RevX Philadelphia
The enterprise AI event for data science and IT leaders
May 20, 2025
Convene Commerce SquareExperience the magic of RevX alongside AI industry leaders
About RevX
Explore the future of AI-driven drug development — from discovery through regulatory submissions — with informative sessions on how to improve compliance, collaboration, and efficiency with a modern SCE and flexible AI platform.
Data scientists and IT leaders should attend this one-day, free event for:
Agenda
- 8:00 – 9:00a
Check-in and Breakfast
- 9:00 – 9:30a
The Next Chapter: How AI Will Reshape R&D in 2025 and Beyond
Shahram Ebadollahi Principal, Nav.AI - Former CDAO, Novartis
Chris McSpiritt VP of Life Sciences Strategy, Domino
Explore the next chapter of AI in life sciences R&D with Shahram Ebadollahi, former Chief Data Science & AI Officer at Novartis and founder of Nav.AI. Hear about the organizational shifts required to harness AI trends, and what leading companies are doing to stay ahead in 2025, and beyond. - 9:30 – 10:00a
The Modern AI Factory
Nick Elprin CEO, Domino
Domino CEO Nick Elprin unveils the company’s vision and strategy to help enterprises scale AI and data science with greater speed, governance, and impact. Discover how Domino’s new platform capabilities and AI-native workflows will enhance collaboration and power the next era of innovation. - 10:20 – 11:05a
AI’s Impact from Discovery to Delivery
Daniel Kraft MD Physician-Scientist and Innovator, Founder, NextMed Health & Digital.Health
Daniel Kraft, MD, explores how AI and the digitization of biomedicine are transforming healthcare and life sciences by enabling personalized, patient-centric care; accelerating R&D; tackling ethical challenges in AI; and guiding responsible use of AI and digital health for the future. - 11:05 – 11:15a
Domino Catalyst Awards
- 11:25 – 12:10p
From Data to Drug Approval: Bioinformatics in Clinical Development
Lin Li Head of Clinical Statistics & Computational Biology PharmaLex, a Cencora company
Bioinformatics and computational biology have powered discovery, but their role in clinical development is evolving. Hear how teams use Domino to scale machine learning and real-word data workflows, accelerating insights and decisions that support drug approval for precision medicine.Reimagining Patient Recruitment: How AI and GenAI Are Transforming Clinical Trials
Elizabeth Mekbib Sr. Data Science Consultant, EY
Sanjay Jaiswal Partner/Principal, EY
AI and genAI are streamlining patient recruitment by improving accuracy, reducing trial costs, and accelerating timelines. This company shares how they consolidate data sources, simplify eligibility workflows, and match the right patients to the right trials - faster and with fewer resources. - 12:10 – 1:05p
Networking Lunch
- 1:05 – 1:50p
NLP Suite: A One-Stop Shop for Data-Driven Quality and Compliance
Deepak Bandyopadhyay Director, Data Science, R&D Quality, Johnson & Johnson
J&J's NLP Suite unifies diverse text analysis capabilities - including classification, entity harmonization, casual extraction, and trend analytics - into a single, scalable solution. Learn key technical considerations and impacts across clinical operations, pharmacovigilance, and other user groups.QC Tracking and Process Governance in the Modern SCE
Matt Tendler Life Sciences Product Lead, Domino
Explore challenges and practical solutions for implementing effective QC tracking, managing workflows across roles, and building audit-ready processes without sacrificing agility. Hear best practices to strengthen both compliance and confidence in your SCE. - 2:00 – 2:45p
Tame AI Sprawl to Accelerate Innovation in Life Sciences
James Yi Sr. Partner Solutions Architect / Generative AI Tech Lead, AWS Emerging Technologies ISV
Richard Swakla AI/ML Specialist, NetApp
Jarrod Vawdrey Field Chief Data Scientist, Domino
As AI expands across life sciences, siloed tools, complex infrastructure, and compliance demands create costly sprawl. Experts from AWS, NetApp, and Domino will share how to align IT and data science to scale AI securely, efficiently, and with full traceability.Domino for Life Sciences: Product Roadmap
Matt Tendler Product Lead, Life Sciences, Domino
Get a first look at Domino’s product roadmap, including upcoming innovations in GenAI development, SCE governance, and automated compliance. Learn how Domino helps teams accelerate discovery, streamline clinical research, and scale data science - all within a GxP-compliant environment. - 3:05 – 3:50p
Unifying Data Science: A Single SCE for Innovation and Compliance
James Black Executive Director, Technology & Scientific Computing, Novartis
Novartis streamlines research and clinical operations by unifying its SCE. Learn how they leverage Domino to improve efficiency, ensure compliance, and balance agility with control, enabling seamless collaboration across data science teams.Accelerating Biomarker Discovery with Multi-Agent AI
Ronen Artzi Technology Innovation Lead, Oncology Data Science & AI, AstraZeneca
AI-driven, multi-agent systems are transforming cancer biomarker discovery by enabling complex, end-to-end scientific workflows. AstraZeneca shares how they leverage these capabilities to scale insights enhance collaboration, and accelerate decision-making across oncology research. - 4:00 – 4:30p
Operationalizing AI in Drug Development: From Infrastructure to Impact
Ian Misner Head of Products, Oncology Data Science, AstraZeneca
Dave Johnson CEO & Co-Founder, Dash Bio
Tim Hoctor Advisor, Pistoia Alliance
AI is transforming drug development - but scaling impact requires more than models. In this panel, pharma leaders from J&J, AstraZeneca, Dash Bio share how modern platforms can enable self-serve analytics, faster collaboration, and reproducibility, driving real-world gains across oncology and R&D. - 4:30 – 5:30p
Networking Reception
Speakers
Get ready to be inspired by the voices that are shaping the future of enterprise AI. Stay tuned for exciting updates as we add inspiring customers and thought leaders to our event agenda!

Daniel Kraft
MD Physician-Scientist and Innovator
Founder, NextMed Health & Digital.Health

Shahram Ebadollahi
Principal, Nav.AI
Former CDAO, Novartis

James Black
Executive Director, Technology & Scientific Computing
Novartis

Lin Li
Head of Clinical Statistics & Computational Biology
PharmaLex, a Cencora company

Ian Misner, Ph.D.
Head of Products, Oncology Data Science
AstraZeneca

Deepak Bandyopadhyay
Director, Data Science, R&D Quality
Johnson & Johnson

Dave Johnson
Former CDAIO, Moderna
CEO & Co-Founder, Dash Bio

Ronen Artzi
Technology Innovation Lead, Oncology Data Science & AI
AstraZeneca

Tim Hoctor
Advisor & Consultant
Pistoia Alliance

Elizabeth Mekbib
Sr. Data Science Consultant
EY

Sanjay Jaiswal
Partner/Principal
EY

James Yi
Generative AI Tech Lead, Emerging Technologies
AWS

Richard Swakla
AI & ML Specialist
NetApp

Nick Elprin
CEO & Co-Founder
Domino Data Lab

Chris McSpiritt
VP, Life Sciences Strategy
Domino Data Lab

Matt Tendler
Life Sciences Product Lead
Domino Data Lab
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