Life sciences organizations are moving quickly to explore generative and agentic AI, but many are still working through how to move from promising pilots to production-ready solutions that can scale across regulated workflows. As AI becomes embedded in areas such as pharmacovigilance, regulatory operations, clinical development, medical affairs, precision medicine and commercial processes, organizations need more than experimentation — they need trusted AI strategies that balance speed, quality, governance and human oversight.
The conversation will share solutions currently in use and explore how organizations can identify high-value use cases, demonstrate human-in-the-loop workflows, build trust with business and compliance stakeholders by grounding AI outputs in auditable, mechanism-based reasoning rather than opaque correlation, and measure impact beyond initial proofs of concept. Speakers will also share perspectives on the data, governance and change management foundations needed to scale AI responsibly while supporting better decision-making, efficiency and patient-centered outcomes.
Sudhir Saxena is Chief Technology Officer of GNQ Insilico, Inc., a precision medicine TechBio company. Sudhir brings 25+ years of leadership building Product Strategy-through-Deployment organizations, with deep domain expertise across Healthcare and Life Sciences. Across his career as both an entrepreneur and an executive at top-tier consulting firms, he has built and scaled AI-driven Healthcare and Life Sciences platforms, taking them from ideas/concepts to commercial products. At GNQ he currently focuses on building out the GNQ flagship platform with Q-BRM, the company's Quantum infused Biological Reasoning Model, designed to move beyond correlation-based AI by reasoning across associative, interventional, and counterfactual levels of causal inference — work that recently surfaced previously unrecognized drug response mechanisms in oncology. He speaks frequently on causal AI, quantum computing, and the future of genomic medicine.
Deiva is a Partner at IBM Consulting, leading the Generative AI Automation practice for the Life Sciences and Healthcare sectors. With more than 20 years of experience, he has driven large-scale, transformational programs using cutting-edge AI solutions for global biopharma, medical device, and healthcare companies.
Deiva’s expertise extends across the Life Sciences value chain, from clinical trials, radiology to regulatory submissions, marketing automation, and patient-centric digital health products. He is a recognized thought leader, contributing to GenAI papers and speaking at global conferences, shaping the future of AI automation in life sciences and healthcare. Deiva and his high-performance teams have pioneered innovations with industry/domain-specific GenAI assets and operationalizing Agentic AI to bring products and services to market faster for patients and providers who are waiting, driving revenue acceleration and significant cost savings, creating new business models as well as creating competitive advantages for his clients.
Deiva is also an Industry Thought Leader with published Agentic AI papers and is a Conference speaker on GenAI / Agentic AI-led transformation in life sciences, healthcare, state and local government and higher education.
Stuart leads IBM Consulting R&D practice and is a seasoned Life Sciences digital transformation leader with over 30+ years of experience guiding life sciences organizations, across the entire molecule to patient value chain. His expertise spans organizational transformations, operational efficiency, and Data driven AI technology advancements, with a focus on aligning data driven business and IT strategies to deliver measurable outcomes. His leadership has delivered cutting-edge capability solutions that leverage AI/ML, cloud technologies, automation and data governance-GxP frameworks to accelerate innovation, improve decision-making, and enhance patient-centric outcomes.
Surani Fernando is a seasoned healthcare journalist and editor with over 13 years experience covering the biopharma industry. A Sydney native, she started her investigative journalism career in London covering clinical trials, M&A and financing deals for BioPharm Insight, later moving to New York to continue her work as an enterprise journalist and editorial leader for GlobalData and Reorg. She is now based in Madrid working as a freelance journalist, consultant writer and podcast producer. In November 2023, she launched the Raising Biotech podcast.