7:30 am Conference Registration & Welcome Coffee

8:40 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Acquiring the Right Skills to Become a Great Business Leader

8:50 am Discover: Shifting Mindsets to Become More Aligned with the Business Strategy

Synopsis

  • Utilizing external training to gain more detailed business understanding
  • Interpreting the business goals to help formulate strategies
  • Improving collaborative skills to understand and influence different sections of the business

9:10 am Discover: Global Patent Prosecution Strategy & Life Cycle Management

Synopsis

  • How to decide which patent applications merit international protection and which countries should be on the short list for filing and why
  • How to develop a robust international portfolio that provides market exclusivity
  • How to develop a patent portfolio that provides monetization benefits

9:30 am Discover: Striking a Balance Between Legal and Strategic Business Work

  • Beth Krewson Senior Vice President & General Counsel, BlueRock Therapeutics

Synopsis

  • Ensuring legal responsibilities don’t become overshadowed by business responsibilities
  • Thinking strategically with the whole franchise in mind when reviewing documentation or executing transactions
  • Encouraging collaboration within teams to ensure both legal and strategic tasks are completed to a high standard 

9:50 am Develop: What More Can We Learn from the In-House Leaders to Acquire the Right Skills to Become a Great Business Leader?

Synopsis

Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair

10:10 am Action: What Are You Now Going to Do Differently to Gain the Right Skills to Become a Great Business Leader?

Synopsis

Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair

Collaborating Effectively with Internal Teams to Enrich your Legal Work

10:20 am Discover: Technology’s Struggle to Tame the Wild World of Contracts

Synopsis

  • Across the Life Sciences industry, companies struggle to manage their executed contracts – wasting a ton of time and leaking profit in the process.
  • Previous attempts to address the problem by technology vendors have been abject failures.
  • Effective solutions require bulletproof data-quality and must account for the complexity of contract families, among other sneaky details. 

10:35 am Speed Networking Break & Morning Refreshments

11:35 am Discover: Establishing Strategic Relationships with Internal Stakeholders

Synopsis

  • Managing constant changes in resources within legal teams and cross-functionally
  • Identifying the correct communication method to save time and guarantee engagement
  • Understanding and meeting expectations to demonstrate your value

11:55 am Discover: Leveraging Analytics Tools For Operational Optimization

Synopsis

• Using machine learning models to identify features of studies that correlated with better performance, and creating counterfactual analyses and variable importance studies

• Identifying the operational impact of a new protocol via econometric difference-indifference methods

• Discuss the benefits of NLP methods, including topic modeling, that can be used to perform classification of contract types

• Share ideas forrobustness analysis and risk management

12:20 pm Develop: What More Can We Learn from the In-House Leaders to Collaborate Effectively with Internal Teams

Synopsis

Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair

12:45 pm Action: What Are You Now Going to Do Differently to Collaborate with Internal teams?

Synopsis

Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair

1:00 pm Networking Lunch Break

2:20 pm Discover: How Life Sciences GCs Built Their Toolkits: A Fireside Chat with GCs

  • Ariane Horn Partner, Arnold & Porter
  • Guled Adam VP, General Counsel, Sobi North America, Sobi - North America

Synopsis

  • The skills you need to develop and to become a GC
  • Understanding the different paths to becoming a GC
  • A look at the changing role of a GC in Life Sciences companies

2:50 pm Panel Discussion: Developing the Skills Required for a General Counsel to Become a Great Business Partner

  • Chris Verni General Counsel, Vigil Neuroscience
  • John Maher Deputy General Counsel, Vice President, Privacy Officer, J. Knipper & Company
  • Chris Moore General Counsel, Umoja
  • Guled Adam VP, General Counsel, Sobi North America, Sobi - North America
  • Brendan St. Amant General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Synlogic

Synopsis

  • Moving quickly and effectively in a rapidly changing legislative environment
  • Embracing knowledge gaps and collaborating internally to find a solution
  • Understanding how to take on the appropriate level of risk that enables business growth

3:40 pm Action: How Will You Adjust Your Approach to Develop the Skills Required for Leadership In Life Science Organizations?

Synopsis

Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair

4:00 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks