albany Law School
Sep 2912:45
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AI Built for Research: Accelerating Defensible Evidence from Real-World Data

Real World Evidence

Most AI isn't built for research. It's built for chat, for dashboards, for demos. In HEOR, that gap shows up fast. Fragmented data. Opaque models. Manual workflows that break the moment a regulator or peer reviewer asks how an answer was produced.

This session outlines a different approach: healthcare-native AI designed specifically for rigorous, defensible evidence. Three pieces, working together. A Healthcare Map of 60+ curated sources with validated representativeness across payers, regions, and care settings. A research-specific architecture with unified visit consolidation, 95%+ cost fill, and continuous enrollment, built so methodology holds up under scrutiny. And an AI engine with visible code generation, stepwise validation, and explicit articulation of every limitation.

The result is RWE that's faster, scalable, and trusted. Cohort identification compressed from hours to minutes. Descriptive statistics that used to take months. Industry standard R-package integration for inferential methods like propensity score matching, survival modeling, and weighted analyses, all version-controlled and replicable. Ready for the moments that matter most: market access discussions, internal strategic decision making, peer reviewed publications, and guideline directed medical therapy for real patients.

Key Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:

  • Recognize why most AI approaches fail to meet the standards of HEOR research, including issues of data quality, transparency, and scientific rigor.
  • Understand the three integrated components of healthcare-native AI: a comprehensive data foundation, a research-specific architecture, and an AI engine built for auditability.
  • Map each safeguard to its purpose: visible code for auditable methods, cost imputation for unbiased economics, representativeness for generalizability.
  • Identify HEOR use cases (feasibility, cohort construction, treatment patterns, cost and outcomes analyses) where AI built for research can compress timelines from months to minutes while preserving scientific integrity.
Ashis Das, Senior Director, Research Consulting - Research & Analytics, Komodo
Sep 2912:45
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Digital Transformation in Pharma Is Missing a Layer: Validation, Trust, and Submission Readiness

Digital Transformation
Sep 2912:45
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Regulatory-grade real-world evidence from unstructured clinical data

Large Language Models

Roughly 40% of the clinical facts research needs never reach a structured data field: diagnoses, medication adherence, biomarkers, staging, social determinants, family history. Frontier LLMs can read that text, but at population scale they're expensive, non-deterministic, and hard to audit. This session shows how specialized medical language models extract and de-identify clinical facts at regulatory-grade accuracy: 98% F1 on PHI detection, and primary site, histology, and tumor staging extracted from unstructured pathology text at regulatory-grade accuracy (over 95%) – all at over 80% lower cost than current frontier models, with deterministic, reproducible output. Those facts become a governed, OMOP-standard real-world-evidence asset, with every value traced to its source note and every extraction carrying a confidence score. With that foundation in place, and a shared MCP boundary on top of it, use cases like cohort building, real-world evidence, clinical trial matching, and protocol design become far easier to build and to audit.

Sep 2912:45
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Sponsored presentation

FAIR Data: Management, Storage and Architecture
Deepak Rajendran, Senior Manager, Zifo Technologies Inc
Sep 2913:05
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Digital transformation in biotherapeutics discovery

Digital Transformation
Alexander Horspool, Associate Director of Data and Lab Automation, Boehringer Ingelheim
Sep 2913:05
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DNA Methylation-Mediated Epigenetic Adaptation Promotes Cellular Resilience In AML

Real World Evidence
Manna Ahmed, Assistant Research Professor - Manager of The Genomics Resource Facility, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Sep 2913:05
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Navigating launch challenges in rare disease markets

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Soumavo Sarkar, Director, Novartis
Sep 2913:05
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Physics-Informed Large Language Models for Biologics: Applying Nuclear Engineering Rigor to AI Safety and Reliability

Large Language Models
Daya Shankar, Dean, School of Sciences and Founder SuktiAI, Woxsen University
Sep 2913:05
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Virtual patient generation leveraging RWD to expedite clinical development

AI in Clinical Trials
Yilin Xu, Head of clinical data analytics, AbbVie
Sep 2914:25
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Chair's remarks

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Sep 2914:25
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Chair's remarks

FAIR Data: Management, Storage and Architecture
Lori Hoepner, Asst Professor, SUNY DOWNSTATE
Sep 2914:25
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Chair's remarks

AI in Clinical Trials
Soumavo Sarkar, Director, Novartis
Sep 2914:25
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Chair's remarks

AI in Clinical Trials
Soumavo Sarkar, Director, Novartis
Sep 2914:25
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Chair's remarks

Real World Evidence
Michael Liebman, Managing Director, IPQ Analytics, LLC
Sep 2914:30
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AI Applications: From Clinical Research To Operational Feasibility

AI in Clinical Trials
Paquita Chang, Global Clinical Operations AI & Data Scientist, Roche
Sep 2914:30
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Digital Transformation in Biomedical Research: Challenges and Opportunities

Digital Transformation
Jason Beckwith, SVP Talent Science BioTalent, University of Leeds
Sep 2914:30
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From High-Throughput Pipelines to FAIR Data: A Storage Strategy

FAIR Data: Management, Storage and Architecture
Sep 2914:30
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From Literature to Computable Cohorts: Disease Phenotyping via Multi-Agent Orchestration

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Chris Willis, Director, Enterprise Business Insights & Technology, Bristol Myers Squibb
Sep 2914:30
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Large Language Models in Practice: From Patient Support to Precision Cancer Care

Large Language Models
Omer Alis, Director of Artificial Intelligence, Northeastern University
Sep 2914:30
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Multi-cancer Early Detection (MCED)

Real World Evidence
Samir Hanash, Director, Red And Charline Mccombs Institute For The Early Detection And Treatment Of Cancer, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Sep 2914:50
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Is your Lab in the Loop?

FAIR Data: Management, Storage and Architecture

Edge AI in Production: Real-Time Decision-Making in Sanofi’s Cryo-EM CoreModern cryoEM and other high-throughput scientific instruments generate vast amounts of data, yet mismatched infrastructure often limits throughput, delays scientific insights, and allows poor-quality data to propagate. This session presents a deployment of on-premises edge AI that enables real-time data processing and decision-making directly at the instrument. By detecting anomalies and data quality issues from minute zero, the system ensures only high-value data advances through the pipeline. We will show how near-real-time analytics can also trigger automated device actuation, allowing instruments to adjust and optimize performance dynamically - without manual intervention. This approach reduces data movement and infrastructure costs while accelerating time to insight. Drawing on testing at Sanofi’s cryoEM core, attendees will gain practical insights into architecture, deployment considerations, and measurable impact on throughput, data quality, and operational efficiency.

Bill Lynch, Strategic Business Development Manager, Everpure
Andrew Brown, Founder, Osmosys
Sep 2914:50
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Syneos

AI in Clinical Trials
Ashley Brenton, Global RWE Lead, Syneos Health
Sep 2914:50
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Unlocked & Validated: How Human-in-the-Loop LLMs Transform Unstructured EHR into High Quality RWD

AI in Drug Discovery and Development

Real-world data (RWD) is essential to biopharma R&D, but critical signals often remain locked in unstructured data types such as clinical notes, out of reach from standard analytics. Automation alone cannot reliably extract these features; success requires context, and context only emerges when clinical expertise is embedded throughout such workflows.

To capitalize on the phenotypic depth of its EHR-derived RWD, NashBio built a multi-layer LLM extraction system designed around clinical experts who informed extraction criteria, guided prompt and workflow refinements, and evaluated model output against source records to improve capture of clinically meaningful events. Applied to a 2,800 patient inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) cohort, the pipeline surfaced treatment response outcomes from each patient’s IBD clinic notes, spanning a predefined list of 25 medications. The result was more than 58,000 structured medication-response assessments, each substantiated by a verbatim quote from the attending healthcare provider and reviewable in context. This human-in-the-loop architecture achieved >90% accuracy on sampled review and 96% reproducibility – a level of rigor typically reserved for manual chart review – delivered at scale to advance more personalized medicine. Automation alone also missed important documentation patterns unique to specialty care and institutional practice.

