Speakers 2026

Hans Clevers
Head of Pharma Research and Early Development
Roche
Leah O’Brien
VP, Global Head Digital Lab and Plant Operations
Sanofi
Christopher Arendt
CSO, Head of Research
Takeda
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
Justin Scheer
VP, In Silico Discovery
Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine
Alex Zhavoronkov
Founder and CEO
Insilico Medicine
Patrick Pijanowski
Managing Director & Founder
Scientia Advisory Services
Alex Gaither
Vice President of Oncology & Immunology and Interim Head of Discovery
Recursion
Justin Gazard
Senior Director, Molecule Synthesis, Distribution and Assay Solutions
Pfizer
Steve Winig
Executive Director
Novartis
Jorge Reis-Filho
Chief AI and Data Scientist, Oncology R&D
AstraZeneca
Julia Fox
Director, Data & Analytics
Takeda
Hebe Middlemiss
Senior Director, AI Strategy and Innovation
AstraZeneca
Jesse Mulcahy
Genetic Medicine Lab Automation Lead
Eli Lilly and Company
Pamela Sepulveda
Director, Digital Strategy
Pfizer
Hans Bitter
Head of Computational Science and Data Strategy, Senior R&D leadership team
Takeda
Al Wang
Executive Director, Emerging Methods & Technologies, Research IT
Bristol Myers Squibb
Sagar Kokal
Director Robotics & Automation Cell Therapy
Takeda
Abhishek Pandey
Global Lead and Principal Machine Learning Scientist
AbbVie
Melissa Coughlin
Director, R&D IT
AstraZeneca
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
Peggy Weber
Director Laboratory Systems
Sarepta Therapeutics
Michail Vlysidis
Senior Engineer, Technology II
AbbVie