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EXECUTIVE PANEL Leading Through Today’s Funding Environment — How Biotech CEOs Are Making Development Decisions Differently
- How CEOs are prioritising programmes
- Balancing scientific ambition with financial reality
- Deciding what to progress and what to stop
- Securing investment in today’s market – are funding opportunities becoming increasingly regional?
- Partnering, licensing and fundraising
- What investors want to hear from leadership teams
Moderator: Cesare Spadoni, Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Oncoheroes Biosciences
Morning refreshments and networking break
CASE STUDY Designing Protocols That Rare Disease Sites Can Actually Deliver
- Working with sites before protocol finalisation
- Identifying operational bottlenecks early
- Reducing unnecessary protocol complexity
- Designing studies that fit real-world clinical practice
OPENING KEYNOTE The Growing Role of Biomarkers in Oncology Development and Regulatory Decision-Making
- Biomarkers defining target populations by measuring pharmacological targets and pathogenic cascades
- Biomarkers as surrogate endpoints for efficacy
- Where EMA and the FDA have taken different approaches
- Emerging trends and future challenges
Co-author: Karl Broich, President of BfArM
Private Dinner: Sponsored by Xpedition
GenAI in Quantitative Research: Unlocking efficiency
We explore how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) can transform quantitative research workflows by enabling accurate, context-aware answers sourced from technical documentation.
- How to build RAG pipelines to handle complex, domain-specific queries efficiently
- What are the key technical challenges, like: retrieval strategies, query handling, grounding and answer generation
- How to train and evaluate these systems
- What are the best practices and learnings for designing robust, scalable AI assistants for quant and business decision-making
AI-Powered Security: From POC to Production
Navigating Agentic AI and Emerging Threats in Financial Services
- The Current State of AI Security in Financial Services – How organisations are balancing rapid AI innovation against regulatory requirements (EU AI Act, DORA) and legacy infrastructure challenges while maintaining robust security controls
- Agentic AI: The Next Security Frontier – Understanding autonomous AI systems in financial services, their unique security challenges, and practical approaches to securing AI agents that make independent decisions and interact with critical systems
- AI-Powered Security Tools Moving to Production – Demonstrations of AI security solutions including automated threat modelling and AI-generated incident response scenarios, showing how GenAI is transforming defensive security operations
- Industry Trends Shaping the Future – The shift from AI governance theatre to measurable implementation, growing enterprise acceptance of GenAI for defensive security, and the emergence of cross-industry collaboration through open-source security tools
- Practical Implementation Focus – Key takeaways for building production-ready AI security programs that deliver measurable outcomes while enabling innovation velocity
Sponsored by Moterra: Testing everything and believing nothing – My Journey to AITesting everything and believing nothing – My Journey to AI
From skeptic to believer: join Marius Beliunas on his real-world journey through the evolving world of AI in financial services. Discover how rigorous testing and hands-on experience with Moterra’s Business AI Suite led to breakthrough results. Walk away inspired, with practical insights on adopting secure and compliant AI in highly regulated industries.
- Follow Marius Beliunas’ transformation from AI skeptic to advocate for secure, responsible innovation
- Hear how “testing everything and believing nothing” led to real breakthroughs with Moterra’s Business AI Suite
- Explore live examples of AI boosting security, productivity, and compliance in financial services
- Leave equipped with actionable strategies for implementing Agentic AI and GenAI in regulated environments