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Tuesday, September 15
 

12:30pm EDT

Registration
Tuesday September 15, 2026 12:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Hallway outside of Essex/Liberty room

Tuesday September 15, 2026 12:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Hallway outside of Essex/Liberty room
  Registration

1:00pm EDT

From Insight to Impact: A Hands-On Masterclass for Elevating the CI Function
Tuesday September 15, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Liberty
Most masterclasses on competitive intelligence stop at the decision. This one doesn’t. In this interactive, hands-on masterclass, small groups of CI leaders work through both halves of the value chain competitive intelligence is supposed to power: turning a real competitive signal into a concrete strategic implication, and then taking that implication into the field, where it has to survive...
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Speakers
avatar for Ryan Franca, MD

Ryan Franca, MD

Chief Strategy Officer, ATACANA Group
As Atacana’s Chief Strategy Officer, Ryan brings nearly two decades of experience across medical affairs, drug development, commercialization, and competitive strategy. He has led successful drug launches across various therapeutic areas at country, regional, and global levels... Read More →
avatar for Salvador Carlucci

Salvador Carlucci

Co-Founder & CEO, ATACANA Group
CEO and Co-Founder of Atacana Group Inc. Salvador Carlucci is a thought leader in Competitive Intelligence (CI) for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Over the last 20 years, Salvador has won several awards for building the Global CI function at Novartis and Roche. He is working... Read More →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Liberty
  Masterclass

2:30pm EDT

Networking Break
Tuesday September 15, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom

Tuesday September 15, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom
  Networking

3:00pm EDT

How to KIQ Start the CI Machine: KITs, KIQs, and the Tools Behind the Process
Tuesday September 15, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Liberty
Learn the art and science behind crafting intelligent questions to uncover competitive insights on topics your business needs to stay ahead. During this hands-on exercise, you will design and refine questions to provide you with critical insights into key business questions. The interactive sessions will focus on question methodology, as well as consider potential sources, to help you cut...
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Speakers
avatar for Austin Jeffries

Austin Jeffries

Consultant, LifeScience Dynamics
Austin is a Consultant at Lifescience Dynamics with extensive experience covering and leading CI projects across indications, including infectious disease, breast cancer, cardiology, immunology, and metabolic disorders. He has covered high profile conferences across indications... Read More →
avatar for Furkan Guvenc

Furkan Guvenc

Senior Business Analyst, Lifescience Dynamics
Furkan is a Senior Business Analyst at Lifescience Dynamics with extensive experience leading Competitive Intelligence projects across immunology, autoimmunity, respirology, neurodegeneration, and oncology. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, where he investigated antimicrobial... Read More →
Tuesday September 15, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Liberty
  Masterclass
 
Wednesday, September 16
 

7:30am EDT

Networking Breakfast
Wednesday September 16, 2026 7:30am - 8:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom

Wednesday September 16, 2026 7:30am - 8:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom
  Networking

7:30am EDT

Registration
Wednesday September 16, 2026 7:30am - 6:00pm EDT
West Lobby

Wednesday September 16, 2026 7:30am - 6:00pm EDT
West Lobby
  Registration

8:35am EDT

Opening Remarks
Wednesday September 16, 2026 8:35am - 8:45am EDT
Junior Ballroom

Speakers
avatar for Diana Gowe

Diana Gowe

Director, Global Strategic Analytics, Johnson & Johnson

Wednesday September 16, 2026 8:35am - 8:45am EDT
Junior Ballroom
  General Session

8:45am EDT

Keynote: Building the Next Generation of Intelligence Organizations
Wednesday September 16, 2026 8:45am - 9:15am EDT
Junior Ballroom
Preparing for the Next Era of Business Decision-MakingCompetitive intelligence is entering a new era. AI is transforming how information is gathered and analyzed, but the bigger shift is how organizations expect intelligence teams to create value. Increasingly, success is measured not by the information delivered, but by the strategic decisions intelligence helps shape.Potential discussion topics...
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Moderators
avatar for Diana Gowe

Diana Gowe

Director, Global Strategic Analytics, Johnson & Johnson

Speakers
avatar for Evelyn Greene, MPH

Evelyn Greene, MPH

Global Head of Market Research and Competitive Insights, Sanofi
Evelyn Greene, MPH, is Global Head of Market Research and Competitive Insights at Sanofi and a recognized leader in the application of strategic intelligence to biopharmaceutical decision-making. She oversees a global organization responsible for delivering integrated market research... Read More →
avatar for Frank Sama, MBA

Frank Sama, MBA

Competitive Intelligence Excellence and Cross-Functional Lead, Sanofi
Frank Sama, MBA, is the Competitive Intelligence Excellence and Cross-Functional Lead at Sanofi, where he leads initiatives to strengthen CI capabilities and advance strategic decision-making across the organization. With more than 30 years of experience spanning biopharmaceuticals... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 8:45am - 9:15am EDT
Junior Ballroom
  General Session

9:15am EDT

Keynote: Consumerization and Cash-Pay Access in Pharma: TrumpRx, the GLP-1 boom, and the branded-drug categories that may be next
Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:15am - 9:45am EDT
Junior Ballroom
Consumerization is beginning to reshape how patients discover, evaluate and access branded prescription medicines in the US. Starting with obesity, this talk will take a practical look at the potential or actual direct-to-patient market, where this consumer-led demand may head next and how commercial teams should get ahead of it.The rise of cash-pay consumerization in US Pharma, powered by TrumpRx...
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Speakers
avatar for Pooja Goyal

Pooja Goyal

Engagement Manager, Lifescience Dynamics

avatar for Peter Kelly

Peter Kelly

Principal, Lifescience Dynamics

Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:15am - 9:45am EDT
Junior Ballroom
  General Session

9:45am EDT

Networking Break
Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:45am - 10:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom

Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:45am - 10:30am EDT
Grand Ballroom
  Networking

10:30am EDT

Primary Intelligence, Strategic Advantage: Unlocking Success through Deeper Insights
Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
Junior Ballroom
In a rapidly evolving pharmaceutical landscape shaped by artificial intelligence, regulatory change, commercialization pressures, and increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), this keynote will highlight the strategic value of Primary Competitive Intelligence (CI). The session will examine how primary CI, grounded in direct and actionable real-world insights, can...
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Speakers
avatar for Baljit Singh, Ph.D.

Baljit Singh, Ph.D.

CEO, INOVIS AG

Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
Junior Ballroom
  General Session

11:00am EDT

Keynote: Inside the Executive Decision Room: How Executive Teams Evaluate Portfolio, Commercial and Business Development Decisions
Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Junior Ballroom
Using UroGen’s evolution from JELMYTO to ZUSDURI as a real-world lens, the discussion would explore how market intelligence informs executive decision-making as a company and its portfolio mature. It would move from the lessons gained through JELMYTO, to how those insights informed decisions around ZUSDURI and the broader portfolio, and ultimately to how leadership evaluates future internal and...
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Speakers
avatar for Liz Barrett

Liz Barrett

President and Chief Executive Officer, UroGen
Liz is a highly regarded industry leader with extensive experience leading, building and growing organizations at Fortune 100 pharmaceutical companies before moving to a biotech company. She has been recognized as one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women and Forbes 50 over 50 among... Read More →
avatar for Timothy Simon

Timothy Simon

SVP, Business Development and Portfolio Strategy, UroGen
Timothy Simon is a seasoned pharmaceutical executive with broad experience spanning Commercial Operations, M&A, Corporate Development, and Product Portfolio Strategy. He brings a strong track record of leadership across both large pharmaceutical companies and emerging biotech firms.Before... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Junior Ballroom
  General Session

11:30am EDT

Advisory Board Town Hall
Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Junior Ballroom

Speakers
avatar for Ana Newnam

Ana Newnam

Competitive Intelligence Team Lead, BMS
Ana Newnam is the Competitive Intelligence Team Lead at Bristol Myers Squibb, part of the Enterprise Strategy group. Ana joined Bristol Myers Squibb in 2016 where she currently leads enterprise-wide strategic intelligence efforts spanning oncology, cell therapy, immunology, cardiovascular... Read More →
avatar for Diana Gowe

Diana Gowe

Director, Global Strategic Analytics, Johnson & Johnson

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 Maureen Nail, PhD, MBA

Maureen Nail, PhD, MBA

Director, Oncology Competitive Intelligence, AbbVie

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Junior Ballroom
  General Session

12:00pm EDT

Networking Lunch
Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom

Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom
  Networking

12:55pm EDT

Track A Chair
Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:55pm - 1:00pm EDT

Speakers
avatar for Diana Gowe

Diana Gowe

Director, Global Strategic Analytics, Johnson & Johnson

Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:55pm - 1:00pm EDT
  Track A

12:55pm EDT

Track B Chair
Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:55pm - 1:00pm EDT

Speakers
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 →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:55pm - 1:00pm EDT
  Track B

12:55pm EDT

Track C Chair
Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:55pm - 1:00pm EDT

Speakers
avatar for Maureen Nail, PhD, MBA

Maureen Nail, PhD, MBA

Director, Oncology Competitive Intelligence, AbbVie

Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:55pm - 1:00pm EDT
  Track C

1:00pm EDT

First Look: What 135 Life Sciences CI Professionals Told Us Actually Works in 2026
Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom C
Join us for the debut release of this year's Annual Life Sciences CI Survey, capturing insights from 135 competitive intelligence professionals across the industry, covering:Industry Benchmarks: CI budget and team size trends, AI maturity, effective delivery channels, and stakeholder engagement modelsMaximizing CI Impact: What actually drives senior leadership reach, strategic influence,...
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Speakers
avatar for Matt Blandford

Matt Blandford

VP, Business Development, Sedulo Group

Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom C
  Track A

1:00pm EDT

Why China Demands a Different Competitive Intelligence Playbook
Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom D
In recent years, China has become a global leader in oncology and immunology innovation and a key player in the commercial market for multinational pharma, yet it remains a persistent CI blind spot. Secondary data can be hard to access, as early clinical signals are often buried in China-based platforms and investigator-led trials. Robust primary intelligence can be challenging to gather...
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Speakers
avatar for Bharat Jain

Bharat Jain

Senior Principal, Prescient Healthcare Group

avatar for Jatin Gupta

Jatin Gupta

Client Partner, Prescient Healthcare Group
Jatin is a Client Partner at Prescient and has been with the company since 2014. He holds a Master’s degree in Biotechnology from the University of Manchester and has worked in the pharmaceutical analysis divisions of several major organizations, including Bloomberg. At Prescient... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom D
  Track B

1:00pm EDT

Can Agentic AI Make CI Faster, Cheaper, Better?
Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom F
CI is bought twice: first the data subscriptions, then the manual work of synthesizing them. Two expensive purchases that still leave a team working from the same incomplete picture, where records are stale, signals late, and a shift in the landscape means doing much of the work again. That is why CI has always had to pick two of faster, cheaper and better. This session shows...
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Speakers
avatar for Sriram Subramanian

Sriram Subramanian

Chief Executive Officer, Ferma

Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom F
  Track C

1:35pm EDT

Decision Intelligence: What Integrated Insights Actually Looks Like
Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Junior Ballroom C
  • Explore the convergence of CI, analytics, forecasting, market research, and strategy  

  • Debate where intelligence organizations should sit in the future  

  • Examine emerging operating models across pharma
Moderators
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 →
Speakers
avatar for Anshuman Panigrahi

Anshuman Panigrahi

Senior Director, Global Strategy and Analytics, Johnson & Johnson
Anshuman Panigrahi is Senior Director, Global Strategy & Analytics at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, where he leads portfolio analytics, forecasting, competitive intelligence and market research capabilities that inform enterprise planning and investment decisions. With more... Read More →
avatar for Hezekiah Blake

Hezekiah Blake

Senior Director, Competitive Intelligence, Amgen

Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Junior Ballroom C
  Track A

1:35pm EDT

Presentation
Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Junior Ballroom D

 


Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Junior Ballroom D
  Track B

1:35pm EDT

What Pharma Needs From External Intelligence Partners in the AI Era
Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Junior Ballroom F

