Knowledge Partners
McKinsey & Company
Website: http://www.mckinsey.com/
McKinsey is a global management consulting firm committed to helping organizations accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth. We work with clients across the private, public, and social sectors to solve complex problems and create positive change for all their stakeholders. We combine bold strategies and transformative technologies to help organizations innovate more sustainably, achieve lasting gains in performance, and build workforces that will thrive for this generation and the next.
MilliporeSigma
Website: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com
Together with our colleagues, customers and stakeholders, we impact life and health with science. Before researchers can make scientific breakthroughs, they must have access to state-of-the-art tools, services and expertise to perform experiments and engineer new products. That’s where we come in.
We offer one of the broadest portfolios in the industry for scientists, best-in-class products for pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, and a fully integrated service organization to support CDMO and contract testing across traditional and novel modalities.
Our vision is a world where our innovative products, services and digital offerings help create solutions for people globally and a sustainable future for generations to come.
The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, operates as MilliporeSigma in the US and Canada. Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany is a global science and technology company with around 60,000 employees in more than 66 countries.
Lead Partner
Qiagen
Website: https://digitalinsights.qiagen.com/
QIAGEN Digital Insights is the leading provider of genomic and clinical knowledge, analysis and interpretation software and services for scientists and clinicians. With over 25 years of experience in bioinformatics, 140,000 users worldwide, 100,000 citations in scientific papers and 5 million profiled patient cases, our quality knowledge and software will help you gain insights into everything from early discovery to clinical decision-making. Discover our curated knowledge solutions, bioinformatics software and services for better data management, collaboration and actionable insights.
Track Partner
Gold Partners
Cloudera
Website: https://www.cloudera.com/
Cloudera is a hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI. With 100x more data under management than other cloud-only vendors, Cloudera empowers global enterprises to transform data of all types, on any public or private cloud, into valuable, trusted insights. Our open data lakehouse delivers scalable and secure data management with portable cloud-native analytics, enabling customers to bring GenAI models to their data while maintaining privacy and ensuring responsible, reliable AI deployments. The world’s largest brands in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing, and government rely on Cloudera to use their data to solve what once seemed impossible—today and in the future.
Helix AI
Website: https://helixai.com/
HelixAI is a specialist scientific technology company focused on accelerating research and development for biopharmaceutical organizations. Its platform, JarvisAI, enables scientific teams to design and execute in silico R&D workflows that support a wide range of operations from early-stage drug discovery to scale-up and bioproduction. By integrating scientific data from public, private and client domains along with computational models and AI-driven orchestration, JarvisAI helps researchers explore hypotheses more efficiently and prioritize the most promising drug candidates for further development. This approach supports better, faster decision-making combined with optimization of scientific and wet-lab resources.
Strangeworks
Website: https://strangeworks.com/
Strangeworks is on a mission to turn computational complexity into real world solutions. With the largest catalog of quantum and quantum-inspired computing resources on an innovative cloud platform backed by computational experts, we make the transformative potential of quantum computing accessible to all. Our AI powered workflows make it easier for enterprises to solve today’s toughest challenges, accelerate breakthroughs, and future-proof their operations. Partnering with customers worldwide, Strangeworks delivers immediate ROI while shaping a smarter, quantum-enabled future.
Vultr
Website: https://www.vultr.com/
Vultr, founded in 2014, is on a mission to empower developers and businesses by simplifying the deployment of infrastructure via its advanced cloud platform. Vultr is strategically located in 32 data centers around the globe and provides frictionless provisioning of Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Cloud Storage, Networking, and Bare Metal.
ZONTAL
Website: https://zontal.io/
ZONTAL provides the premier data platform tailored for the life science industry. Our platform is at the forefront of digital transformation, delivering innovative solutions that address the intricate challenges faced by large-scale enterprises. Our services streamline IT processes, facilitate the integration of AI/ML applications, accelerate product time-to-market, and enhance regulatory compliance.
With a global presence encompassing the US, Europe, and Asia, ZONTAL is well positioned to offer seamless support to our clients worldwide. Our network of dedicated integration and service partners enables us to deliver our expertise and solutions in any country and across all time zones, ensuring our customers receive unparalleled support wherever they are.
Advarra
Website: https://www.advarra.com/
Advarra breaks the silos that impede clinical research, aligning patients, sites, sponsors, and CROs in a connected ecosystem to accelerate trials. Advarra is number one in research review services, a leader in site and sponsor technology, and is trusted by the top 50 global biopharma sponsors, top 20 CROs, and 50,000 site investigators worldwide. Advarra solutions improve collaboration, transparency, and compliance to optimize study design and operations. With unmatched trial operations data, and an ongoing investment in AI innovation, Advarra continues to reimagine what’s possible in clinical research. For more information, visit advarra.com.
Silver Partners
MindWalk
Website: https://www.mindwalkai.com/
MindWalk is a Bio-Native AI company transforming drug discovery and development. Powered by patented HYFT® technology and the LensAI™ platform, MindWalk unifies sequence, structure, function, and literature into a single computational language and closes the loop with an integrated, full-stack wet lab. The platform supports rapid epitope mapping, de novo molecular design, in silico vaccine exploration, and population-scale biologics analytics that help turn insights into validated candidates at speed.
