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Monday, June 15
 

8:45am EDT

Welcome, Chairperson’s Introduction & Opening Remarks
Monday June 15, 2026 8:45am - 8:55am EDT
Monday June 15, 2026 8:45am - 8:55am EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

9:00am EDT

KEYNOTE: The Borrowed Mind: When AI Thinks With You in Healthcare
Monday June 15, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
What happens when intelligence is no longer something you own—but something you access? In The Borrowed Mind, John Nosta explores the radical shift from human-centered thinking to a new era of shared cognition with AI. This keynote unpacks how decision-making, creativity, and even identity are being reshaped as we “borrow” intelligence from machines. With sharp insight and real-world implications, Nosta challenges leaders to rethink what it means to think, act, and lead in an age where the mind is no longer singular—but networked.

Speakers
avatar for John Nosta

John Nosta

Keynote, Speaker, Innovation Theorist, NostaLab
Monday June 15, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

9:30am EDT

Experience as a Medicine: Turning Friction Into Trust, Adoption, and Growth What happens when science is no longer the differentiator?
Monday June 15, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
The life sciences industry has spent decades competing on innovation, efficacy, and access. Yet as products proliferate, information becomes ubiquitous, and AI reshapes engagement, organizations face a new question:
When science is comparable, what drives confidence, trust, adoption, adherence, and loyalty?
This session explores idea and provides practical approaches that experiences . . . the realities patients, clinicians, and care teams encounter across awareness, access, treatment, support, and follow-through . . . may be the most overlooked drivers of both human and business outcomes.


Speakers
avatar for Richard Schwartz

Richard Schwartz

Health Care Customer Experience Evangelist, RX4CX
Monday June 15, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

10:00am EDT

From Pilot Purgatory to Enterprise AI: Re-Evaluating Workflow Is the Key to AI Impact
Monday June 15, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
Every pharma company has run an AI pilot. Most of them are gathering dust. This session isolates the pivotal decisions that separate companies still experimenting from those running AI at enterprise scale — covering model governance, content supply, data readiness, change management, and why your biggest blocker isn't technology.
Speakers
avatar for Ryan Slipakoff

Ryan Slipakoff

President & Co-Founder, United Logic
avatar for Dan Collins

Dan Collins

Digital Experience Platform Owner, Digital Products and Services, Takeda

Monday June 15, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

11:00am EDT

Human-Led, AI-Powered: Building the Intelligence Organization in Pharma
Monday June 15, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Moving Beyond AI Experimentation to Decision-Grade Intelligence

Pharma marketing has entered the Intelligence Economy, where success depends on turning authentic data into trusted, actionable intelligence. As marketers become intelligence workers, organizations must move beyond AI experimentation toward AI operationalism using human-led, AI-powered systems to improve not just efficiency, but decision quality, strategic effectiveness, and competitive advantage. This session explores why generic AI falls short in regulated healthcare environments and how purpose-built intelligence systems combining human expertise with healthcare-optimized AI can deliver more compliant, relevant, and decision-grade insights from patient, APP, and HCP conversations.

Key Takeaways
  • The Rise of the Intelligence Economy: Why Pharma marketers must evolve into intelligence-driven organizations.
  • From AI Experimentation to AI Operationalism: How to operationalize AI for real business impact, not just pilots and hype.
  • Why Generic AI Fails in Pharma: The risks of hallucinations, shallow insights, and non-compliant AI outputs.
  • Human-Led, AI-Powered Advantage: How human expertise + healthcare AI creates smarter, safer decisions.
  • Beyond Efficiency to Effectiveness: Using AI to improve strategy, relevance, agility, and competitive advantage.
Speakers
avatar for Peter Friedman

Peter Friedman

Chairman & CEO, Liveworld
Monday June 15, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

11:30am EDT

Fusing Engagement with Data. Unlocking Smarter HCP Strategies
Monday June 15, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Pharma marketers are sitting on a goldmine of data, but it often lives in silos. This session explores how uniting digital engagement signals with syndicated datasets can unlock a true 360° view of HCP behavior. Learn how leading teams are overcoming integration challenges, ensuring compliance, and transforming raw data into actionable insights that drive precision targeting and smarter engagement strategies.
Speakers
avatar for Gunjan Aggarwal

Gunjan Aggarwal

Head, Data & Analytics, Averitas Pharma
Monday June 15, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

12:00pm EDT

Doctor, Do You Copy? Engineering the Hyper-Personalized HCP Experience
Monday June 15, 2026 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Three pharma marketing leaders and one agency strategist go deep on what it actually takes to personalize at the physician level. From behavioral analytics to channel preference engines, this session gives attendees a practical blueprint — and a frank look at where most companies are still falling short.

  1. How should pharmaceutical companies adjust their approaches to better support healthcare professionals and enhance the overall HCP experience moving forward? 
  2. Where do data analytics and technology intersect within the HCP Experience? 
  3. As we move forward, what role do you believe data analytics and AI will play in optimizing the HCP experience for both healthcare professionals and patients, and how can pharmaceutical companies leverage these tools effectively?
  4. Which digital (all) channels should HCP-driven brands be focusing on for their own digital strategies in a post-pandemic world? 
  5. How might the Pharma-Provider experience differ in the future compared to the present state?

Speakers
avatar for Jo Madnani

Jo Madnani

Consultant & Author, The Idea Is In
avatar for Angela Esposito, PhD

Angela Esposito, PhD

Founder & CEO, Chronic Consultancy
avatar for Shawn McKenna

Shawn McKenna

Senior Director, Marketing Analytics, Currax Pharma
avatar for Stacy Enoch

Stacy Enoch

Associate Director, Omnichannel Strategy, AstraZeneca
avatar for Avinash Prabhakar

Avinash Prabhakar

Director, HCP Marketing, GSK
avatar for Anupam Singh

Anupam Singh

NA Digital Marketing & Media Lead - Oncology & Rare Disease, Novocure
Monday June 15, 2026 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

2:00pm EDT

The Algorithm Doesn't Buy. The Customer Does
Monday June 15, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
The biopharma industry has spent the last two years optimizing for AI — and somewhere in the process, lost sight of the human on the other end of the screen. Algorithms surface content. Platforms distribute it. But it's still a shopper who decides to trust it, click it, buy it, and come back for it. In this session, Mindy Sabel of Bayer cuts through the AI noise with something the industry is hungry for: a clear, practical playbook built on real shopper behavior and real revenue results. Drawing from the front lines of one of the world's leading consumer health brands, Mindy shows exactly how to show up — and stay visible — across search, social, and AI-powered discovery without sacrificing the authenticity that actually converts. She makes the case that the brands winning in an AI-first world aren't the ones who mastered the algorithm. They're the ones who never stopped listening to the shopper. Attendees will leave with a concrete framework for turning authentic customer voices into durable trust and reach, and for building connected experiences that carry shoppers all the way from first discovery to repeat choice.
Speakers
avatar for Mindy Sabel

Mindy Sabel

Head of Digital Platforms, Bayer
Monday June 15, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

2:30pm EDT

Improve Patient and HCP Engagement with Veeva Ostro's Conversational AI
Monday June 15, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Hear how leading brands deliver instant, compliant information to patients and HCPs with Veeva Ostro's conversational AI. 

Speakers
avatar for Andrea Goudie

Andrea Goudie

Executive Director, Strategy, Veeva Ostro
Monday June 15, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

3:00pm EDT

How To Know When The Journey Is Wrong: CX On A Systems Level
Monday June 15, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Biopharma has spent decades designing two separate journeys — one for the HCP, one for the patient — and wondering why neither one feels complete. In this session, Karen Root argues that the HCP–patient silo isn't a workflow problem or a technology gap. It's a worldview problem, and it's costing the industry trust, adherence, and outcomes. Drawing on cross-industry CX frameworks and real examples from inside pharma, Karen makes the case for treating customer experience as systems-level infrastructure — not a campaign, not a channel, and not a committee. Attendees will leave with a clear model for closing the loop: unified signals, orchestrated touchpoints, and a single accountable function that owns the full journey from first awareness to long-term adherence.
Speakers
avatar for Karen Root

Karen Root

Director of Experience Strategy, Boehringer Ingelheim
Monday June 15, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

3:30pm EDT

4:15pm EDT

From Inbox to Influence: The Patient Journey Nobody Mapped
Monday June 15, 2026 4:15pm - 4:45pm EDT
Every other industry has figured out how to make influencer marketing work. Pharma figured out how to make it disappear. Somewhere between the fair balance requirement, the MLR review cycle, and the fear of an FDA warning letter, the industry built an influencer program that checks every compliance box — and moves no one. In this session, a pharma brand marketer makes an uncomfortable argument: regulatory caution isn't what's killing pharma influencer strategy. Cowardice dressed up as caution is. Drawing from campaigns that navigated the regulatory landscape without surrendering creative impact, this talk reframes the compliance framework not as a ceiling, but as a brief — the most honest creative brief the industry has ever been handed. Attendees will leave with a new mental model for briefing, selecting, and activating influencers inside a regulated environment, and a clear-eyed view of where the real risk actually lives: not in the post, but in saying nothing at all.

Speakers
avatar for Ryan Kramer

Ryan Kramer

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Tris Pharma
Monday June 15, 2026 4:15pm - 4:45pm EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

4:45pm EDT

Winning the Moment. Losing the Journey
Monday June 15, 2026 4:45pm - 5:15pm EDT
Pharma excels at winning the moment. The detail lands. The campaign performs. The prescription is written. Then the journey falls apart, and so does the revenue. When commercial organizations are built around siloed roles optimized for influence, nobody owns what happens next. Reimbursement stalls. Fulfillment fragments. Patients never start. Value leaks quietly out of a system designed to generate intent, not protect it. Field organizations bear the weight of that broken architecture every day, navigating complexity that was never theirs to solve alone. This session is about making the shift to Consumer-Grade thinking, from managing moments to governing journeys.
Speakers
avatar for Wayne Simmons

Wayne Simmons

Chief Marketing Officer, Global Customer Excellence, Pfizer, Inc.
Monday June 15, 2026 4:45pm - 5:15pm EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B
 
Tuesday, June 16
 

8:55am EDT

Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks
Tuesday June 16, 2026 8:55am - 9:00am EDT
Tuesday June 16, 2026 8:55am - 9:00am EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

9:00am EDT

Hype, Help, or Harm? AI Meets Healthcare Influence
Tuesday June 16, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
Somewhere in the last eighteen months, the content moved faster than the conscience. AI-generated health content is now being published, shared, and acted on at a scale no medical reviewer, no compliance team, and no platform algorithm was built to handle — and the biopharma industry is still debating its AI content policy while patients make treatment decisions based on posts no human wrote and no expert verified. This session doesn't ask whether AI belongs in healthcare influence. That debate is over. It asks the question the room has been avoiding: now that the machine can produce medically plausible content at infinite scale, who exactly is responsible when it's wrong? Challenging the comfortable assumption that good intent and strong guidelines are enough, this talk maps the gap between the speed of AI content generation and the speed of human verification — and names it for what it is: the most consequential trust problem the industry has ever created for itself. Attendees will leave not with a policy checklist, but with a sharper sense of urgency — and a clear-eyed view of what it will actually take to close the gap before a patient pays the price.
Speakers
avatar for Angela Esposito, PhD

Angela Esposito, PhD

Founder & CEO, Chronic Consultancy
Tuesday June 16, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

9:30am EDT

I've been a Pharma Executive and a Mayor - Here's What Government and Pharma Can Learn From Each Other
Tuesday June 16, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Few people have sat in both seats. Robert Britting Jr. has — as a senior pharma executive and as a Mayor. And what he's seen from both sides of the table might surprise you. In this candid, cross-sector keynote, Robert draws unexpected parallels between governing a community and marketing a medicine — exploring how pharma can borrow from government's playbook on public trust, stakeholder communication, and community-centered decision making. And what government could desperately learn from pharma's discipline, speed, and data-driven culture. Two worlds. One powerful lens. And lessons neither sector has been willing to say out loud — until now.
Speakers
avatar for Robert Britting, PhD

Robert Britting, PhD

RJB Consulting Partners, Founder
Tuesday June 16, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

10:00am EDT

From Static Data to Living Insight: Rethinking Patient & HCP Stories with AI
Tuesday June 16, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
Pharma has spent a decade optimizing channels, but more data hasn't brought us closer to patients or HCPs — it's abstracted them. This session explores how generative and predictive AI can transform insights from static snapshots into continuous, contextual conversations — and shares a practical capability framework for making it real. Attendees will leave with a sharper lens on where their own insights are still episodic, and a clear-eyed view of how to balance intelligent systems with empathy, trust, and human connections.
Speakers
avatar for Tom Foley

Tom Foley

EVP of Strategy & Experience Design, Modus Digital
Tuesday June 16, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

11:00am EDT

AI Won't Take Your Job — But This Might: Mastering Human-AI Collaboration in Pharma Marketing
Tuesday June 16, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
AI is advancing faster than any technology in history, reshaping how we think, work, and create. For pharma marketers, the real question is not whether AI will take our jobs but how we’ll redefine them. This session explores the growing gap between exponential AI progress and the slower human pace of adoption. Attendees will learn how to treat AI as a creative partner, build new collaboration skills, and stay indispensable in the age of AI.Key takeaways:• Exponential AI growth is transforming marketing, creativity, and work itself.• Pharma marketing will evolve from executing campaigns to orchestrating systems that learn, adapt, and co-create.• The best marketers experiment relentlessly with AI to build comfort and skill, and treat AI as a thinking partner, not a tool.• Human insight, judgment, and authenticity will remain essential to brand trust and storytelling.
Speakers
AV

Andrei Vieira

US Marketing Lead, CML – US Hematology Marketing, Novartis
Tuesday June 16, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

11:30am EDT

Achieving Omnichannel Excellence in 2026: The Unconventional Truth
Tuesday June 16, 2026 11:30am - 12:15pm EDT


1. Omnichannel has been a buzzword in pharma for nearly a decade — yet most companies still struggle to execute it consistently. What's the real reason the industry keeps falling short, and what's finally changed in 2026 that makes excellence actually achievable?

2. AI-powered orchestration promises hyper-personalized patient engagement at scale — but pharma operates under some of the strictest compliance and privacy constraints in any industry. Where does the tension between personalization and regulatory risk actually break down in practice, and how are leading companies navigating it?

3. You mentioned four must-have capabilities for a high-impact patient omnichannel strategy. Most companies will claim they already have some version of these — so what separates the organizations that are truly executing from those that are just checking boxes?

4. We talk a lot about reaching patients, but omnichannel success ultimately depends on changing behavior — whether that's adherence, treatment-seeking, or HCP conversations. Where in the patient journey are companies seeing the biggest ROI from omnichannel investment right now, and where is the industry still leaving value on the table?

5. The case studies from top pharmaceutical companies are compelling — but large pharma has resources, technology infrastructure, and data that mid-size and specialty companies simply don't have. What does omnichannel excellence actually look like for an organization that doesn't have an unlimited budget and a 50-person digital team?

6. If you could eliminate one widely-held belief about omnichannel strategy in pharma — something the industry keeps getting wrong — what would it be, and what should replace it?

Speakers
avatar for Kevin Harding

Kevin Harding

Vice President, Customer Experience, BNO Marketing
avatar for Niveditha Mogali

Niveditha Mogali

Senior Director, Enterprise Omnichannel Analytics Capabilities, GlaxoSmithKline
avatar for Sabrina McGuigan

Sabrina McGuigan

Director, Franchise Operations, Global Rare Diseases, Sanofi
avatar for Dana Trump

Dana Trump

Associate Director, Omnichannel Strategist, AstraZeneca
avatar for Noah Bryant

Noah Bryant

Product Manager, Digital Marketing, Novocure
avatar for Priya Venkataraman

Priya Venkataraman

Executive Director- Content Delivery US, Commercialization AI Strategy & Analytics (CASA), Bristol Myers Squibb
Tuesday June 16, 2026 11:30am - 12:15pm EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

12:15pm EDT

Empowered and Informed: Marketing to the Patient Who Already Googled You
Tuesday June 16, 2026 12:15pm - 12:45pm EDT
Today's patients arrive at appointments armed with research, opinions, and alternatives. This talk reframes the empowered patient not as a challenge but as your greatest marketing opportunity — and shows how synchronizing brand messaging between patients and providers creates a shared knowledge environment that accelerates trust and treatment decisions.
Speakers
avatar for Peter Chiappano

Peter Chiappano

Director of Patient Excellence Digital Innovation Strategy, Boehringer Ingelheim
Tuesday June 16, 2026 12:15pm - 12:45pm EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

2:00pm EDT

New to Pharma. Not New to Marketing. What Fresh Eyes Actually See
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
THE BEGINNER'S ADVANTAGE
The pharmaceutical industry has a habit of inducting new marketers into its own logic before they can question it. Kiana got here differently — with enough battle scars from tech and telecom to know when a "that's how we do it here" is wisdom, and when it's just inertia. A candid session on the assumptions baked into pharma marketing that the industry has stopped noticing — and what it might look like to challenge them.


Speakers
avatar for Kiana Rushdan, MBA

Kiana Rushdan, MBA

Marketing Manger, Brand Lead, Pfizer
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B

2:30pm EDT

Crowd‑Curated Session Built Live From Our Two Days Together
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Imagine a closing session designed across the two-day event. Your feedback, your insights, your gaps, your inspirations – all captured to shape the final session and participants.



This is an audience curated, high‑energy wrap‑up, not another heavy slide deck. We’ll crowd‑source the top themes and questions from today and invite a cross‑functional panel of audience members, speakers, and exhibitors to respond in real time so you are heard and leave with your answers, takeaways, and opportunities.
Speakers
avatar for Richard Schwartz

Richard Schwartz

Health Care Customer Experience Evangelist, RX4CX
Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Columbus Ballroom A & B
 
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