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...

Prof. Saeed Amal is a Research Professor in Bioengineering at Northeastern University and affiliated with the Roux Institute. He isa visiting professor at Harvard Medical School. Prof. Amal won the National Academy of Inventors Award of " Emerging Visionary Award in AI for...

Kalindi Bakshi PhD is a leader in life sciences and food innovation ecosystem development, currently leading the Life Sciences and Food Innovation division at Middlesex County’s Office of Business Engagement. She works at the intersection of industry, government, and innovation, supporting domestic ...

Christopher Bishop is a TEDx speaker, ex-IBMer, former NYC studio cat, touring rock musician, future workplace consultant, and a firm believer in the power of bleeding-edge technologies to drive exciting and innovative careers. He is the author of the groundbreaking new book Improvising Careers:...

AI Research Scientist working at the intersection of causal inference and reinforcement learning. Currently writing a technical book on causal agents contracted to CRC Press (forthcoming 2027).Previously I led an interdisciplinary initiative in biopharma which saved up to $100k+ on clinical...

Michelle Bridenbaker is currently the Global Head of Medical Excellence & Communications at Recordati. Additionally, in her capacity as the Vice President Elect of Medical Information Leaders in Europe (MILE) a pan-pharmaceutical company coalition, she helps shape industry best...

Ilan Carmeli is Co-founder and COO of Beaconcure, where he leads the development of AI-driven solutions for clinical trials. With deep knowledge in building user-centric software products, Ilan focuses on bridging the gap between advanced AI capabilities and the strict requirements of regulated...

Suzanne Caruso is a senior business executive and clinical trial study start-up expert with over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. As President, Strategic Intelligence and Clinical & Regulatory at Norstella, Suzanne leverages her expertise in data analytics and innovative...

Ashis Das is a physician-epidemiologist with over 20 years of experience in real-world data (RWD) and health economics and outcomes research (HEOR). For more than a decade, he built AI-enabled decision-support and predictive modeling systems on claims, EHR, and registry data—well before...

Brett is an experienced scientific informatics leader with extensive bioinformatics, omics data-platform, and scientific web-application development experience within a top pharmaceutical company. He is a team player who is passionate about omic applications for target ID, mechanism of action, and...

Dr. Kristin Falkenstein is the Assistant Director of Business Development with the Discovery to Impact team at The University of Texas at Austin.  In her role she strives to partner with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to advance early‑stage biomedical innovations from academic discovery ...

I’m a founder, board leader, podcaster, and award-winning entrepreneur with a career spanning SaaS, medical devices, and clinical research. I build high-impact teams and organizations rooted in culture, resilience, and strategic execution—globally and sustainably. I host three shows that each...

Jennifer's strong foundation in math and biology naturally led to a career in data science. Beginning as a Scientific Applications Developer over 15 years ago, today she is the Associate Director of Scientific Informatics at Eisai G2D2. In this role, she focuses on processes that transform data ...

Ikhide Imumorin is an accomplished Executive Director and Professor of Biological Sciences at California State University. He leads the California State University Biotechnology Program (CSUBIOTECH) with the mission of supporting education, research and innovation to strengthen the life science...

Etai Jacob, PhD, leads Applied Data Science and AI in Oncology R&D at AstraZeneca, where his group develops AI methods and enterprise platforms to accelerate drug discovery and clinical development. His work spans predictive biomarker discovery, clinical foundation models, translational AI, and ...

Sabrina Martucci Johnson Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer, Daré Bioscience (NASDAQ: DARE) Sabrina Martucci Johnson doesn’t just talk about the gap in women’s health – she’s working to close it. In 2015 she founded Daré Bioscience on a straightforward thesis: the science...

Adrian Jones is an Applied AI Blackbelt at Google, where he leads strategic customer engagements and accelerates the adoption of cutting-edge AI technologies. With a focus on AI for Science, he has been instrumental in managing Early Access and incubation programs for innovative specialized agents...

Sai Rithvik Kanakamedala is a Data Scientist at Novo Nordisk, where he developed advanced analytics solutions, scalable data pipelines, and predictive models to strengthen healthcare professional (HCP) targeting strategies at NNI. He has a strong track record of applying machine learning and AutoML ...

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 research focuses on building clinically...

Dr. Jin Lee is the Co-Founder and CEO of IMIDeology, a clinician-led autoimmune research network that bridges patients with practicing specialists in rheumatology, dermatology, and gastroenterology. She has worked across the healthcare ecosystem—from pharma and health insurance to hospital system...

Dr. Vivian Li holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, with a distinguished background bridging science and business on a global scale. She conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania and worked in...

With domestic and international experience across higher education, banking, healthcare, and venture capital (VC) & private equity (PE), J.P. embarked on his first entrepreneurial journey by acquiring and scaling a local business in Houston, Texas. Under his leadership, the company grew from...

Chirag Lodhia is Deputy Director of Clinical Informatics and Director of Digital Health Training and Adoption at Monash Health, one of Australia's largest public health services, where he leads workforce change management and digital adoption in both clinical and non-clinical environments...

Tom Luechtefeld is the founder and CEO of Insilica, where he builds AI infrastructure for preclinical safety and chemical risk assessment. Insilica is the group behind: 1. Toxindex.com Toxindex integrates thousands of databases, 100M+ documents, hundreds of computational tools like protein...

Dr. Joseph M. Conrad III is a Senior Technology Analysis & Marketing Specialist in the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Technology Transfer Center’s (TTC) Technology Analysis & Marketing Unit (TAMU), where he’s responsible for increasing the visibility of NIH technologies to increase...

Alex Madama is a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He joined HPE in 2016, bringing more than 20 years of technology and healthcare industry experience and leadership.Alex focuses on strategic initiatives with his customers to integrate technologies that solve large-scale...

Global lead responsible for defining and enabling the end‑to‑end data strategy for clinical development at Takeda R&D. I focus on how clinical trial data is collected, stored, managed, reported, and utilized across the full development lifecycle to drive better, faster, and more reliable...

Peter Marks received his graduate degree in cell and molecular biology and his medical degree at New York University and completed Internal Medicine residency and Hematology/Medical Oncology training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He has worked in academic settings teaching and caring...

Jackie Miller is the Director of Oncology Navigation at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (SKCCC) –Jefferson Health. SKCCC is part of an 32-hospital academic health system spanning two states and the largest in the Philadelphia region.  It is comprised of eight cancer treatment centers...

Kausheek is a global leader with 15+ years experience in Healthcare & Technology space– steering and leading teams, products & programs. He has diverse leadership experience across multiple domains in Healthcare - data science, marketing & sales, legal & compliance, Head of IT and...

Tony Nunes is a Senior Manager for Healthcare and Life Sciences at AMD, where he works with healthcare systems, life sciences organizations, and technology leaders to enable AI‑ready, data‑intensive platforms across clinical, research, and enterprise environments.With over 25 years of healthcare...

Gaugarin “G” Oliver is the Founder and CEO of CapeStart, a 600+ person company specializing in AI-based solutions and services. Oliver also leads MadeAi, an affiliate of CapeStart, offering an AI-enabled evidence synthesis platform for life sciences.A successful serial entrepreneur, Oliver is also...

Visionary and charismatic biotech executive with over 28 years of experience spanning commercial strategy, drug development, and product lifecycle management. Raphaël has held key global and regional leadership roles at top-tier pharmaceutical companies including Novartis Oncology, Celgene, and...

Allison Perry is VP of RWD Commercial Strategy and Innovation and Head of RWD Strategy at Norstella. She is a PhD-trained epidemiologist with deep expertise in real-world data, evidence generation, and translating complex data into actionable insights. She partners with life sciences companies to...

Dan Rippy is Executive Director of Business Development at UMass Chan Medical School. Previously, he served as CEO of LiquiGlide, an MIT spinout materials science company where he was CEO. Previously, he served as Vice President - Business Development at Lantheus Holdings, and Vice President -...

Dr. Michael Salgaller leads an alliance development unit within the NIH’s Technology Transfer Center. His unit fosters licensing and collaborative activity between buy-side stakeholders and the NIH. There, he leverages >20 years of business, scientific, and investment experience in various life...

Venkat Sanka is a seasoned data and cloud analytics leader with over 16 years of experience enabling data-driven transformation across healthcare, life sciences, and global enterprises. He currently works in data analytics and governance, leading initiatives in AI/ML, cloud platforms, and trusted...

Dr Srijit Seal is a computational scientist and researcher working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, chemoinformatics, and drug discovery. He currently serves as a visiting scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Principal Advisor/Scientist at Human Chemical Company, and...

Lincoln stumbled into the AI space through his love of science fiction novels. It’s no surprise, then, that by the time Watson played Jeopardy in 2011, his curiosity about AI had been fully awakened. After watching AlphaGo make its infamous move 37 in 2016, he was hooked. That passion followed him...

Anu Sharma is a Senior Principal Scientist and Real World Evidence platforms leader at Merck. She leads Data Sciences, Platform Strategy and Health Economic Modeling Initiatives within the MRL Biostatistics and Research Decision Sciences(BARDS) Epidemiology RWE Capabilities and Analytics working...

Andrew Smith is a Senior Principal Scientist in Informatics and Predictive Sciences at Bristol Myers Squibb, where he builds multi-agent LLM systems that help scientists work with complex research data. His work spans genomics, clinical, and real-world data, with a focus on making agent output...

Anubhav Srivastava is an accomplished professional with over 19 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. Currently serving as the Associate Director at Novo Nordisk Inc., Anubhav is a visionary leader known for driving innovation and precision in the field. With a strong...

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...

Sally Thompson-Iritani is an accomplished professional with a passion for advancing animal care, outreach, and the principles of the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement) in research. As the Assistant Vice Provost at the University of Washington, she leads initiatives to promote ethical and...

Dylan Wallace is Director of Business Development at Ryght. He started at PPD on the Biotech Solutions team, then spent three years at IQVIA and IQVIA Biotech working with emerging biopharma sponsors through site selection and study startup. At Ryght he owns the commercial cycle across...

Dr. Tom Williams, MBA, is Senior Manager, Product Innovation at Elsevier, where he works on the development and commercialization of scientific connectors and task-level agents for drug R&D. He works with pharmaceutical and biotechnology organizations to translate scientific workflows, evidence ...

An established leader and influencer in the Pharmaceutical industry, Divya has been in the industry for more than 25 years, working with companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Novo Nordisk, SUN Pharma, and Syneos Health. She is a seasoned Speaker and chairperson of various Pharmaceutical Forums...