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MASTERCLASSES
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
CONFERENCE DAY 1
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
CONFERENCE DAY 2
Thursday, February 5, 2026

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Leveraging Local Market Insights to Inform Brand Strategy

Refreshment Break

The Fulcrum Approach to Conducting Demand Market Research

Presented by Fulcrum Research Group

Networking Lunch

New best practices in market research to support campaigns development

Refreshment Break

Reserved

Masterclass Workshops Conclude

Registration & Breakfast in Exhibition Hall

Chairpersons’ Opening Remarks

Keynote: Evolution of Market Research

Keynote: Leveraging Market Research to Shape Your Market Access Strategy: Case Studies on the power of Market Research and Its Benefits for Market Access

Presented by Lifescience Dynamics

NETWORKING & REFRESHMENTS IN EXHIBITION HALL

Keynote: Executive Level Boardroom Discussions

Presented by Aveo Oncology an LG Chem Company, Janssen, Merck, Organon, Pfizer, Regeneron, and Sun Pharma

“ASK THE EXPERTS” INTERACTIVE ROUND TABLES

Explore and capture the power of participants’ Insights and experiences and exploration of these topics in this fun and informal environment in small groups. Choose 1 of 6 concurrent round tables.
ROUND TABLE 1
Transforming Pharmaceutical Market Research with AI

Presented by AstraZeneca

ROUND TABLE 2
Supporting Multiple Brands: How to Maximize Impact and Manage Needs

Presented by Ferring Pharmaceuticals

ROUND TABLE 3
Gen AI – Friend or Foe?

Presented by Organon

ROUND TABLE 4
Prompt Engineering

Presented by Regeneron

ROUND TABLE 5
TBA

Presented by Sun Pharma

ROUND TABLE 6
Patient Centricity

Presented by Pfizer

Networking Luncheon

Participants may choose 1 of 4 concurrent tracks

TRACK A

Incorporating AI in Market Research

Presented by Fulcrum Research Group and SAI

TRACK B

An Innovative Methodology to Incorporate RWD into Demand Studies

Presented by SRI

TRACK C

Tailoring Research for Hard to Engage Populations: How to cut, lengthen, and adapt to maximize quality insights

With increasingly targeted medications, finding – and engaging – the right population for research is becoming increasingly challenging. So when you do find them, how do you wring the most insights from each interaction? This session will lay out key considerations to strategically design research to meet the unique needs of the respondent population and ensure you’re gaining the highest quality insights possible. You’ll hear from multiple perspectives for a well-rounded discussion – seasoned researchers, a pharma stakeholder, as well as a patient who is on their own journey with a health condition.

Presented by Health Union

TRACK D

TBA

Presented by The Link Group

PARTICIPANTS MAY CHOOSE 1 OF 4 CONCURRENT TRACKS

TRACK A

Reserved

TRACK B

AI Agents in action: Transforming healthcare insights

AI agents are digital tools that act with a degree of autonomy to achieve defined goals, combining data, context and logic to support human decision making.

In this session, we will showcase a live deep dive into one client partnership (final case study to be confirmed), showing how we co-designed AI agents to address strategic business challenges and the measurable impact achieved.
Illustrative past examples include:
Defining portfolio level strategic initiatives to secure long term market leadership in a competitive therapy area
Mapping brand opportunity spaces using future state simulations to guide pivotal Phase III trial and launch decisions
Optimizing narrative and campaign strategy for a global vaccine brand to differentiate in a crowded market and drive prescriber uptake
Independent reports from Prosus, Capgemini and McKinsey predict AI agents will play a transformative role in the workplace. They are increasingly seen not as experimental tools but as autonomous collaborators reshaping how organizations work today and plan for tomorrow.
We will explore opportunities, barriers and practical steps to evolve these approaches. Attendees will leave with a realistic blueprint for harnessing AI agents, understanding both their potential and the realities of making them work.

Presented by Day One Strategy

TRACK C

Emotional Connection: Holy Grail of HCP Engagement or a Massive Waste of Time? Why brands can’t connect emotionally with HCPs. Hint: it is not MLR restrictions!

• Creating a stronger emotional connection with HCPs is not only possible, it is can be consistently and surgically executed on every brand.

Through extensive meta-analysis of >quarter million messages across 100+ disease states and 200+ brands, Newristics has identified the best-in-class practices of how to engage HCPs with more emotionally resonant messaging:
• Top 5 most foundational HUMAN needs of HCPs that need to be addressed by every brand
• 20+ messaging strategies to create language that evokes strong emotions in HCPs, but also approvable
• 40+ real-world examples of messaging with strong emotional resonance

Presented by Newristics

TRACK D

Measuring What Matters: Driving Prescribing Behavior Through Integrated Intelligence

Presented by The Directions Group

PARTICIPANTS MAY CHOOSE 1 OF 4 CONCURRENT TRACKS

TRACK A

Measuring What Matters: Driving Prescribing Behavior Through Integrated Intelligence

Presented by AstraZeneca

TRACK B

Innovative Brand Assessment: A Multi-Source Framework for Actionable Insights

Presented by Takeda

TRACK C

Data-Driven Discipline: Unlocking Profitability in Small Molecule Generics

Presented by Wockhardt USA

TRACK D

Bringing Market Research Insights to a Seat at the Table

Networking and Refreshments in Exhibition Hall

PARTICIPANTS MAY CHOOSE 1 OF 4 CONCURRENT TRACKS

TRACK A

Redefining the Rules: A Disruptive Approach to Brand Positioning

Presented by integro

TRACK B

PromptCraft and Beyond: Mastering Human-AI Collaboration in Market Research

You've felt it: that moment when AI produces something startlingly good, or frustratingly wrong, and you're not quite sure why either happened. The distance between those outcomes isn't luck or magic. It's craft.

Human beings have always been Homo Faber, tool users who shape the world through disciplined practice. Today, artificial intelligence introduces a new kind of tool: one that thinks with us, not just for us. The question isn’t whether AI will transform market research. It’s whether you’ll direct that transformation or simply react to it.
This session from BioVid reframes prompting as a modern form of craftsmanship, PromptCraft, transforming AI from a source of anxiety into a disciplined collaborator you command. Drawing on BioVid’s real-world experience with its award-winning AI platform, CIAIRA™, the session translates field practice into methods you can apply immediately to your market research work. You’ll learn a structured approach to assigning complex research tasks to AI with oversight, improving precision, creativity, and productivity in daily research tasks while exploring the evolving frontier of AI-driven market research.
Key Takeaways:
The PACT Framework
Learn to design clear, repeatable prompts that define persona, action, context, and template, laying a robust foundation for reliable AI outputs in market research contexts.
Iterative Mastery & Dynamic Contexts
Move beyond trial and error by refining prompts step by step, and discover how adaptive context design enables more robust, agentic AI interactions and multi-agent collaboration for complex research projects.
Power Techniques
Gain practical tools for AI self-evaluation, gap analysis, reasoning transparency, and strategic expansion, techniques that elevate output quality and foster continuous learning.
Quality and Risk Controls
Implement simple safeguards to prevent hallucination, bias, and misinterpretation, especially in regulated healthcare and pharmaceutical research settings.
Convergence of AI and Social Science
Explore how embedding social science frameworks into AI systems can deepen insights and support predictive behavior modeling, enhancing both qualitative and quantitative market research.
Preparing for the dynamic evolution of AI in Market Research
We’ll also explore the strategic use of powerful techniques like synthetic audiences, dynamic research frameworks, embedded social science, and groundbreaking new discoveries that are disrupting conventional research paradigms
By the end, you’ll leave with a replicable workflow, a mental model for AI as collaborative partner, and a toolkit of professional-grade prompt patterns and system design strategies ready to apply to your next market research project. This session is not about keeping up with technology. It is about reclaiming what makes us human: the ability to think with our tools and make meaning through them, even as those tools become more intelligent and adaptive.

Presented by BioVid

TRACK C

Pharma + Physician Insights Perspectives, powered by Sermo

Hear directly from global pharma insights experts (and a physician!) on the power of unlimited agile insights in optimizing go-to-market strategies.

Presented by Sermo

TRACK D

Richer Insights in Healthcare: Unlocking Depth with Conversational Quali-Quant Surveys, Video, and AI Probing

What if you could not only measure what patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) think but also see and hear the emotions behind their words? This session explores how combining mobile-first quantitative surveys with qualitative integrated video responses and AI-powered probing creates a new dimension in healthcare insights.

By weaving together structured data with authentic human expression, researchers can uncover the “why” behind the numbers, giving brands a richer, more holistic understanding of patient and HCP experiences – in one research touchpoint!
Through mobile-first video capabilities, participants share their perspectives in their own voice and environment, capturing subtleties like tone, body language, and context that are often lost in online, email-based surveys. At the same time, AI probing dynamically adapts to responses, asking smarter follow-ups, exploring unspoken motivations, and digging deeper into emerging themes in real time. Together, these methods bridge the gap between scale and depth, allowing healthcare & pharma organizations to access both robust quantitative patterns and authentic qualitative nuance.
Featuring real-world applications, this session will demonstrate how mobile-first quali-quant surveys enhanced with video and AI probing deliver unparalleled insights, enabling better decision-making and more patient-centered outcomes.
Key Takeaways:
• Harness mobile-first quali-quant research designs to capture both scale (quant data) and depth (qual feedback).
• Use integrated front and rear-facing video to capture emotions, nonverbal cues, and contextual richness that text alone cannot convey.
• Leverage AI probing to explore hidden motivations and generate deeper, adaptive insights in real time.
• Achieve a more complete view of patient and HCP experiences by blending structured measurement with authentic expression.

Presented by Reach3 Insights and Novartis

PARTICIPANTS MAY CHOOSE 1 OF 4 CONCURRENT TRACKS

TRACK A

Reserved

TRACK B

How AI-Driven EHRs Are Rewriting the Rules of Clinical Decision-Making

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded within electronic health record (EHR) systems, the daily practice of medicine is undergoing a profound transformation. This session explores how health care providers and health systems are adapting to this new digital context -- where diagnostic and treatment decisions increasingly occur within AI-enhanced, data-rich environments. Drawing from both qualitative and quantitative research, we’ll examine how EHR-native intelligence is shaping clinical behavior across primary care and specialty settings, what it means for pharma and biotech engagement, and how commercial and insights teams can anticipate the next wave of change in the modern digital health ecosystem.

Presented by ThinkGen and Merck

TRACK C

Generative and Analytical AI To Ground Strategy in Reality?

Presented by APLUSA

TRACK D

Hear & See Emotion: Decoding Voices with Machine Learning & AI

At inVibe, we use machine learning technology to recognize and measure emotionality in our respondents’ voices when they’re speaking. To humans who have spent a lifetime decoding emotion, this task seems very simple. However, getting a computer to decode emotions like a human can is a bit more complicated than it seems. In this session, we’ll explore exactly what it means to recognize emotion, what Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is, how computers can reliably measure emotions, and how we can use SER to better understand the thoughts, beliefs, attitudes that explain and motivate behavior.

Presented by inVibe, a Division of THREAD

PARTICIPANTS MAY CHOOSE 1 OF 4 CONCURRENT TRACKS

TRACK A

The Future of the Insights Profession: Training the Next Generation

Presented by Bayer and Boehringer Ingelheim

TRACK B

Launch Forecasting for New Products

Presented by AstraZeneca

TRACK C

Determining and Communicating Market Research Adjustments

Presented by Daiichi Sankyo and PTC Therapeutics

TRACK D

How We Increase our Strategic Influence with Marketing

Presented by Merck and Pfizer

Networking Cocktail Reception

Registration & Breakfast in Exhibition Hall

PARTICIPANTS MAY CHOOSE 1 OF 3 CONCURRENT TRACKS

TRACK A

Strategy and Business Development

Presented by Amicus Therapeutics, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Pfizer

TRACK B

Post-Launch Forecast Optimization

Presented by AstraZeneca, Novo Nordisk, and Takeda

TRACK C

Is Market Research Keeping Up With Patient-Centricity, or Are We Still Too Reliant on HCP Perspectives?

