Faster, Cheaper, Elsewhere?AI, China and the Future of Drug Development
An off-the-record breakfast for pharma, biotech, CRO and CDMO leaders on how AI and China are reshaping who discovers, develops and makes the next generation of medicines. One focused hour, a small table of peers, and a conversation that stays in the room.
The conversation nobody has on a panel
Speed and cost are being won in new ways, but ownership may be the price. Over breakfast, a small group of senior leaders will talk honestly about what that trade looks like from where they sit. No slides, no sales pitch, just a facilitated discussion with peers who face the same decisions.
AI in drug development
Where AI is genuinely accelerating the work, what it is costing in IP and control, and who owns the value when your data makes someone else's model smarter.
China in early clinical development
What is really happening in early-phase work, why sponsors are going there, and the risks and downstream impacts for pipelines, partners and supply chains.
What's said here stays here
The session runs under the Chatham House Rule. You are free to use what you hear, but not to say who said it.
No recording
We won't record the session, and nobody else will be allowed to.
No name tags
Just a quick round of names and companies at the table, and that’s where they stay.
Nothing attributed
Hot takes are welcome. They won't follow you out of the room.
Your host, Lori Ellis
Host of Open Door Salon, former Head of Insights at BioSpace
Lori has spent over a decade getting senior executives to have the conversations that matter, on stage, on mic and on the record. This one is off the record.
She hosts Open Door Salon, a media platform breaking down the silos between life sciences, HCPs, payors and patients. At BioSpace she built the insights department from scratch and launched two podcasts that went from zero to more than 45,000 downloads in two years. Before that, she was Managing Editor at Informa Pharma Intelligence. Her work focuses on the economic climate, women's health, and how technology, especially AI, is reshaping the pharmaceutical industry.
She has won a few awards along the way: Muse Creative, LIT, Vega, Adobe and others. Clients who have won after working with her? She'll never name them. Call it super-connecting, power brokering or magical mystical elf mischief-making. She's here to open doors, and she would much rather hear your hot take than your talking points.
The morning
The Conduit (Nobel Rooms)
6 Langley StLondon WC2H 9JA
A short walk from Covent Garden station.
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