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MAY 2026

That's a wrap on Rev Philadelphia

From statistical computing to enterprise AI, learn what the organizations getting it right have in common.

Three themes defined Philadelphia

Governance built in, not bolted on

The organizations making the most progress designed governance into the platform from the start. When it's infrastructure rather than a review gate, it doesn't slow teams down, it gets work into production.

A new SCE requires new ways of working

Deploying a modern statistical computing environment doesn't deliver value by itself. The organizations that got it right treated it as a process redesign, not just a platform change.

Scale means reuse, not just growth

Scale is what happens when teams build on each other's work, workflows become reusable assets, and institutional knowledge compounds across the platform rather than staying locked in individuals.
WHAT LEADERS ARE SAYING

"Toys are not tools. The technology problem was always solvable. The infrastructure required to deploy AI safely in a regulated context is the constraint"

Nick Elprin
CEO & Cofounder
Domino Data Lab

"The bottleneck was never technology or the model. It was permission. Fear of failure is the most expensive thing in a room full of scientists who could be building agentic solutions."

Brian Dumman
VP Enterprise AI Technology
AstraZeneca

"The bigger prize is disease understanding, not faster paperwork. Efficiency gains are bounded at 100%. The scientific upside of genuinely new disease understanding is not."

Eric Gibson
SVP Global Head of AQS
Novartis
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LOCATION

Convene | Two Commerce Square

  • 2001 Market St, 2nd floor
  • Walking distance from Suburban station
  • Accessible from 21st St & Market St: 7, 31, 44, 48, 62, 124, 125
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What was covered

Keynote
AI in drug development: A regulatory and industry perspective

Drawing on his tenure as FDA Commissioner and his current work leading Nucleus RadioPharma, Dr. Hahn will share his perspective on how AI is reshaping drug development across clinical trials and regulatory submissions, and what sponsors need to understand as they incorporate AI into regulated workflows.

Stephen Hahn | CEO | Former FDA Commissioner |
Nucleus RadioPharma
Keynote
Welcome to the Apps revolution

Enterprises have the models, the talent, and the budgets. What's missing is the operational foundation to turn AI investment into measurable business impact. Hear Domino's view on what's holding regulated enterprises back and what the path forward looks like.

Nick Elprin | CEO & Co-founder | Domino Data Lab
Keynote
From chatbots to multi-agent AI: AstraZeneca's unfiltered take

AstraZeneca shares how it's navigating the shift to multi-agent systems, what becomes genuinely hard when agents start talking to each other, and what even mature organizations are working to resolve at scale.

Brian Dummann | VP, Head of Enterprise AI Technology | AstraZeneca
Keynote
View from the top: A conversation on AI's moment

Few executives have a clearer view of where pharma data science is heading than Eric Gibson of Novartis. In this closing fireside chat, he shares a candid perspective on the FDA's shift toward R-based submissions, multimodal research, and why synthetic data may be the key to unlocking AI at scale.

Eric Gibson | SVP, Global Head of Advanced Quantitative Sciences | Novartis
The year of yes: How saying “yes” ignited GSK’s R adoption

GSK's STAR program tackled open source adoption with an unconventional approach: a team of R experts who said yes to every inquiry. This session traces the journey from legacy constraints to measurable progress, including the governance, training, and support structures that made the shift stick.

Ben Arancibia | Director of Data Science
Modernizing the SCE - More than a change of address

Modernizing a statistical computing environment requires more than a technology upgrade. UCB shares its approach to evolving a legacy SCE within a regulated context, including what it took to pack up technical debt, contain scope, and put the right foundations in place across people, process, and IT.

Tim Williams | Statistical Solutions Lead
Build, Measure, Scale: Growing Data Science & Applied AI at BMS

At BMS, data science and AI are embedded end-to-end, from early discovery to clinical development and commercialization. Learn how Domino enables teams to move from Python notebooks to production AI, scaling collaboration and impact across the enterprise.

Jacob Albrecht | Director, Intelligence Systems Lab
Evolving the statistical computing environment

A top 10 pharma shares how it's moving from manual, fragmented clinical analytics to a unified statistical computing environment on Domino, reducing human error, maintaining auditability across SAS, R, and Python, and supporting regulated, day-to-day statistical programming.

Uday K Reddy Kandula | Principal Scientist
Domino + Posit: Better together

In this joint session, Domino and Posit will show how Positron integrates with Domino's governed environment, covering the full code lifecycle for both R and Python, package management with Posit Package Manager, and how Positron's native AI tools augment statistical programmers and data scientists in the ways they already work.

Doug Kelkhoff | Product Lead, Life Sciences | Domino
Thomas Mock, PhD | Senior Product Manager | Posit
Inside the SCE journey - Lessons from the field

Modernizing a statistical computing environment requires navigating roadmap decisions to fit new capabilities into a complex clinical ecosystem. Priya Subramaniam will share practical lessons from Novartis’ SCE journey on extending platforms to meet organization’s needs, scaling adoption, and addressing validation and QC - delivering speed and flexibility without compromising regulatory rigor.

Priya Subramaniam | Head of Dev, IT Clinical Enablement, Strategy & Growth | Novartis
Mike Harnish | President & Managing Partner | KSM Technology Partners

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