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Thursday, September 17
 

7:30am EDT

Networking Breakfast
Thursday September 17, 2026 7:30am - 8:30am EDT

Thursday September 17, 2026 7:30am - 8:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom

7:30am EDT

Registration
Thursday September 17, 2026 7:30am - 2:00pm EDT

Thursday September 17, 2026 7:30am - 2:00pm EDT
West Lobby

8:25am EDT

Track B Chair
Thursday September 17, 2026 8:25am - 8:30am EDT

Speakers
avatar for Veronica Granatiero, PharmD, Ph.D.

Veronica Granatiero, PharmD, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Oncology Competitive Intelligence, BMS

Thursday September 17, 2026 8:25am - 8:30am EDT

8:25am EDT

Track C Chair
Thursday September 17, 2026 8:25am - 8:30am EDT

Speakers
avatar for Jessa Pacheco

Jessa Pacheco

Conference Director, Fierce Life Sciences

Thursday September 17, 2026 8:25am - 8:30am EDT

8:25am EDT

Track A Chair
Thursday September 17, 2026 8:25am - 8:40am EDT

Speakers
avatar for Mukesh Kumar, Ph.D.

Mukesh Kumar, Ph.D.

President, KV Group
Dr. Mukesh Kumar is the President of the KV Group. Mukesh has more than 20 years of experience in conducting high quality evidence based primary research, developing and synthesizing information, competitive and pipeline analysis. His experience in pharmaceutical industry, especially... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 8:25am - 8:40am EDT

8:30am EDT

Panel: Competitive Intelligence Across the Asset Lifecycle: Turning Early Signals Into Better Portfolio Decisions
Thursday September 17, 2026 8:30am - 9:15am EDT
  • Identify competitive signals early enough to influence development—not just launch  

  • Adapt intelligence priorities across discovery, development, launch and lifecycle management  

  • Build scenarios that evolve with the asset  

  • Balance commercial and scientific intelligence throughout development  

  • Determine which intelligence questions matter most at each stage

Moderators
avatar for Brian Adams, Ph.D.

Brian Adams, Ph.D.

Director of Global Competitive Intelligence and Integrated Insights, Rare Diseases, UCB

Speakers
avatar for Azusa Tanaka, Ph.D.

Azusa Tanaka, Ph.D.

Director, Customer Insights, Regeneron

avatar for Heather Rumancik

Heather Rumancik

Director of Competitive Intelligence, AbbVie
Heather Rumancik is a competitive intelligence leader with a passion for connecting people, data, and technology to generate meaningful business insights. As Director of Competitive Intelligence at AbbVie, she focuses on generating intelligence to support strategic decision-making... Read More →
avatar for Alice Readick

Alice Readick

Senior Director, Commercial Strategy & Planning, Exelixis
Alice Readick is Senior Director, Commercial Strategy & Planning at Exelixis, leading New Product Planning activities across the early- and late-stage oncology portfolio. 
Thursday September 17, 2026 8:30am - 9:15am EDT
Junior Ballroom C

8:30am EDT

Panel: Beyond Borders: How Global Competitive Intelligence Is Transforming Portfolio and Licensing Decisions
Thursday September 17, 2026 8:30am - 9:15am EDT
    As pharmaceutical innovation expands beyond traditional markets, competitive intelligence teams must rethink how they identify opportunity, assess competitive risk, and support strategic decision-making. Explore how organizations are monitoring innovation across China and other emerging biopharma ecosystems, translating global competitive signals into portfolio, licensing, R&D, and commercialization decisions. Through real-world examples and data-driven insights, learn how leading organizations are adapting their intelligence strategies to compete in an increasingly global innovation landscape.
    • Track the shifting geography of pharmaceutical innovation and understand how China and other emerging biopharma ecosystems are reshaping the competitive landscape.
    • Identify the competitive signals that matter most when evaluating emerging assets, technologies, and companies—and separate meaningful opportunities from market noise.
    • Learn how competitive intelligence informs portfolio, licensing, and business development decisions to support earlier, more confident investment and partnership strategies.
    • Explore how global intelligence teams connect regional insights with enterprise decision-making, enabling better collaboration across CI, R&D, commercial, and business development.
    • Turn global competitive data into strategic action by translating market intelligence into recommendations that drive executive decisions and long-term competitive advantage.
Moderators
avatar for Michael Hay

Michael Hay

Chief Strategy Officer, Mindgram

Speakers
avatar for Armin Rump, Ph.D.

Armin Rump, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Global Business Development, Otsuka Pharmaceutical
Based in Otsuka’s US head office in Princeton, Armin is part of Otsuka’s scouting & evaluation team, charged with identifying, evaluating and bringing into Otsuka’s global development pipeline new innovative drugs that address serious medical needs one of Otsuka’s two areas... Read More →
avatar for Christopher Salatto

Christopher Salatto

Head of Competitive Intelligence, Pfizer
Chris serves as Head of Competitive Intelligence at Pfizer. In this role he leads a global team of experts skilled at building a comprehensive view of the pharma environment, from the asset through sector levels, and integrating these knowledge and insights into every level of decision-making... Read More →
avatar for Zairan Liu

Zairan Liu

Chief International Business Officer, PharmCube
Zairan Liu is Chief International Business Officer at PharmCube, a leading pharmaceutical intelligence platform focused on China’s rapidly evolving biopharma innovation landscape. She leads PharmCube’s international expansion and works with global pharmaceutical companies, biotech... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 8:30am - 9:15am EDT
Junior Ballroom D

8:30am EDT

Panel: Redesigning the Competitive Intelligence Operating Model
Thursday September 17, 2026 8:30am - 9:15am EDT
  • Move beyond collecting information to generating actionable business insights  

  • Redefine the role of CI in an AI-enabled environment  

  • Determine which activities AI should own—and where human expertise creates the greatest value  

  • Build operating models that prioritize interpretation, context, and strategic recommendations  

  • Equip CI teams with the capabilities needed for the next generation of intelligenc
Moderators
avatar for Maureen Nail, PhD, MBA

Maureen Nail, PhD, MBA

Director, Oncology Competitive Intelligence, AbbVie

Speakers
avatar for Akshay Krishnamachari

Akshay Krishnamachari

President - Competitive Intelligence and Benchmarking, SAI MedPartners
Akshay Krishnamachari oversees SAI MedPartners’ global CI and Benchmarking Business Unit, with direct responsibility for talent development, operational metrics, and the implementation of strategic initiatives across business units.

With over 13 years at SAI, Akshay has played a

... Read More →
avatar for Maria Movafegh

Maria Movafegh

Senior Director, Oncology Competitive Intelligence, GSK
As the Head of Oncology Competitive Intelligence at GSK, Maria Movafegh draws on more than a decade of experience spanning industry and consulting to lead the global function that informs portfolio strategy and guides key decisions across the oncology business by delivering competitive... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 8:30am - 9:15am EDT
Junior Ballroom F

9:20am EDT

From Insights to Strategy Alignment & Decision Confidence Across Markets: A “Workshop-In-a-Box” Approach
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:20am - 9:50am EDT
  • This talk will explore how market research and competitive intelligence can be brought together to create alignment and turn insights into confident strategic decisions.
  • It will examine a real-world “Workshop-in-a-Box” case study, demonstrating how a global launch strategy can be scaled across markets while accounting for local differences in treatment pathways, competition, and access.
  • The session will cover practical lessons on designing workshops that translate global strategy into locally relevant priorities, actionable plans, and clear ownership across teams.

Speakers
avatar for Will Torres

Will Torres

Consultant, Lifescience Dynamics
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:20am - 9:50am EDT
Junior Ballroom C

9:20am EDT

Helping the CI Professional Master Their Universe
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:20am - 9:50am EDT
  • CI, science, AI, and shifting geopolitics.


  • Is this a moment of professional displacement, or genuine opportunity, for the CI function?


  • What does it take to master the universe of modern competitive intelligence?



Speakers
avatar for Ben Lidbetter

Ben Lidbetter

Product Manager, GlobalData
Ben Lidbetter is a Product Manager with 15 years’ experience in pharmaceutical business intelligence. Focused on developing data-driven products that help life sciences organisations make smarter, more informed decisions.
avatar for Philip Hart

Philip Hart

Vice President of Consulting, GlobalData
Philip Hart has over 14 years of consulting experience in the life sciences industry, helping pharmaceutical organisations shape commercial development, launch and access strategies. His expertise spans oncology, neuroscience, immunology and inflammation, and rare disease, with experience... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:20am - 9:50am EDT
Junior Ballroom D

9:20am EDT

What Didn't Work: Two Failed Attempts at Building AI for CI
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:20am - 9:50am EDT
  • Why monitoring thousands of sources simultaneously is the most straightforward part of CI monitoring. 
  • Why picking the dozen events from a day's output that are insightful to a single asset is hard, and combining them into a continuous strategic analysis almost impossible. 
  • The engineering approaches Pharosyn tried and abandoned, and the final system now in use by CI teams at pharma companies

Speakers
avatar for Lauren Ryan, Ph.D.

Lauren Ryan, Ph.D.

Product Engineer, Pharosyn

avatar for Stephen Cowley

Stephen Cowley

Co-Founder and CEO, Pharosyn
Stephen Cowley is co-founder and CEO of Pharosyn. With his co-founder Josh Hampson, he has taken his AI research at Cambridge and assembled a team of former CI and strategy consultants and AI engineers to ship AI for pharma competitive intelligence teams.
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:20am - 9:50am EDT
Junior Ballroom F

9:55am EDT

Beyond AI: The Human Advantage in Pharma Competitive Intelligence
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:55am - 10:25am EDT
FENIX conducted qualitative interviews with 42 pharma stakeholders and CI professionals to explore how AI is being adopted, where it creates value and where it continues to fall short. Drawing on these perspectives and selected case studies, this session examines the emerging CI ecosystem and how human and artificial intelligence can work together. 

Key takeaways:
  • Where AI is already transforming CI workflows, and where it falls short
  • Why human expertise remains essential for interpreting subtle signals and strategic meaning
  • How AI’s speed and scale combine with human context, judgment, and leadership






Speakers
avatar for Pedro Fontana, MBA

Pedro Fontana, MBA

Vice President, Growth & Strategy, Fenix Group International
Pedro Fontana is VP of Growth and Strategy at FENIX, a global life sciences strategy and competitive intelligence consultancy. His 10+ years of experience advising leading pharma companies include roles as a Principal in IQVIA’s Asset and Portfolio Strategy practice and as a Senior... Read More →
avatar for Erika Dahl, Ph.D.

Erika Dahl, Ph.D.

  Senior Project Lead, Fenix Group International 
Erika Dahl is a competitive intelligence leader at Fenix Group International, a life sciences consulting and technology company primarily partnering with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare organizations. She supports life science organizations with market insights and strategic... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:55am - 10:25am EDT
Junior Ballroom C

9:55am EDT

What They File vs What They Say: Building Competitive Foresight on the Regulatory Record
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:55am - 10:25am EDT
Corporate press releases, investor decks, and congress abstracts are carefully crafted to shape market perception. Relying on this curated messaging leaves competitive intelligence and commercial strategy teams reactive, vulnerable, and a step behind. To build true competitive insights, teams must ground their analysis in the primary source: official labels, approval packages, review documents, and regulatory registry updates. 
 
This session explores how to shift from tracking corporate messaging to decoding the unvarnished regulatory record. Attendees will learn how to identify critical divergences between public narratives and official filings, identify early signals that predict market shifts months before public announcements, and establish a repeatable CI cadence that directly elevates brand planning, launch readiness, and market differentiation. 
Speakers
avatar for Sam Kay

Sam Kay

VP Pharma, Basil Systems
Sam Kay leads the pharma vertical at Basil Systems, an AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform used by pharmaceutical companies to build strategy based on the regulatory record. He brings over 14 years in regulatory affairs, including leading Cortellis Regulatory Intelligence... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:55am - 10:25am EDT
Junior Ballroom D

9:55am EDT

Reimagining Conference Coverage - What happens when AI meets the CI Expert
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:55am - 10:25am EDT
Join us as we share our journey—from experimenting with AI at a single conference to scaling an AI + Human model across 20+ conferences for a leading global biopharma company. Discover what we learned, what changed, and how AI + human expertise can transform conference intelligence at scale.

Key Takeaways:
  • Automate the work that never required a CI expert
  • Bring AI, Automation & Therapy-area intelligence into every step of the workflow
  • Turn reclaimed hours into deeper analysis, sharper judgment & better decisions


Speakers
avatar for Siddharth Subramaniam

Siddharth Subramaniam

Co-Founder, Pharma Edge

Thursday September 17, 2026 9:55am - 10:25am EDT
Junior Ballroom F

10:30am EDT

Networking Break
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:30am - 11:15am EDT

Thursday September 17, 2026 10:30am - 11:15am EDT
Grand Ballroom

11:15am EDT

Your Competitor's Website Changed 20 Minutes Ago. Who's Going to Notice?
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am EDT
Automating the watching layer of pharma CI: peer playbooks, AI triage, and a live build you can copy. 
 
Pharma CI teams still do the watching by hand: weekly sweeps of long link lists, the same 60 to 80 pages checked two or three times a day, 200-message mornings where half the alerts do not matter. The signals that matter move first on public pages: registry amendments, agency calendars, competitor HCP copy, congress portals, HTA decisions. 
 
This working session covers what peer teams watch and what they built on top of it: change events routed into Microsoft 365 flows, therapy-area mailboxes, weekly AI-filtered digests, and congress triage that replaced manual contractor sweeps. We'll build automations live on stage in under ten minutes, and every attendee leaves with a competitor monitoring starter pack. 
 
Attendees will take away 
 
- Which public sources pharma CI programs actually monitor, drawn from a real dataset of active monitors, and where the monitored volume concentrates 
- Four architecture patterns for organizing a monitoring program: by marketed asset, by therapy area, by geography, or by client program 
- The automation patterns peers already run: change events into Microsoft 365 flows, functional mailbox routing, and weekly important-only AI digests 
 
Who should attend 
CI practitioners and leads at pharma and biotech, CI agencies and consultancies, CROs offering regulatory or competitive intelligence services, plus regulatory intelligence, medical affairs, and market access professionals who own a watchlist. 
 
Session level 
Beginner to Intermediate. Practitioner-focused, no specific vendor tooling required to apply the material. 
 
Materials attendees receive 
Speakers
avatar for Eric Do Couto

Eric Do Couto

Head of Marketing, Visualping
Eric Do Couto is Head of Marketing & GTM at Visualping, the website change-detection platform with users in 85% of the Fortune 500 and more than 2 million users. His vantage point is the aggregate: what thousands of monitoring programsobserveh, how they route alerts, and which habits... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am EDT
Junior Ballroom C

11:15am EDT

THE MISSING LAYER OF CI: Individual Insights to Institutional Intelligence
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am EDT
  • Recognize where institutional knowledge is quietly missing from your daily CI outputs – and what it's costing you. 
  • Learn a model for turning individual insights into institutional intelligence that compounds, instead of resetting every cycle. 
  • Rethink what “good CI” means – not predicting the future but helping your organization prepare for it. 

