venue confirmed: Royal Garden Hotel 

Event Key Topics: (View Speaker Bios) (Download Agenda)

AstraZeneca Raising Awareness and Promoting Alliance Management Best Practices Beyond your Immediate Alliance

AstraZeneca Do Academic Alliances Really need Alliance Managers? Surprisingly it Depends!!

Barclays Accessing Open Innovation Startup Ecosystems

BASF Alliances and Joint Ventures in China

Cancer Research Horizons Multi-Stakeholder Public-Private Partnerships for Drug Development

CyberProtonics (to be added)

Embecta Channel Partner Strategies:  Leading Practices for GTM Strategy

Hexagon Setting up an Adaptive Partner Ecosystem

Iver Integrating Strategic Partnerships across the Customer Lifecycle and IT Delivery Model

Kroll Tour of a Cyberrisk Ecosystem

Lacroix Building Offerings Designed through Partnerships: Challenges and Examples

Lighthouse Strategies for Successful Partnerships in a Dynamic Industry Landscape

Merck KGaA Cultural Differences for Alliances in a Global Environment

Novartis Alliance Management’s Role in the Contracting Phase

Pierre Fabre Organizational Structures Best Suited for Managing Alliances Effectively

PLG The Link between Business Development / Licensing and Alliances

Prasaga, BAE Systems Evolving Role of Alliance Managers to Enabling Others, to Build Organisational Capabilities, Becoming Worldclass

Principal Asset Management Working with Alliances as a Business Growth Accelerator

PwC, Google, Oracle (to be added)

Roche The Opportunities, Risks, and Mitigation Strategies in Today’s World of Increasingly Decentralized and Digitized Healthcare

SAP Evolving an Industry Partner Ecosystem with Partner-to-Partner Collaboration

Stellantis Managing Complex Multi-Party, Multi-Industry Ecosystem Alliances

Sparkling Eyes Innovation How to Manage Intellectual Property in R&D and Co-Development Alliances

The Rhythm of Business Guiding Your Joint Steering Committee to Become a Beacon of Collaborative Leadership

The Institute of Collaborative Working How Do you Select the Right Alliance Partner?  How do they Prove they are Collaborative?

Unilever DataLab Ecosystem:  A Unique Way to Engage with Partners to Drive Innovation

Speakers: (View Speaker Bios)

Nicolas Becker, Director Business Development & Licensing, Alliance Management, Bayer

Camille Blaizot, Head of Digital Partnerships, Stellantis

Frederic Bonfils, Corporate Alliance Management Director, Pierre Fabre

Keith Carter, Global Head of Cyber Channel and Alliances, Kroll

Lisa Cass, Alliance Director, Oracle

Carolina Castillo, Former VP Partnerships & Innovation, American Express

Nicole Colwell, EVP, Chief Alliance Officer, Prasaga

Nada Corbineau, Partnerships Quality Director, Renault

Stephane Gervais, Executive VP Strategic Innovation, Partnership & Smart Data, Lacroix

Jeremy Greant, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Lighthouse

Catriona Hansbauer, Director, Alliance Management, AstraZeneca

Sami Istephan, VP – Global Alliances, Digital Intelligence, BAE Systems

Mario Joao, Digital Partner Ecosystem Leader, Hexagon

Shiho Kaneta, Executive Director, Global Alliance Management, Novartis

Dee Kaul, VP, Group Devices Strategy, Deutsche Telekom

Anastasiya Kizima, Head of Ecosystem Partnerships, Barclays

Markus Kropf, VP, Head of Global Alliance Management, Merck KGaA

Frank Lee, CEO, Institute of Collaborative Working

Julie Little, Associate Director, Strategic Alliances, Cancer Research Horizons

James Lowe, Alliance Manager, Google

Carl-Marcus Löfgren, Manager of Strategic Alliances & Competences, Iver Svierge

Mark Maresch, Director, Technology Alliances, PwC

Ard-Pieter de Man, Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Adrian Miller, Associate Director, Institute of Collaborative Working

Åsa Norrie, CEO Europe and Head of Distribution, Principal Asset Management

Bonnie Nozawa, Alliance and Ecosystem Director, Roche Diagnostics

Christophe Pinard, Global Alliance Executive, Dassault Systemes

Mirjam Ros, Author and Founder, Sparkling Eyes Innovation

Frank Ruland, Global VP, Global Head of Industry Ecosystem, SAP

Sean Seaton, SVP, Group Devices and Partnerships, Deutsche Telekom

Kaushik Sengupta, Director, Alliance Management, AstraZeneca

Keith Buchanan Smith, Board Member, PLG (Pharmaceutical Licensing Group)

Adriana Truong, Global Head of Strategic Partnerships, Unilever

Jan Twombly, President, The Rhythm of Business

Antony Wallace, UK&I Country Manager, Embecta

Lili Zhou, PMO Lead, BASF

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