Speakers 2026

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Hans Clevers
Head of Pharma Research and Early Development
Roche
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Leah O’Brien
VP, Global Head Digital Lab and Plant Operations
Sanofi
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Christopher Arendt
CSO, Head of Research
Takeda
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Julie Huxley-Jones
VP Research, Pre-clinical and Manufacturing, Data, Technology & Engineering
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
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Amrik Mahal
Global Head of IT for Research
AstraZeneca
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Emanuele de Rinaldis
VP, Global Head of Target, Disease & Systems Biology
Sanofi
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Mark Borowsky
Former Chief Information Officer
Novartis Biomedical Research
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Justin Scheer
VP, In Silico Discovery
Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine
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Sam Michael
VP, Data, Automation & Predictive Sciences
GSK
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James Love
Vice President, Cross Modalities Workflows
Novo Nordisk
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Alex Zhavoronkov
Founder and CEO
Insilico Medicine
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Patrick Pijanowski
Managing Director & Founder
Scientia Advisory Services
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Alex Gaither
Vice President of Oncology & Immunology and Interim Head of Discovery
Recursion
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Justin Gazard
Senior Director, Molecule Synthesis, Distribution and Assay Solutions
Pfizer
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Steve Winig
Executive Director
Novartis
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Thrasyvoulos Karydis
Co-Founder & CTO
DeepCure
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Michael Chau
Director R&D IT - CMC Project Manager
AstraZeneca
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Rajarshi Guha
Senior Director, Data & Computational Sciences
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
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Martina Miteva
Director, R&D IT, Instrument Operations & Data Management
Bristol Myers Squibb
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Jorge Reis-Filho
Chief AI and Data Scientist, Oncology R&D
AstraZeneca
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Vimaldev Devaraja
Principle Platform Manager
Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine
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Yves Fomekong Nanfack
Head of AI/ML Research
Takeda
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Michael Reilly
Senior Director of World Wide Discovery DMPK and Sample Managment
GSK
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Cathy Kuang
Head of Data, Digital and Technology for Research and Labs
Takeda
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Julia Fox
Director, Data & Analytics
Takeda
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Hebe Middlemiss
Senior Director, AI Strategy and Innovation
AstraZeneca
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Jesse Mulcahy
Genetic Medicine Lab Automation Lead
Eli Lilly and Company
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Pamela Sepulveda
Director, Digital Strategy
Pfizer
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Hans Bitter
Head of Computational Science and Data Strategy, Senior R&D leadership team
Takeda
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Al Wang
Executive Director, Emerging Methods & Technologies, Research IT
Bristol Myers Squibb
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Sagar Kokal
Director Robotics & Automation Cell Therapy
Takeda
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Abhishek Pandey
Global Lead and Principal Machine Learning Scientist
AbbVie
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Melissa Coughlin
Director, R&D IT
AstraZeneca
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David Liu
Director, R&D IT, Prediction & Insights
Bristol Myers Squibb
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Dan Gusenleitner
Mission Lead for the R&D Data Science Ecosystem
Bayer
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Denise Teotico
Senior Director, Digital R&D Product Line Owner, In Silico CMC
Sanofi
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Mohit Goel
Head of Systems Integration & Co-Chair, AI Council
Moderna
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Ilan Wapinski
Head of Digital In-Silico Research
Sanofi
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Jessica Hilton
Senior Director, Resource Planning and Management Lead
Pfizer
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Erik Richter
Associate Director Laboratory Systems
Sarepta Therapeutics
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Thibaut Lagny
Head of Portfolio Management & Operations of Genomic Medicines Unit Research
Sanofi
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Peggy Weber
Director Laboratory Systems
Sarepta Therapeutics
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Michail Vlysidis
Senior Engineer, Technology II
AbbVie