16:00
Open Mic: Next in Health series
The future of clinical trials: Can AI agents power the next wave of innovation?
Unfortunately, we are already fully booked on site, but we are happy to welcome you online upon registration. If after your online registration you’d like to be included on the waiting list for the on site participation please contact us via events@baselarea.swiss. We will send you a confirmation if a seat becomes available.
Clinical trials remain one of the most complex and resource-intensive stages of drug development. From protocol design and site activation to patient recruitment and ongoing study management, many processes are still fragmented, manual and difficult to scale – leading to extended timelines and increasing operational burden.
Recent advances in agentic AI – systems capable of autonomously executing and coordinating tasks across workflows – raise an important question: where can these technologies meaningfully reduce complexity in clinical trials? While the potential is widely discussed, there is still limited clarity on where agentic AI can deliver tangible value today, and what it takes to deploy it within a regulated environment.
This Open Mic will explore how agentic AI is being applied across the clinical trial lifecycle, bringing together perspectives from pharma, startups, academia and technology. What parts of clinical trials are most “automation-ready” vs. fundamentally human? Will agentic AI simplify trials – or introduce a new layer of complexity? The discussion will focus on practical use cases, key challenges such as data quality, governance and validation, and what is required to move from experimentation to real-world implementation.
Join us to gain insights from across the ecosystem on how agentic AI can drive impact in clinical trials – and what it will take to turn potential into practice.
Participation is free; however, registration is required by May 7.
Agenda
16:30
Welcome
- Ursula Costa, Director, DayOne
- Rahel Schneider, Community Manager, Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area
16:35
Panel discussion
- Ursula Costa, Director, DayOne
- Dr. Rohit Pushparajan, Managing Director, Lifesciences R&D Lead EMEA, Accenture
- Robert McGregor, Technology Platform Head, Clinical Operations, Novartis
- Speaker, to be announced, soon
- Speaker, to be announced, soon
17:45
Networking apéro
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