Pharma

Veeva R&D and Quality Summit 2026

Veeva R&D and Quality Summit is the largest life sciences event focused on research and development and quality. The summit brings together more than 2,500 professionals from the life sciences industry to connect, learn, and collaborate. Attendees will experience 100+ breakout sessions, panel discussions, solution deep dives, and networking opportunities acr…

Visit the official site
126Speakers
41Sponsors
56Sessions
96Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Veeva, in alphabetical order.

Alex Margolis
Principal, Quality Business Consulting · Veeva
Alice Foltyn
Senior Solution Consultant · Veeva
Amha Lawson
Senior Manager, Regulatory Information Management & Innovation · Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Amy Keum
Senior Regulatory Submission Manager · Roche
Andreas Rauscher
Executive Director Veeva Platform & Partnership · Merck & Co.
Andy Han
SVP Products, Vault AI and Vault Platform · Veeva
Angela Nguyen
Product Manager, Regulatory · Veeva
Angie Badgett
Executive Director, Global Project Management & Strategic Solutions · Celerion
Anthony Corso
Vice President, Public Policy · Veeva
Anthony Ochoa
Managing Partner · Votum Consulting
Aquino Almeida
Tech Director: Quality & EHS Products · Haleon
Arash Naeim
Chief Medical Office for Clinical Research · UCLA
Ashik Sunny
Manager, Global Regulatory RD&E · Eli Lilly and Company
Ashley Hoambrecker
Senior Director, Clinical and Community Trials, Chief Clinical and Behavioral Research Operations Officer · Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Avril England
General Manager, Development Cloud Products and EVP Product Management · Veeva
Bob Reid
Product Owner, Senior Manager · GSK
Brad Arnold
Director, Product Management, Falcon Writer · Veeva
Brian Grant
Sr Dir, Regulatory Systems Operations · GSK
Brian O’Dwyer
President Global Clinical Development · IQVIA
Brook Darnell
Senior Quality Systems Specialist – Training · Tolmar Inc
Caríosa Switzer
Product Manager, Registrations · Veeva
Catherine Munera
Vice President, Biometrics · Oruka Therapeutics

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

AccenturePlatinum
Cognizant Technology Solutions US CorporationPlatinum
Conexus Solutions, Inc.Platinum
EYPlatinum
Slipstream ITPlatinum
ACTO Technologies Inc.Gold
AnthillGold
BASE Life Science ApSGold
Bridgeview / ZensarGold
Canopy (formerly Framework)Gold
HCL America, Inc.Gold
IQVIAGold
Managed Markets Insight & Technology, LLC (MMIT)Gold
ODAIA Intelligence Inc.Gold
Omnicom HealthGold
Publicis HealthGold
Shaman BVGold
SnowflakeGold
ZS Associates, Inc.Gold
DatabricksSilver
EpistaSilver
HavasSilver
IBMSilver
IDC Global S.R.L.Silver
KMKSilver
Knipper, a CareTria CompanySilver
LPW Training ServicesSilver
MarketBeamSilver
NIIT – Eagle Productivity SolutionsSilver
ON24 Inc.Silver
OnomiSilver
Precision for Value, Inc. (Precision AQ)Silver
Qualified DigitalSilver
Tangent 90 LtdSilver
Tech MahindraSilver
TransPerfectSilver
True GroupSilver
AWSBronze
BeghouBronze
MicrosoftBronze

Agenda

Selected from 56 sessions.

  • 10/20/2026 10:30 a.m.

    Biopharma Panel: Where Quality Goes Next: Efficiency and Value in the AI Era

    Industry leaders explore quality’s role in generating business value in the AI era. Hear practical lessons on scaling AI across the enterprise and how they’re improving efficiency …

    Zone Keynotes
  • 10/20/2026 10:30 a.m.

    Clinical Keynote: Enabling Agentic Clinical Trials

    Discover Veeva’s vision for agentic clinical trials. Learn how a connected clinical platform enables upcoming AI agents and why effective change management is essential to realize …

    Zone Keynotes
  • 10/20/2026 10:30 a.m.

    Eli Lilly and Company: Reshaping Regulatory Operations with Agentic AI

    Discover how Lilly leverages agentic AI to reshape its regulatory operations. Gain insight into Veeva’s AI vision and how innovations will work together to augment teams, accelerat…

    Zone Keynotes
  • 10/20/2026 10:30 a.m.

    GSK and Merck: AI in Quality: Learnings on Regulation, ROI, and Organizational Change

    As the industry continues to progress and learn with AI, industry leaders share real-world observations on how AI capabilities are taking shape in quality organizations. The panel …

    Zone Keynotes
  • 10/20/2026 10:30 a.m.

    Merck: Pioneering Vault AI to Accelerate Innovation

    Merck is ​activating and implementing Vault AI on the connected Vault platform. See how enterprise teams partnered to pioneer AI-enabled ways of working, drive greater standardizat…

    Zone Keynotes
  • 10/20/2026 10:30 a.m.

    Sanofi: Transforming Together for Sites, Patients, and Pharma

    Sanofi shares how connected process and data, an agentic approach, and human-centered design can make clinical trials more efficient and a better experience. Hear how Sanofi are ev…

    Zone Keynotes
  • 10/20/2026 10:30 a.m.

    UCB: Unify Safety Operations and Safety Science on One Global Platform

    UCB unified global safety operations and safety science on a single platform with a big bang approach, replacing fragmented legacy systems and establishing a single source of truth…

    Zone Keynotes
  • 10/20/2026 10:30 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.

    Biopharma Panel: Where Quality Goes Next: Efficiency and Value in the AI Era

    Industry leaders explore quality’s role in generating business value in the AI era. Hear practical lessons on scaling AI across the enterprise and how they’re improving efficiency …

  • 10/20/2026 10:30 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.

    Eli Lilly and Company: Reshaping Regulatory Operations with Agentic AI

    Discover how Lilly leverages agentic AI to reshape its regulatory operations. Gain insight into Veeva’s AI vision and how innovations will work together to augment teams, accelerat…

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 96 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

96 companies. one are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
1All threespeak · spons · exh
40Sponsoringsponsor only
55Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

IQVIA

Speakers by seniority

71% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite65%
  • Founder / Owner54%
  • VP-level2016%
  • Director / Head of5947%
  • Manager / Lead119%
  • Product76%
  • Engineer · IC86%
  • Other roles108%

Of 126 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1Veeva43
2Amgen6
3IQVIASponsor · Gold2
4Celerion4
5Eli Lilly and Company4
6GSK4
7AccentureSponsor · Platinum-
8ACTO Technologies Inc.Sponsor · Gold-
9AnthillSponsor · Gold-
10AWSSponsor · Bronze-
11BASE Life Science ApSSponsor · Gold-
12Bayer3
13BeghouSponsor · Bronze-
14Bridgeview / ZensarSponsor · Gold-
Sponsors by tier
platinum5
12% of 41
gold14
34% of 41
silver18
44% of 41
bronze4
10% of 41
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

Related events · by shared sponsors
ConferenceDateCityShared sponsors
Adobe Summit 2027March 22, 2027Las Vegas9
NRF Big Show 2027January 10, 2027New York7
Celosphere 2026December 1, 2026Munich6
MWC27 BarcelonaMarch 1, 2027Barcelona6
NODES 2026November 12, 2026Virtual5
Nerdearla México 2026November 18, 2026Ciudad de México5