Patsnap
Website: https://www.patsnap.com/
Patsnap enables IP and R&D teams to make faster, more informed decisions through advanced AI-powered intelligence. As the global leader in innovation intelligence since 2007, Patsnap provides comprehensive insights that enhance productivity and reduce inefficiencies. Patsnap's domain-specific large language model, trained on extensive proprietary innovation data, integrates with its suite of AI agents to deliver actionable intelligence that increases IP productivity by 75% and reduces R&D waste by 25%. The platform supports seamless collaboration across the complete innovation lifecycle, from patent analysis to competitive intelligence. More than 15,000 companies worldwide, including NASA, PayPal, Sanofi, Dow Chemical, and Wilson Sonsini, trust Patsnap to advance their innovation capabilities through AI.
Bronze Partners
Anima Biotech
Website: https://www.animabiotech.com/
Anima Biotech has built the biology runtime for AI - the Biology GPU.
The Biology GPU is the infrastructure layer that connects how AI thinks with how biology works. It enables AI models to visually compute inside cells in a closed loop of experimental reasoning, revealing the pathways that drive disease.
Powered by a Visual Biology Model trained on 2B+ proprietary cellular pathway images and technology that directly visualizes biological processes and pathways at AI scale, the Biology GPU runs visual experiments inside cells - identifying which pathways are active, how they interact, and where compounds act.
From pathways to targets, mechanisms to compounds, the Biology GPU transforms discovery into a runtime where AI engages directly with biology across the entire lifecycle.
Validated in 20+ discovery programs and collaborations with AbbVie, Takeda, and Lilly, Anima Biotech is defining the runtime infrastructure for AI in biology.
Axio BioPharma
Website: https://www.axiobiopharma.com/
Axio BioPharma is an AI-driven biomanufacturing company revolutionizing how monoclonal antibodies are developed and produced. Headquartered in Madison, WI, Axio combines high-throughput production with proprietary machine learning to predict optimal scalable manufacturing processes in hours - not years. By accelerating development timelines and reducing costs, Axio enables biopharma innovators to bring life-saving therapies to market faster and more efficiently. With deep expertise in antibody manufacturing, protein purification, and bioinformatics, Axio supports a wide range of partners across research, diagnostics, and therapeutics with scalable, U.S.-based production and data-enhanced process design.
Fisher & Richardson
Website: https://www.fr.com/
Fish helps pioneering life sciences and AI companies to optimize the process of creating new drugs through AI-assisted drug development and discovery. As one of the most experienced AI law firms, Fish aids clients in navigating patent strategy and protection, including application of the "simultaneous conception and reduction to practice doctrine," licensing and collaboration agreements, trade secret protection, regulatory and compliance, litigation and enforcement, and strategic AI planning. Our ability to pair dynamic legal strategies with in-depth Life Sciences industry experience is what separates Fish from other law firms. At Fish, we’ve prosecuted the patents for some of the essential technologies that underpin today’s cutting-edge AI services. AI innovation is advancing faster than the law can catch up, and it takes knowledgeable legal teams to stay on pace. With technical prowess virtually unheard of in the legal industry, Fish’s attorneys have been working with revolutionary technologies for decades. As a result, we know better than most how to protect our clients’ assets when they push the boundaries of IP law.
Genomenon
Website: https://www.genomenon.com/
Genomenon unlocks valuable real-world evidence buried in clinical literature to inform genetic disease and cancer research. Our data and insights empower precision therapeutic companies to optimize clinical trial design, support label expansion, enhance diagnostic patient yield, and streamline regulatory submissions.
Genomenon uses its AI knowledge graph to mine over 10 million full-text scientific articles to characterize patient data reviewed by its team of scientific experts. This comprehensive approach transforms previously inaccessible data into actionable insights, enabling refined disease-prevalence estimates, genotype- phenotype correlation discovery, and clarifying patient demographics and treatment outcomes.
Genomenon's RWE approach unlocks the vast repository of published research, capturing billions of dollars' worth of insights into rare disease and cancer patient presentations, clinical journeys, treatments, and outcomes.
Matterworks
Website: https://www.matterworks.ai/
Matterworks is unlocking predictive biology through an AI-powered platform that immediately uncovers actionable discoveries hidden in LC-MS raw data. Our Large Spectral Model (LSM) has been trained on billions of proprietary raw LC-MS spectra across diverse applications. Built on this foundation, the Pyxis query system leverages the LSM to rapidly identify biomolecules without disparate, time-consuming, and laborious downstream processes.
Available in application-specific configurations, Pyxis transforms conventional manual processing into immediate AI-driven results, expanding the breadth and speed of biomarker discovery, upstream bioprocess optimization, and downstream process development.
Matterworks brings together expertise in AI, software engineering, and analytical chemistry to bridge the gap between raw data and phenotypic endpoints hidden in the dark matter. By developing our AI-powered platform for rapid biomolecule discovery, identification, and concentration determination, we are creating the new standard for researchers, data scientists, and industry leaders to uncover previously unattainable insights and accelerate decision-making across discovery and development.
Exhibitors
Via Scientific
Website: https://www.viascientific.com/
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Website: https://www.wuxiapptec.com/
WuXi AppTec provides a broad portfolio of R&D and manufacturing services that enable the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry worldwide to advance discoveries and deliver groundbreaking treatments to patients. WuXi AppTec’s integrated, end-to-end services include chemistry drug CRDMO (Contract Research, Development, and Manufacturing Organization), biology discovery, preclinical testing and clinical research services, and cell and gene therapies CTDMO (Contract Testing, Development, and Manufacturing Organization), helping customers improve the productivity of advancing healthcare products through cost-effective and efficient solutions.