NashBio's experience challenges the perception that AI eliminates the need for humans. This work reinforced the fact that, as extraction systems scale, human-in-the-loop matters more, not less; it is what keeps accuracy and context intact. We will also demonstrate how this framework extends to other applications relevant for biopharma R&D, including hepatology feature extraction and biomarker curation.

Leeland Ekstrom, CEO & Co-Founder, NashBio
Sep 2914:50
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Using real world data in IBD research

Real World Evidence
Tara Fehlmann, Senior Manager, Data Science & Analytics, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
Sep 2914:50
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What Makes AI Regulatory Grade? Why LLMs Alone Are Not Enough for Regulated Workflows

Large Language Models

Large language models have transformed what is possible in regulatory content creation, but generating fluent text is only the beginning. As the industry moves toward agentic workflows and increasingly automated submission processes, the defining challenge is no longer whether AI can write, but whether its outputs can be trusted.

This session explores what separates regulatory grade AI from general purpose AI, and why successful implementations in regulated environments require more than a language model. Attendees will learn how organizations are combining LLMs with deterministic logic, structured domain knowledge, validation frameworks, and governed human oversight to produce outputs that support the expectations of regulated content development.

Drawing on emerging industry practices and evolving regulatory expectations, the session provides a practical framework for evaluating AI solutions against the capabilities that matter most in regulated environments, including transparency, repeatability, auditability, source traceability, and accountability. Attendees will leave with a concrete framework for assessing whether an AI system is truly designed for regulatory workflows.

Camille Sauder, Director of Solutions Engineering, Yseop
Sep 2915:10
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Agentic AI for biotech competitive intelligence

Large Language Models
Daniel de Moraes Branco, Senior Director Corporate Development, Latin America Medical Affairs Lead, Artiva Biotherapeutics
Sep 2915:10
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AI-Powered Predictive Analytics for Surgical and ICU Patients

Real World Evidence
Qingchu Jin, Faculty Scientist I, MaineHealth Institute for Research
Sep 2915:10
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AI-powered programmable virtual humans for physiologically based drug discovery

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Lei Xie, Professor, Northeastern University
Sep 2915:10
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Digital innovations driving clinic trials efficiencies

AI in Clinical Trials
Naomi Fried, CEO, Pharmstars
Sep 2915:10
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Pitfalls and Best Practices: Notes from the (research) field

FAIR Data: Management, Storage and Architecture
Lori Hoepner, Asst Professor, SUNY DOWNSTATE
Sep 2915:10
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Securing the Agentic Future: How Privacy and Trust Drive Real Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation
Preetha Ram, Managing Partner, Pier 70 Ventures
Sep 2915:30
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Building Next-Generation Engagement Using the Power of AI - From Concept to Action

Large Language Models
    ny AI discussions emphasize the size of the dataset and the cleverness of the model. In practice, those factors are rarely where the real difference is made.

    What actually moves things forward is quieter, and far harder to get right: clean, carefully chosen data, and one problem that genuinely matters in practice.

    This session is a behind-the-scenes case study of how Innomagine moved from concept to action. We didn’t start with the technology — we started with the people behind the work, and built a connected suite of engagement solutions on one foundation: the Evidence Eagle platform.

    We’ll walk through three AI applications already used every day:

  • Medical Simulator helps MSLs practice realistic KOL conversations with AI-powered feedback.

  • Institutional Engagement Eagle shows who to engage, why they matter, and how to reach them.

  • AI-generated Engagement Plans turn existing research into clear, actionable strategies.

