Day One

• Explore how AI is reshaping strategic decision-making in life sciences, and where leaders draw the line between leveraging AI’s speed and safeguarding independent, critical judgement
• Compare the workforce trends, talent priorities, and operational realities shaping organisations across the life sciences ecosystem and learn which approaches can be successfully applied regardless of company size or stage
• Understand why learning from peers across the life sciences ecosystem is critical for identifying emerging trends, challenging conventional thinking and preparing for future disruption

• Learn how Bayer reduced organisational layers from 12-15 levels to just 5-6, pushing decision-making closer to employees and accelerating business responsiveness
• Explore the practical realities of implementing Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO) across a global organisation, including redesigning leadership, accountability and workforce models at scale
• Understand how Bayer’s innovative ‘Home and Work’ model and 90-day cycles enable greater flexibility, cross-functional collaboration and stronger alignment to business outcomes

• Discover how Rezon Bio navigated the complex people, culture and organisational transition from an internal development organisation to a standalone CDMO serving multiple external customers while maintaining scientific excellence
• Step inside the strategy the organisation took to build a customer-centric culture across a workforce historically focused on science, development, and technical delivery, and what the team learned from these efforts
• Explore the leadership, organisational design, and talent strategies required to align people, processes, and mindsets around commercial growth and long-term competitiveness in a rapidly moving European life sciences market

Go beyond the case study: This is your chance to ask questions that uncover the decisions, challenges and lessons behind the results

Turn insight into action: This is your opportunity to work with your peers to identify the changes you can immediately apply in your organisation

• Discover how Arcera built a shared cultural identity across three legacy businesses while preserving local strengths and accelerating employee engagement through a period of rapid transformation
• Learn the practical strategies used to create belonging at scale, align employees behind a new organisational purpose, and embed culture consistently across multiple international markets
• Explore how HR partnered with leadership to strengthen internal and external employer branding, turning cultural integration into a competitive advantage for attracting and retaining talent

• Learn how uniQure redefined and operationalised four core values across communication, recognition and talent processes to create a stronger foundation for commercial growth
• Discover how HR aligned leadership, employee ambassadors and business teams behind a unified “ONEuniQure” culture following significant organisational change and restructuring
• Explore the practical hiring strategies being used to assess both the “what” and the “how” of candidate performance while adding 100 new employees without compromising culture

Go beyond the case study: This is your chance to ask questions that uncover the decisions, challenges and lessons behind the results

Turn insight into action: This is your opportunity to work with your peers to identify the changes you can immediately apply in your organisation

• Learn how CSL Seqirus successfully re-established itself as a standalone organisation while navigating large-scale transformation, organisational redesign, and uncertainty without sacrificing employee engagement
• Explore the leadership behaviours, cultural disciplines, and communication strategies that helped maintain engagement levels within just 2% throughout a period of significant business change
• Using employee feedback, leadership accountability, recognition programmes, and frontline capability building to sustain trust, performance, and retention during transformation

• Understand how Compass Pathways strengthened already high levels of employee engagement while navigating Phase III trials, hypergrowth and an intense pace of R&D activity
• Uncover how investment in 360° feedback, executive coaching and leadership self-awareness strengthened management capability and helped create a culture of growth, compassion and accountability
• Explore practical strategies for helping managers translate scientific and technical expertise into effective people leadership, enabling teams to thrive through uncertainty, transformation and rapid expansion

Go beyond the case study: This is your chance to ask questions that uncover the decisions, challenges and lessons behind the results

Turn insight into action: This is your opportunity to work with your peers to identify the changes you can immediately apply in your organisation

• Learn how Cytokinetics built the people, leadership and organisational foundations required to support a rapid transition from a development-stage biotech to a commercial organisation across Europe
• Explore how the European HR team created a scalable framework that enabled local market teams to execute effectively while maintaining alignment to a broader regional strategy
• Gain practical insights into navigating simultaneous launches across multiple countries, balancing regional consistency with local market realities during a period of significant business growth

• Learn how to create a unifying set of values and leadership principles that connect global teams while allowing regional cultures to thrive
• Explore practical strategies for educating and aligning geographically diverse executive teams and boards as organisations expand into new markets
• Understand how to adapt talent, rewards and people strategies across regions without losing consistency, trust or organisational cohesion

Go beyond the case study: This is your chance to ask questions that uncover the decisions, challenges and lessons behind the results

Turn insight into action: This is your opportunity to work with your peers to identify the changes you can immediately apply in your organisation