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 virtual event on June 16th, 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 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

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