Early Discount till June 12 venue: Royal Garden Hotel

We invite you to join us September 31st - October 1st (with 2 trainings on the 30th) in London for the next ASAP European Alliance Summit: a highly practical event with 40 speakers leading strategic alliances and partnership functions in global companies.

Event Key Topics: (View Speaker Bios) (Download Agenda)

Alexion  Alliance & Integration Management's Role in Integrations

allianceboard The Evolution of Alliance Metrics: Building Intelligence into Alliance Management

Amazon Web Services Agentic AI – Powered by Consulting Partners

Astellas Ways of Maximising the VALUE of a Mature Alliance

AstraZenecaNavigate Multicultural Dynamics in a Global Collaboration

BioNTechFrom Collaboration to Acquisition:the Role of Alliance Mgmt

Chiesi Group Strategic Alliance Management Engagement in Due Diligence

Cognizant Alignment Between AM & Internal & External Stakeholders

Daiichi Sankyo  Value Driven Alliance Management

E.ON One Alliances for Rapid Product Development

GSK Looking East and Further Afield: How the Search for Innovation Continues to shape Alliance Management

IBM Exemplary Strategic Partnerships - Balancing Corporate and Business Unit Alliance Strategies 

IBM From Ad Hoc Collaboration to Ecosystem Catalyst: How Thought Leadership Became a Strategic Alliance Engine

Jazz Pharmaceuticals Seeing Around Corners: A Practical Framework for Monitoring Your Alliance Partner's Financial Health

Lonza Use of External Innovation Departments & Tech Partnerships

Merck KGaA Alliance Management and Leading Without Authority

MSD, GSK, AstraZeneca The Intersection between Alliance Management (AM) and Search and Evaluation (S&E) Functions

Palantir and PwC  From Partnership to Pipeline: Scaling AI Alliances that Deliver

Procore Technologies New Era of Purpose-Led, Data-Driven Alliances

Ricoh From Bilateral Partnerships to Intelligent Ecosystems

Robert Bosch Future Readiness for Alliance Managers – How to Boost your Impact Internally & Externally, Driven by IP-Management

Roche When Pigs Fly, or rather, when Pandas Fall : a Field Guide for when Falling Pandas (Proverbially or Literally) Crash the Board Room

Salesforce How to Innovate in the Age of AI

Sandoz  When Alliance Management Boosts Business Development

Servier Effective Management of KEY INFLECTION POINTS in a partnership with focus on Launch and eventual Termination

Signify GmbH  Role of Boards in Strategic Alliances

Siemens, Signify, Stada, Jazz Pharma What are the Key Partner Ecosystem Strategies & Operating Models that Lead to Growth and Transformation?

Siemens, AWS, SS&C Blue Prism The Impact of Data and Agentic AI on Ecosystems and Partnerships

SS&C Blue Prism Your Partner Operating Model: The Hidden Engine of Scale in the Age of AI

STADA Commercial Partnerships that Actually Deliver

The Rhythm of Business Navigating Divergence: Leading Alliances Through Shifting Strategic Priorities

Valo, Jazz Pharma Alliance Manager Career Planning and Execution

VU Workshop: Digital Transformation of Alliance Management

Speakers: (View Speaker Bios) (Download Agenda)

Dion Smith, Executive VP WW Partners & Ecosystem, Siemens

Rada Rodriguez, CEO, Signify GmbH

Matthew Brown, Senior Director, Alliance Management, GSK

Michel de Baar, PhD, Executive Director, Business Development and Licensing Europe, MSD

Anthony Marshall, Senior Partner and VP, Global Leader, IBM Institute for Business Value

Mark Maresch, Director, GenAI Alliances, PwC

Katie Whicher, Partnerships Co-lead and Government and Public Safety lead, Palantir

Andrew Whytock, Head of Market Strategy and Thought Leadership, Life Sciences Business Segment, Siemens

Brian Stewart, Executive Director, Alliance Mgmt, Daiichi Sankyo

Ameriga Fanigliulo, Director Global Alliance Mgmt, Sandoz

Paul Francis Walvik-Joynt, Vice President Commercialization Real-Time Payments, Mastercard

Yolanda Stead, Head of Partnerships APAC, Procure Technologies

Anna Benasco, Director Alliance & Integration Management Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease

Bonnie Nozawa, Director, Alliance & Ecosystem Management, Roche Diagnostics

Thomas Kirste, Director Consulting, Robert Bosch

Gordon Thompson, VP Corporate Dev & Partnerships, E.ON

Satish Shenoy, Global VP, Technology Alliances and AI GTM, SS&C Blue Prism

Delphine Demeestere, Director External Innovation, Lonza

Gavin Booth, GSI Portfolio Lead, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Markus Kropf, VP, Head Global Alliance Management, Merck

Benjamin Fischer, VP Global Alliance & Integration, STADA

Jekaterina Rotbarte, Senior Manager Alliance Mgmt, STADA

Lomi Aschwanden, Principal Partner Manager, Salesforce

Daniel Reiser, Corporate IP Management, Robert Bosch

Katherine Kendrick, Head of Alliance Mgmt, Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Valerie Arnaud, Head of Strategic Alliances, Cognizant

Nancy Griffin, VP Alliance Management, Valo

Kaushik Sengupta, Director, Alliance Management, AstraZeneca

Xavier Carruel, Director Alliance Management, Servier

Catriona Hansbauer, CA-AM, Director, Technology Search & Evaluation, AstraZeneca

Eleftheria Ledaki, Director, Business Alliances, BioNTech

Federica Costanza Fontani, Director Alliance Management, Chiesi Group

Lisa Topliss, Director Strategy and Operations, Ricoh

Elena Cavalli, Head of Commercial & Enterprise Alliances, Astellas

Steven Roy, Senior Manager - AM, Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Julian Kawohl, Professor Strategic Management, HTW Berlin

Philip Sailer, Exec. Director, Storage Solutions Engineering, IBM

Bo Skaaning Jensen, Senior Alliance Director, Novo Nordisk

Maarit Merla, MD, CEO, Finnish Drug Discovery Center

Jesper Lykkesfeldt, Principal, Attorney-at-Law, Lykkesfeldt

Jan Twombly, CSAP, CA-AM, President, The Rhythm of Business

Ard-Pieter de Man, PhD, CSAP, Professor, Vrije Universiteit

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