BioAsia 2026

Speakers 2026

Dr. Howard Y. Chang

Dr. Howard Y. Chang

Chief Scientific Officer, Amgen (USA)

Dr. Stefan Miltenyi

Dr. Stefan Miltenyi

Founder & President, Miltenyi Biotec

Mr. Anton Groom

Mr. Anton Groom

Chief AI Officer, MSD

Mr. Pushmeet Kohli

Mr. Pushmeet Kohli

Vice President of Science, Google DeepMind, India

Ms. Madeleine Roach

Ms. Madeleine Roach

EVP, Head of Business Operations Sanofi

Prof. Bruce L. Levine

Prof. Bruce L. Levine

Barbara and Edward Netter Professor in Cancer Gene Therapy

Speakers

Session 1: Catalysts that Actually Scale

Eamonn Warren
Eamonn Warren

Group VP, Manufacturing (API & Dry Products), Lilly Global, USA

Dr. Despina Solomonidou
Dr. Despina Solomonidou

EVP, Global Head Technical R&D, Novartis, Switzerland

Rashmi Kumar
Rashmi Kumar

SVP & Chief Information Officer

Dr. Peter Owotoki
Dr. Peter Owotoki

Cofounder & CEO, EmpathicAI.life Ltd, Germany Please change his designation in Speaker page

Dr. Kenneth Barr
Dr. Kenneth Barr

SVP, Head of Strategic Collaborations, Head of SynVent, Syngene International Limited, India

Session 2: From Headwinds to Health Wins

Dr. Peter Piot
Dr. Peter Piot

EU Chief Scientific Advisor on Epidemics

Vikrant Shrotriya
Vikrant Shrotriya

MD, Novo Nordisk India, India

Srinath Venkatesh
Srinath Venkatesh

MD, India and South Asia, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Giuliano Perfetti
Giuliano Perfetti

CEO & MD, Jubilant Biosys Limited

Amit Mookim
Amit Mookim

CEO, Immuneel Therapeutics Private Limited, India

Mr. Hari Buggana
Mr. Hari Buggana

Founder and Chairman, InvAscent

Session 3: Next-Gen Biologics & Advanced Modalities

Dr. Sangita Reddy
Dr. Sangita Reddy

Joint MD, Apollo Hospitals Group, India

Dr. Rachel Ellis
Dr. Rachel Ellis

Chief Development Officer, Bharat Biotech, India

Dr. Darrin Morrissey
Dr. Darrin Morrissey

CEO, MRC, Ireland

Dr. José Castillo
Dr. José Castillo

CEO, Quanteach Biomedicines, Belgium

Session 4: CRDMO 2.0

Christian Seufert
Christian Seufert

Head of the Advanced Synthesis, Lonza, Switzerland

Manni Kantipudi
Manni Kantipudi

CEO, Aragen Lifesciences, India

Krishna Kanumuri
Krishna Kanumuri

MD & CEO, Sai Lifesciences, India

Session 5: CEO Conclave

G. V. Prasad
G. V. Prasad

Co-Chairman & MD, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, India

Eric Mansion
Eric Mansion

GM of India & South-East Asia, Sanofi, Singapore

Winselow Tucker
Winselow Tucker

President and GM, Lilly India, India

Shreehas Tambe
Shreehas Tambe

Managing Director and CEO, Biocon Biologics, India

Session 6: Building Innovation-First GCCs

Badhri Srinivasan
Badhri Srinivasan

Group CEO, Unilabs, Switzerland

Som Chattopadhyay
Som Chattopadhyay

SVP, Amgen, USA

Sanjay Patel
Sanjay Patel

SVP & Global Head of Innovation Capability Solutions, Data, Digital & Technology, Takeda, Switzerland

Session 8: India's Innovation Moment

Nataraj Kalyanaraman
Nataraj Kalyanaraman

Vice President, Head of Drug Development, BMS, India

Raja Jammalamadaka
Raja Jammalamadaka

Head, Roche Digital Centre, India

Raja Jammalamadaka
Ms. Preeti Sudan IAS (Retd.)

Former Chairperson, UPSC and Former Union Health Secretary, Government of India

Session 9: Financing TechBio & DeepTech Manufacturing

Karthik Narayanaswamy
Karthik Narayanaswamy

Partner & Head of India, Novo Holdings, India

Sunil Thakur
Sunil Thakur

Partner, Quadria Capital & Co-founder, HealthQuad, Singapore