8:30 am Registration & Networking Break
9:00 am
Curating an Engaging and Scalable Culture in Dynamic Life Sciences Organizations
9:30 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
9:40 am Discover: How HR Leaders are Aligning Culture, Competencies and People Goals and Galvanizing Life Sciences Employees Around This Purpose To Retain Key Life Sciences Talent
Synopsis
- How HR can equip leadership with the tools for success and subsequently measure and see progress in the impact their leaders are having in terms of engagement metrics.
- An update on BioMarin’s success in establishing and delivering on long term people goals as part of its corporate, long term business objective.
- Additional insights on BioMarin’s innovative new work aligning people goals, critical skills, competencies for success and culture to link all this together in one cohesive piece of work.
10:00 am Discover: Curating an Engaging and Scalable Culture to Reduce Turnover in Dynamic Life Sciences Organizations
Synopsis
- Best practices to create a scalable and engaging culture to reduce attrition of mission critical talent with in-demand skills – especially in times of scale (for example, after layoffs).
- How HR leaders are aligning culture, company vision and values, talent development and people goals and galvanizing life sciences employees around this purpose to retain key life sciences talent.
- How to inspire and engage employees so that cultural efforts are not something led top down or by HR, but employee-led and coming from within to ensure all your employees are both a definer and driver of your culture in life sciences organizations.
10:20 am Develop: What More Can We Learn About Curating an Engaging and Scalable Culture in Dynamic Life Sciences Organizations?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
10:40 am Action: What Will you Now do to Ensure your Culture is Engaging and Scalable?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
11:00 am Speed Networking Break
11:05 am
Track 1: Transforming Employee Engagement to Enhance Retention & Drive Productivity
11:10 am
Creative and Cost-Effective Employee Engagement Strategies to Enhance Retention
11:40 am Panel Discussion: What Are The Creative and Cost-Effective Employee Engagement Strategies That Truly Work to Retain Business Critical Talent in Dynamic Life Sciences Organizations?
Synopsis
Discussion points/questions to be addressed:
- What are the creative and cost-effective employee engagement strategies that truly work to retain business critical talent in dynamic life sciences organizations?
- What to do in order to rebuild trust with employees after periods of layoffs, downsizing or poor clinical results to keep them engaged
12:00 pm Action: What Creative New approaches Will You Now Take To Enhance Retention Of Business-Critical Talent?
11:05 am
Track 2: Agile Talent Management & Attraction Strategies to Enhance Operational Efficiency
11:10 am
Rethinking Your EVP to Stay One Step Ahead in a Turbulent Life Sciences Talent Market
11:40 am Panel Discussion: Ensuring Your EVP Is Fit For Purpose And Rethinking How To Acquire The Right Key Talent And In Demand Skills In A Turbulent Talent Market
Synopsis
Discussion points/questions to be addressed:
- What can be done to ensure your EVP is human-centric and competitive compared to other biotech with similar missions and values?
- What new strategies can be employed to be competitive in today’s life sciences talent market
- How will you prepare your life sciences organization for periods of fast paced scale or transitioning to a commercial organization in the near future?
12:00 pm Action: What Will You Now Do To Ensure Your EVP Is Fit For Purpose In 2024?
12:20 pm Lunch
1:19 pm
Agile New Approaches to Increase Retention During Periods of (Upward or Downward) Scale
1:20 pm Discover: Turbocharging Employee Engagement to Stop Business Critical Talent Walking Out the Door During Turbulent Periods in Dynamic Biotech Organizations
Synopsis
- How can we build resilience and adaptability skills in employees during periods of ‘right sizing’
- Spotlighting employee wellbeing as a tool for retention specifically addressing mental health wellness and ensuring that employees actually access and utilize these resources and platforms
- How Genomatica deployed financial rewards and incentives in order to retain and engage business critical talent during periods of turbulence or layoffs
1:40 pm Develop: What More Can We Learn About How To Retain Business Critical Talent?
1:50 pm Action: What Will You Now Do To Retain Business Critical Talent?
