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8:00 am Networking & Registration
8:30 am Chair’s Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:45 am Interactive Panel Session: How Sanofi, Pfizer, & Regeneron Are Imagining & Communicating the Art of the Possible to Allow Them to Rewrite a Future Focused on Possibilities Not Limitations
- Lessons learned from early efforts to rethink what work gets done by whom, challenging traditional thinking around roles and skills in the process
- What appear to be the biggest skill gaps we need to close as we navigate this complex transformation journey to future-proof our organizations?
- What are the most critical roadblocks we’ve encountered (or we expect to encounter) and how should we best position ourselves to overcome them?
9:30 am Discover: How Moderna Has Linked Tech Transformation & Workforce Planning to Unlock the Full Future Potential of its People, Process, & Technology
- How shifting from a people-only lens to a systems view has helped rethink, organization-wide, how we build and rebuild the company to scale
- Inside the multi-year collaboration to reassess the needs of each department and redesign them with an optimal mix of human workers and tech systems
- What the next steps are in building a truly adaptive organization where people, technology, and work are continuously realigned to meet shifting business needs
9:50 am Develop: Lessons in Motion: Translating Moderna’s Journey into Your Context
Explore the practical implications of Moderna’s transformation journey and dive deeper into the strategies, challenges, and lessons learned – and ask how they might apply to your own organization.
10:10 am Action: From Principles to Practice: Designing Your Adaptive Workforce Strategy
Join fellow attendees in a facilitated roundtable session to reflect and explore how similar principles could be applied within your own organization. This is a chance to begin shaping ideas for building more adaptive, tech-enabled workforce strategies tailored to your unique context.
Facilitated by the Chair
10:30 am Speed Networking & Refreshments Break
11:30 am Discover: How Takeda is Driving Digital Dexterity at Scale to Create the Workforce of the Future Inside a 243-Year-Old Company to Deliver Better Drugs to Patients Faster
- What were the quick wins and low hanging fruit that allowed for immediate impact and early value on Takeda’s journey and what lessons were learned that influenced next steps?
- How digital and data are embedded in every role at the company and how colleagues consider themselves digital stewards who enable the next phase of business growth
- Inside innovation capability centers and collaborative labs (where collaborative experiences take precedence over traditional meetings)
11:50 am Discover: How AstraZeneca & Alexion are Retooling Their Workforces & Turbocharging Their Businesses by Accelerating the Development of Vital AI Capabilities
- How a new AI skills development initiative has transformed AstraZeneca and Alexion into AI-first organizations and driven efficiencies in R&D and commercial operations
- Tying this approach into strategic workforce planning to decide whether to hire experts, buy expertise, or leverage a combination of approaches (buy, build, borrow, bot)
- Lessons learned from driving change, starting small and failing fast, and the strategic workforce planning considerations of moving towards a fully AIenabled workforce
12:10 pm Develop: Embedding Digital & AI into the DNA of Work
Join Lauren and Sarah for a dynamic Q&A exploring how two global biopharma leaders are embedding digital and AI capabilities into their workforces. This is your opportunity to ask questions, unpack key lessons, and gain practical insights into scaling transformation in complex, regulated environments.
12:30 pm Action: From Insight to Action: Building Your Digital & AI Workforce Strategy
Join fellow attendees to unpack the insights and explore how digital dexterity and AI capability-building can be adapted to your organization’s unique context. Collaborate to identify practical starting points, potential barriers, and strategies for embedding innovation into everyday work.
Facilitated by the Chair
12:50 pm Networking Lunch
1:50 pm Discover: How Amgen is Prioritizing the Teams It Will Need to Transform & the Future Skills it Will Need to Develop to Meet its Long Term Goals
- Deploying AI at low cost but large scale to contrast job descriptions with scoring that exists for tasks that are likely to be automatable over different time frames
- Building an organization-wide heat map to help set ambitions, prioritize areas to automate, drive AI utilization and push functions through a transformation journey
- Using this tool to assess which skills will be less useful in the future, and which skills will need to be introduced to be able to achieve long term goals
2:10 pm Discover: How Biogen is Applying a Data-Driven Approach to Visualize What Work Needs to be Done by Whom Inside the Biotech of the Future
- Leveraging new tools to analyze where teams currently spend time to allow you to reorganize the work that gets done, and who does it, based on data-led insights
- Correlating data from multiple sources to find hidden patterns and develop new stories that can give you insights into how work should be better optimized
- Capturing lessons learned from the initial pilots and outlining the ambitions the team have for where this insight can take the organization into the future
2:30 pm Develop: Strategic Shifts: Redefining Roles, Skills, & Structures
Dig deeper into how you can use data, AI, and strategic workforce planning to reshape how work gets done. This is your opportunity to ask questions about their approaches, tools, and lessons learned – and consider how similar strategies might accelerate transformation in your own organization.
2:40 pm Action: Scaling AI with Purpose & Precision
Join fellow attendees in a facilitated roundtable to explore how AI can be strategically embedded across roles and workflows to drive meaningful impact. Work together to identify practical steps for aligning AI adoption with business goals, fostering bottom-up innovation, and building a culture that supports long-term transformation.
Facilitated by the Chair
2:50 pm Action: Redesigning Work with Data & AI
In this facilitated roundtable, collaborate with peers to explore how the strategies shared by Amgen and Biogen could be adapted to your own organization. Together, you’ll identify opportunities to apply data-driven insights, rethink roles, and prioritize future skills to drive meaningful transformation.
Facilitated by the Chair
3:10 pm Networking & Refreshments Break
3:40 pm Discover: How Insmed is Redefining the Delivery of Innovation at Scale Through Productivity Enhancements, Process Automation, & Game Changing LEAPs Across the Organization
- Deploying AI as a strategic growth lever rather than as a cost-cutting tool across individual job roles inside the organization, enabling a lean team to achieve outsized impact
- Delivering more with less through AI-driven acceleration, demonstrating agility powered by technology to help compress critical timeframes and get better therapies to patients faster
- How Insmed is driving a bottom-up approach to identifying opportunities to redefine work, embedding AI into its DNA and ensuring adoption, alignment, and long-term value creation
4:00 pm Discover: How BioMarin Has Committed Itself to an AI-Enabled Workforce Both Bottom-Up & Top-Down to Drive Business Impact
- Inside the process whereby BioMarin identified multiple opportunities to deploy AI across the business in tandem with its human workforce to drive efficiencies
- How the business narrowed down the options that would have the biggest impact, translated that into action and plans to measure and increase the impact of each
- Lessons learned and next steps (including around culture change) on BioMarin’s accelerating journey to develop an AI-enabled workforce able to thrive in a future pharma industry
4:20 pm Develop: Operationalizing AI for Scalable Impact
Join this live Q&A exploring how you can embed AI across your organizations to drive productivity, agility, and long-term value. This is your opportunity to ask questions about their strategies, challenges, and lessons learned – and consider how to apply similar approaches in your own context.