Speaker profile

Etai Jacob

Head of Applied Data Science and AI, Oncology R&D
AstraZeneca

Etai Jacob, PhD, leads Applied Data Science & AI for Oncology R&D at AstraZeneca, where he scaled global teams of data scientists, computational biologists, and AI researchers to operationalize AI across discovery through clinical development. His work focuses on decision intelligence for drug R&D: integrating multimodal data, deploying predictive biomarker and patient-stratification models, and designing benchmarking and evaluation frameworks for foundation and agentic AI systems. Etai brings 20+ years of cross-industry experience and a track record of converting advanced methods into measurable R&D impact.

Agenda sessions

Day 1 | March 2, 2026
15:05 Grand Ballroom
Panel Discussion and Q&A
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14:20 Grand Ballroom
Scaling AI in R&D Through Foundation Models and Agentic Frameworks
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