Date: April 23, 2026
Location: Ingelheim am Rhein
Price: € 690.00
Doors open
Opening
Dr. Carsten Bange | CEO & Founder | BARC
Harsha Deshmukh | Member of the Board of Managing Directors | Boehringer Ingelheim
Keynote: The State of Data Culture
Dr. Carsten Bange | CEO & Founder | BARC
Keynote Discussion: Embedding Data Culture – Lessons and Outcomes from Boehringer Ingelheim’s Leadership & Data Culture
Till Eggers | Head of AI & Analytics, IT-Enterprise Data, AI & Platforms
Jutta Schubert | Head of Data Acquisition & Governance
Feryal Tanriverdio | Head Medicine Data and AI
Our journey to a new approach of supply chain decision making – The implementation of a Digital Supply Chain Twin for simulation and optimization
Christian Petri | Head of Supply Chain Analytics
Powertalk Pitches
Get an overview of all the discussion topics and formats that will be covered at this day.
Coffee Break
Powertalks
Join the discussion groups, workshops or presentations to network with your peers.
There are 3 Powertalk Sessions, each offering 3 parallel options. You can choose one Powertalk per session. Each session lasts 45 minutes.
Powertalks – Session 1
AI is everywhere, with teams across the organization driving pilots and integrating AI into workflows. The assumption is that we are generating value, saving costs, and increasing efficiency and revenue. But how can we measure the actual value created by AI? In this insightful Powertalk, I will share our approach to assess AI maturity at BSH Home Appliances Group, including our “AI Readiness Test.” We will discuss and exchange metrics and KPIs for measuring AI adoption and AI value in organizations. Join us to explore how to measure the true impact of AI!
Moderator: Charlotte Witte, Cluster Alliance Manager of Data & Artificial Intelligence | BSH Home Appliances Group
Moderator: Konstantin Riegel, Principal Solutions Engineer DACH | SnapLogic
Every organization wants data to drive decisions. But in practice, the gap between vision and reality is wider than most expect: data silos persist, complexity is underestimated, and teams that own data don’t see why they should care more. At the same time, the people who could benefit most from data and AI haven’t yet made it part of how they work.
Making data part of your organization’s DNA is not a technology challenge. It’s a people, culture, and organizational challenge. In this Power Talk, we share a clear thesis and a candid perspective from a senior data leader at one of Europe’s largest pharmaceutical companies. Designed as an open conversation, participants are invited to share their own experiences — what worked, what didn’t, and what they learned along the way. Wherever you are on your data journey, if this sounds familiar, this Power Talk is for you.
Moderators:
- Viola Meisterling, Digital Officer | HPSG Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
- Jacqueline Bloemen, Senior Analyst Data & Analytics | BARC
Lunch Break
Make the most of the opportunity to socialise and dine at Boehringers Backdrop with the other attendees.
Powertalks
Join the discussion groups, workshops or presentations to network with your peers.
There are 3 Powertalk Sessions, each offering 3 parallel options. You can choose one Powertalk per session. Each session lasts 45 minutes.
Powertalks – Session 2
The Powertalk starts with a short introduction speech followed by an interactive group discussion. Key outcomes will be:
- How to Align AI with business goals and objectives
- How to measure the value of AI initiatives and report this to your C-Suite
- Ensure model explainability
- Embed fairness, transparency, and compliance into your AI lifecycle
- Establishing AI Governance through people, policies, technology, and processes to maximize data asset value and reduce risk
Speaker: Gaston Hummel, EMEA Lead Strategic Data Services | Precisely
Data alone does not change an organization—people do. In many companies, data-driven transformation initiatives fail not because of technology, but because of a lack of willingness to change and the ability to implement change. This is where the data changemaker comes in: they are the driving force that translates data into decisions, actions, and sustainable results. We show why successful data strategies need more than just tools and dashboards—namely, people who build bridges between departments, IT, and management, empower others, and lead the way. Learn how you can become a data changemaker yourself and join the discussion: What does it take for data to lead to better decisions in everyday life?
Moderator: Janine Ellner & Lars Tams | OPITZ CONSULTING
AI is everywhere, with teams across the organization driving pilots and integrating AI into workflows. The assumption is that we are generating value, saving costs, and increasing efficiency and revenue. But how can we measure the actual value created by AI? In this insightful Powertalk, I will share our approach to assess AI maturity at BSH Home Appliances Group, including our “AI Readiness Test.” We will discuss and exchange metrics and KPIs for measuring AI adoption and AI value in organizations. Join us to explore how to measure the true impact of AI!
Moderator: Charlotte Witte, Cluster Alliance Manager of Data & Artificial Intelligence | BSH Home Appliances Group
Coffee Break
Powertalks
Join the discussion groups, workshops or presentations to network with your peers.
There are 3 Powertalk Sessions, each offering 3 parallel options. You can choose one Powertalk per session. Each session lasts 45 minutes.
Powertalks – Session 3
Moderator: Ali Farnoud, Clinical Pharmacology AI Lead | Boehringer Ingelheim & Julian Kurz, Lead Expert Generative AI | HMS Analytical Software GmbH
In this powertalk, you’ll explore how the decentralization of data fundamentally reshapes the role, responsibilities, and working model of central data teams. As organizations shift toward domain owned data products and distributed accountability, traditional bottlenecks, workload pressures, and context gaps become impossible to sustain. You’ll learn how central teams evolve from service providers to enablers—focusing on governance, shared standards, platform capabilities, and empowering others through literacy and guidance. The session shows why decentralization is not about removing the center, but about redefining it, creating a culture where collaboration replaces handovers and where central expertise helps the wider organization generate shared, scalable value from data.
Moderator: Peter Stähler, Data Culture Manager | E.ON
We talk a lot about building smarter data architectures. But the real question is: what happens when that architecture needs to show up for a person — not just a process?
Without the right context, even the most capable AI falls short in the moments that actually matter. Getting this right means connecting the right data layers, bringing in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and giving AI agents the tools to act with both precision and care.
In this interactive working session, we’ll get hands-on with a real-world scenario: an AI agent navigating a genuinely complex, high-stakes situation on behalf of a real user. We’ll pull back the curtain on what makes it work — from the interface a person sees, to the data powering it behind the scenes.
Join us to move beyond orchestrating data — and start designing the voice of it. Because the goal isn’t just smarter data. It’s data that knows how to speak to people.
Moderator: Peter Greiff, Director, Data & AI Architects | Salesforce
Coffee Break
The Hidden Costs of Weak Data: Why FAIR Foundations Matter for AI
Dr. Anna Dieckmann | Head of IT RDM Computational Biology
Closing
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