- Sharing the role of technology and partnerships in the design & recruitment of studies.
- Highlighting adaptive trial designs, decentralized models, and inclusive recruitment strategies.
- Exploring how smarter trial design accelerates approval, reduces risk, and improves real-world outcomes.
- Discover how real-world data, genomics, and AI are revealing new targets and mechanisms in female-specific and reproductive conditions.
- Learn how data integration is shortening timelines from target identification to preclinical validation.
- Sharing insights into novel drug discovery approaches, the use of AI, multi-omics data, and 3D models.
Reproductive Health
Drug Development
Stasa Stankovic
Chief Executive Officer
Ovartix
Mark Eccleston
Chief Executive Officer
ValiRx
- Explore the mechanism of action and preclinical efficacy of a first-in-class oncolytic peptide targeting triple negative breast cancer (TNBC).
- Understand how peptide-based approaches offer new hope for aggressive and treatment-refractory subtypes of breast cancer.
- Learn about the breast cancer therapeutic roadmap and landscape.
Oncology
Drug Development
Mark Eccleston
Chief Executive Officer
ValiRx
Oliver Bates
Chief Executive Officer
Viramal
- Learn how to align clinical development strategies with licensing milestones to accelerate commercialization in women’s health.
- Explore what pharma and late stage investors look for in licensing-ready assets, from early efficacy signals to regulatory preparedness.
- Understand how to navigate clinical, legal, and market access challenges unique to women’s health to build a compelling licensing case.
Drug Development
Oliver Bates
Chief Executive Officer
Viramal
Carrie Nixon
Founder & CEO
Nixon Law Group
Luke Quinn
Head of Business Solutions
Agreena
Agreena
Website: http://www.agreena.com
Headquartered in Denmark, Agreena is powering the global transition to regenerative agriculture, operating Europe’s leading soil carbon programme. Through its flagship AgreenaCarbon project, which is the first large-scale agricultural cropland initiative registered under Verra's world-renowned Verified Carbon Standard, Agreena collaborates with thousands of farmers across 4.5 million hectares of arable land in 20 markets.
Agreena finances farmers’ transition to sustainable practices, measures and verifies the climate impact with field-level accuracy, and offers climate solutions to corporates to achieve their sustainability goals.
Agreena’s holistic solution is built on three pillars: farmer engagement, which provides essential financing, knowledge, and resources to support growers in making impactful change; scalable dMRV, integrating satellite imagery, ground-level soil sampling and proprietary AI models to precisely quantify practice changes and carbon outcomes at scale; and verified carbon and environmental data, empowering companies to make credible sustainability claims, support farmer-led climate action and access high-integrity carbon credits.
Shauna Sadowski
Sustainability Integration Lead
Improvin'
Shauna Sadowski is an industry-recognized sustainability leader with more than 20 years dedicated to leading and supporting sustainability initiatives at the intersection of food, farming, and business. She currently leads sustainability for Improvin'. In this role, she supports the development of farm-level product solutions that foster deeper supply chain relationships and drive sustainability actions.
Throughout her career, Shauna has been a leading voice for change in the food industry, having led sustainability for companies and brands, including IKEA, Simple Mills, Annie’s/ General Mills, Fork in the Road Foods, and Clif Bar. Her work has involved raising awareness, building evidence-based programs, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive positive change in food systems.
Eline Plate
Sustainability Marketing Manager Europe
AAK
Eline Plate is responsible for driving AAK’s European go-to-market sustainability strategy, focusing on integrating sustainability initiatives into sales and marketing efforts. She plays a key role in shaping customer sustainable value propositions, connecting customer needs with on-the-ground impact.
Eline also leads the rapeseed sustainability program with cooperatives in Sweden, scaling sustainable agriculture initiatives to create value for all stakeholders in the value chain. Eline has close to 5 years of experience in the plant-based oils industry and holds a bachelor's in Business Adminstration (BBA).
Laura Schlebes
Global Sustainability Manager
AAK
Laura Schlebes oversees the global implementation of several of AAK’s supply chain sustainability programs, including Human Rights Due Diligence, responsible procurement of raw materials, mitigating risks, and creating a positive impact at origin to help customers safeguard their brands and make sustainable choices.
She plays a key role in shaping AAK's sustainability strategies in regard to protection of biodiversity and implementing regenerative agriculture. Laura has eight years of experience in supply chain sustainability and holds an M.Sc. in Agricultural Development from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Niklas Wallsargård
CEO and Co-founder
Improvin’
Niklas Wallsargård is the CEO and Co-founder of Improvin’, a technology company tackling the critical global challenge: how to produce more food, more sustainably.
Improvin’ provides food and beverage brands, mills, and processors with the digital infrastructure to collect primary data, quantify sustainability insights, and drive positive impact within their supply chains, together with supplying partners and farmers.
Today, Improvin’ is recognized as one of Europe’s fastest-growing agri-food tech companies, trusted by industry leaders such as Mondelēz International, Barilla, AAK, and Oatly to achieve measurable and scalable sustainability impacts.
Drawing on over a decade of experience in the industry, Niklas is a strong advocate of leveraging smart technology to advance transparency and sustainability across the agri-food sector. His expertise lies in fostering cross-supply chain collaboration and empowering stakeholders to utilize technology for building a more resilient and biodiverse food system.
Improvin'
Website: https://improvin.com/
Improvin’ provides food brands, mills, and processors with digital infrastructure to collect primary data, quantify sustainability insights, and drive positive impact in their own supply chain - across crops and countries - together with the supplying farmers. The infrastructure enables companies to transform tangible sustainability outcomes into concrete business value.