Scaling AI in Pharma: When Pilots Work but Nothing Scales - GDS Group

Scaling AI in Pharma: When Pilots Work but Nothing Scales

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8 April 2026 9:30 am - 11:30 am EST
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How can pharma commercial leaders move AI from promising pilots to scalable, governed execution across the commercial value chain?

Pharma commercial organizations are not short on AI ambition. Most have identified dozens—sometimes hundreds—of potential use cases across field operations, marketing, market access, and commercial analytics. Some have invested heavily in building a modern commercial data foundation. The problem is rarely ideation or data readiness in isolation. It is the absence of an enterprise operating model to systematically evaluate, prioritize, build, govern, and scale AI initiatives from isolated pilots into production workflows that compound value across the commercial organization.

The pattern is familiar: a successful proof-of-concept in call planning optimization or next-best-action for the field force, followed by months of stalled deployment because the organization lacks the governance framework, integration pathway, change management playbook, or value measurement infrastructure to move it into the hands of commercial teams at scale. Meanwhile, the backlog of promising ideas keeps growing, pilot fatigue sets in, and the gap between AI investment and AI impact widens.

This roundtable brings together pharma commercial CIOs and digital leaders for a conversation on what it takes to close that gap; not by launching more pilots, but by building the organizational machinery that treats AI as an enterprise commercial capability. The discussion will move through the key barriers to scaling AI in pharma commercial operations from operating model gaps and data-to-AI translation challenges to governance friction, adoption failure, portfolio economics, and ultimately, what each leader sees as the single biggest unlock for their organization.

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Event host

Aravind Ramamurthy

SVP Global Healthcare & Life Sciences Industries
Aravind Ramamurthy is a senior industry leader focused on helping Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations find out more

Shamit Vohra

Senior Vice President, North America Head
As the North America Market Head at Visionet Systems Inc., I lead a high-performing organization of sales and find out more

About Visionet Systems Inc.

Visionet is a leading IT services firm that redefines digital innovation and business transformation. We deliver exceptional digital experiences, enterprise modernization, cutting-edge Data & AI applications, and managed IT services. Our solutions leverage digital, data, and cloud technologies, ensuring they meet our clients' dynamic needs with unparalleled efficiency. Our strategic collaborations with Microsoft, AWS, and Salesforce amplify our offerings, blending Visionet’s deep technical expertise with industry insights. We serve a diverse clientele across retail, healthcare, insurance, telecom, and banking sectors, simplifying engineering complexities and fostering innovation. With a global footprint, Visionet is dedicated to delivering measurable business impact and a unique partnership experience. Our values ensure predictability in execution and commitment to achieving our clients' desired outcomes

Discussion Topics

Why most commercial AI pilots stall before reaching production—and what a repeatable operating model for AI at scale looks like

Turning a strong commercial data foundation into an AI advantage rather than an underutilized asset

Building the governance, adoption, and measurement infrastructure that separates one-off experiments from enterprise AI capability

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