CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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

The Future of PV: Harnessing AI and Human Insights for Smarter, Safer Health Care by Amrit Gill, VP – Global Head of Pharmacovigilance, Opella | USA.

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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