PV USA 2026
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Day 1 Agenda
8:30 – 9:15 AM
Registrations & Refreshments
9:15 – 9:30 AM
Welcome & Chairperson Opening Remarks by Dr. Susan Welsh
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Keynote Session: Patient Preference and Quantitative Benefit Risk
Speaker: Brett Hauber, Patient Preference Integration Lead, Pfizer | USA.
10:00 – 10:30 AM
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Tea/Coffee/ Refreshments Networking Break & Exhibition
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Agentic AI in Pharmacovigilance: From Task Automation to Unified Data Intelligence by Emmanuel Belabe, Senior Vice President – Customer Excellence – North America • Global Customer Excellence, ArisGlobal
11:30 – 12:00 PM
Next-gen PV frontiers: Reimagining periodic reporting for patient safety
by Vijay Ponukumati, CTO, Graph AI & Dr. Amrit Gill, MD MBA, VP – Global Head of Pharmacovigilance, Opella | USA.
12:00 – 12:30 PM
Lessons Learned from Three Decades Across Pharma and Pharmacovigilance Leadership & Industry Perspective: Nina Lahanis, Vice President, Safety Data Management – PrimeVigilance
12:30 – 13:30 PM
Networking Luncheon
13:30 – 14:00 PM
Pharmacovigilance Transformation: Leveraging AI and Process Streamlining for Smarter Case Processing by Alexander Kluczka – Executive Director: Head of Safety Operations and Systems, BMS | USA
14:00 – 14:30 PM
Beyond Go-Live: How We Measure, Improve, and Sustain AI-Enabled Case Processing by Sonam Desai, Director Global Safety Systems, BMS
14:30 – 15:00 PM
Afternoon Tea/ Refreshments Networking Break/ Exhibition
15:00 – 15:30 PM
Realizing the Value of AI in Pharmacovigilance: Turning AI capabilities into measurable outcomes by Amit Jain, Founder and Director, North America Ops, Ultragenic Research and Technologies.
15:30 – 16:30 PM
Executive Leadership Panel Discussion
Re-imaging Patient Safety – From Pharmacovigilance to Patient Centred Benefit – Risk Decision
Moderator: Susan Welsh
Panellist: Brett Hauber, Amrit Gill, Priya Jain
16:30 – 17:00 PM
AI-Powered PV: The Shift You Can’t Afford to Miss by Mr. Awais Khan, Vice President, Product & Solutions Innovation, RxLogix
17:00 – 17:30 PM
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
17:30 – 18:30 PM
Chairperson Closing Remarks & Networking Drinks Reception
Day 2 Agenda
8:30 – 9:15 AM
Registrations & Refreshments
9:15 – 9:30 AM
Welcome & Chairperson Opening Remarks by Dr Susan Welsh
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Driving AI Innovation in Regulatory by Suzanne Tracy, Head, Digital Innovation – PV Operations, Moderna | USA
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Real-World Evidence in Pharmacovigilance by William Blumentals, Head of Pharmacovigilance, Sanofi | USA
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Tea/Coffee/ Refreshments Networking Break & Exhibition
11:00 – 12:00 PM
Panel Discussion:
Transforming Global PV: Harnessing AI, Elevating Patient Expectations and Redefining the Future Safety Landscape
Moderator/ Chair: Amrit Gill
Panelists: Karthik Muthusamy, Karthik Babu, Uma Arunagiri, Harsha Shetty, Amit Jain
12:00 – 12:30 PM
Responsible AI In Pharmacovigilance – A case study using Compliance Obligation Graph (COG) by Harsha Shetty, Senior Director, Global Safety Lead & Patient Engagement & Sustainability Lead, CSL | USA
12:30 – 13:30 PM
Networking Luncheon
13:30 – 14:00 PM
Pharmacovigilance for Living Drugs by Uma Arunagiri, VP, Head of Patient Safety and Pharmacovigilance, Kite Pharma | USA
14:00 – 14:30 PM
From Watching to Listening: Embedding Patient Engagement into the DNA of Pharmacovigilance by Jennifer Barnes, Associate Director, North America Pharmacovigilance, Head of NA Compliance, Teva Pharma | USA
14:30 – 15:00 PM
Afternoon Tea/ Refreshments Networking Break/ Exhibition
15:00 – 16:00 PM
Panel Discussion: Beyond Compliance: Reimagining Pharmacovigilance for the AI Era
Moderator/ Chair: Jaspreet Singh, PV Project Director –PrimeVigilance
Panelists: Jennifer Barnes, Harsha Shetty, Karthik Muthusamy
16:00 – 16:10 PM
Chairperson Closing Remarks, Conference Wrap-Up and Future Directions
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