Presented by Merck and Pfizer

PARTICIPANTS MAY CHOOSE 1 OF 4 CONCURRENT TRACKS

TRACK A

Beyond Silos: Unified Research Approaches to Understand Pharma’s Market Dynamics

Presented by Lifescience Dynamics

TRACK B

BEESY's Big Behavioral Experiment: We Taught AI Behavioral Science- Here's What Happened

Presented by Beesy

TRACK C

Why Trust Perception? Building a Foundation on Real Behavior

A case study on:
• Mapping the four elements that cause an individual behavior through Behavior Board
• The gap that actual behavior revealed vs aggregate perceptions
• Finding the 2 specific tactics that could overcome 4+ areas of brand improvement

Presented by Veritas and Merck

TRACK D

Between Algorithm and Oncologist: How AI is Changing the Patient-provider Relationship in Cancer Care

What happens when oncology patients bring ChatGPT into the consultation room?

As generative AI becomes more accessible, patients are using it to understand diagnoses, compare treatments, and prepare for discussions with their healthcare teams. In this mixed-method study, we explore how patients and HCPs alike are integrating AI into the cancer care experience, revealing surprising shifts in trust, autonomy, and the flow of information. This session unpacks the opportunities and tensions AI introduces into the care journey, and what pharma must understand to stay relevant.

Presented by Lieberman

PARTICIPANTS MAY CHOOSE 1 OF 4 CONCURRENT TRACKS

TRACK A

TBA

Presented by Blue Matter Consulting

TRACK B

Breaking Barriers: Delivering In-Depth Qualitative Insights Beyond Traditional Methods

Presented by Instar

TRACK C

Reserved

TRACK D

Bridging the Gap: AI-Driven Insights for Agile Pharmaceutical Marketing

Presented by Verilogue

Networking & Refreshments in Exhibition Hall

PARTICIPANTS MAY CHOOSE 1 OF 4 CONCURRENT TRACKS

TRACK A

Making Sparks Fly: Building Lasting Partnerships for High-Value Market Research

By utilizing innovative methodologies and technology-driven solutions, this approach surpasses traditional limitations, providing in-depth insights that drive actionable and informed decision-making.

Presented by Prescient

TRACK B

TBA

Presented by Oracle Life Sciences

TRACK C

Reserved

TRACK D

Reserved

PARTICIPANTS MAY CHOOSE 1 OF 3 CONCURRENT TRACKS

TRACK A

The Human Touch- Empathy and Context

Presented by New Leaf Research and Johnson & Johnson

TRACK B

Integrating Approaches – Data and Primary Research – to Deliver Business Impact

Presented by Organon

TRACK C

Reserved

NETWORKING LUNCHEON

“ASK THE EXPERTS” INTERACTIVE ROUND TABLES

Explore and capture the power of participants’ Insights and experiences and exploration of these topics in this fun and informal environment in small groups. Choose 1 of 7 concurrent round tables.
ROUND TABLE 1
How Other Market Researchers are Using AI (or not using) to yield faster, more strategic insights

Presented by Stemline Therapeutics

ROUND TABLE 2
Integrating AI into Insights Development Across Primary Market Research, Secondary Data, and Competitive Intelligence: Strategies, Challenges, and Opportunities

Presented by Boehringer Ingelheim

ROUND TABLE 3
TBA

Presented by Balchem Corp

ROUND TABLE 4
Reserved
ROUND TABLE 5
Reserved
ROUND TABLE 6
Reserved

Raffle Prize Winners Announcements

Summary and Key Takeaways By Advisory Board Members

Presented by Aveo Oncology an LG Chem Company, Janssen, Merck, Organon, Pfizer, Regeneron, and Sun Pharma

Conference Concludes