R/Pharma genAI Day 2026

Information on R/Pharma’s third genAI single day event

genAI Day Registration

Expo Submission

The third Annual R/Pharma genAI Day will be held virtually on June 16, 2026 (June 17 in APAC region). This free single day event will focus on examples of using generative and agentic artificial intelligence with an emphasis in the drug development space and clinical domain.

This page contains details and a schedule for the event. For registration and other information, please visit R/Pharma genAI Day.

Calling all Open Source Developers!

We will be featuring a virtual exhibition hall that will be open throughout the event. This is a chance for you to showcase your awesome open source creations! Please consider sharing your work in a virtual booth if you:

  • have an R or Python package or app
  • have created a useful AI agent or skill
  • contribute to the community through a YouTube channel, blog or podcast

If you wish to include a virtual booth please use contribute using the EXPO Form.

Europe/US Schedule

Tap or hover on talk titles for abstracts and speaker names for bios. All times are in EDT on June 16, 2026.

10:00 EDT
Sara Altman (Posit) , Simon Couch (Posit)
Agents for Correct, Transparent, and Reproducible Data Analysis 40 min
10:40 EDT
Break 20 min
11:00 EDT
Nikolas Burkoff (Johnson & Johnson)
Using LLMs to generate Teal applications: from proof of concept to production 20 min
11:20 EDT
Isabella Velásquez (Posit)
Skills 101 20 min
11:40 EDT
Eric Zhang (Eikon Therapeutics) , Ning Leng (Abbvie)
From R, Shiny, and Container to AI Skills: The R Consortium Submissions Working Group Call for Contributors 20 min
12:00 EDT
James Wade (Dow)
R/Pharma Hangout: shinymcp 60 min
13:00 EDT
Break 20 min
13:20 EDT
Peng Zhang (CIMS Global)
Hands Dirty First: Practical Notes from Before, During, and After Building Agentic Workflows 20 min
13:40 EDT
Indraneel Chakraborty (Independent Contributor)
'Ignore All Previous Instructions' and Other Things Your LLM Shouldn't Do in Pharma: Applying GenAI Security Guardrails in R 20 min
14:00 EDT
Husain Attarwala (Aera Therapeutics)
Accelerating Population PK/PD Modeling and Simulation with GenAI 20 min
14:20 EDT
Break 20 min
14:40 EDT
Weijie Zhang (Moderna) , Xing Chen (Moderna)
Agentic workflows for clinical data acceleration 20 min
15:00 EDT
Rita Pecuch (Takeda) , Varun Jagadeesh (Takeda)
Harnessing Generative AI to Improve Test Data Quality and Efficiency in Clinical Trial Set-Up 20 min
15:20 EDT
Matthew Kumar (Bayer)
Scheduled Clinical Insights: AI-Assisted Quarto Reporting for Oncology Studies 20 min
15:40 EDT
Michael Rimler (GSK) , Mike Stackhouse (Atorus)
Agentic AI Basics: How LLMs Work 20 min
16:00 EDT
Phil Bowsher (Posit) , Harvey Lieberman (Novartis)
Close-out and questions 10 min

APAC Schedule

R/Pharma is exited to bring the first APAC-targeted schedule this year.
Tap or hover on talk titles for abstracts and speaker names for bios. All times are in IST on June 17, 2026.

07:30 IST
Phil Bowsher (Posit)
Hands-on Introduction to AI with Ellmer and Positron 115 min
09:25 IST
Break 5 min
09:30 IST
Harshavardhan Bajoria (UnStop)
Beyond the Prompt: Building Truly Autonomous AI Agents with MCP 60 min
10:30 IST
Mia Chen (CIMS Global)
Hands Dirty First: Practical Notes from Before, During, and After Building Agentic Workflows 30 min
11:00 IST
Anannya Roy Chowdhury (AWS)
My Agents fought and became friends under 5 mins 30 min