2:10 pm
Networking Break
2:29 pm
Curating Connectedness in Life Sciences Working Environments and The Hybrid Working Debate
2:30 pm Discover: Adapt and Overcome: How HR Can Adapt and Pivot to Meet the Agile Needs of the Business in a Growing Biotech Organization and Lessons Leaned from a Story Of Successful CEO Collaboration
Synopsis
- Adapting to meet the agile needs of the business as a whole and how to effectively collaborate with executive leadership and your CEO to make this a success
- How to ‘ignore some of the noise’ and the strategic HR thinking behind taking a leap in a direction the market suggests might not be the right move and the successful outcomes in spite of this
- What being fully back in person has done to turbocharge culture, onboarding, and development of life sciences employees in Arcellx and a story of successful CEO collaboration
2:50 pm Discover: A Remote Workplace Success Story: How to Curate a Connected Culture in a Fully Remote Biotech Organization to Attract and Retain Top Life Sciences Talent
Synopsis
- How embracing a fully remote operational model has enabled one life sciences company to attract and retain top talent
- How to ensure culture thrives in a fully remote organization and employees are highly engaged
- The transformative story from Dynavax Technologies who made the leap to remain a full virtual organization since the pandemic and for the past three years have kept employees engaged and productive while delivering impressive business results
3:10 pm Develop: What More Can We Learn About Curating Connectedness in Life Sciences Working Environments and the Hybrid Working Debate?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
3:40 pm Action: Curate Connectedness in Life Sciences Working Environments and Tackle the Hybrid Working Debate?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
1:19 pm
Driving DE&I in Life Sciences Organizations, Creating an Inclusive Culture & Acquiring Diverse Talent
1:20 pm Discover: Driving DIR in Life Sciences Organizations, Creating an Inclusive and Engaging Culture and Acquiring Diverse Talent
Synopsis
- How to truly make a difference and move the needle on DE&I at all levels in biotech companies by benchmarking data on diversity internally and externally.
- How dynamic life sciences organizations are undergoing scale in a way that is mindful of DE&I during periods of growth and building early talent pipeline by utilizing long term partnerships with academic institutions.
- Uncover Cytokinetics outstanding 4 years’ worth of progress in enhancing DIR and hear best practices and lessons learn on how to build and utilize employee driven committee groups to achieve this.
1:40 pm Develop: What More Can We Learn About Truly Moving The Needle And Driving DE&I in life sciences organizations?
1:50 pm Action: What Will You Now Do To Truly Mmove The Needle And Driving DE&I In Life Sciences Organizations?
2:10 pm
Networking Break
2:30 pm Discover: Agile New Approaches to be Smarter & Create Singnificant Savings in Your Talent Acquisition Processes in Life Sciences Organizations
Synopsis
- Rethinking your employee internal referral program for long term cost savings
- How to better engage employees in your mission and incentivising employees by significantly increasing the internal referral bonuses
- How 4DMT were able to eliminate the agency usage all together for the next 28 hires in 6 months saving the company over half a million dollars while compensating our own employees internally with spot employee referral bonuses which annually equates to $1M savings
2:50 pm Discover: A Successful Approach to Acquiring Mission-Critical Talent to Secure Productivity with Limited Budget and Resources in 2024
Synopsis
- An approach to talent acquisition that favors quality and how to find the time to hire only the right talent with the right in demand skills for your specific biopharma organization
- The impact being a fully in person operation has had on talent acquisition and engagement and the interesting hiring manager dynamics that have emerged
- How Arcellx is successfully navigating a turbulent talent market and acquiring the right talent and in demand skills and talent in smaller biotech organizations
3:10 pm Develop: What more can we learn about Creative and Cost-Effective Talent Management and Attraction Strategies to Secure Business-Critical Talent?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
3:40 pm Action: What Will You Now do to Secure Business-Critical Talent?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
4:00 pm
Networking Break
4:10 pm
Advancing Leadership Development & Supporting Employees Through Periods of Change
4:20 pm Discover: Cultural Evolution Powered By Leadership Development at Various Levels of Pharmaceutical Organizations
Synopsis
- Where the technical skills and experience of life sciences talent is key, how can HR go beyond this and find that leadership quality as well as technical acumen?
- Better coaching leaders and managers to lead and engage their teams during periods of change management to enhance retention.
- How Gilead have moved from the ‘what and why’ to the ‘how’ and launched two leadership programs for both executives and middle managers to drive productivity at all levels.
4:40 pm Discover: Advancing Leadership Development in Biotech Organizations with Limited Budgets and Resources to Ensure Leaders are Well Prepared For Navigating Through Change Management
Synopsis
- How to develop and execute a truly effective leadership program in a small biotech organization with limited budget and resources.
- Better coaching leaders and managers to lead and engage their teams during periods of change management to enhance retention.
- Uncover the impressive tangible impacts and outcomes of Alumis’ new leadership development program and how it has taken this growing biotech organization to the next level.
5:20 pm Develop: What More Can we Learn About How to Advance Leadership Development and Supporting Employees Through Periods of Change?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair