R/Pharma GenAI Day Schedule

Our third genAI single day event

Free virtual conference on the use of genAI in Pharma.

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May 12, 2026

We are excited to share the schedule for the third R/Pharma genAI day, a free single day event focused on examples of using generative and agentic artificial intelligence with an emphasis in the drug development space and clinical domain.

For talk abstracts and speaker bios, check out our conference page.

10:00
Sara Altman (Posit) , Simon Couch (Posit)
To be announced 40 min
10:40
Break 20 min
11:00
Nikolas Burkhoff (Johnson & Johnson)
Using LLMs to generate Teal applications: from proof of concept to production 20 min
11:20
Isabella Velásquez (Posit)
To be announced 20 min
11:40
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
12:50
James Wade (Dow)
R/Pharma Hangout: shinymcp 50 min
12:50
Break 10 min
13:00
Jeremy Zhang (Otsuka Pharmaceutical Companies)
Evolving Methods for Scalable Content Generation with AI 20 min
13:20
Peng Zhang (CIMS Global)
Hands Dirty First: Practical Notes from Before, During, and After Building Agentic Workflows 20 min
13:40
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
Husain Attarwala (Aera Therapeutics)
Accelerating Population PK/PD Modeling and Simulation with GenAI 20 min
14:20
Break 20 min
14:40
Weijie Zhang (Moderna) , Xing Chen (Moderna)
Agentic workflows for clinical data acceleration 20 min
15:00
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
Matthew Kumar (Bayer)
Scheduled Clinical Insights: AI-Assisted Quarto Reporting for Oncology Studies 20 min
15:40
Presenter to follow ( )
To be announced 20 min

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