Natalie Bickford
Chief People Officer Sanofi
Natalie Bickford is Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Sanofi, bringing over 20 years of HR leadership experience across global organisations. Natalie has led large-scale transformation initiatives and is a recognised advocate for diversity, inclusion, and employee experience, winning the European Diversity Awards HR Champion of the Year. Prior to Sanofi, Natalie was Group HR Director at Merlin Entertainments and held senior roles at AstraZeneca, Sodexo, and Kingfisher.
Seminars
Tuesday 29th September 2026
Discover: Interactive CHRO Panel: How Roche, Novartis, Sanofi & Merck Group Are Redesigning the Life Sciences Enterprise at Scale for an AI‑Enabled Future
9:00 am
- 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
