Indegene Digital Summit 2024

Guganesh Sunderraj (Technical Support)

Sanket Shah

Anant Puranik

Lakshay Kalra

Srinivasa Adithyan

Market Access

Operations

Keynote Address

Omnichannel

Rare Diseases

Technology

Medical

Clinical

Pharmacovigilance

PRMA

Content

Launch Analytics

Data & Analytics

Medical Affairs

Regulatory Affairs

Commercial

Panel Discussion

Generative AI

Patient Services

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Keynote: Embracing insights, personalization & agility to improve competitiveness in age of AI

Olivier Charmeil

Gaurav Kapoor (Moderator)

In this insightful keynote, Olivier Charmeil shares his perspective on embracing insights and personalization, driving agility, and adopting a data-driven mindset to make decisions that enhance today’s competitiveness while reimagining tomorrow’s go-to-market models.

Unlocking Gen AI's potential in life sciences beyond productivity and efficiency

Edwin Erckens

Hisham Hamadeh

Tarun Mathur (Moderator)

Generative AI (GenAI) has the ability to enhance productivity and streamline processes. However, its true potential extends far beyond these initial benefits. This session will cover the many transformative possibilities that GenAI offers, exploring how it can revolutionize HCP, patient, and employee experiences. This transformation can reshape the life sciences business landscape in unprecedented ways, offering a glimpse into a future where efficiency is just the start of the story. Specifically, the session will cover:

• Beyond productivity and efficiency: Uncovering the return on investment (ROI) beyond productivity and efficiency benefits from GenAI, including strategic insights into long-term value creation and innovation potential
• Future-ready experiences: Unlocking new kinds of customer and business stakeholder experiences, focusing on personalized and predictive interactions that enhance satisfaction and engagement
• New roles: Creating new roles to support the newly unlocked experiences, emphasizing the importance of skills in AI management, data analysis, and digital transformation leadership
• Operational resilience: Improving resilience and adaptability in dynamic market conditions, highlighting how GenAI can help organizations swiftly respond to market changes, mitigate risks, and sustain growth



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Marketing Ops 2.0 – Driving commercial excellence through advanced content and campaign capabilities

Brian Cantwell

Michael Kurr

Jeffrey Heintz

Marc Valdiviezo (Moderator)

Over the last few years, it has become evident that the legacy approach to content and campaign execution, which relies on individual brand teams working with their agencies, produces mediocre results with mostly simple email sends and low volume at a very high cost. Hear from leaders in the industry who have succeeded in establishing regionally and globally centralized operations that integrate campaigns with content planning, content production, review, and operations to help their brand teams execute their strategies and tactics at twice the speed and half the cost—enabling brand teams to focus their time and energy on translating customer insight into sophisticated campaigns with increasingly personalized content that drive business impact for launch, growth, and mature products.

Keynote : Lessons from UCB’s journey: Innovation, patient-centricity, and digital transformation

Emmanuel Caeymaex

Sanjay Parikh (Moderator)

Discover how UCB is navigating the complex landscape of pharmaceutical innovation with a focus on patient-centricity and digital transformation. Learn from Emmanuel Caeymaex, Chief Commercial Officer at UCB, as he shares insights on balancing innovation with operational efficiency, embedding the patient voice into every aspect of decision-making, and leveraging digital tools to stay agile in an evolving market.

Scaling up commercial and medical services in GCCs with technology

Uday Bose

VP, Marketing Services, Eli Lilly & Company

Andy Faulkner

Naveen Gullapalli

Pedro Lopez

Gobin Chandra (Moderator)

Global Capability Centers (GCCs) are the engines powering many organizations' operations. This panel discussion ignites a conversation on how technology can be harnessed to scale up commercial and medical services delivered through these vital hubs.

Join us as we dissect:
• The tech advantage vs. pitfalls: We'll explore the pros and cons of various technology implementations in GCCs and glean key learnings from successful deployments.
• Real-world victories: Dive into inspiring case studies showcasing how technology has transformed service delivery in GCCs.
• The tech influence: We'll analyze the impact of cutting-edge advancements like AI, automation, and data analytics on GCC operations.
• Disruptive futurescapes: Get ready to peek into the future! We'll explore disruptive technologies poised to revolutionize the way GCCs function.

Leveraging AI readiness activities to drive better omnichannel effectiveness and efficiency

Global Head of Omnichannel & Digital Operations, C

Sander Ruitenberg

Werner Raeymaeckers

Jeff French (Moderator)

With most organizations in the life sciences industry focusing on how best to leverage the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to drive more effective and efficient outcomes for both employees and customers, we want to explore how the exploration and preparations for AI utilization are just as if not more than, important as the use of AI capabilities themselves.  

In this session, we will delve into the significance and criticality of preparing your organizations for the use of AI for your critical internal and customer-facing processes. This panel discussion will focus on:

• Discovering where several other life-science organizations are focusing their efforts on AI exploration in the areas of omnichannel engagement
• Understand the preparations taking place to effectively enable AI in the following areas: people, data, processes, and technology 
• Discuss how these preparations are enabling their organizations to drive a better understanding of their customers and empowering better outcomes before the AI capabilities are even activated to further optimize

Keynote : Advancing Patient Care Through Customer-Centric Digital Transformation

Alok Sonig

Peter Marchesini (Moderator)

As the life sciences industry embraces digital transformation, organizations and leaders must drive the expert integration of cutting-edge technologies, systems, and platforms across all facets of the pharmaceutical value chain. The challenge is clear: how can these digital tools be leveraged to revolutionize patient outcomes? This keynote will explore the transformative benefits that come from effectively implementing digital strategies - from streamlining processes and fostering innovation, to ensuring that you remain competitive in an evolving landscape.

Achieving launch excellence in rare diseases by leveraging data and analytics

Saket Malhotra

Bart Vanmedegael

Ashish Sharma

Nitin Raizada (Moderator)

Drug launches are inherently complex, but those for rare diseases are even more so due to limited data and specialized approaches. Despite these challenges, rare diseases will account for a substantial portion of pharmaceutical launches in the next few years. This trend warrants a significant redefinition of launch analytics—rethinking all elements of the launch process, including market research and competitive intelligence, forecasting, market sizing, targeting and segmentation, resource allocation, planning, and more.   

This panel will delve into how this trend will impact the build of data strategies, incorporating the use of social data, generative AI for synthetic data, and real-time analytics—all while ensuring privacy and regulatory compliance. The session will specifically cover:
• Transformative data strategies: Holistic approaches aimed at overcoming the data scarcity challenges unique to rare diseases that will enable more accurate insights and predictions for drug launches. 
• Advanced analytics and AI: Leveraging machine learning, AI, predictive models, and more to anticipate market needs and patient outcomes more accurately.  
• Agile decision-making: Implementation of real-time analytics to monitor and adapt launch strategies, allowing pharmaceutical companies to respond swiftly to market changes and patient feedback.  

From agencies of record to agencies of scale – Navigating the evolution

Jennifer Tolley

Jeff Rothstein (Moderator)

As the advertising landscape evolves, agencies must evolve their capabilities from a traditional role as Agencies of Record (AOR) to becoming Agencies of Scale (AOS). This transformation reflects a fundamental change in how agencies approach client relationships and deliver value. In this insightful panel discussion, industry leaders will explore the dynamic shift from originating creative concepts to driving scalability and predictability as the north star in customer experiences.
 
Join us as our panel of experts delves into:
• The evolution of agency roles: Understand the transition from AOR to AOS and what it means for the future of advertising.
• Scaling creative concepts: Explore how agencies must now prioritize the ongoing development and adaptation of concepts to meet the demands of a rapidly changing media landscape.
• Content production strategies: Learn about innovative approaches in content creation that support the scalable execution of creative ideas across multiple platforms.
• Client and agency collaboration: Discover how this shift impacts client-agency relationships and what agencies need to do to remain indispensable partners in a world where adaptability and efficiency are key.

Whether you’re an advertising professional, a marketer, or someone interested in the future of the industry, this discussion will provide valuable insights into how agencies need to transform in order to drive sustained success and scale in an increasingly complex environment.

Keynote : From breakthrough to impact- The art and science of commercializing scientific discoveries

Adele M. Gulfo

Despite significant advancements in scientific research, commercialization woes continue to haunt the pharma industry. The burning question: how can pharma companies bridge the gap between research and commercial success? Tune in to the keynote to learn proven strategies that improve commercial outcomes, and how to adapt these strategies across diverse drug portfolios and stakeholders, while building a truly patient-cantered business.

Keynote : Balancing expertise, agility, and innovation for lasting success

Suneet Varma

Howard Genderson (Moderator)

As the industry grapples with mounting pressures to deliver groundbreaking solutions, leaders must expertly navigate a complex interplay of expertise, agility, and strategic foresight. The pivotal question emerges: how can organizations cultivate a culture that not only embraces innovation but also harnesses it for sustainable growth? Join this keynote to discover the strategies that can help organizations not only keep pace with change but thrive in it.

Reimagining MLR: Data-driven approach for achieving performance benchmarks

Head, Scientific Evidence & Communications,Oncolog

Renu Juneja

Gareth Worthington

Georgios Tramountanis

Senior Director - Medical Affairs and Review Solut

Vashita Dixit (Moderator)

This session delves into the critical need for a data-driven approach to reimagine the Medical, Legal, and Regulatory (MLR) process, leading to more efficient, high-quality outcomes. Hear from industry leaders on analytics across various parameters such as review effort, timeline, quality of materials, and duplication of effort, etc. can uncover insights that lead to relevant strategies like capacity enhancement, outsourcing, tier-based frameworks, agency governance, etc. all aimed at achieving performance benchmarks in MLR processes.

Key takeaways from the session:
• Discover how leveraging analytics across various MLR parameters, can reveal inefficiencies and areas for improvement.
• Understand the importance of implementing robust governance models and utilizing data to monitor and manage quality, organizations can ensure that all materials meet regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Real-world examples of how strategies can be tailored from data-driven insights to address specific challenges within the MLR process, ensuring a more organized and effective workflow that meets performance benchmarks.


Ensuring content intelligence is in the hands of medical writers. Consideration, benefits and risks.

Tatyana Wanderer

Karen Rutkowski

Julia Forjanic Klapproth

Lisa Chamberlain James (Moderator)

As the use of AI continues to expand into the area of producing content for regulatory documents, we need to ensure that accuracy, consistency, and compliance are not at risk. This requires a solid understanding of what the AI tool is doing with the data and how it generates the outputs. It is essential that the human-in-the-loop remains intact and that medical writers maintain responsibility for the content produced. This insightful panel discussion will feature industry leaders who will share their perspectives on the integration of AI in medical writing for submission ready content.
 
Key topics include:
• Expectations of what AI (in particular generative AI) should and should not do in data handling and content production in the regulatory space
• How the role of the medical writer will evolve, and be influenced by the application of AI moving forwards
• Considerations and perspectives on what regulatory authorities might expect when AI is used for data handling, interpretation, compilation and content production – call out to the Agencies – what we need to hear from them and what we need their opinion on in relation to this


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AI for biopharmaceutical R&D with a focus on clinical trials – moving from theory to practice

Head of Clinical Development and Operations, Bayer

Christoph Koenen

Christopher D. Corsico

Senior Vice President, Head of Integrated Data Ana

Darren Weston

Badhri Srinivasan

Biopharmaceutical R&D stands at an inflection point, with the limiting factor for innovation no longer science or funding but the speed at which clinical trials can be completed (accelerating clinical trials to improve biopharma R&D productivity, McKinsey & Company, 2024). Over the past couple of years, the world has marvelled at the capabilities unleased by AI and this excitement is now generating tremendous possibilities for how this technology can transform the entire process around clinical trials.

This session examines the experiences of Biopharma leaders around this technology and explores the practical aspects by which AI can speed all aspects of clinical trials, enhance data integrity and quality as well as improve the patient journey and experience.

During this session, we are aiming to cover the following topics:
• Optimizing the trial journey: AI streamlines trial design, feasibility, and creates digital protocols for enhanced efficiency
• Revolutionizing patient recruitment: AI facilitates patient-trial matching, personalizes outreach strategies, and fosters geographically dispersed trials
• Empowering data management: AI integrates with wearables for real-time data collection, automates database and cleaning processes, and standardizes data formats
• Unlocking hidden insights: AI analyses vast datasets to identify hidden patterns, predict patient outcomes, and stratify patients for targeted interventions
• Speeding trials from early development to late development and approvals: AI efficiently bridges the gap from early development to late development, regulatory submission and approvals

Keynote : Universal lessons in leadership from a diverse career

Pres, Aadi Bioscience

Dave Lennon

Norma Goodwin (Moderator)

Join us for this exciting keynote where Dave Lennon, President and CEO of Aadi Bioscience, will share leadership lessons from his diverse career spanning big pharma, biotech, and global markets. Tune in to gain valuable guidance on winning strategic opportunities, embracing leadership fallibility, and building high-performing teams in the rapidly evolving life sciences landscape.

State of adoption of Generative AI in PV: The emerging picture

Clapton Dias

23 yrs 6 mos Head of Digital Pharmacovigilance & D

Anand Ramanathan

Fatima Bhayat

Nikesh Shah (Moderator)

Join us for an exclusive discussion that dives deep into the transformative power of Generative AI within PV. Discover how this cutting-edge technology is revolutionizing the landscape, enhancing efficiency, and driving accuracy in adverse event management and beyond.
 
What to expect:
• The reality check: Gain insights from industry experts about the current state of Generative AI adoption in PV. Understand what’s the emerging picture as we cut through the noise.
• Success stories & challenges: Hear firsthand accounts from PV leaders who have integrated Generative AI into their PV processes. Learn about the hurdles they faced and how they overcame them to achieve tangible results.
• Future trends: Explore the future of Generative AI in PV with predictions and trends that are set to shape the industry. Get ahead of the curve with insights into upcoming advancements and their potential impact.

The evolving use of digital technology in healthcare for payer day-to-day activities

Jeffrey Dunn

Marcus Sredzinski

VP, Pricing, Reimbursement and Market Access, Inde

William Lobb

Kevin Patterson (Moderator)

COVID precipitated a change in the payer/manufacturer interaction model. Now with the growth of AI, the potential for digital solutions both within payers and in their interactions is greater than ever before. The discussion will be an exploration of what key issues are facing the adoption of technology in healthcare from a payer perspective. How will technology be used? What problems are solved by technology? What problems does new technology present? What is the role of payers in the future use and management of technology in healthcare and what are the implications to payers?

Mark Williams (Moderator)

Jim Metropolous (Moderator)

Laurence Richards (Moderator)