8:20 am Registration & Networking

Benchmarking Life Sciences Organizations Compensation To Stay Competitive in 2024

9:00 am Discover: Total Rewards Industry Trends

Synopsis

Uncover the latest trends in total rewards strategies, navigating the unique landscape of the life sciences industry.

Let’s explore innovative approaches that align with the dynamic needs of the workforce and ensure you are on the forefront of progressive total rewards practices.

Learn about how companies are incorporating AI into their Total Rewards processes and programs.

9:20 am Discover: Careers, Compensation and Transparency: Creating an Effective Career Framework and Ensuring Your Compensation is Competitive and Transparent to Retain Key Talent

Synopsis

  • What can you do to retain key talent especially after periods of turbulence, i.e. layoffs?
  • For an organization with different types of talent from different sectors – tech, software engineers, drug discovery, healthcare – how do you design a competitive compensation framework and also engage all groups in their own career pathways to enhance retention?
  • How 23andMe has leveraged a new career framework program, competitive compensation model and other creative ways to retain business-critical employees.

9:40 am Develop: What More Can You Learn About Developing a Competitive Compensation Strategy Fit For Life Sciences Organizations in 2024?

Synopsis

Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Focus Day Chair

10:00 am Action: What Will You Now Do to Ensure Your Compensation Strategy is Fit For 2024?

Synopsis

Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair

10:20 am Networking Break

Track 1 Transforming Employee Engagement to Enhance Retention

Investing in Employee Wellbeing, Recognition and Rewards to Increase Retention

Track Chair: Stephanie Heinz, Head Of Human Resources, Neogene Therapeutics

10:40 am Discover: Highlighting the Importance of Investing in Employee Wellbeing in Your Overall Biotech Compensation Strategy to Enhance Retention

  • Sahar Zandi Chief of Head Human Resources Staff, Clear Labs

Synopsis

  • Successful examples of how life sciences organizations are developing holistic rewards and recognition strategies alongside compensation strategy to enhance retention.
  • The effective strategies to invest in employee wellbeing and prevent burnout and discussing the effective, non-compensation focused strategies to reward and recognize employees.
  • How Clear Labs have gone above and beyond to invest in their employees’ wellbeing – particularly mental health – enabling them to prevent burnout and retain key talent.

11:00 am Discover: Investing in Employee Wellbeing, Recognition & Rewards to Increase Retention While Operating With Limited Budget and Resources

  • Karen Casey Chief People Officer, Syner-G BioPharma Group

Synopsis

  • Discussing the importance of employee wellbeing in 2024 compensation strategy to enhance retention.
  • How to get executives to understand the importance of investing in your life sciences employees wellbeing as it relates to the business
  • How Syner-G BioPharma Group have invested in their talent’s wellbeing to enhance engagement and become a Best Place to Work

11:20 am Develop: What More Can We Learn About Investing In Employee Wellbeing, Recognition And Rewards To Increase Retention?

  • Sahar Zandi Chief of Head Human Resources Staff, Clear Labs
  • Karen Casey Chief People Officer, Syner-G BioPharma Group

Synopsis

Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair

11:40 am Action: How Will You Now Invest In Employee Wellbeing, Recognition And Rewards To Increase Retention?

Track 2 Agile Talent Management and Attraction Strategies to Enhance Efficiency

Driving Fast Paced Scale and Future Proofing Your Life Sciences Organizations

Track Chair: Ann Tomlin, Head of Human Resources, Lyell Immunopharma

10:40 am Discover:Disrupting HR: Embracing Data and People Analytics to Equip People Leaders with a Personalized Guide to Streamline Hiring, Onboarding and Employee Engagement

Synopsis

  • Have you wondered if your hiring process is good? Discover philosophy and math that reveal deeply the quality of a process and the effectiveness of hiring managers.
  • Is your onboarding process working? Using data, come find out how to build early commitment to the organization.
  • Why do employee engagement scores seem stuck? Uncover Enveda Biosciences' sophisticated analytical model, combined with qualitative data, that gives each people leader the critical few action items that will truly improve employee engagement

11:00 am Discover: Future Proofing Your Life Sciences Business: Adapting After Periods of Growth and Uncovering the Next Steps to Success After Becoming a Commercial Organization

Synopsis

  • Best practices and lessons learned on how to retain employees during periods of fast paced growth from those who have successfully executed this and how to adapt when your organizations is evolving in directions you did not expect
  • Rethinking your EVP, what does it take to successfully hire talent when preparing for a product launch as compared to years year after that
  • Uncovering the next steps after launching a product – hear an update on Dermavant’s journey as a commercial organization and how they have managed to stay one of Fortune’s Best Small Employers on every step of their journey (i.e. a year later)

11:20 am Develop: What More Can We Learn About Driving Fast Paced Scale And Future Proofing Life Sciences Organizations?

Synopsis

Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair

11:40 am Action: What Will You Now Do To Drive Fast Paced Scale And Future Proofing Your Life Sciences Organization?

12:00 pm Lunch

Speed Learning

Table 1 Topic:

Synopsis

How to set up for success in small biotech organizations from creating a compensation philosophy to leadership development – uncover the first key steps to make to ensure the company is successful going forward

Table 2 Topic:

Synopsis

Creating a scalable and engaging culture to secure future productivity from the very start of a small biotech organization

Table 3 Topic:

  • Ken Boehm Senior Vice President - Human Resources, CymaBay Therapeutics

Synopsis

Challenging traditional approaches to sourcing and interviewing talent including how to get creative in the offer process where smaller biotechs can be limited in the compensation they offer compared to large pharma

Table 4 Topic:

Synopsis

The Practicalities of AI: Legal, Financial and Commercial. What is the Reality of Implementing AI Tools in Biotechs?

Table 5 Topic:

  • Tracy Defernez Associate Director - Human Resources, Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Synopsis

Putting Insights into Action: Using Employee Engagement Surveys as a Roadmap to Achieve Powerful Results

2:00 pm Chairs Closing Remarks & End of Conference

  • Ann Tomlin Senior Vice President & Head of Human Resources, Lyell Immunopharma