Speakers 2025

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Michael Shanler
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
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Julie Huxley-Jones
VP Research, Pre-clinical and Manufacturing, Data, Technology & Engineering
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
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Don Rainville
Principal Director and Global Lab Innovation Hub Lead
Accenture
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Mickey Atwal
Chief Data and AI Officer
Flagship Pioneering
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Gisele Tavares
VP and Head of R&D Business Operations
Takeda
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Brajesh Rai
Senior Director, Head of Methods Development, Machine Learning and Computational Sciences
Pfizer
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Hans Bitter
Head of Computational Science and Data Strategy, Senior R&D leadership team
Takeda
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Karen Billeci
Vice President of the High Throughput Operation Platform
Recursion
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Kavitha Lokesh
VP, Global Head of Life Sciences R&D and Commercial Industry Solutions & Products
Cognizant
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Casandra Mangroo
SVP of Product & Science
BenchSci
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Becky Upton
President
Pistoia Alliance
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Tola Olorunnisola
SVP & GM Services
Avantor
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Ryan Snyder
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Aishwarya Balajee
Head of Digital Services
Zifo
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Mohit Goel
Head of Systems Integration, Principal Engineer - Applied Technologies
Moderna Therapeutics
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James Love
Vice President, Automation and Process Optimization
Novo Nordisk
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Priya Vijayakumar
CEO
WattIQ
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Brian Vandahl
SVP, Head of Global Research Technologies
Novo Nordisk
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Jason Kelly
CEO and Co-Founder
Ginkgo Bioworks
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Todd Lybrook
Solution Owner Digital Labs
Siemens
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Steve Winig
Executive Director
Novartis
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Mads Torry Smith
Head of Digitalization, Planetary Health Biosolutions & Application Research
Novonesis
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Cathy Kuang
Sr. Director - Head of Research Technology and Lab Systems
Takeda
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Marc Smith
Lead Product Manager, Process Development
IDBS
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Siping Wang
Co-Founder, CTO
TetraScience
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Al Wang
Executive Director, Emerging Methods & Technologies, Research IT
Bristol Myers Squibb
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Jessica Hilton
Senior Director, Resource Planning and Management Lead
Pfizer
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Patrick Pijanowski
Managing Director & Founder
Scientia Advisory Services
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Richard Lee
Director, Core Technology and Capabilities
ACD/Labs
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Dana Vanderwall
Senior Director, Digital Transformation
ProPharma
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Tamara McKenna
Director Global Scientific LIMS
Clinisys
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Alex Joyner
Digital Lab Product Manager
Avantor
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Florian Wegener
CEO and Co-Founder
ZAGENO
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Christelle Le Beaudour
iCMC Digital Transformation Product Manager
Sanofi
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Fabio Urbina
AI/ML Solutions Architect
Zifo
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Sriram Ananthanarayan
Director- Digital Quality Lab
Moderna
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Geoff Gerhardt
Chief Technology Officer, Co-founder
Scitara
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Venkatesan Kannan
Lab Automation Lead
Cognizant
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Vasu Rangadass
Founder & Strategy Officer
L7 Informatics
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Donny Preiss
Associate Director IT Lab Applications
MannKind Corporation
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Thrasyvoulos Karydis
CTO and Co-Founder
DeepCure
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Ed Seguine
CEO
Elemental Machines
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Sandy Chang
Digital Transformation Associate Director
GSK
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Thibaut Lagny
Head of Portfolio Management & Operations of Genomic Medicines Unit Research
Sanofi
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Brendan McCorkle
CEO
SciNote
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Nick Brown
Director, Global Portfolio Leader
Certara.AI
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Anshul Agarwal
Partner
ZS
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Andrew Ferry
Director of Client Solutions
Varya Virtual
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Burkhard Schaefer
Head of Partnering
SiLA Consortium
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Dave Dorsett
Chief Digital Officer
Astrix
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Diana Bowley
Associate Director, Data and Digital Strategy for Bioprocess Development
