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7:45 am Networking & Registration
8:20 am Chair’s Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:40 am Discover: Interactive CHRO Panel: How Roche, Novartis & Merck Group Are Redesigning the Life Sciences Enterprise at Scale for an AI‑Enabled Future
- How leaders are redesigning enterprise operating models, rethinking what work is done by humans vs systems vs AI agents – and what this means for structure, accountability, and decision‑making at scale
- The real choices organisations are making around build vs buy vs plug‑and‑play across the enterprise – and why similar companies are landing on very different technology, capability, and delivery models
- Why ‘do more with less, faster’ is an outcome, not a strategy – unpacking the true drivers of enterprise reinvention – including speed, experience, resilience, and long‑term capability building
10:00 am Speed Networking & Refreshments Break
From AI Strategy to Enterprise Execution
11:00 am Discover: How Merck Group is Moving from Ai Experimentation to Enterprise‑Wide Business Impact
- Discover how Merck is shifting from pilots and fragmented AI initiatives to a focused, value‑chain‑led strategy where AI and agents are deliberately designed to reshape how work gets done and that concentrates AI investment where it can truly move the business
- Learn how Merck KGaA is redesigning work through agentic AI – building everyday AI fluency at scale while focusing largest agentic investments for the areas that create competitive advantage
- Explore how Merck KGaA is empowering leaders and managers to identify, deploy, and measure AI‑driven change across core processes, turning AI from a technology topic into a business capability
11:20 am Discover: How GlaxoSmithKline Built a Skills‑Based Organisation to Enable Human & AI Collaboration at Scale
- Discover how GlaxoSmithKline decommissioned fragmented learning tech and rebuilt a unified, AI-powered skills stack that infers skills from job architecture and employee experience across 72,000 employees
- Connecting a live skills taxonomy, personalised learning, AI coaching, and skills insights to give leaders and HR real-time visibility of future skill gaps and organisational capability
- Equipping HR business partners to plan for a blended workforce – redesigning roles, job architecture, and operating models where humans and AI agents deliver value together
11:40 am Develop: Deepening Enterprise AI Execution: Turning Strategy into Repeatable Capability
Dig deeper into what it truly takes to move from isolated AI success stories to consistent, enterprise wide execution. Use this session to unpack the practical enablers of scale – from governance and prioritisation to leader ownership and measurement – and explore how to embed AI as a core business capability rather than a series of disconnected initiatives.
Interactive Q&A Session Facilitated by the Chair
12:00 pm Action: Designing Your AI Execution Roadmap
Work with peers to translate insight into a clear execution plan for your organisation. Identify where to focus first, how to prioritise high-impact use cases, and what structures, skills, and metrics are required to move from ambition to measurable business outcomes.
Interactive Roundtable Discussion Facilitated by the Chair
12:20 pm Networking Lunch
1:20 pm Interactive Action Labs – Part 1
At the end of the first conference day, attendees will get the chance to choose a group discussion to dive deeper into – and work towards finding answers to – a key shared problem. Choose from A, B, or C:
Interactive Action Lab A: How Should We Design The Future of Work in the Age of Co-Intelligence?
Across biopharma, the accountability has shifted. AI is no longer a technology priority sitting with the CIO, it’s a value creation imperative landing squarely on the CHRO.
The question every leader in this room is navigating is the same: how do we get to value, fast, without losing what makes our organizations distinctly human?
This session explores two interconnected challenges: making workforce strategy agile and future proof – rethinking how work gets done when humans and AI agents operate as an intelligent system, and preparing leaders to actively steer AI-driven change – building the trust that helps people see agents not as a threat but as a way to enrich work, reduce lower-value activity, and create space for purpose and judgment.
Central to that journey is a new vocabulary for the work itself. Not training, but continuous AI literacy embedded in daily work. Not job descriptions, but skills portfolios & AI collaboration profiles. Not productivity, but creating a cognitive premium, the irreplaceable value humans bring in deploying judgment, creativity, and complex decision-making. Not headcount management, but agentic orchestration.
In Europe, this plays out with an additional layer of complexity. Works councils serve as country-by-country regulatory guardrails to shape what is permissible, and this session gives HR leaders the grounding to navigate that.
Drawing on Accenture's research, refreshed skills data, and real client cases, this is a genuine peer exchange, where the insights from discussion in the room matter as much as the ones we bring to it.
Together we will shape what the future of work looks like for our organizations, our societies, and our people.
2:40 pm Networking Break
2:50 pm Interactive Action Labs – Part 2
After a short break, attendees will get the chance to join a new group discussion to dive deeper into – and work towards finding answers to – another key shared problem. Action Lab A continues to be accessible by invitation only, the rest of the community can choose between Action Labs D and E:
Interactive Action Lab A: How Do We Prepare Leaders & The Wider Organisation to Actively Lead AI Driven Change? (Continued)
Across biopharma, the accountability has shifted. AI is no longer a technology priority sitting with the CIO, it’s a value creation imperative landing squarely on the CHRO.
The question every leader in this room is navigating is the same: how do we get to value, fast, without losing what makes our organizations distinctly human?
This session explores two interconnected challenges: making workforce strategy agile and future proof – rethinking how work gets done when humans and AI agents operate as an intelligent system, and preparing leaders to actively steer AI-driven change – building the trust that helps people see agents not as a threat but as a way to enrich work, reduce lower-value activity, and create space for purpose and judgment.
Central to that journey is a new vocabulary for the work itself. Not training, but continuous AI literacy embedded in daily work. Not job descriptions, but skills portfolios & AI collaboration profiles. Not productivity, but creating a cognitive premium, the irreplaceable value humans bring in deploying judgment, creativity, and complex decision-making. Not headcount management, but agentic orchestration.
In Europe, this plays out with an additional layer of complexity. Works councils serve as country-by-country regulatory guardrails to shape what is permissible, and this session gives HR leaders the grounding to navigate that.
Drawing on Accenture's research, refreshed skills data, and real client cases, this is a genuine peer exchange, where the insights from discussion in the room matter as much as the ones we bring to it.
Together we will shape what the future of work looks like for our organizations, our societies, and our people.
From AI Adoption to Work & Operating Model Reinvention
4:40 pm Discover: From AI Adoption to Work Reinvention: How Moderna is Redesigning Work, Roles, & Accountability for Impact
- Learn how Moderna is shifting from AI tool adoption to end-to-end work reinvention: redesigning work across people, process, data, and technology to drive business impact
- Understand how to evolve work to support a more adaptive, AI-enabled workforce, while maintaining clarity, trust, and ownership
- Explore how this approach plays out in highly regulated European environments, balancing speed, risk, and compliance without losing momentum
5:00 pm Discover: Redefining HR’s Role to Orchestrate a Hybrid Workforce by Building the Ownership, Skills, & Lifecycle Governance Needed to Manage Humans & AI Agents Side-by-Side
- Explore how Novartis is reframing HR beyond skills-building to experiment with owning and orchestrating a truly hybrid workforce of people and digital agents
- Examine the early hypotheses HR leaders are testing around accountability, lifecycle management, and engagement when “workers” are no longer only human
- Learn how enterprise-wide AI transformation creates a new mandate for HR to shape operating models, not just support them
5:20 pm Develop: Reinventing Work in Practice: From Adoption to Redesign
Explore the shift from introducing AI tools to fundamentally redefining work, roles, and accountability. Dive into the real decisions organisations face when redesigning workflows, balancing human and AI contribution, and maintaining clarity, trust, and performance during transformation.
Interactive Q&A Session Facilitated by the Chair