(less than 10 seats remaining) venue: Royal Garden Hotel 

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

Alliance Management Career Progression and Succession Management Challenges: Lessons Learned (panel with Steve Twait, Knut Sturmhoefel, and George Rahim)

AMPERE (Renault Group) Implementation of Successful Partnerships in the Automotive Industry

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

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

BASF Alliances and Joint Ventures in China

BioNTech / Genmab Alliance - Our Journey from Discovery to Late Stage Drug Development

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

CyberProtonics Partnership Pathways to Quantum-Safe Security

Dassault Systemes  Alliances for Product Creation

Embecta Channel Partner Strategies:  Leading Practices for GTM Strategy

Forvis Mazars Strategic Alliances - How to Design, Forecast and Negotiate a Fair Compensation Mode

Forvis Mazars How to set up Strategic Alliances as Technology and Growth Accelerators – Case Example for PDT

Hexagon Setting up an Adaptive Partner Ecosystem

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

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

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

PwC, Google, SAP Interactive Case Study of a Strategic Alliance Between 3 Parties

Roche Bridging the (Size) Gap: Alliance Management’s Role in Fostering Innovation and Navigating Risks in the Era of Digital and Decentralized Healthcare

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

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

VU University Open, Closed and Managed Ecosystems: What's the Difference?

Speakers: (View Speaker Bios)

Frederic Bonfils, Corporate Alliance Management Director, Pierre Fabre

Nicole Colwell, EVP, Chief Alliance Officer, Prasaga

Nada Corbineau, Business Office Director, AMPERE (Renault Group)

Judit Csere, Strategic Alliances Manager, Cancer Research Horizons

Nadine Elsham, Partner Lead, SAP UK

Jeremy Greant, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Lighthouse

Catriona Hansbauer, Director, Alliance Management, AstraZeneca

Dr. Stephan Hohmann, Senior Director Business Alliances, BioNTech

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

Mario Joao, Digital Partner Ecosystem Leader, Hexagon

Shiho Kaneta, Executive Director, Global Alliance Management, Novartis

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

Lasse Holm Lauridsen, Senior Director Alliance Mgmt, Genmab

Dr. Rosi Liem, Partner, Forvis Mazars

Frank Lee, CEO, Institute of Collaborative Working

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

Mikel Mangold, Head of Partnerships EMEA, CyberProtonics

Mark Maresch, Director, Technology Alliances, PwC

Ard-Pieter de Man, Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Adrian Miller, Associate Director, Institute of Collaborative Working

Sameer Mital, Head of EMEA Alliances, Google Cloud

(unfortunately Asa Norrie is no longer able to speak due to a major company change beyond her control which prevents her participation)

Bonnie Nozawa, Alliance and Ecosystem Director, Roche Diagnostics

Helene Pempe, Manager, Forvis Mazars

Christophe Pinard, Global Alliance Executive, Dassault Systemes

Alberto Prado, Global Head of R&D Digital & Partnerships, Unilever

George Rahim, Strategic Alliances Advisor in Pharma and Biotech

Mirjam Ros, Author and Founder, Sparkling Eyes Innovation

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

Kaushik Sengupta, Director, Alliance Management, AstraZeneca

Knut Sturmhoefel, CA-AM, PhD, Alliance & Collaboration Advisor, Partner, Viopas

Pascal Strupp, Manager, Forvis Mazars

Steve Twait, CSAP, Founder, Integrated Alliance Management

Jan Twombly, President, The Rhythm of Business

Antony Wallace, UK&I Country Manager, Embecta

Lili Zhou, PMO Lead, BASF

Event Partners:

The Rhythm of Business provides alliance management consulting, training, digitization, and alliance assessment services to industry and academia. We work with leaders to develop their organization’s partnering and alliance strategies, and build the operational and execution alliance management capabilities required to achieve partnering and collaboration success.

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