Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Participant Testimonials
2025
"Navigating the complex landscape of R&D IT within a large pharma requires a strategic vision. Bio-IT World in Boston provided a vital forum for understanding the evolving challenges and opportunities in bioinformatics."
Melissa L Coughlin, Director, R&D IT, AstraZeneca
"Great platform to meet peers and innovative vendors in a precompetitive space. Extremely valuable for sharing learnings, bounce ideas, and form new collaborations."
Juergen Haas, Director, Bioinformatics, Oncology R&D
"It was very exciting to feel that I was part of a community of people in the healthcare technology area. The opportunities for inspiration and collaboration the event provided were well beyond my expectation."
Hannah Forte, Scrum Master, ARC-One Solutions
"It was inspiring to witness connections made during the Knowledge Graphs Symposium, many of which may lead to future collaborations."
Janice McCallum, Managing Director, Health Content Advisors
"Relevant and science oriented"
Arun Bondali, Principal Architect, AstraZeneca
"This is one of the most important events to attend each year in our industry (pharma/biotech). We must remain abreast of the rapidly accelerating advances in the integration of AI/ML across essentially every data-generating, -storing, -analyzing and -integrating function, so that our organizations can successfully continue their transformation into learning powerhouses."
Nicholas Sarlis, Chief Medical Officer, CLEARA Biotech, BVst
"This was my first time at BioIT and I was impressed with network opportunities and hearing interesting talks."
Nevin Gerek Ince, Director, Novo Nordisk
"Always a high standard and mix of presentations and symposia to cover the broad umbrella of Bio-IT"
Michael Liebman, Managing Director, IPQ Analytics LLC
"Bio-IT Hackathon was amazing! I got to connect with a new small team, and we developed a useful proof-of-concept. I learned new technologies -- and met new experts in the field -- that I would not have otherwise."
Eric Weitz, Principal Software Engineer, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
"Great opportunity for networking!"
Eva Kudova, Principal Investigator, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
"A great opportunity to share approaches cross domains and interact with participants from other disciplines."
Thomas Ehmer, Digital and Data Innovation, Merck Healthcare KGaA
"It was a great place to meet others, learn what is happening in the BIO IT space and network. The presenters were knowledgeable, friendly and presented relevant content."
Nechama Katan, Wicked Problem Wizards
"This is my 7th or 8th Bio-IT World. I always learn more during the 48 hours of Bio-IT World Boston than I do in entire years of reading journal papers! This meeting always, reliably, has a finger on the pulse of the most crucial emerging trends at the interface of computation and biomedicine, is guaranteed to exceed expectations with revelations of new technologies and milestones that couldn't have been imagined a mere year before, and has an unparalleled vibe of biotech-revolution enthusiasm, consistently embodied by the most influential (and passionate) keynote speakers and panelists from across academe, industry, and even the world of venture capital. A must-attend for biologists, research clinicians, biotech-company decisionmakers, and investors motivated to convert the genome into moneymaking medicines!"
Leonard Lipovich Title Professor Company Wenzhou-Kean University
"A very well organized informative conference"
Tal Title Director Company Strain grp
"Nice selection of talks from industry and practitioners."
Vladimir Chupakhin, Principal Scientist, Simulations Plus
"As an MD/PhD student interested in biotech, attending the conference provided valuable networking opportunities and boosted my confidence in understanding how thought leaders and experts assess the current landscape of biotech investing."
Hanan Bloomer, Tufts University
"Networking was a key for me. I saw the software they're offering. I saw all the work that is the foundational work. It just reinforced my whole thought process on how this is going to enable the AI. I'm thrilled to be here."
Rita Arora, Associate Director Master Data & Reference Data Management, Bristol-Myers Squibb
"A lot of it is the network and seeing what people are developing, cool tools, new ideas. Great to see everyone."
Steve Marshall, Senior Director, Data Science, Flagship Pioneering
"Bio-IT World is the major place I network with elites of the entire industry from healthcare to life sciences."
Ram Prasad Kodukulla, Ernst and Young
"So many highlights! Visual AI is one of my interests and in coming here, I got so many tips which I can use to apply my studies."
Christopher Egbulefu, M.D., Director at University of Texas, Dallas
"The majority of the business is here. It is the right place to be. It's my first time here and this is fantastic. I would strongly recommend it to others."
Flavia Guinazu, Senior Medical Advisor, University of Chile
2024
"It was an amazing fusion of innovation, R&D, drug discovery and pureplay technology that came to the table so it was actually a feast!"
Nimita Limaye, Research VP, Life Sciences R&D Strategy and Technology, IDC
"I love coming to Bio-IT because I get to meet biotech people, customers, technology partners and the venture capitals under one roof see what's new in the field. It’s a good place to check the pulse of what people are doing what's the next big thing "
Yair Benita, PhD, CTO, AION Labs
"Bio-IT is the premier conference to understand the convergence of digital and science. Connecting with like-minded people and organizations is inspiring and valuable!"
Gabriel Lurz, Senior Research Associate, Sanofi
"It's one of the biggest gatherings of life sciences researchers, technologists, and people who are trying to enable life science using technology. We enjoy participating and have lots of networking connections and opportunities. The really wide variety of tracks allows us to press on different things about our platform and what we have done."
Rachana Ananthakrishnam, Executive Director, University of Chicago
"This conference is a premier conference to attend to be able to take advantage of technologies that address the needs of our customers—AI, data analytics, data aggregation and most importantly making their lives simpler."
Kevin Ghiasi, Elemental Machines
"The Bio-IT conference is a great conference for us, it enables us to get face to face with all of our customers as well as prospects, partners, and other organizations that have a similar goal creating the lab of the future in the direction of where the company in the industry wants to go. "
Michael Juron, Sales Leader, Benchling
"I like being in sessions listening to real world use cases of AI and technology in pharma. I find this conference is very well attended by the users of this technology and that's why I'm here."
Lleana Priozzi, PhD, Exor Ventures
"It's so exciting to be with like-minded people to be able to just talk about what we're doing and catch up on what everyone else is doing. It's just great!"
Sheila Elz, Master Data Manager, Bayer AG
"What I like here is that it is the perfect combination between biomedical and IT. It's really a very, very interesting conference."
Mariano Vazquez, PhD, Co-Founder and CTO, ELEM Biotech, Barcelona, Spain
"This conference helped me a great deal in identifying the key problems, making good connections, and learning about companies in the field. I plan to come back next year."
Ravi Madduri, Scientitst, Computation Institute, University of Chicago
"I've been coming to Bio-IT World for 10 years and the interesting thing is networking across the industry and academia in a collegial fashion. At many conferences, that just doesn't happen."
Anil Srivastava, President, Open Health Systems Laboratory
"We had great speakers and a very engaged audience. As always, Bio-IT World helps me keep up on the latest tech and data science being used in Life Sciences."
Janice McCallum, Consultant to Health Data and Health Information Services Companies; Independent Board Member
"Boston + Drug Discovery + AI + and Data Science = Bio-IT World Expo, Wow, thats Fun'tastic!"
Parthiban Srinivasan, Professor, Data Science & Engineering, Iiserb
"It's a bit of a reunion every year. It's a lot of networking, getting in touch again, and seeing what people are up to and what they're doing."
Wouter Franke, Strategic Data Consultant, The Hyve
"It's an awesome social and networking event. I've hit several talks and look forward to connecting."
Mariya Gazumyan, Digital R&D Service Owner, Sanofi
"The Bio-IT Expo and Conference featured key themes and topics for the advancement of this industry’s ecosystem."
Dave Ditmars, President & CEO, MassMatrix, Inc.
"Bio-IT was definitely one of the best conferences I attended this year"
John Leonardi, Principal Storage Engineer, Eikon Therapeutics
"Excellent event. The exhibit hall was alive with a buzz of great scientific discussions."
Leo Whyte, Genestack
"The exhibit hall was very busy providing significant value to the exhibitors and sponsors."
Mike Juron, Sales Lead, Benchling
"This is an excellent event for Biotech IT. We can meet different companies and vendors to get more information about the technology change."
Victor Ho, Head IT, Simcere of America
"The mecca for all things bio, data and tech."
Santha Ramakrishnan, VP & Head, R&D Strategy & Governance, Sanofi
"A really great job on the domain coverage and networking opportunities"
Christopher Southan, Data Scientist & Competitive Intelligence, Edinburgh University
"It was really helpful in understanding the spectrum of solutions available for Labs/Pharma/BioTech industries. The real industry advancement that happens out the world."
Sravanan Ilangovan, Assoc Director Global Lab Informatics, Elanco
"Great to get an overview of the SOTA of the field"
Tobias Neumann, Lead Bioinformatician, Quantro Therapeutics
"Ability to view sessions post-Bio-IT is invaluable."
James Averback, Director of AI Performance, Life Science Integration Partners
"High quality content, great set of exhibits"
Mohan Boggara, Digital Transformation Leader, Sanofi
2023
"From inception, Bio-IT has gone from strength to strength. It is now the go-to venue for IT and informatics professionals in biopharma."
Susan J. Ward, Founder & Exec Dir, Collaborative Trajectory Analysis Project
"Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2023 provides the latest information and vendors for life sciences and IT technologies."
Victor Ho, Director, Simcere Innovation, Inc.
"I've attended Bio-IT World in Boston for over 10 years and value how the event consistently provides relevant targeted sessions, an excellent exhibit hall experience, and outstanding networking opportunities."
Janice McCallum, Managing Director, Health Content Advisors
"The breadth of IT subjects covered was amazing."
Roy Long, Cloud Security Architect, skyPurple Cloud Limited
"Great opportunity to see, hear and meet a diverse group of people, both scientists and vendors, who have a common interest and different perspectives."
Michael Liebman, Managing Dir & Co Founder, IPQ Analytics
"Bio-IT is a must-attend event to keep pace with important advances."
Richard Mansfield, Research Professor, Harvard University
"Excellent material. Great presentations. And as always, the best part of this conference is the informal hallway / Exhibit floor conversations."
Bharat Rao, CoFounder & CEO, Carenostics
"The conference displays an excellent convergence of people, processes, and ideas in the science & technology space."
Kyle Gheewala, Sr Informatics Systems Analyst, Genentech
"The ability to connect with vendors on a personal level is excellent and allows us to find opportunities to serve our customers that we didn't even know might have existed without speaking with these folks in person."
Justin Loutsch, Application Support Mgr, inviCRO
"Fantastic, as usual!"
Thomas Bartlett, Head Healthcare & Life Science, DataCore
"Bio-IT World provided an unmatched opportunity to learn about the challenges our industry faces and to explore potential solutions."
2022
"A festival of cutting-edge solutions in the Bio-IT domain, a perfect place for matching interests to boost computational capabilities. Bio-IT World is surely the no 1 conference for the industrial biomedical IT community.”
Eike Staub, Senior Scientific Director, Merck Healthcare KGaA
“It’s great to be back and seeing customers face to face. A great opportunity to meet up with people we’ve spoken to before, to make new connections, and be part of a thriving community. It’s been a fantastic event.”
Joseph Mullen, ScBite, Director of Technical Consultants
“Bio-IT World 2022 was a refreshing change from all the virtual conferences due to COVID. There were so many great topics and speakers that I could not attend all of the talks—only if I could clone myself. Thankfully, the presentations I missed because I was attending another can be viewed post-conference on-line.”
Debbie Consiglio, Director, BioPharma Business Development, Natera
“Great event for in person discussion, and very professionally recorded so that I could follow up and hear at my own pace talks that overlapped with the track I was physically attending. So, it worked out to be like attending two separate conferences for the price of one.”
Steven Lynum, Executive Director, Global Business Development, PHC Corporation
“Cutting edge technology and science brought together in an engaging and thoughtful way.”
Mike Castillo, Product Manager, Metrum Research Group
Prior Years
“Bio-IT World is always THE event for Pharma/Life Sciences and Data Technology to meet, see the latest trends in the industry and get in touch with the community.”
Director Solutions Delivery, ONTOFORCE
“It was a great educational and networking event. Bio-IT World has innovatively and effectively blended live in person sessions with virtual ones.”
Head of Data Engineering & Innovation, Mass General Brigham
“Bio-IT World is the finest and unequaled gathering of the best minds in Life Sciences Research.”
CTO, RCH Solutions
“Bio-IT World brings together one of the widest forums of expertise in the discipline.”
AI & Machine Learning Tech Lead, Pfizer