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
Platinum Sponsors:
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