Speakers
avatar for Ana Newnam

Ana Newnam

Competitive Intelligence Team Lead, BMS
Ana Newnam is the Competitive Intelligence Team Lead at Bristol Myers Squibb, part of the Enterprise Strategy group. Ana joined Bristol Myers Squibb in 2016 where she currently leads enterprise-wide strategic intelligence efforts spanning oncology, cell therapy, immunology, cardiovascular... Read More →
avatar for Michelle Sanchez

Michelle Sanchez

Senior Manager, Market Research & Competitive Intelligence, Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
Junior Ballroom F
  Track C

2:10pm EDT

How to Deliver Intelligence that Motivates Action: The 5 Key Elements of a Compelling CI Narrative
Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:10pm - 2:40pm EDT
Junior Ballroom C
Our job as CI thought partners is to engage expert audiences, who are also human beings with limited attention and memory. Stories, relative to pure statistics & facts, are what stick best in their minds. Stories are more likely to impact beliefs and motivate action. Our minds are literally wired to respond to stories. But how can we leverage "storytelling" in communicating CI?Even when the...
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Speakers
avatar for Eileen Faucher, Ph.D.

Eileen Faucher, Ph.D.

Founder & Managing Director, Brass Tacks Insights
Eileen Faucher has been leading competitive intelligence for 16 years, including a decade as Founder and Managing Director at Brass Tacks Insights. In this role, she leads a team of PhD- and MD-level experts in developing long-term, competitive readiness thought partnerships. She... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:10pm - 2:40pm EDT
Junior Ballroom C
  Track A

2:10pm EDT

Specialist Intelligence for Portfolio Strategy: Expert-Network-Backed Hypotheses, Tested Against Market Signals
Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:10pm - 2:40pm EDT
Junior Ballroom D
Every portfolio decision rests on a hypothesis about how the market will behave — and most go untested until the numbers land eighteen months later.This session pairs the two halves of the answer. GOLF, GRG Health's KOL intelligence platform generates the hypothesis from independently moderated expert sessions with no sponsor in the room. With a verified 500K+ HCP network across 56+ countries,...
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Speakers
avatar for Rich Sommerkorn

Rich Sommerkorn

Associate Vice President - Business Development, GRG Health
Rich Sommerkorn leads direct-to-pharma partnerships at GRG Health, working with insights, commercial, brand and medical affairs teams on primary research and KOL intelligence programmes. Rich brings over 12 years in healthcare and insights, combining firsthand clinical experience... Read More →
avatar for Sanika Bhide, Ph.D.

Sanika Bhide, Ph.D.

Vice President - Enterprise Partnerships, Anervea
Sanika Bhide leads Anervea's agentic intelligence portfolio, working with competitive intelligence, commercial and medical affairs teams at Global Pharma accounts on AlfaKinetic deployments. She specialises in turning primary expert research into structured, testable market signal... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:10pm - 2:40pm EDT
Junior Ballroom D
  Track B

2:10pm EDT

From fragmented data and outputs, to integrated, decision-ready insight
Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:10pm - 2:40pm EDT
Junior Ballroom F
Competitive Intelligence has long played an essential role in informing pharmaceutical decision making, yet its impact often remains uneven across functions and stages of the value chain. As data volumes grow and AI enabled technologies advance, organizations face a critical challenge: transforming intelligence from fragmented outputs into integrated, decision ready insight that drives...
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Speakers
avatar for Lindsey Acampa

Lindsey Acampa

Senior Director, Insights and Analytics, Dyne Therapeutics

avatar for Ben Doran

Ben Doran

Partner, Trinity Life Sciences

Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:10pm - 2:40pm EDT
Junior Ballroom F
  Track C

2:40pm EDT

Networking Break
Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:40pm - 3:25pm EDT
Grand Ballroom

Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:40pm - 3:25pm EDT
Grand Ballroom
  Networking

3:25pm EDT

Faster Alerts Aren't Faster Decisions: Closing the Internal Half of Competitive Intelligence
Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:25pm - 3:55pm EDT
Junior Ballroom C
Avizum's agents monitor thousands of sources continuously and across languages, in production today across big pharma and small biotech and more than 30 indications. Alerts are validated and delivered within twenty minutes, filtered against intelligence questions rather than keyword strings, with the reasoning shown on every one. The first half of this session...
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Speakers
avatar for Rita Lopes

Rita Lopes

VP, New Product Development, ATACANA Group
VP of New Product Development Rita Lopes holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Oncology and has a research background in Developmental Neuroscience. Over the past 15+ years, she has held Business and Market Intelligence roles across the pharmaceutical industry, with a focus on Oncology and Rare... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:25pm - 3:55pm EDT
Junior Ballroom C
  Track A

3:25pm EDT

From Benchmark to Battleground: A Competitive Intelligence Lens on Pharma Productivity
Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:25pm - 3:55pm EDT
Junior Ballroom D
  • Reframing headline R&D metrics as competitor signals, from early-stage selectivity to development discipline 
  • What recent rank shifts among the top 25 tell us about which strategies are working 
  • Turning pipeline-to-patient benchmarks into an early-warning system for competitor strategy 

Speakers
avatar for Kelly Chamberlain, Ph.D.

Kelly Chamberlain, Ph.D.

Partner, Market Intelligence, Norstella / Evaluate
As a neuroscientist, consultant and commercial leader, Kelly brings more than 16 years of experience in the life sciences sector. She partners with insights, analytics, and commercial strategy teams to transform how pharmaceutical organizations capture and operationalize market intelligence... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:25pm - 3:55pm EDT
Junior Ballroom D
  Track B

3:25pm EDT

From Four Hours to Fifteen Minutes: Rebuilding CI Monitoring With a Pharma CI Team
Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:25pm - 3:55pm EDT
Junior Ballroom F
  • Why a Competitive Intelligence lead described the monitoring service they were receiving as reading like it was written by ChatGPT. 
  • The engineering approach behind a 3-month rebuild of how CI teams at a pharma company monitor competitive landscapes. 
  • How time-to-report on earnings calls and congress readouts was cut from four hours to fifteen minutes.

Speakers
avatar for Duncan Emerton, Ph.D.

Duncan Emerton, Ph.D.

VP, Strategic Partnerships, 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.
Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:25pm - 3:55pm EDT
Junior Ballroom F
  Track C

4:00pm EDT

AI-Assisted Oncology CI Toolkit: SOC Benchmarking, Abstract Prioritization, and Outcome Prediction
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom C
Applying AI to structured oncology data enables complementary CI workflows spanning current landscape assessment, evidence prioritization, and outcome prediction.  SOC benchmarking: Visualize competitive and market dynamics through AI-powered maps integrating current and emerging SOC, key regimens, efficacy, safety, network meta-analysis results, market-share estimates, and future...
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Speakers
avatar for Bruno Larvol

Bruno Larvol

CEO, LARVOL
Bruno Larvol is the CEO of LARVOL, an AI-first oncology intelligence company serving leading pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations worldwide. With a background in strategy consulting and deep expertise in the pharma and biotech industries, Bruno leads a globally distributed... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom C
  Track A

4:00pm EDT

From Data Overload to Decision Confidence: AI-Driven Competitive Intelligence in Pharma
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom D
Life sciences CI teams are navigating an explosion of data, from clinical trials and regulatory updates to patents, publications, and market activity. The challenge is no longer finding information; it is turning fragmented signals into timely, decision-ready intelligence the whole business can trust.  This session explores how AI-driven competitive intelligence is changing that. As...
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Speakers
avatar for Sheri Larsen

Sheri Larsen

Chief Product Officer, Northern Light
Sheri Larsen converts market opportunity into product momentum, orchestrating engineering, content, and security teams so every release accelerates decision-making. A Northern Light original, she built the firm’s product-management discipline to ensure innovation lands with measurable... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom D
  Track B

4:00pm EDT

From Signals to Stakeholder Impact: ADN CI Platform as the Next-Generation CI Operating Model for Pharma
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom F
 Pharma CI needs an operating model, not just more data - CI teams already have access to multiple databases, news feeds, internal documents, and vendor reports. The real challenge is converting fast-moving competitive signals into validated, decision-ready intelligence that reaches the right stakeholders before business decisions are...
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Speakers
avatar for Virendra Kumar

Virendra Kumar

Chief Executive Officer, AdametNext
Viren is the founder of Adamet-Next, a future readiness partner for biopharma companies. He brings deep experience in pharma competitive intelligence, business insights, and strategic intelligence delivery across therapeutic areas. In the past, he has led CI verticals at companies... Read More →
avatar for Ziya Pailwan

Ziya Pailwan

Associate Director, AdametNext
Ziya is a seasoned competitive intelligence professional with extensive experience in delivering competitive and strategic intelligence across biopharma markets. Ziya focuses on translating complex clinical, regulatory, scientific, and competitor developments into structured, decision-ready insights that support strategic decision-makin... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Junior Ballroom F
  Track C

4:30pm EDT

Panel: How will AI Impact the Speed and Success Rate of Drug Development?
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:30pm - 5:15pm EDT
Junior Ballroom C
Pointers to put Competitive Intelligence Teams ahead of the curve AI promises to accelerate drug discovery, with better compounds entering the clinic that both reduce the time and money required to develop a drug. Is this already happening? The panel will discuss the challenges of applying AI and machine learning to compound discovery, preclinical testing, identifying the right patients,...
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Moderators
avatar for Ben Weintraub

Ben Weintraub

President, inThought Research

Speakers
avatar for Eddine Maiza

Eddine Maiza

Global Head, Competitive Intelligence, Gilead
avatar for Christopher Roselle, Ph.D.

Christopher Roselle, Ph.D.

Director, Strategy & Operations, Recursion
Christopher Roselle is the Director of Strategy & Operations at Recursion, where he works
across the company’s platform and pipeline on portfolio and operational strategy.
Prior to joining Recursion, Chris worked at Boston Consulting Group, advising
biopharmaceutical companies on... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:30pm - 5:15pm EDT
Junior Ballroom C
  Track A

4:30pm EDT

Panel: Beyond the Brand: How Enterprise Competitive Intelligence Shapes Strategic Decisions
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:30pm - 5:15pm EDT
Junior Ballroom D
What should Enterprise CI actually be responsible for?  Define how enterprise competitive intelligence differs from brand-, asset-, and therapeutic area-focused intelligence—and where each creates the greatest value Examine how macro trends, disruptive technologies, policy changes, and competitive shifts are reshaping long-term portfolio and enterprise strategy Explore how...
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Moderators
avatar for Veronica Granatiero, PharmD, Ph.D.

Veronica Granatiero, PharmD, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Oncology Competitive Intelligence, BMS

Speakers
avatar for Olesya Levsh ​​​​

Olesya Levsh ​​​​

Senior Director, Competitive Intelligence, Cullinan Therapeutics, Inc.

avatar for Hezekiah Blake

Hezekiah Blake

Senior Director, Competitive Intelligence, Amgen

avatar for Jordan Lord

Jordan Lord

Enterprise Competitive Intelligence Lead, AbbVie
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:30pm - 5:15pm EDT
Junior Ballroom D
  Track B

4:30pm EDT

Panel: Design AI Workflows Intelligence Teams Actually Trust
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:30pm - 5:15pm EDT
Junior Ballroom F
Identify where AI can—and cannot—add value across the R&D CI workflow, from monitoring emerging science, competitors, new targets and technologies to synthesizing signals and supporting strategic initiatives and partnering decisions. Examine what it takes to trust AI-generated intelligence in high-stakes R&D decisions, including source validation, transparency, data quality, hallucination...
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Moderators
avatar for Rajesh Shinde

Rajesh Shinde

Partner, Life Sciences Analytics & AI, Capgemini-IBO Next

Speakers
avatar for Timothy Flood

Timothy Flood

Director Global Competitive Intelligence, Genmab

avatar for Iffat Ali, Ph.D.

Iffat Ali, Ph.D.

Senior Director, Competitive Intelligence, Gilead

avatar for Harry Yuan, Ph.D.

Harry Yuan, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Scientific & Competitive Analysis, Takeda Oncology
Harry Yuna, PhD, MBA, is the Global CI Lead of the Hematologic Oncology franchise at Takeda Oncology. His expertise covers broad disease areas including myeloproliferative neoplasms, lymphomas, leukemia, and multiple myeloma etc. As the CI Lead, he is responsible for intelligence... Read More →
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:30pm - 5:15pm EDT
Junior Ballroom F
  Track C

5:15pm EDT

Roundtables
Wednesday September 16, 2026 5:15pm - 6:00pm EDT
The Future CI Leader: Skills, Capabilities & Career Path- Eddine Maiza, Global Head, Competitive Intelligence, Gilead - (Essex)From Pilot to Practice: Deploying AI Inside the CI Function- Suzanne Caruso,  President, Strategic Intelligence and Clinical & Regulatory, Norstella (Skylands)The Macro Trends Shaping Competitive Intelligence - Christpher Salatto, Senior...
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Speakers
avatar for Nilesh Sahi

Nilesh Sahi

Global Head, Competitive & Strategic Intelligence, Ipsen

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 Eddine Maiza

Eddine Maiza

Global Head, Competitive Intelligence, Gilead
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 →
avatar for Timothy Flood

Timothy Flood

Director Global Competitive Intelligence, Genmab

Wednesday September 16, 2026 5:15pm - 6:00pm EDT
  Roundtables

6:00pm EDT

Cocktail Reception
Wednesday September 16, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom

Wednesday September 16, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom
  Networking
 
Thursday, September 17
 

7:30am EDT

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

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

7:30am EDT

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

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

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
  Track B

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
  Track C

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
  Track A

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
Junior Ballroom C
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...
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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
  Track A

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
Junior Ballroom D
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...
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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
  Track B

8:30am EDT

Panel: Redesigning the Competitive Intelligence Operating Model
Thursday September 17, 2026 8:30am - 9:15am EDT
Junior Ballroom F
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...
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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
  Track C

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
Junior Ballroom C
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...
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Speakers
avatar for Will Torres

Will Torres

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

9:20am EDT

Helping the CI Professional Master Their Universe
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:20am - 9:50am EDT
Junior Ballroom D
  • 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
  Track B

9:20am EDT

What Didn't Work: Two Failed Attempts at Building AI for CI
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:20am - 9:50am EDT
Junior Ballroom F
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...
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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
  Track C

9:55am EDT

Beyond AI: The Human Advantage in Pharma Competitive Intelligence
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:55am - 10:25am EDT
Junior Ballroom C
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...
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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
  Track A

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
Junior Ballroom D
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...
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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
  Track B

9:55am EDT

Reimagining Conference Coverage - What happens when AI meets the CI Expert
Thursday September 17, 2026 9:55am - 10:25am EDT
Junior Ballroom F
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 expertBring AI, Automation & Therapy-area...
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Speakers
avatar for Siddharth Subramaniam

Siddharth Subramaniam

Co-Founder, Pharma Edge

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

10:30am EDT

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

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

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
Junior Ballroom C
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...
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Speakers
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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
  Track A

11:15am EDT

THE MISSING LAYER OF CI: Individual Insights to Institutional Intelligence
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am EDT
Junior Ballroom D
  • 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
  Track B

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
Junior Ballroom F
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....
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Speakers
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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
  Track C

11:50am EDT

Roundtables
Thursday September 17, 2026 11:50am - 12:20pm EDT
From Pilot to Practice: Deploying AI Inside the CI Function- Suzanne Caruso, President, Strategic Intelligence and Clinical & Regulatory, Norstella (Skylands)The Macro Trends Shaping Competitive Intelligence - Christpher Salatto, Senior Director, Pfizer (Gateway)Who is a CI expert in the age of AI? Balaji Bharatwaj, CI Director, Pfizer (Columbia)Building a Competitive...
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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
  Roundtables

12:20pm EDT

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

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

1:20pm EDT

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

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

1:30pm EDT

Reports don’t save lives. Faster decisions do.
Thursday September 17, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Junior Ballroom
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...
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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
  General Session

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
Junior Ballroom
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...
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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
  General Session

2:30pm EDT

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

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
  General Session

2:45pm EDT

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

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

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