Speakers 2026

Johan Luthman
EVP & Head R&D
Lundbeck
Edith Heard
CEO
Francis Crick Institute
Patrick Schorderet
Global Head of Digital Strategy & Execution
Novo Nordisk
Werngard Czechtizky
Executive Director, Head Medicinal Chemistry, Discovery Sciences
AstraZeneca
Petrina Kamya
VP, Global Head of AI Platforms
Insilico Medicine
Nikolaus Stiefl
Executive Director, Global Head Small Molecule AI for Drug Discovery
Roche & Genentech
Katharina Meier
VP Head of Scientific Insight Solutions, VP Data Science & AI
Bayer
Christian Diehl
Chief Data and Digital Officer for Biomedical Research
Novartis
Nandini Kumar
R&D Practice Leader, Europe, Life Sciences
Cognizant
Stefan Harrer
VP, Global Head of R&D Data and Computational Sciences
Sanofi
Junaid Bajwa
Senior Partner
Flagship Pioneering
Chris Mayhew
Senior Manager, UK Lead, Laboratory Reinvention
Accenture
Melanie Leveridge
Vice President Assays, Profiling & Cell Sciences
AstraZeneca
Julien Marin
SVP and COO
Novalix
Saritha V. Kuriakose
VP, Research Data Management
Daniel Taylor
Head of Digital Science
AstraZeneca
Penny Smee
Senior Director Lab Scientist Experience
GSK
Hans Clevers
Professor of Molecular Genetics
Utrecht University
Philippe Marc
Chief of Staff, Head Data & Digital Office
Novartis Biomedical Research
Anne Pomarede Aschard
Digital R&D - CMC Lab Digitization Product Line Owner
Sanofi
Adam Paton
Principal Client Partner
Zifo RnD Solutions
Bert Torfs
Sr Fellow Lab and Research platforms Engineering
J&J Innovative Medicine
Anne Debusscher
IT Director - Experimental Execution
J&J Innovative Medicines
Erik Vernet
Senior Director - Nonclinical Data Automation
Novo Nordisk
Nick Fuller
Product Director, Next-Generation Platform
IDBS
Hugo Ceulemans
Principal Engineer In Silico Discovery
J&J Innovative Medicine
Rob Kitchen
Director, Head of Systems Biology and Target Discovery
Novo Nordisk
Mark Fish
VP & GM of Digital Lab Solutions
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Elisabeth Dietze
Associate Principal Informatician
AstraZeneca
Willi Gottstein
Senior Staff Scientist & Senior Product Manager
Acceleration Consortium
Mario Richter
Senior Director
AbbVie
David Gosalvez
Chief Strategy Officer
Revvity Signals
Max Petersen
Sr. Principal Digital Architect
Astrix
Yash Sabharwal
CEO
QbDVision
Chris Hoyek
AI Innovation Manager
AstraZeneca
Thrasyvoulos (Thras) Karydis
CTO and Co-Founder
DeepCure
Sathiyanarayanan (Sathya) Vasanthakumar
Head of Data & AI - Engineering and Analytics
Zifo
Andrew Ayginin
Generative Biologics Product Manager
Insilico Medicine
Danai Bili
Lab Systems and Data Lead
J&J Innovative Medicine
Vasu Rangadass
Founder and CEO
L7 Informatics
Jason Boyd
Strategy
Benchling
Francois-Xavier Blaudin de Thé
Therapeutic Projects Data & AI Lead
Servier
Mark Hahnel
VP, Open Research
Digital Science
Paolo Avalle
Principal Scientist
MSD
Evangelia (Eva) Sioki
Associate Director of Science
AstraZeneca
Rob Brown
Global VP, Head of Scientific Office
Sapio Sciences
Amellalih Reza
Global QA Project Manager
Bayer
John den Engelsman
Executive Director, Process Analytical Sciences
Novartis
Gemma Holliday
Associate Principal Cheminformatician, PharmSci Digitisation
AstraZeneca
Jelrik Masson
Senior Director, Europe LIMS Strategy
Veeva
Samuel Demharter
Senior Director Head of Discovery Data Science
Genmab
Darren Green
Director
DesignPlus Cheminformatics Consultants
Laura Turco
Global QMS Strategy & Process Excellence Lead
Bayer
Joshua Valdez
Director, Operations IT - Data Analytics & AI, Digital Transformation
AstraZeneca
Becky Upton
President
Pistoia Alliance
Nick lynch
Founder
Curlew Research
Ashutosh Upadhyay
Principal Engineer
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
Dean Mulyk
Senior Manager of Product Management for Digital Science & Automation Solutions
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Bethan Howells
Associate Principal Scientist - High Throughput Screening Automation
AstraZeneca
Sven Countandin
Director Global Lab Automation & Innovation
BioNTech
Dylan Maixner
VP, Consulting
Rancho BioSciences
Trish Meek
Sr. Director, Portfolio Owner
Waters Corporation
Jonathan Cremers
Principal AI Product Manager
Apheris
Corinne Ploix
Senior Data & Workflow Optimization Expert
Roche
Zeeshan Mahmood
Director of Partnerships
Uncountable
Ulmas Zhumaev
Lead Scientist, Central Analytics
Merck KGaA
Andreas Steinbacher
Senior Digital Director
Novo Nordisk
Kristof Verleyen
Program Manager – Molecular Characterization
BASF
Yona Zunino
Associate Scientist - Enabling Technologies
Merk Group
Dominik Schneider
Global Head of Digital Solutions, Innovation R&D
Symrise AG
Dimitri Yatsenko
Founder, Chief Science and Technology Officer
DataJoint
Andrea Anelli
Data and Digitalisation Senior Scientist
Roche
Alexander Mouris
Head of Functional Genomics
Systasy Bioscience
José Carlos Gómez-Tamayo
Principal Scientist
J&J Innovative Medicine
Georges Da Violante
Director, Search and Evaluation Enabling Technologies
Servier
Susanne Weissenborn
Team Lead Enabling Technologies
Roche
Christian Baber
Chief Portfolio Officer
Pistoia Alliance
Robbert van Putten
Senior Scientist in High-Throughput Experimentation
J&J Innovative Medicine
Claudio Battilocchio
Automation lead
Syngenta
Anna Codina
Senior Director Strategy and Business Development
SciY
Vincent Luyten
Principal Engineer, In Silico Discovery
J&J Innovative Medicine
Anne Mai Wassermann
Director In Silico Discovery
J&J Innovative Medicine
Kirsten Tschapalda
Group Leader High Throughput Screening & Profiling, Lead Discovery
Roche
Laura Huerta Martíne
Information Technology Delivery Manager
Almirall
Martin Winter
CEO
Lab Automation Network
Tamara McKenna
Director, Global Scientific LIMS
Clinisys
Julie Klint
Director, Head of Molecular Discovery & Enabling Technologies
Lundbeck
Philippa (Mitchell) Harlow
Nematode Geneticist
Syngenta
Matt Worthington
Principal Scientist
Syngenta
Kevin Menton
Director Technical Product Management
MSD