Teddy Tien
Seminars
Wednesday 2nd December 2026
Interactive Panel Discussion: Reflecting on the State of Play of Building an AI-Enabled Workforce in the Life Sciences Industry
8:30 am
- What do leading life sciences organizations have in terms of AI capability building that is paving a path forward for designing the AI-enabled workforce?
- What people resources and capabilities are we lacking at life sciences organizations in an AI era and how can we plug those gaps?
- When evaluating people, process, technology, and governance, how does the life sciences industry compare to other sectors in terms of AI-readiness?
- How mature are we from a workforce adoption perspective?
- Using a 7S framework (Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Style, Staff and Skills), to what extent is AI and technology progress ahead of the skills mix and leadership behaviors in the life sciences industry? What action can we take to close the gap?
Thursday 3rd December 2026
Discover: How to Redesign HR Around Moments in the Employee Journey, Not Functions, to Unlock Workforce Agility & Accelerate AI-Led Transformation
9:20 am
- Your HR org chart has never once matched how your employees experience work – they don’t live inside your COEs, they live inside moments: getting hired, onboarded, growing, leaving, yet most organizations still design people processes around functions, not humans
- Drawing on Sanofi’s global transformation, this talk makes the case for a fundamentally different model, one where COEs and Global Business Services stop operating as parallel tracks and start designing together around the employee lifecycle
- The honest truth: breaking silos isn’t a technology problem, it’s a governance, data, and ways-of working problem – ownership is your biggest unlock, learn what it actually takes to get there, and what must change first
- If your HR model is still organized around how HR thinks, rather than how people work, this talk is for you
Thursday 3rd December 2026
Develop: Redesigning the Human Experience of Work for AI-Enabled Transformation
9:40 am
Explore how AI-enabled workforce planning and employee-journey redesign can converge to create more agile, human-first organizations. Use this discussion to unpack the practical governance, operating model, and skills implications of designing around how people actually work.
Interactive Q&A Session Facilitated by the Chair
