Speakers 2026

Hans Clevers
Head of Pharma Research and Early Development
Roche
Leah O’Brien
VP, Global Head Digital Lab and Plant Operations
Sanofi
Nicole Crane
Senior Principal
Accenture
Christopher Arendt
CSO, Head of Research
Takeda
Julie Frearson
SVP Chief Scientific Officer
Charles River Laboratories
Julie Huxley-Jones
VP Research, Pre-clinical and Manufacturing, Data, Technology & Engineering
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Amrik Mahal
Global Head of IT for Research
AstraZeneca
Emanuele de Rinaldis
VP, Global Head of Target, Disease & Systems Biology
Sanofi
Jonathan Lippy
Global Head of Compound & Data Management and Screening Operations
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines
Marc Smith
Lead Product Manager, Process Development
IDBS
Mark Fish
VP & GM of Digital Lab Solutions
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Gene Lee
Associate Principal
ZS
Steve Winig
Executive Director
Novartis
Adrish Sannyasi
Vice President, Customer Solutions
Rhino Federated Computing
Matthew Davis
Senior Partner, Head of Pioneering Intelligence
Flagship Pioneering
Michael Swartz
Chief Strategy Officer
Dotmatics, a Siemens Company
Sergio Rotstein
Vice President, R&D Solutions
Pfizer
James Love
Vice President, Cross Modalities Workflows
Novo Nordisk
Melissa Coughlin
Director, R&D IT
AstraZeneca
Alex Gaither
Vice President of Oncology & Immunology and Interim Head of Discovery
Recursion
Petrina Kamya
VP, Global Head of AI Platforms
Insilico Medicine
Alayna George Thompson
Associate Director Preformulation
AbbVie
Yves Fomekong Nanfack
Head of AI/ML Research
Takeda
Dana Filoti
Associate Director, Analytical Development and Digital Strategy Early Biologics Excellence
AbbVie
Michael Chau
Director R&D IT - CMC Project Manager
AstraZeneca
Kate Mingle
Principal Data Scientist
AbbVie
Becky Upton
CEO
Pistoia Alliance
Jon Welsh
Informatics Sales Manager
Agilent
Cindy Novak
Director, IT R&D Business Partner
Avidity Biosciences
Justin Lavimodiere
Senior Director, Veeva LIMS Strategy.
Veeva Systems
Jonathan Gilbert
Sr. Director - Ecosystem Growth and Contributor Partnerships
Eli Lilly
Melissa Landon
Head of Commercial and Business Development, AI & Automation
MilliporeSigma
Martina Miteva
Director, R&D IT, Instrument Operations & Data Management
Bristol Myers Squibb
Tamara McKenna
Director, Sales
Clinisys
Pamela Sepulveda
Director, Digital Strategy
Pfizer
Kristina Lopez
Senior Director - Digital & Automation, Cell & Gene Therapy, Therapeutics Development & Supply
J&J Innovative Medicine
Robert Goodnow
Ex-Head Drug Discovery Sciences
Takeda
Mark Borowsky
Former Chief Information Officer
Novartis Biomedical Research
Nicole Medeiros
Principal Scientist, Data Science Automation
J&J Innovative Medicine
Justin Gazard
Senior Director, Molecule Synthesis, Distribution and Assay Solutions
Pfizer
Rajarshi Guha
Senior Director, Data & Computational Sciences
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Jorge Reis-Filho
Chief AI and Data Scientist, Oncology R&D
AstraZeneca
Vimaldev Devaraja
Principle Platform Manager
Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine
Nevin Gerek Ince
Director, Data and Solutions Engineering
Novo Nordisk
Sam Michael
VP, Data, Automation & Predictive Sciences
GSK
Wan-Chih Su
Principal Scientist
Genentech
Hebe Middlemiss
Senior Director, AI Strategy and Innovation
AstraZeneca
Michael Reilly
Senior Director of World Wide Discovery DMPK and Sample Management
GSK
Vatsala Rajanala
Sr Business Analyst, R&D IT.
AstraZeneca
Mike Berke
Director - Research and Automation Technologies
Amgen
Dan Petkanas
Senior Director, Head of Sales & Channel
Elemental Machines
Hans Bitter
Head of Computational Science, Data Strategy & Senior R&D Leadership Team
Takeda
Cathy Kuang
Head of Data, Digital and Technology for Research and Labs
Takeda
Tim Hoctor
Advisor
Evolvus
Julia Fox
Director, Data & Analytics
Takeda
Thrasyvoulos Karydis
Co-Founder & CTO
DeepCure
Jesse Mulcahy
Genetic Medicine Lab Automation Lead
Eli Lilly and Company
Chris Waller
Chief Strategist
Quantori
Mohit Agnihotri
Senior Director, Development Sciences Data & Digital Strategy
AbbVie
Patrick Pijanowski
Managing Director & Founder
Scientia Advisory Services
Saurabh Awasthi
Founder & Managing Director
IndusQ
Al Wang
Executive Director, Emerging Methods & Technologies, Research IT
Bristol Myers Squibb
Robin Roehm
CEO & Co-Founder
Apheris
Christian Baber
Chief Portfolio Officer
Pistoia Alliance
Sagar Kokal
Director Robotics & Automation Cell Therapy
Takeda
Abhishek Pandey
Global Lead and Principal Machine Learning Scientist
AbbVie
Dave Cooney
Head of GTM strategy
HelixAI
David Liu
Director, R&D IT, Prediction & Insights
Bristol Myers Squibb
Rob Brown
Global VP, Head of Scientific Office
Sapio Sciences
Wolfgang Colsman
CEO
Zontal
Dan Gusenleitner
Mission Lead for the R&D Data Science Ecosystem
Bayer
Denise Teotico
Senior Director, Digital R&D Product Line Owner, In Silico CMC
Sanofi
Mohit Goel
Head of Systems Integration & Co-Chair, AI Council
Moderna
Ilan Wapinski
Head of Digital In-Silico Research
Sanofi
Jessica Hilton
Senior Director, Resource Planning and Management Lead
Pfizer
Erik Richter
Associate Director Laboratory Systems
Sarepta Therapeutics
Thibaut Lagny
Head of Portfolio Management & Operations of Genomic Medicines Unit Research
Sanofi
Michail Vlysidis
Senior Engineer, Technology II
AbbVie