AbbVie
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Yuan Lin
Senior Manager, Biologics Partner
Pfizer
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Christian Baber
Chief Portfolio Officer
Pistoia Alliance
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Saurabh Awasthi
Founder
IndusQ
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Adam Borenstein
Managing Director, Practice Lead Scientific Informatics for the Americas
Accenture
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Jenn Azar
CEO
Stellix
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Cindy Novak-DeLaurell
Director, IT R&D Business Partner
Avidity Biosciences
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Christopher Lundy
Chief AI and Innovation Officer
FindInfinite Labs
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Jagat Adhiya
Head of IT & Digital Transformation for Pharma R&D and Cell & Gene Therapies
Bayer
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Rob Brown
Global VP of Product
Sapio Sciences
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Peggy Weber
Director Laboratory Systems
Sarepta Therapeutics
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Melissa Coughlin
Senior Business Partner - Biopharmaceutical Development/Early Vaccines & Immune Therapies
AstraZeneca
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Andreas Matern
Vice President of R&D Data
Excelra
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Moira Lynch
Director, Innovation and Strategic Projects, Bioproduction
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Brian Good
Senior Research Advisor
Eli Lilly
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Kausheek Nandy
Digital Transformation Director - Research
Boehringer Ingelheim
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Roberto Padilla
Senior Scientist, Analytical Development
AbbVie
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Vishakha Sharma
Senior Principal Data Scientist
Roche
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Greg Sjogren
Senior Laboratory Automation Engineer - Analytical Development
AbbVie
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Jeffrey Nye
Scientific Director
Bristol Myers Squibb
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Timin Hadi
Director, R&D Informatics
Amgen
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Jennifer Pollard
Head of Modeling and Digital Strategy
Bristol Myers Squibb
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John Chan
Head of ShinrAI Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Takeda
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Partha Krishnan
Associate Director, Biosafety and Sustainability for North America
Sanofi
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Yves Fomekong Nanfack
Executive Director and Head of End to End AI Foundations, Large Molecules Research Platform
Sanofi
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Chris Waller
Vice President and Chief Scientist
EPAM Systems
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Geof Hannigan
Director, Digital Strategy
Merck
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Michail Vlysidis
Senior Engineer, Technology II
AbbVie
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Ethan Penner
Senior Process Scientist
Sanofi
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Anna Greenswag
Enterprise Compliance
Renovo Solutions
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David Smithson
Director Lab Automation and Instrumentation
Pfizer
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David Chang-Yen
Prinicipal Research Scientist
AbbVie
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Cindy Nguyen
Automation Engineer
Moderna
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Sharanya Iyer
Manager
Moderna
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Alison Jones
Senior Director, Chemistry
Charles River Laboratories
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Kalpesh Gupta
Director Research Automation
Moderna
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Mira Hinman
Director, Scientific Architecture, Development Sciences Digital Transformation
AbbVie
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Drew Lynch
Digital Biologics Informatician and Team Lead
Sanofi
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Pankaj Aggrawal
Associate Principal Scientist
Merck
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Paul Bolfing
Lab Systems Business Lead
Pfizer
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Mohit Agnihotri
Senior Director, Development Sciences Data & Digital Strategy
AbbVie
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Leah O’Brien
Former Head, Laboratory Digital and Tech
GSK
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Christos Nicolaou
Senior Scientific Director, Digital Small Molecule Lead
Novo Nordisk
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Lisa Shipley
Founder
Shipley Pharma Insights
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Jordan Stobaugh
Director, Scientific Architecture - CMC, Development Sciences Data & Digital Strategy
AbbVie
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Mohan Boggara
Digital Transformation Leader
Sanofi
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John Overington
Head of Data
Drug Hunter
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Abhishek Pandey
Global Lead and Principal Machine Learning Scientist - II
AbbVie
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Tim Hoctor
Advisor
Evolvus
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Eric Mabie
Technical Director, Lab Technologies
Novartis
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Faith Lawlor
Campus Manager, Business and Strategic Planning
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine