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Wednesday, September 16
 

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

1:00pm EDT

Why China Demands a Different Competitive Intelligence Playbook
Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
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 due to language and cultural barriers. This leaves many Western CI teams exposed to delayed insights and reactive decision-making...even if your organization has a presence in China. 
 
Standard global frameworks fail to capture the realities of the China market, including unique access dynamics, rapid regulatory evolution and an intensifying Western race to license or acquire breakthrough assets, all set against shifting geopolitical pressures. 
 
This session sets out a practical framework to move China from a regional afterthought to a central pillar of global CI capability, actively driving insights and strategic decisions.
 

 


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

1:35pm EDT

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

 


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

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
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, GOLF transforms expert oncology discussions into precise, actionable commercial insights — from signal to strategy, in real time.
AlfaKinetic, the real-time competitive intelligence platform from Anervea, a GRG Health company. 100+ sources monitored continuously, indication-first collection so day one is never empty, every signal scored against your own assets, and every decision tracked with a named owner.
Run a specialist-generated hypothesis against live signal and it resolves into one of four outcomes: confirmed, contradicted, early, or noise. Knowing which one you are in is the portfolio decision — demonstrated through a worked oncology case where belief and behaviour sat 67 points apart.
Bring the hypothesis your team is least certain about. We will show you which quadrant it falls in — and both of us will be on the floor for the duration.

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

3:25pm EDT

From Benchmark to Battleground: A Competitive Intelligence Lens on Pharma Productivity
Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:25pm - 3:55pm EDT
  • 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

4:00pm EDT

From Data Overload to Decision Confidence: AI-Driven Competitive Intelligence in Pharma
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
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 general AI puts fast answers in everyone's hands, the differentiator for CI is no longer speed alone but trust: intelligence you can act on because you can prove where it came from. We will look at how conversational, AI-driven approaches let teams ask questions in plain language and get sourced, decision-ready answers, and how that democratizes intelligence across R&D, commercial, and executive stakeholders without sacrificing rigor or governance. 
Attendees will leave with a practical model for evolving their function from reactive reporting to proactive strategic partnership, and a framework for evaluating AI-driven CI in an era where the source of an answer matters as much as the answer itself. 
 
Key takeaways 
 
  • How to turn fragmented signals into decision-ready intelligence teams can act on and defend 
  • Why trust, source traceability, and governance are becoming the real differentiators for AI-driven CI 
  • How conversational, self-serve intelligence democratizes CI across the organization 
  • A maturity model for moving from reactive reporting to proactive strategic partnership 
 

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

4:30pm EDT

Panel: Beyond the Brand: How Enterprise Competitive Intelligence Shapes Strategic Decisions
Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:30pm - 5:15pm EDT
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 enterprise intelligence partners with commercial, R&D, portfolio strategy, business development, and executive leadership to connect insights across the organization 

  • Identify which strategic questions are best answered by enterprise intelligence versus brand- and asset-level teams 
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
 
Thursday, September 17
 

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

8:30am 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

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

9:55am 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

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
 
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