    Because all three use the same trusted data, insights flow seamlessly from research to engagementtoaction.

    We then turn to the question every team faces: build, or buy? Building in-house is tempting, but the hard parts surface later — curating data you can trust, keeping scarce AI talent, and maintaining infrastructure long after the pilot ends. We make the case for the “smart buy”: a focused partner whose platform, curated data, and proven use cases are ready today — so teams reach value in weeks, not years.

    The takeaway: look past the big-data hype, get the build-versus-buy call right, and start with clean data and one problem worth solving. That’s where meaningful AI adoption begins — and where real impact, for your teams and the patients at the end of it, follows.

Mayank Bhanderi, Director, Innomagine Consulting Private Limited
Julio Jose Fernandez, Director Field Medical Affairs, Regeneron
Sep 2915:30
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FAIR Data Foundations: Automating Governance and AI-Readiness for Accelerated Drug Discovery

FAIR Data: Management, Storage and Architecture

In this session, we'll cover:

  • The Modern Data Dilemma in Biotech - massive volumes of unstructured, often fragmented research data, that hinder innovation, impose regulatory risk and missed milestones
  • Building a Scalable "Data Foundation" - implementing a unified data governance framework that balances speed, risk and prepares for intelligent content management
  • Governance as an AI Enabler - highlighting metadata management to ensure datasets are discoverable, high-quality and protected
  • Future-Proofing the Pipeline - the roadmap for AI-driven regulatory intelligence and its role in streamlining future clinical trials
Sep 2915:30
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From AI Experiments to Enterprise Impact: What Does It Really Take to Operationalize AI in Pharma

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Justin Scheer, Vice President, Global Head - In Silico Discovery, Johnson & Johnson
Robert Fenwick, Innovation and Technology Consultant, EPAM Systems Ltd
Sep 2915:30
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The Skills Behind the Strategy: Preparing Today's Workforce for Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation
Uwe Hohgrawe, Associate Dean Global Learner Access, Strategic Partnerships and AI, Northeastern University
Sep 2915:50
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AI ML for drug discovery

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Sep 2915:50
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Applications of biological foundation models to accelerate clinical trials

AI in Clinical Trials
Neil Pfister, Assistant Professor; Head of AI in Precision Medicine Research Group, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sep 2915:50
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Digital transformation within medical and scientific communications within pharma and biotech

Digital Transformation
Sep 2915:50
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Diving deeper into indications

FAIR Data: Management, Storage and Architecture
Maureen Stark, Biospecimen Senior Specialist - Data Mgt, Roche
Sep 2915:50
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Medical information response agent

Large Language Models
Chandni Patel, Director, Medical Information, Novo Nordisk
Sep 2915:50
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The Human Heart of High-Tech Care: Reimagining the Nurse Navigator in the Age of Precision Medicine

Real World Evidence
    the field of oncology continues to explorecutting-edge breakthroughs in AI, genomic sequencing, and digital transformation, it’s easy to lose sight of the human being at the center—the patient. While industry leaders focus on the data and the drug, the Oncology Nurse Navigator (ONN) never loses sight of the person behind the diagnosis. This presentation brings the ONN’s story to life as the “human translator” of biotechnology—turning intimidating data into understandable choices, calming fears, and ensuring that the promise of precision medicine is matched by genuine, personalized support.

    Objectives:By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the three primary psychological and logistical barriers patients face when transitioning from standard care to high-complexity interventions.

  • Analyze how the navigator role mitigates disparities in access to precision medicine by addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) that digital platforms often overlook.

  • Formulate a model for integrating biotech stakeholders (pharma, diagnostics, and tech) with the nursing navigation team to ensure innovations enhance, rather than disrupt, the patient experience

Sep 2916:05
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Judges Remarks

Startup Pitches
Christina Waters, Chief Executive Officer, Archer Precision Medicine Advisory
Preetha Ram, Managing Partner, Pier 70 Ventures
Sep 2916:10
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The Agent Did It. Now Can You Prove It? Cryptographic Traceability for AI in Clinical Workflows

Startup Pitches
Alistair Dootson, Head Life Sciences, EQTY Life Sciences
Tina Morrison, Head of Life Sciences, EQTY Lab
Sep 2916:20
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Responsible AI by Design: How to Launch Agentic AI in Regulated Biotech

Startup Pitches
Atika Kumar, Founder, Wiztree Consulting
Sep 2916:30
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AI-Driven Insights from Every single Patient

Startup Pitches
Mattia Marco Caruson, Managing Director, mama health
Sep 2916:40
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Chair's remarks

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Pooja Majmudar, Investment Partner, KELES Digital Health
Sep 2916:40
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Chair's remarks

Large Language Models
Jake Chen, Endowed Professor and Director, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sep 2916:40
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Chair's remarks

Digital Transformation
Shabana Motlani, Director, USO PS QA & GxP Automation & Analytics, Novo Nordisk
Sep 2916:40
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Chair's remarks

FAIR Data: Management, Storage and Architecture
Sep 2916:40
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Chair's remarks

Real World Evidence
Michael Liebman, Managing Director, IPQ Analytics, LLC
Sep 2916:45
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Bridging the gap between FEMtech and FEMhealth

Real World Evidence
Michael Liebman, Managing Director, IPQ Analytics, LLC
Sep 2916:45
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Building Bridges: Developing a Common Omics Data Platform at AbbVie

FAIR Data: Management, Storage and Architecture
Sep 2916:45
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Leveraging Data and AI to transform Research, Care, and Operations at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Digital Transformation
Vasileios Stathias, Assistant Director, Data Science, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sep 2916:45
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Protecting Our Cognitive Edge: The Paradox of AI Offloading vs. Skills Atrophy

AI in Clinical Trials
Sep 2916:45
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ROI on AI implantation in drug discovery

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Pooja Majmudar, Investment Partner, KELES Digital Health
Sep 2917:05
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Enabling LLM-assisted biomedical discovery in secure, trusted agentic environments

AI in Drug Discovery and Development

Biomedical researchers face a critical productivity gap when working within Trusted Research Environments, where strict security rules ban the use of Large Language Models (LLMs). To solve this, we present the Trusted Agentic Environment, designed to embed AI tools and make them available to researchers by default. By attaching flexible, automated policies directly to datasets, researchers can seamlessly leverage LLMs for code generation, data exploration, and statistical modeling. This integration unlocks complex co-analysis, empowering researchers with advanced AI capabilities to accelerate their scientific output.

Sep 2917:05
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From Silos to FAIR: Driving Data Strategy in Research and Development

FAIR Data: Management, Storage and Architecture
Sep 2917:05
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How Novo Nordisk Transformed Customer targeting using AI

Digital Transformation
Sai Rithvik Kanakamedala, Data Scientist, Novo Nordisk
Sep 2917:05
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LLMs for Medical Affairs: Content, Engagement, and Meaningful Scientific Impact for HCPs

Large Language Models
John Wright, Technology Director, Global Medical Affairs, Amgen
Sep 2917:05
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Robust AI

AI in Clinical Trials
Faisal Khan, Corporate Vice President AI and Analytics, Novo Nordisk
Sep 2917:25
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AI-Powered Trials: Unlocking Leadership in Clinical Innovation

Real World Evidence
Yilin Xu, Head of clinical data analytics, AbbVie
Hong Truong, Principal, Define Ventures
Daniel de Moraes Branco, Senior Director Corporate Development, Latin America Medical Affairs Lead, Artiva Biotherapeutics
Sep 2917:25
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Better ways to recruit and retain patients

AI in Clinical Trials
Faisal Khan, Corporate Vice President AI and Analytics, Novo Nordisk
Shahanaz Rahman, Senior Clinical Trials Manager, ITM
Sep 2917:25
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Digital health and AI, what does the future hold?

Digital Transformation
Moderator: Naomi Fried, CEO, Pharmstars
Omer Alis, Director of Artificial Intelligence, Northeastern University
Sep 2917:25
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From AI Experiments to Enterprise Impact: What Does It Really Take to Operationalize AI in Pharma

Large Language Models
Chandni Patel, Director, Medical Information, Novo Nordisk
Puneeth kumar Ammapalli, Principle Cloud Architect, CVS Ltd
Sep 2917:25
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The Health Data Trilemma: Privacy, National Security, and Borderless dataflows

FAIR Data: Management, Storage and Architecture
Moderator: Joel Schwarz, Adjunct Law Professor, Cybersecurity and Privacy, Albany Law School
Huda Eldosougi, Chief Technical Advisor, Saudi Food and Drug Authority
Alexander Sherman, Director, Center for Innovation and Bioinformatics, Mass General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Preetha Ram, Managing Partner, Pier 70 Ventures
Shabana Motlani, Director, USO PS QA & GxP Automation & Analytics, Novo Nordisk
Sep 2917:25
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Using AI in the drug development and discovery process

AI in Drug Discovery and Development

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Sep 309:10
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Introductory remarks

Keynotes
Anna Abiola, Conference Director, Terrapinn Holdings Ltd
Sep 309:15
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Chair's remarks

Keynotes
Christina Waters, Chief Executive Officer, Archer Precision Medicine Advisory
Sep 309:20
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Biotech in the balance

Keynotes
Jeremy Levin, Executive Chairman, Ovid Therapeutics
Sep 309:40
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Evolution of women’s health

Keynotes
Preetha Ram, Managing Partner, Pier 70 Ventures
Catherine Brownstein, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Preetha Ram, Managing Partner, Pier 70 Ventures
Sep 3010:40
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Judges Remarks

Startup Pitches
Christina Waters, Chief Executive Officer, Archer Precision Medicine Advisory
Preetha Ram, Managing Partner, Pier 70 Ventures
Sep 3010:45
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From Synopsis to Shortlist in Seconds: AI-Powered Site Selection & Feasibility

Startup Pitches
Sep 3010:55
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From Innovation to Revenue: Fixing the Commercial Gap in Science-Led

Startup Pitches

Strong innovation doesn’t automatically lead to commercial success. Many science-led companies struggle to translate capability into revenue. This session introduces a platform that identifies commercial gaps and turnsinnovation into a clear, execution-ready growth strategy.

Nandy Thaver, Director, Thaver Consulting
Sep 3011:05
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A Smarter Path to Regulatory-Grade Evidence Synthesis Using Agentic AI

Startup Pitches
Gaugarin Oliver, CEO & Founder, MadeAi
Sep 3011:15
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The AI-Native Platform for Drug Development

Startup Pitches
Xiaomai Zhang, Chief Marketing Officer, HopeAI, Inc.
Sep 3011:40
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Sep 3011:40
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Chair's remarks

Bioinformatics + InSilico R&D
Qingchu Jin, Faculty Scientist I, MaineHealth Institute for Research
Sep 3011:40
Conference pass

Chair's remarks

Technology & Innovation
Daniel de Moraes Branco, Senior Director Corporate Development, Latin America Medical Affairs Lead, Artiva Biotherapeutics
Sep 3011:40
Conference pass

Chair's remarks

Real World Evidence
Michael Liebman, Managing Director, IPQ Analytics, LLC
Sep 3011:40
Conference pass
Sep 3011:45
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AI in medical authoring and regulatory intelligence

AI in Clinical Trials
Sree Chitoor, Chief Technology Officer, IAVI
Sep 3011:45
Conference pass

Beyond SBIRs: NIH as your technology development and commercialisation partner

Technology & Innovation
Sep 3011:45
Conference pass

Building Contextual Layer for Agentic Framework for Clinical Data Science

Large Language Models
Mukul Virmani, Director, Clinical Data Science, AI Research Center, Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Sep 3011:45
Conference pass

Harnessing the Power of Generative AI: Unlocking Insights from Real-World Data for Data-Driven Decisions in Pharma R&D

Real World Evidence
Sep 3011:45
Conference pass

How AI can help early stage companies in drug development

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Lou Kassa, CEO, Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center
Sep 3011:45
Conference pass

When Quantum Meets Pharma: Inside the Race to Design Drugs Atom by Atom

Bioinformatics + InSilico R&D
Sep 3012:05
Conference pass

From Hours to Minutes: Reimagining Site Operations with AI

AI in Clinical Trials
Vanessa Diaz, Clinical Trials Research Manager, Illinois Bone & Joint Institute
Sep 3012:05
Conference pass

Impact of insilico innovations on drug discovery and development

Bioinformatics + InSilico R&D
Hanqing Li, investment director, Merck
Sep 3012:05
Conference pass

Multi-modal real world data foundation models: Challenges & opportunities

Real World Evidence
Janie Shelton, Director, Translational Epidemiology, Bristol Myers Squibb
Sep 3012:05
Conference pass

Structuring high-consequence decisions from discovery to the clinic

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Juan Beltran, Senior Director of AI, Machine Learning & Innovation, BullFrog AI
Sep 3012:25
Conference pass

AI to select biomarker candidates

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Fernanda Cerqueira, Senior Associate Director, Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
Sep 3012:25
Conference pass

Driving Innovation in Oncological care with Radiopharmaceuticals

Technology & Innovation
Tracy Casas, Director of Clinical Operations/ Nurse Practitioner, Comprehensive Hematology Oncology
Sep 3012:25
Conference pass

Maximizing the Value of Real-World Evidence for Patient Safety

Real World Evidence

As the pharmaceutical industry becomes increasingly data-driven, organizations are generating more real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) than ever before. While RWE presents significant opportunities to enhance patient safety, realizing its full value requires navigating operational, methodological, and regulatory complexities.

Realizing this value requires strong collaboration between patient safety and RWE functions to ensure evidence is appropriately contextualized and translated into meaningful action.

Drawing on practical examples and lessons learned, this session explores the opportunities and challenges at the intersection of patient safety and RWE.

Attendees will gain insights into approaches for strengthening cross-functional collaboration, leveraging RWE more effectively, and improving confidence in the safe use of medicines.

Osamagbe Woghiren, Senior Manager, QPPV Office & International Pharmacovigilance Operations, UCB
Sep 3012:25
Conference pass

Running Large Language Models on AWS: Bedrock, SageMaker, and Purpose-Built AI Infrastructure

Large Language Models
Puneeth kumar Ammapalli, Principle Cloud Architect, CVS Ltd
Sep 3012:25
Conference pass

Virtual cell modelling

Bioinformatics + InSilico R&D
Jake Chen, Endowed Professor and Director, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sep 3012:45
Conference pass

Identifying Tumour Biomarkers Using Real World Data

Real World Evidence
Zaigham Ali Khan, Associate Director, Merck
Sep 3012:45
Conference pass

Leveraging Real-World Data and AI for the Evaluation of Clinical Trial Efficacy

AI in Clinical Trials

Background:Traditional clinical trial evaluations heavily rely on the Average Treatment Effect (ATE), a metric that can obscure substantial heterogeneity in individual patient responses. This limitation is magnified in observational real-world data (RWD), where simple statistical associations often conflate correlation with systemic selection bias. To enhance regulatory confidence and optimize therapeutic positioning, clinical research must move beyond purely associative analyses and shift toward isolating true counterfactual causation by precisely estimating Individual Treatment Effects (ITE) to enable personalized treatment selection.

Methods:This study presents a deep causal learning framework that adjusts for high-dimensional baseline confounding. Utilizing RWD from a diverse clinical cohort in which more than 80% of participants originate from communities historically underrepresented in biomedical research, the pipeline maps longitudinal, time-fixed, and time-varying covariate vectors into a dense latent space via a pre-trained Med-BERT transformer encoder. These phenotypic embeddings parameterize an integrated causal neural network architecture that features an objective-focused propensity score gate and dual counterfactual potential-outcome heads. To evaluate individual treatment benefit under non-proportional hazards, the architecture maps continuous counterfactual survival curves for patients within the balanced common support region where the propensity score is approximately 0.5. Rather than collapsing temporal dynamics into static metrics, the framework evaluates the global geometry of these curves using non-parametric omnibus tests to isolate and rank an optimized sub-cohort of the top ntreatment responders.

Results:Validation audits demonstrated exceptional predictive fidelity, with the outcome survival network achieving a baseline Concordance Index of 0.9439 ± 0.0771. The causal estimation engine yielded a statistically significant Conditional Average Treatment Effect (CATE) point estimate of 0.6205 (95% Confidence Interval: 0.5934 to 0.6476), with structural validity confirmed by a Leave-One-Out (LOO) cohort stability index of 99.71%. The integrated KONP and multi-directional screening framework successfully isolated the optimized high-responder cohort from the balanced common-support distribution.

Conclusion:Shifting from associative correlation to robust counterfactual inference on highly diverse RWD provides a scalable, causal methodology for predicting personalized treatment response, optimizing trial cohort enrichment strategies, and accelerating precision evidence generation without modifying active clinical trajectories.

Tarek Adam, President and CMO, Phalcon, LLC
Sep 3013:05
Conference pass

How to integrate multi-omics

Bioinformatics + InSilico R&D
Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Director and associate Professor, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Sep 3013:05
Conference pass

Leveraging NIH as your commercialization partner

Technology & Innovation
Sep 3013:05
Conference pass

Leveraging RWD in the Drug Development Process

Real World Evidence
Thomas Dougherty, Data Science & AI Innovative Partnership Lead, Novo Nordisk
Sep 3013:05
Conference pass

Mind the Gap: How Artificial Intelligence Can Strengthen the Clinical Trial Enterprise from Protocol Design to External Controls

AI in Clinical Trials
Alexander Sherman, Director, Center for Innovation and Bioinformatics, Mass General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Sep 3013:05
Conference pass

Revolutionizing immunotherapy through patient-centric therapeutic hardware platform, ATT-AI

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
David Sherris, ceo, Attivare Therapeutics
Sep 3014:25
Conference pass

Chair's remarks

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Michael Liebman, Managing Director, IPQ Analytics, LLC
Sep 3014:25
Conference pass
Sep 3014:30
Conference pass

AI influenced nano technology in drug discovery and development

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Beauty Pandey, Associate Dean & Associate Professor, Woxsen University
Sep 3014:30
Conference pass

Detecting Dengue, Chikungunya, and Oropouche Viruses Using Radio Frequency Waves and Machine Learning.

Bioinformatics + InSilico R&D
Omer Alis, Director of Artificial Intelligence, Northeastern University
Sep 3014:30
Conference pass

Driving field medical innovation

Real World Evidence
Karuna Kantor, Director, Novo Nordisk
Sep 3014:50
Conference pass

How AI is used to support the three R’s in drug discovery

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Sep 3014:50
Conference pass
Sep 3015:10
Conference pass

Not All Bias Breaks Decisions: Relative Ignorability for Real-World Evidence

Bioinformatics + InSilico R&D
Sep 3015:10
Conference pass

Preparing the Biotech Workforce of the Future: The Role of Academic-Industry Partnerships

Real World Evidence
Sep 3015:10
Conference pass

Regulatory affairs, The regulations and guidance globally

AI in Drug Discovery and Development
Jia Huang, Associate Director, Merck
Sep 3015:50
Conference pass

Pediatric Precision Medicine

Keynotes
Wendy Chung, Chief, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
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