Speakers
avatar for Gianclaudio Floria

Gianclaudio Floria

Head of EU Operations, PharmSight Research and Analytics
•Gianclaudio Floria brings 25+ years of international pharmaceutical experience across finance, pricing, forecasting, data analytics, and market intelligence. His career spans Italy, the UK, Switzerland, and the US, with leadership roles at Gilead, Amgen, Alexion, and BMS.•A speaker... Read More →
avatar for Ubaid Naeem

Ubaid Naeem

Senior Manager, PharmSight Research and Analytics
Ubaid is a pharmaceutical CI leader with global delivery experience across the US, EU, LATAM, and APAC, currently heading the CI function at PharmSight.

He has led multiple CI and primary research engagements supporting blockbuster brands, as well as Business Development and New P... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am EDT
Junior Ballroom D

11:15am EDT

Agentic Competitive Intelligence: A Case Study Lens in Multiple Myeloma & Digital Doctor Twins
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am EDT
The voice of the doctor is central to every pharma commercial workflow, including competitive intelligence. This need is especially apparent in Multiple Myeloma, arguably an indication with one of the most complex lines of therapy. Capturing this currently requires running a study, going through MLR and waiting months for a static PDF that hides the depth in this doctor's voice behind a statistic. But what if, you could get your competitive insight instantly, from this doctor's digital twin? Medisights enables pharma commercial teams by building this layer of agentic intelligence, backed by real, deep HCP conversations. 
Speakers
avatar for Frank Seo

Frank Seo

Chief Executive Officer, Medisights
Frank Seo is a commercial leader in life sciences AI and the founder of Medisights, where he is pioneering the use of compliant AI moderators to help pharmaceutical companies generate deeper qualitative insights from physician conversations. He is a veteran in the pharma technology... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am EDT
Junior Ballroom F

11:50am EDT

Roundtables
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:50am - 12:20pm EDT

  1. From Pilot to Practice: Deploying AI Inside the CI Function- Suzanne Caruso, President, Strategic Intelligence and Clinical & Regulatory, Norstella (Skylands)
  2. The Macro Trends Shaping Competitive Intelligence - Christpher Salatto, Senior Director, Pfizer (Gateway)
  3. Who is a CI expert in the age of AI? Balaji Bharatwaj, CI Director, Pfizer (Columbia)
  4. Building a Competitive Intelligence Function Leadership Can't Ignore - Noam Fishman, Associate Director, Market Research & Competitive Intelligence, Ferring Pharma (Holland) 
  5. How Competitive Intelligence Evolves As Organizations Grow - Timothy Flood, Director Global Competitive Intelligence,  Genmab (Lincoln)
  6. Everyone Uses Competitive Intelligence. So Why Do So Few People Understand It? Nilesh Sahi, Global Head Competitive & Strategic Intelligence, Ipsen (Liberty)


Speakers
avatar for Nilesh Sahi

Nilesh Sahi

Global Head, Competitive & Strategic Intelligence, Ipsen

avatar for Christopher Salatto

Christopher Salatto

Head of Competitive Intelligence, Pfizer
Chris serves as Head of Competitive Intelligence at Pfizer. In this role he leads a global team of experts skilled at building a comprehensive view of the pharma environment, from the asset through sector levels, and integrating these knowledge and insights into every level of decision-making... Read More →
avatar for Suzanne Caruso

Suzanne Caruso

President, Citeline Clinical, Regulatory, and Strategic Intelligence, Norstella
Suzanne Caruso is a senior business executive and clinical trial study start-up expert with over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. As President, Strategic Intelligence and Clinical & Regulatory at Norstella, Suzanne leverages her expertise in data analytics and... Read More →
avatar for Noam Fishman

Noam Fishman

Associate Director, Market Research and Competitive Intelligence, Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Noam Fishman serves as Associate Director, Market Research and Competitive Intelligence at Ferring Pharmaceuticals, where he supports business stakeholders through market research, competitive intelligence, forecasting, and analytics. He is part of the Insights and Analytics team... Read More →
avatar for Timothy Flood

Timothy Flood

Director Global Competitive Intelligence, Genmab

avatar for Balaji Bharatwaj

Balaji Bharatwaj

Director of Competitive Intelligence, Pfizer
Balaji Bharatwaj is a Director of Competitive Intelligence at Pfizer, leading Competitive Intelligence activities for the Immunology & Inflammation portfolio. He has also supported Corporate Competitive Intelligence, Internal Medicine, and Anti-Infectives, providing insights to inform... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:50am - 12:20pm EDT

12:20pm EDT

Networking Lunch
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:20pm - 1:20pm EDT

Thursday September 17, 2026 12:20pm - 1:20pm EDT
Grand Ballroom

1:20pm EDT

Announcement of Prize Winners
Thursday September 17, 2026 1:20pm - 1:30pm EDT

Thursday September 17, 2026 1:20pm - 1:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom

1:30pm EDT

Reports don’t save lives. Faster decisions do.
Thursday September 17, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
As competitive intelligence teams are increasingly expected to demonstrate business impact, the measure of success shifts from how quickly they can report to how quickly they can help drive decisions. Drawing on a personal story, this session makes the case that CI's true purpose and opportunity is to accelerate action, not simply inform it. Building on Atacana's best practices, learn what separates a CI function that drives outcomes from one that only reports.  
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS  
• Reframe CI's core purpose around decision speed and understand why that distinction matters  
• Understand the cost of reactive CI, when a missed or delayed insight is not just a business risk, but a missed opportunity for someone to reclaim their life  
• Explore what sets apart a CI partner that moves from reporting to accelerating action and shaping decisions 

Speakers
avatar for Anca Costea

Anca Costea

Vice President Key Accounts, ATACANA Group
As VP, Key Accounts at Atacana, Anca partners with decision-makers across the pharma industry to help them develop winning strategies. Anca combines deep competitive intelligence expertise and broad functional experience spanning the product lifecycle, fromdeveloping and launching... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Junior Ballroom

2:00pm EDT

Humans Own the Loop: The Future Is Not About Replacing, It's About Augmenting
Thursday September 17, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Every pharma CI team is somewhere on the AI journey: deep into platforms, still experimenting, or leaning entirely on partners to work it out for them. Wherever they sit, one thing is clear. The budgets are not growing, but the competitive landscapes are. 

We'll map the different AI journeys we're seeing across the industry, share the real ROI from our own co-developed AI monitoring platform, and look at what it means for the entire client-vendor CI business model. 

The questions on the table are ones the CI community needs to answer together: should AI-driven efficiency reduce costs, or create room for greater value? Are humans even needed anymore, and if so, should they be in the loop, or out of it? Should we be using AI to replace, or to augment?

Speakers
avatar for Javier Vega

Javier Vega

Director, Eradigm
Javier is a Director at Eradigm, where he oversees CI programs focused on impact and elevating the CI function within clients' organizations. He also drives company growth and is shaping how Eradigm evolves in the new era of AI and CI. Over 10 years across leading CI and Commercial... Read More →
avatar for Lousie Bautista

Lousie Bautista

Manager, Eradigm
Louise is a Manager at Eradigm, where he leads the transformation of the firm's technology stack, testing, and embedding compliant tools that work in real CI delivery. He runs CI programs day to day, from monitoring setup through to client-ready outputs. His 10 years of experience... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom

2:30pm EDT

Closing Remarks
Thursday September 17, 2026 2:30pm - 2:45pm EDT

Speakers
avatar for Mukesh Kumar, Ph.D.

Mukesh Kumar, Ph.D.

President, KV Group
Dr. Mukesh Kumar is the President of the KV Group. Mukesh has more than 20 years of experience in conducting high quality evidence based primary research, developing and synthesizing information, competitive and pipeline analysis. His experience in pharmaceutical industry, especially... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 2:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
Junior Ballroom

2:45pm EDT

Conference Concludes
Thursday September 17, 2026 2:45pm - 2:45pm EDT

Thursday September 17, 2026 2:45pm - 2:45pm EDT
 
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