Explore the Agenda

7:00 am Check In, Coffee & Light Breakfast

7:55 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Associate Director, EH&S, New England BioLabs

Integrating AI into the Future of EHS Leadership, Culture, & Operations

8:00 am Session Reserved for Deloitte

8:30 am Predict, Prevent, Protect: Responsible AI for Risk & Lab Safety

Global Senior Director, Environmental Health Safety & Risk Programs, Amgen
  • Using predictive analytics to identify incident precursors, SIF trends, and emerging hazards to turn lagging metrics into leading insight
  • Comparing global standards to local SOPs with AI to detect documentation gaps and enhance audit readiness
  • Exploring AI ergonomics/PIV monitoring use cases while setting privacy, HR, and “no-punitive surveillance” guardrails

9:00 am Dynamic Risk Landscapes Warrant Dynamic Approaches

CEO and Founder, Aclid
  • Comprehensive suite of operations, EHS, and quality tools built for the modern biotech
  • Insights into how biosafety is evolving with new modalities, guidelines, and regulations 
  • See live how Aclid manages end-to-end, dynamic, and risk-informed biosafety workflows with computational tools and AI

9:10 am Roundtable Discussion: Lean Teams, Smart Tools: Practical AI Uplift for EHS Operations

  • Capturing and structuring legacy expertise through AI-powered knowledge libraries to retain institutional memory amid workforce change
  • Personalizing training, procedures, and communication through adaptive AI tools that connect relevance (“why it matters to me”) to safety behaviour
  • Leveraging AI for prioritization, workload optimisation, and decision support, while maintaining interpretive oversight, human accountability, and global-local flexibility

10:00 am Speed Networking, Morning Break & Refreshments

A prime chance to make the most of in-person networking and forge new connections as new companies enter and existing ones broaden their presence within the EHS for biopharma space. This is designed to maximize your exposure to a wide range of new individuals and serve as a catalyst for ongoing discussions throughout the summit.

Tackling the Lack of Qualified EHS Professionals & Implementing Mindset Based Training for Enhanced Uptake & Continued Engagement

11:00 am Beyond the Checkbox: Re-energising EHS Training for Real Engagement & Lasting Impact

Site HSE Lead, Sanofi
  • Explore how traditional compliance-driven, click-through training models have become disengaging and ineffective, and how biopharma leaders are re-designing learning through mixed-modal approaches including in-person sessions, AI-enhanced voice content, and interactive sustainability modules such as My Green Lab
  • Demonstrate how dynamic, measurable training can build true behavioural change, improve knowledge retention, and integrate non-regulatory opportunities like sustainability into everyday lab culture
  • Discuss practical frameworks to balance digital efficiency with human connection, ensuring EHS training is not only compliant but also inspiring, data-driven, and capable of transforming workplace culture

11:40 am Roundtable Discussion: Embedding Behaviour-Based Safety in Biopharma Culture

Associate Director, Environmental Health & Safety, MannKind Corporation
Principal, Environmental, Health and Safety Specialist, Alkermes
  • Explore how to translate EHS training into consistent, observable safety behaviours that reduce human error and strengthen trust across teams
  • Share practical techniques for constructive communication, peer coaching, and intervening on unsafe acts without confrontation or blame
  • Discuss how to measure and sustain behavioural engagement over time, ensuring safety habits persist across shifting teams and evolving operations

12:30 pm Lunch & Networking Break

Human-Centred Safety: Integrating Ergonomics & Mental Health into the Core of Biopharma EHS

1:30 pm Bridging the Gap Between Front-Line Safety & Executive Priorities to Create a Culture of Shared Accountability & Lasting Engagement

Director, EHS, Ultragenyx
Director - Global Environment, Health, & Safety, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.
  • Highlighting the gap between operational safety efforts and executive priorities driven by production, deadlines, and shareholder value
  • Exploring tiered management systems and cross-functional safety committees that foster accountability at every level as a strategy to win leadership engagement by aligning EHS outcomes with business performance, modelling visible commitment, and embedding safety goals into leadership routines and communications
  • Transforming leadership support from passive endorsement to active sponsorship by creating a cascading culture where safety, wellbeing, and performance reinforce each other across the organization

2:00 pm From Compliance to Intelligence: The Digital Evolution of EHS Programs

Vice President - Global Alliances & Marketing, SciSure
President & Chief Operating Officer , Safety Partners

The New Era of Digital EHS

  • Connect EHS workflows, chemical inventory, and compliance to scale research without losing safety oversight.
  • Reduce compliance risk and audit pressure with a unified digital approach that doesn’t add work for scientists.
  • See how SciSure + Safety Partners embed EHS directly into lab operations for real-time visibility and audit-ready records.

2:10 pm Afternoon Networking Break & Refreshments

2:30 pm Panel Discussion: Building a Unified Approach to Contractor & Supply Chain Safety in Biopharma

Global Director - Research Development Environmental Health & Safety, Abbvie
Principal, Environmental, Health and Safety Specialist, Alkermes
Director, Global Environmental, Health, Safety, & Sustainability, Charles River Laboratories
Head of Expert Services, Veriforce, LLC
  • Explore how fragmented standards, inconsistent oversight, and cost-driven pressures across contractors and suppliers create vulnerabilities in EHS performance, addressing prequalification, third-party assurance, and the opportunity for industrywide alignment on safety expectations and ethical contracting
  • Demonstrate how collaboration across biopharma companies can establish shared standards, reduce duplication, and strengthen cultural consistency across complex global supply chains
  • Gain strategies to implement unified contractor management frameworks, balance cost and safety incentives, and foster long-term partnerships that enhance both compliance and worker wellbeing

3:30 pm Roundtable Discussion: Competence, Culture, & Communication for New Biopharma Frontiers

Principal, Environmental, Health and Safety Specialist, Alkermes

• How can EHS and operations teams build competency pipelines and use AI-assisted knowledge retrieval to accelerate readiness when programmes pivot rapidly to new modalities like vaccines, radiopharma, or gene therapy?

• In an environment of clinical uncertainty, staffing churn, and contractor variability, what practical rituals or leadership behaviours help sustain a consistent safety culture and psychological stability across teams?

• How can early-stage EHS engagement de-risk environmental and permitting challenges, particularly for waste, water, and infrastructure, to ensure smoother tech transfer and operational continuity across sites?

4:00 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks