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2012 Agenda

Pharmaceutical Strategic Alliances:
Building Sustainable Value Through New Relationships

As it searches for innovation to fuel sustainable growth, biopharma is dramatically reinventing its relationships across the board. Once entirely confident of its own strengths, the industry is displaying a new sensitivity to creative collaboration. Adaptive business models are selectively emerging. As parts of the heavily interdependent life sciences ecosystem undergo multi-year transformations, Big Pharma is acknowledging its responsibilities in propping up valuable, but capital-starved sources of long-term innovation. Getting closer to the patient is vital to the process. The result is novel cooperation among traditionally wary constituents: pharma, biotech, payers, providers and patients.

But can these arrangements, which aim to provide all parties with rewards and mitigate risk at various steps of the process deliver on value in a resource-constrained world? As pharma reaches further into emerging geographies, how does it balance growth in new markets with still-lucrative but shrinking opportunities at home? At this year's Pharmaceutical Strategic Alliances meeting we'll explore how companies can best use non-traditional partners to transform weak pipelines, jumpstart flagging revenues, and prove relevancy of their products to payers and health care providers.

Traditional alliances still have their place, though they represent a much smaller part of the strategic spectrum. Large drug companies are as apt to build relationships with venture capital partners, payers, data providers, academic centers, governments, and each other. These new relationships will generate ideas about industry's best paths forward – and create new pressures to find common ground with unfamiliar partners.

Monday, September 17, 2012

1:30-2:00pm Registration and Pre-Conference Workshops
2:00-3:30pm Workshop -- KHIDI
3:30-3:45pm Break
3:45-5:00pm Workshop -- HillCo

5:00-6:30pm

Welcome Reception and Registration

*Please join us for a drink and some hors d'oeuvres after these workshops.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

7:45-8:30am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:45am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:45-9:30am

KEYNOTE

Fireside Chat

Chris Morrison (moderator)
Elsevier Business Intelligence

9:30-10:00am

Implementing Key Components for New R&D Models

10:00-11:00am

Keying on the Provider System to Establish Drug/Dx Value

Matt Zubiller
VP, Decision Management
McKesson Health Solutions


Robert Epstein, MD
President, United Biosource Corp.
Chief Clinical Research and Development Officer
Medco


Michael Nohaile
Global Head of Molecular Diagnostics
Novartis


Eric Schadt, PhD
Director, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

11:00-11:30am

Networking Break

11:30-12:30pm

Tapping Into Reverse Innovation

Salomon Azoulay, MD
SVP, Medical & Development, Emerging Markets
Pfizer

12:30pm-2:00pm

LUNCH

2:00-2:45pm

Improving your Development Strategy

David-Alexandre Gros
Chief Strategy Officer
Sanofi


Bahija Jallal, PhD
EVP, Research & Development
MedImmune

2:45-3:45pm

Pharma Takes Notice Of Neglected Diseases

3:45-4:15pm

Networking Break

4:15-5:15pm

Oncology CEO Roundtable

Anthony Coles, MD
CEO
Onyx Pharmaceuticals

6:00-8:00pm

Cocktail Reception

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

7:45-8:25am

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:25am

Welcome and Recap

Chris Morrison
Elsevier Business Intelligence

8:30-9:15am

Dealmaking Trends: Current Data and Strategies

Chris Morrison
Elsevier Business Intelligence

9:15-10:15am

Building Biotech Value: New Models for Modern Times

Kevin Starr
Partner
Third Rock Ventures


Kurt Graves
Executive Chairman
Intarcia


Warren Huff
CEO
Reata


Steve Tregay
CEO
FORMA

10:15-10:45am

Networking Break and Check-Out

10:45-12:00pm

Business Development: Do More with Less

Shaun Grady
VP, Strategic Partnering and Business Development
AstraZeneca


Roger J. Pomerantz, MD, FACP
World Wide Head of Licensing and Acquisitions and SVP
Merck


Nigel Sheail
Head of Global Business Development & Licensing
Bayer AG

12:00-1:00pm

Maximizing Value in a New Commercial Landscape

Adam Schechter
President, Global Human Health
Merck & Co.


Kevin Buchi
VP, Global Brands
Teva Pharmaceuticals

1:00pm

Box Lunch

Conference Concludes