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Pistoia Alliance 2025 London Conference

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Data Driven Innovations – March 25 & 26, 2025

Join us at our European annual conference where new ideas are sparked and new initiatives are activated thanks to the power of collaboration. We are excited to be hosting this year’s event at the Royal Society of Medicine, a society focused on continuous education and innovation. Once again we look forward to bringing together everyone from across the global biopharmaceutical ecosystem for two days of learning, networking and collaboration.

 

Posters

To secure one of our limited poster presentation opportunities, email catherine.maskell@pistoiaalliance.org with a brief abstract. This opportunity is free for our attending pharma members and academic institutions and $500 for member vendors.

Sponsors

 

Agenda

Tuesday March 25
Time Event Details
08:30 Early Registration
09:00 – 13:00 Pistoia Alliance Project Workshops
* Pre-registration Required *
  • FAIR
  • AI
  • IDMP
  • GSRS
13:00 – 14:00 Registration & Poster Viewing
14:00 – 14:05 Opening Remarks
  • Becky Upton, President, Pistoia Alliance
14:05 – 14:35 Keynote Speaker
  • Brian Martin, Senior Research Fellow, AbbVie
14:35 – 15:05 Title “From Interoperability to Automation. Where next for FAIR Data Standards in AstraZeneca?”
  • Mathew Woodwark, Head of Data Standards, Interoperability and Governance, Astrazeneca
15:05 – 15.35 Keynote Speaker
  • Marcus Hartmann, Global Product Lead, Merck KGaA
15:35 – 16:10 Coffee Break
  • Sponsored by Zühlke
16:10 – 16:25 Title “AI Is Not Just Artificial Intelligence”
  • Miles Davies, Amino Data
16:25 – 16:55 Title “Real World Data Quality: Considerations for Regulatory Purposes”
  • Puja Myles, UK Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA)
16:55 – 17:15 Speaker Panel
  • Hosted by Christian Baber, Pistoia Alliance
17:15 – 19:00 Drinks Reception
  • Sponsored by Thoughtworks

 

Wednesday March 26
Time Event Details
08:15 Registration Opens
  • Hot drinks and pastries
09.00 – 09:05 Opening Remarks
  • Becky Upton, President, Pistoia Alliance
09:05 – 09:35 Title “Empowering Innovation: Role of Data and AI at Servier”
  • Sophie Ollivier, Chief Data Officer R&D, Servier
  • Renan Andrade Pereira, Head of Data Science, Servier
09:35 – 09:50 Plenary Sponsor
  • Speaker from Elsevier
09:50 – 10:20 Title “AI for Drug Discovery in 2025: A View from the Industry-Academia Interface”
  • Conrad Bessant, Professor of Bioinformatics at Queen Mary University
10:20 – 10:30 Sponsored Research
  • Neal Dunkinson, Sr Director of Solution Sales, CCC
10:30 – 10:45 Plenary Sponsor
  • Speaker from Zifo
10:45 – 11:30 Coffee Break
  • Sponsored by Zühlke
11:30 – 11:45 Title “Gaining Deeper Insights from Complex Datasets: Evaluating Query Generation Strategies for Knowledge Graphs Using LLMs”
  • Dan Rozelle, VP of Data Analytics,
    Rancho Bio Sciences
11:45 – 12:15 Pistoia Alliance Viewpoint
  • Christian Baber, Chief Portfolio Officer, Pistoia Alliance
  • Thierry Escudier, Project Manager, Pistoia Alliance
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch & New Ideas Poster Viewing
13:35 – 15:00 Breakout Sessions Breakout 1 : Data, Metadata and Semantics: Organization, Governance and Exchange
Data is the lifeblood of our industry. However, to generate value data must be used, and ideally re-used, to drive decisions. Without appropriate organization, management and exchange data cannot be used to generate reusable insights and models. One of the strategic priorities of the Pistoia Alliance is to Deliver Data-Driven Value at Scale and this session will cover some of the activities going on in this area both in the Alliance and at our member companies and associated organizations.

  • 13:30: Introduction
    Christian Baber, Chief Portfolio Officer, Pistoia Alliance
  • 13:45: Advancing Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: An Ontology to Standardized CMC Process and Enhanced Digital Tech Transfer
    Nisha Bhudia, Data Standard & Governance Expert, GSK
  • 14:05: Presentation 2
    Peter Van Reusel, CDISC
  • 14:20: Enhancing Data Quality and Sample Tracking in Mega Clinical Trials: A FAIR and Metadata-Driven Approach,
    Balvinder Dang, CEO, DataVid
  • 14:40: Unlocking the Power of Data Contextualization through a Semantic Layer
    Thibaut Snollaerts, Servier and Eelke van der Horst, The Hyve

Breakout 2: Data Driven Models for a 10x Improvement in Drug Discovery and Delivery
Innovation in the Real World/Real World Data
In this breakout we will brainstorm disruptive solutions and use cases for the pharmaceutical R&D’s escalating costs and diminishing returns

  • 13:30: Introduction
    Vladimir Markarov and Thierry Escudier, Pistoia Alliance
  • 13:45: Presentation 1
    Vera Hazelwood, Astrazeneca
  • 14:05: What can AI-powered Lab Informatics Software Contribute to the 10x?
    Rob Brown, Sapio Sciences
  • 14:25: Presentation 3
  • 14:40: Panel Discussion
15:00 – 15.45 Coffee Break
  • Sponsored by Zühlke
15:45 – 16:00 Plenary Sponsor
  • Speaker from Cognizant
16:00 – 16:15 Next Generation Technology for Next Generation Trials
  • Dr. Karen Sayal, Senior Director, Recursion
16:25– 16:35 Title “Lab of the Future: Digital Transformation for a State of the Art R&D centre”
  • Mark Polinkovsky, Head of Data Science Services, Arcondis
16:15– 16:25 Title “Smarter Reviewss, Faster Insights: AI Driven Transformation of Systematic Literature Reviews”
  • Mark Hahnel, VP Open Research, Digital Science
16:35 – 17:05 Closing Keynote
  • Yvonne Diaz, Co-founder and Chair of Oncogene Cancer Research
17:05 – 17:35 Data Scientist of the Year Finalists
  •  Presentation to the Shortlisted Winners and the overall Winner
17:30 – 19:00 Celebration Reception
  • Sponsored by Thoughtworks

 

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