4th Annual Pharma AI, IoT & Blockchain 2021

09:20 - Welcome Address & Virtual Conference Platform Instructions

MARKET ANALYSIS & OVERVIEW

09:30 – Longevity drug development is just getting started and data is ready to lend a helping hand

•   What does it mean to use drugs to live longer? 150 years old with cancer and wheelchair bound may not be our dream.
•   Data is more than the new black gold for drug discovery. But it is not effective to simply hoard “big data” and throw it at neural networks.
•   There is an active state-of-play of longevity health offerings and drug development programmes. it is valuable to understand their commonalities and differences.
•   What innovations will we see in the next 5 to 10 years? (Some astrology is always interesting!)
RAMINDERPAL SINGH, Founder (Stealth Startup)

BIG DATA & ADVANCED ANALYTICS

10:10 - Panel Discussion - Big data to big impact: Big data transforming the pharma industry

•   How does it help?
•   How big data can revolutionise pharmaceutical R&D
•   Cross-industry collaboration
•   Real-world evidence
•   Big Data Analytics for the Pharmaceutical Industry and Clinical Trials
•   The challenges of a big-data transformation
•   Next frontier
•   Making Big Data useful: Practical approaches

Moderator
MARIA EUGENIA, Senior R&D Project Manager & Head of Big Data, LifeSTech

Panellists
MYLES FURNACE, Global Digital Health Lead Partnerships Strategy Transformation and Digital, Ipsen
NATALIA M. MONTEIRO, Former Digital Solutions Manager, Novartis
BERNARD HAMELIN, Former Global Head of Evidence Generation, Sanofi
EMMANUEL PHAM, Former VP Biometry, Ipsen
PASQUALE FEDELE, Founder, LiquidWeb

10:50 – Morning Coffee/Tea & Discussion

AI

11:10 – Keynote Panel Discussion: AI - Challenges and opportunities – Moving forward with a successful strategy

•   The Why, How And When of AI in the pharmaceutical industry
•   Implementation to Realization – How do we accelerate AI through its lifecycle in Pharma?
•   How quickly will regulatory bodies and payers approve and adopt these approaches?
•   How and where should we invest our efforts moving forward?
•   Developing regulatory framework in advanced and developing markets – for Today & Tomorrow
•   Future of next generation AI

Moderator
BHUSHAN BONDE, Head of IT-Early Solutions Innovation Development, UCB

Panellists
STEVEN ABRAHAMSON, Sr. Director, Region Information Security Officer, GE Healthcare (USA)
KEVIN HUA, Senior Manager A.I./Machine Learning Development, Bayer LifeScience iHub
STEFANIA ALVINO, Digital & MultiChannel Manager, Daiichi Sankyo
MARCELO O GARCIA, Former Medical Systems Head, Global Medical Affairs, Novartis
INGO BAUMANN, Partner, Thescon

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

12:00 – Panel Discussion – Impact of Digital Transformation in healthcare & pharma industry

•   How is digital changing the pharma & healthcareb industry
•   What’s holding pharma back?
•   Transforming pharma commercial models in the age of the digital citizen
•   Payors, Stake holders, Pharmacists and patients - Their roles and the implications
•   Challenges and Opportunities
•   Closing the digital gap in pharma
•   The road to digital success in pharma

Moderator
MARK DUMAN, Director, MD Healthcare

Panellists
DISA LEE CHOUN, Director Head of GCSO Innovation, UCB
GABOR PURMAN, Scientific Solutions Director, NexGen Healthcare Communications
EVI MATHIOU, Legal, Compliance & Quality Director, Novo Nordisk
ANDREW BRYANT, Principal Engineer / Principal Fellow, Novartis
JON LEE-DAVEY, Global IoT Healthcare Lead, Vodafone

12:50 - Networking luncheon

13:50 – Change Assessment Knowledge Engine (CAKE)

•   Assessing potential reportability of manufacturing changes to health authorities is challenging, complex and time-consuming
•   Merck developed an AI/ML engine leveraging knowledge graph and NLP technology-based solutions to support decision making
•   CMC quickly receives representative global regulatory reporting requirements and an indication of change reportability
•   Significant improvement in turnaround time: assessments that sometimes took hours now take minutes
JOHN BAKER, Executive Director, Machine Learning & Analytics, Merck (USA)

14:30 – Securing AI and other Advancing Technology in the Internet of Medical Things

• AI is creating many opportunities for improving patient care
• As often happens, this next-generation technology also has inherent security risks
• The medtech manufacturer as well as the healthcare provider must understand the similarities and differences in approaching security for AI applications
• With the appropriate structure for diligence, security risks within AI use cases can be effectively managed
STEVEN ABRAHAMSON, Sr. Director, Region Information Security Officer, GE Healthcare (USA)

15:00 – Afternoon Tea/Coffee

IoT

15:10 – Panel Discussion - How IoT is transforming the Pharmaceutical Industry?

•   IoT Bringing in the Paradigm Shift in Pharmaceutical Sector
•   How IoT is revolutionizing the pharma industry?
•   Transforming to this era – Things to watch out for?
•   Utility of IoT Sensors
•   IoT Enabling Organizations to Assemble Data
•   What are the risk Factors?

Moderator
RAMINDERPAL SINGH, Founder (Stealth Startup)

Panellists
PETER RUTHERFORD, Global Medical Lead - Orphan Renal Diseases, Vifor Pharma
BILL ARONSON, COO, Artificial Intelligence Research Group
EDDIE GUZDAR, Medical Head of Neuroscience, Sanofi Genzyme
FRANCISCO MELLO, Founder, Microsoft Teams Club (Former Digital Lead, Bayer)

15:50 – Lessons from the field in AI: “so what?”

• Design AI/ML projects to deliver real world impact
• Technical and non-technical assessment of projects
• Examples of impactful projects--why they demonstrated real world impact

FILIPE GRACIO, Customer Engineer - Google Cloud. Public Sector and Life Sciences, Google
MICHELLE UNTERBRINK, Customer Engineering Manager - Healthcare, Research & Higher Education, Google

BLOCKCHAIN

16:20 – Panel Discussion – Why Big Pharma Is Betting on Blockchain

•   The future value of Blockchain
•   How blockchain can add value to the pharmaceutical industry
•   How The Pharmaceutical Industry Is Using Blockchain
•   Blockchain: Solving Almost Every Pharma Industry Challenges and Problems
•   The next big thing in pharmacy supply chain: Blockchain
•   How Blockchain Will Revolutionize the Healthcare Industry

Moderator
SIDDHI TRIVEDI, Founder, Beyond Identity

Panellists
IGNACIO QUILES LARA, Independent Consultant
MARCO CUOMO, Manager Applied Technology Innovation, Novartis
BENOIT MARCHAL, PEPS Project Initiator & Manager, Roche
ADI BEN-ARI, Founder & CEO, Applied Blockchain

17:00 - End of conference