AWS Life Sciences Symposium Zurich

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In-Person Event

Wednesday,

June

10

,

2026

Symposium

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8:30AM

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3:40PM

CEST

Networking Reception

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3:40PM

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6:00PM

CEST

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About the event

Agentic AI in life sciences. From strategy to production.

The AWS Life Sciences Symposium comes to Europe — one day in Zurich. Leaders from Roche, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Bayer, NVIDIA, OpenAI, ZS, and more sharing what's working across agentic AI in research, clinical trials, commercial operations, and enterprise IT. All focused on building for production from Day 1.

Why Attend

What's working — leaders from the industry's most advanced organisations sharing production deployments, not roadmaps
Five curated tracks — Research, Clinical Trials, Commercial & Medical Insights, Technical Building, Enterprise IT
Hands-on building — architecture to working prototype in one session
Strategic networking with peers, AWS experts, and biopharma innovators shaping what's next

Who Should Attend

Business leaders driving AI transformation across research, clinical development, and commercial operations
Technology leaders re-architecting infrastructure and operationalizing agentic AI at enterprise scale
Technical builders — engineers, architects, and data scientists — ready to ship, not strategise

Agenda

8:30AM - 9:30AM

Registration and check-in

9:30AM - 11:00AM

Opening Plenary | Foundations for the Agentic Enterprise

Dr. Boris Bogdan, Director, Life Sciences, AWS

Stéphane Israel, Managing Director, AWS European Sovereign Cloud, AWS

Frank Rydbirk, Head of Data Platforms, Roche

Tasio Guevara, Sr Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

Ujjwal Ratan, Leader, Data Science and ML, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

11:00AM - 11:20AM

Coffee and networking

11:20AM - 2:20PM

Breakout tracks

TRACK 1: RESEARCH

Introduction: Enabling an AI-ready research organisation | 11:20 AM - 11:25 AM

Daniel Hickmore, EMEA R&D Leader, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

How Sanofi built the semantic foundations for AI-Ready R&D workflows | 11:25 AM - 11:40 AM

Sabyasachi Dasgupta, VP, Global Head R&D Data & Platforms, Sanofi

Lab-in-the-Loop AI Drug Discovery: De novo antibody design and benchmarking with Amazon Bio Discovery | 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

John Ellithorpe, Director, Life Sciences AI Products, AWS

Necibe Ahat, AI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

Accelerating target ID with data & AI | 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | Speaker TBC

Change management in the age of AI | 1:20 PM - 1:40 PM

Dr. Arick Huensche, Global Head & VP Diagnostics R&D, Roche

Panel: What's next for research in the age of data & AI | 1:40 PM - 2:20 PM | Speakers TBC

TRACK 2: CLINICAL TRIALS

Opening & vision setting | 11:20 AM - 11:25 AM

Mateusz Skowron, EMEA Clinical Trials Leader, Healthcare & Life Sciences,AWS

Sarper Guerel, Principal Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

Reimagining clinical development planning with agentic AI | 11:25 AM - 11:50 AM

Arnon Horev, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy & Operations Officer, QuantHealth

Agentic workflows revolutionizing clinical trials' statistical programming | 11:50 AM - 12:15 PM

Dr. Christoph Berns, Director for Applied AI Innovation, Bayer

Summary | 12:15 PM - 12:20 PM

Sarper Guerel, Principal Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

Leveraging real-world data and AI for scalable evidence generation | 1:20 PM - 1:50 PM

Ioannis Liabotis, RWD & Secondary Use, Data Engineering Lead, Roche

Panel discussion | 1:50 PM - 2:20 PM | Speakers TBC

TRACK 3: COMMERCIAL & MEDICAL INSIGHTS

AI disruption of commercial and medical in life sciences: Hype vs reality | 11:20 AM - 11:30 AM

Oksana Avdeeva, Life Sciences Strategy & Solutions Leader, AWS

The AI-Augmented sales rep: Redefining salesforce excellence with AI | 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

Ravi Gopalakrishnan, VP, Data Science, AI, & Advanced Analytics, AstraZeneca

From AI Idea to business momentum: Using AI to transform pharma event Management | 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM

Mayco Leuker, Senior Product Specialist, Bayer

Turn patient voice into strategic advantage | 12:10 PM - 12:20 PM

Janik Jaskolski, CEO, Semalytix

How to identify emerging Biotechs and KOLs in academia | 1:20 PM - 1:30 PM | Laura Haldane, Co-Founder, SciLeads

Future of patient engagement with Amazon Connect | 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Dennis Lauth, Life Sciences Strategy & Solutions Leader, AWS

Simon Leyland, Co-Founder & CEO, CloudInteract

Panel | Agentic AI in commercial pharma: Where's the ROI? | 1:50 PM - 2:20 PM

David Schneider, Partner, Digital Strategy & Transformation, ZS

Moderator: Oksana Avdeeva, Life Sciences Strategy & Solutions Leader, AWS

TRACK 4: TECHNICAL BUILDING (Please bring your laptops to participate)

Democratizing access to developer resources at scale | 11:20 AM - 11:35 AM

Mo Bomfim, Sr Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

Hands-on workshop: Building intelligent sales briefings with healthcare data on AWS - Part 1/2 | 11:35 AM - 12:20 PM

Hands-on workshop: Building intelligent sales briefings with healthcare data on AWS - Part 2/2 | 1:20 PM - 2:20 PM

TRACK 5: ENTERPRISE IT

Strategic Agentic AI transformation: Orchestrating complex life sciences environments for measurable impact | 11:20 AM - 11:50 AM

Rob Bradley, Principal Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

Chris Scott, Snr Manager, Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

Applying AI at scale – How Roche creates an environment for transformative value generation through AI | 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM

Deepak Sondur, Global Head of Applied AI, Roche

Group discussion | 12:10 PM - 12:20 PM

The Agentic AI revolution: Redefining developer and DevOps Roles | 1:20 PM - 1:40 PM

Rob Bradley, Principal Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

Chris Scott, Snr Manager, Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

Experiences applying AI‑assisted development in healthcare | 1:40 PM - 2:00 PM

Sean O'Dell, Senior Director, Center for Genomics Research, AstraZeneca

Building the AI-native SDLC | 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

Marcus Werlang, EMEA CSM, Ona

12:20PM - 1:20PM

Lunch

2:20PM - 2:40PM

Coffee and networking

2:40PM - 3:40PM

Closing plenary

Panel | Pharma 2030: Rewiring the Industry for the Agentic Era

Pascal Weinberger, Co-CEO, Owkin

Dr. Matthias Gehder, Partner and Director, Digital Health, BCG

Laura Oprea, Data Strategy Lead - Oncology, Roche

Moderator: Christina Pluta, Global Account Manager, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

Panel | How technology is shaping the life sciences industry

Constantin Landers, Head of Business Development, Healthcare & Life Sciences, NVIDIA

Christoph Winter, GTM Enterprise DACH, OpenAI

Javier Nunez-Vicandi, Principal – Digital Medicine Strategy, Sofinnova Partners

Moderator: Dr. Boris Bogdan, Director, Life Sciences AWS

Closing remarks

Boris Bogdan, Director, Life Sciences AWS

3:40PM - 6:00PM

Networking reception

Day 2

9:00AM - 10:00AM

Breakfast

Breakfast. registration will take place five minutes before breakfast.

10:00AM - 11:00AM

The horizon of AI

The emerging world of artificial intelligence and machine learning by Matthew Hartman and partner, Betaworks.

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Startup evangelist of the month

Welcome Mackenzie Kosut, AWS startup evangelist

Day 3

9:00AM - 10:00AM

Breakfast

Breakfast. registration will take place five minutes before breakfast.

10:00AM - 11:00AM

The horizon of AI

The emerging world of artificial intelligence and machine learning by Matthew Hartman and partner, Betaworks.

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Startup evangelist of the month

Welcome Mackenzie Kosut, AWS startup evangelist

Day 4

9:00AM - 10:00AM

Breakfast

Breakfast. registration will take place five minutes before breakfast.

10:00AM - 11:00AM

The horizon of AI

The emerging world of artificial intelligence and machine learning by Matthew Hartman and partner, Betaworks.

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Startup evangelist of the month

Welcome Mackenzie Kosut, AWS startup evangelist

Feature topics

Feature topic

Database migration

Storage

Networking

Analytics

Machine Learning

Plenary speakers

Frank Rydbirk

Head of Data Platforms, Roche

Boris Bogdan

Director, Life Sciences, AWS

Stéphane Israel

Managing Director, AWS European Sovereign Cloud & Digital Sovereignty, AWS

Ujjwal Ratan

Leader, Data Science and ML, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

Pascal Weinberger

Co-CEO, Owkin

Christoph Winter

GTM Enterprise DACH, OpenAI

Tasio Guevara

Senior Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences, AWS

Javier Nunez-Vicandi

Principal – Digital Medicine Strategy, Sofinnova Partners

Constantin Landers

Head of Business Development, Healthcare & Life Sciences, NVIDIA

Dr. Matthias Gehder

Partner and Director, Digital Health, BCG

Breakout speakers

Sabya Dasgupta

VP, Global Head R&D Data & Platforms, Sanofi

Dr Arick Huensche

Global Head & VP Diagnostics R&D, Roche

Ravi Gopalakrishnan

VP, Data Science, AI, & Advanced Analytics, AstraZeneca

Laura Haldane

Co-Founder, SciLeads

Dr Christoph Berns

Director for Applied AI Innovation, Bayer

Deepak Sondur

Global Head of Applied AI, Roche

Sean O' Dell

Senior Director, Center for Genomics Research, AstraZeneca

Mayco Leuker

Senior Product Specialist, Bayer

John Ellithorpe

Director, Life Sciences AI Products, AWS

Ioannis Liabotis

RWD & Secondary Use, Data Engineering Lead, Roche

David Schneider

Partner, Digital Strategy & Transformation, ZS

Simon Leyland

Co-Founder & CEO, CloudInteract

Janik Jaskolski

CEO, Semalytix

Marcus Werlang

EMEA CSM, Ona

Arnon Horev

Co-Founder and Chief Strategy & Operations Officer, QuantHealth

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FAQ or Detailed Agenda

When is the event?

The event is scheduled for Sep 30, - Oct 1 2025 | 7:00pm - 10:00pm. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Where is the event?

The event will be held at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

Is there a fee to attend the event? If so, how can I pay?

No, this event is free to attend.

Checkin

Please arrive at the venue by 9am to check in to the conference.

Resources

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