DataDrivenPharma

East


…a space for data science in pharma, therapeutics, and diagnostics

June 10, 2026

Bentley Conference Center

175 Forest Street
LaCava Building, Suite 300
Waltham, MA 02452

8am to 5pm

Reception 5pm to 8pm

Meet Our Speakers

  • Birgit Schoeberl

    VP, Head of Data42
    Novartis

  • Virginie Buggia-Prevot

    Executive Director
    Valo Health

  • Sun-Gou Ji

    VP, Computational Genomics
    BridgeBio

  • Nevin Gerek Ince

    Director, Data and Solutions Engineering
    Novo Nordisk

  • Ming “Tommy” Tang

    Director of Bioinformatics
    AstraZeneca

  • Elizabeth Choe

    Director of AI Strategy, Translational Medicine
    AstraZeneca

  • Joanna Kemp

    Executive Director, Digital Strategy and Innovation
    GSK

  • Dean Lee

    Senior Expert, Data Science
    Novartis

  • Joanna Sadowska

    Biopharma Account Specialist
    Nanolive SA

  • Christian Roy

    Director, Data Sciences
    Korro Bio

  • Celine Han

    Associate Director, Translational Medicine and Data Science
    GSK

  • Shivam Patel

    Head of Data Science and ML
    PsiThera

  • Melody Morris

    Senior Director, Informatics and Predictive Sciences
    Bristol Myers Squibb

  • Kenneth Longo

    VP Data Science
    Wave Life Sciences

  • Hok Hei Tam

    Chief Technical Officer
    Montai Therapeutics
    Senior Principal
    Flagship Pioneering

  • Joanna Ghayad

    Executive Coach
    Joanna Ghayad Coaching

  • Eric Ma

    Senior Principal Data Scientist
    Moderna

  • Jiayi Cox

    Senior Expert Data Science
    Novartis

  • Maya Cohn Adulamy

    VP Innovation & BD, RWD Strategy
    Valo Health

  • Iulian Pruteanu-Malinici

    Senior Director, Bioinformatics
    Pioneering Medicines

  • Felix Francis

    Associate Director, Data Modeling Lead
    Takeda

  • Mahasweta Bhattacharya

    Senior Scientist
    Sanofi

  • John Goertz

    Principal Scientist, Data Excellence
    Boehringer Ingelheim

  • Vivek Adarsh

    Co Founder and CEO
    Mithrl

  • Wenrui Huang

    Senior Scientist - Clinical & Translational Biomarkers
    Amgen

  • Ada Shaw

    Partnerships and Scientific Collaborations Lead
    Mithrl

  • Shivani Nanda

    Bioinformatician
    Zifo

  • Monica Isgut

    VP of Biomedical Data Science & Health AI Ventures

    SkyMedAI

  • Ethan Simmons

    CEO
    PTP

  • Reenu Pandey

    Informatics Leader

    Takeda

  • Rani Powers

    Founder & CEO
    Pluto Bio

Agenda

Show track:
Track 1 · Inside the Science
Monica Isgut
Track Chair: Monica Isgut
SkyMedAI
Track 2 · Inside the Stack
Jesse Johnson
Track Chair: Jesse Johnson
Merelogic
Track 3 · Inside the Business
Iain McFayden
Track Chair: Iain McFayden
Applied Insights Consulting
Morning
8:00 am
arrival Check-in & breakfast
9:00 am
welcome
Opening note & welcome
Ilya Captain
Ilya Captain
DataDrivenPharma
9:15 am
keynote
Data42: From integrated R&D data to better decisions at scale
Birgit Schoeberl
Birgit Schoeberl
Novartis
Morning Sessions · Individual Talks
9:45 am
Breaking down barriers in drug discovery through an AI-powered, human-centric approach
Virginie Buggia-Prevot
Virginie Buggia-Prevot
Valo Health
Building the digital ecosystem for the lab of the future - from data chaos to AI-ready infrastructure
Nevin Ince
Nevin Ince
Novo Nordisk
Unlocking the feasibility of rare disease drug development
Sun-Gou Ji
Sun-Gou Ji
BridgeBio
10:15 am
Tech Talk: CDD · Speaker TBA
Tech Talk
Tech Talk
10:30 am
The Data Science of CRISPR: analyzing and FAIRifying Perturb-seq data
John Goertz
John Goertz
Boehringer Ingelheim
How to do agentic data science
Eric Ma
Eric Ma
Moderna
Digital health in pharma: opportunities across the drug lifecycle
Joanna Kemp
Joanna Kemp
GSK
11:00 am
Tech Talk: From Signal to Decision: What It Actually Takes for Translational Data to Matter
Shivani Nanda
Shivani Nanda
Zifo
Tech Talk
Tech Talk
Vivek Adarsh
Vivek Adarsh
Mithrl
11:15 am
Data-driven decision making in the translational space
Melody Morris
Melody Morris
Bristol Myers Squibb
What "innovation and AI" actually mean for drug development
Elizabeth Choe
Elizabeth Choe
AstraZeneca
Building a drug discovery company powered by AI and nature's chemical intelligence
Hok Hei
Hok Hei Tam
Montai Therapeutics / Flagship Pioneering
11:45 am
Tech Talk: Expert Judgment at Scale: AI-Enabled Frameworks for Real-Time Translational Decision-Making
Rani Powers
Rani Powers
Pluto Bio
Tech Talk
Tech Talk
Midday
12:00 pm
lunch Lunch
Afternoon Sessions Part I · Panels
1:15 pm
What's new, and what still breaks, in external data-driven discovery?
Melody Morris
Melody Morris moderator
Bristol Myers Squibb
Ken Longo
Ken Longo
Wave Life Sciences
Shivam Patel
Shivam Patel
PsiThera
Celine Han
Celine Han
GSK
Disposable apps and build vs. buy - how is the calculus changing?
Chris Roy
Chris Roy moderator
Korro Bio
Felix Francis
Felix Francis
Takeda
Iulian Pruteanu-Malinici
Pioneering Medicines
Reenue Pandey
Reenu Pandey
Takeda
Personal branding in biotech and pharma
Ilya Captain
Ilya Captain moderator
DataDrivenPharma
Dean Lee
Dean Lee
Novartis
Tommy Tang
Tommy Tang
AstraZeneca
Joanna Ghayad
Joanna Ghayad
Joanna Ghayad Coaching
Joanna Sadowska
Joanna Sadowska
Nanolive SA
2:00 pm
Tech Talk
Ada Shaw
Ada Shaw
Mithrl
Lightning Pitches
Lightning Pitches
2:20 pm
networking Networking
Afternoon Sessions Part II· Roundtables
3:00 pm
Separating signal from hope: when data science actually changes clinical pipeline decisions
Hok Hei Tam
Hok Hei Tam
Montai Therapeutics / Flagship Pioneering
Jiayi Cox
Jiayi Cox
Novartis
Maya Adulamy
Maya Adulamy
Valo Health
Wenrui Huang
Wenrui Huang
Amgen
Same models, different stakes: GenAI in discovery vs. development
Eric Ma
Eric Ma
Moderna
Elizabeth Choe
Elizabeth Choe
AstraZeneca
Let's talk about China: what a more global biotech ecosystem means for data science teams in pharma
Joanna Ghayad
Joanna Ghayad
Joanna Ghayad Coaching
Tommy Tang
Tommy Tang
AstraZeneca
Joanna Sadowska
Joanna Sadowska
Nanolive SA
3:45 pm
Tech Talk
Diamond Age Data Science and Karchem Consulting - Lightning Pitches
Tech Talk
4:00 pm
Multi-omics integration - we all talk about it, but who's actually doing it?
Monica Isgut
Monica Isgut
SkyMedAI
Chris Roy
Chris Roy
Korro Bio
Ken Longo
Ken Longo
Wave Life Sciences
Mahasweta Bhattacharya
Mahasweta Bhattacharya
Sanofi
Closed-loop science: how close are we really?
Virginie Buggia-Prevot
Virginie Buggia-Prevot
Valo Health
Nevin Ince
Nevin Ince
Novo Nordisk
Digital and Data Products in Pharma - Behind the Headlines
Joanna Kemp
Joanna Kemp
GSK
Ethan Simmons
Ethan Simmons
PTP
Dean Lee
Dean Lee
Novartis
4:45 pm
Tech Talk
Tech Talk
Tech Talk
Evening
5:15 pm
closing
Closing remarks
Ilya Captain
Ilya Captain
DataDrivenPharma
5:30 pm
reception Networking reception · 5:30 – 8:00 pm

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