Day 1

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8:00 am

REGISTRATION & NETWORKING BREAKFAST:
BUILD COMMUNITY CONTACTS

  • Start your day off right and connect with pharma marketing and sales leaders.
  • Get to know your industry peers and colleagues over a delicious breakfast.
  • Source practical tips, discuss best practices, and prepare for the day ahead.

8:45 am

OPENING REMARKS FROM YOUR HOST

Gain insight into today’s sessions so you can get the most out of your conference experience.

8:55 am

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER PANEL: BREAKING THROUGH THE NOISE

Building Trust and Credibility with Canadian HCPs

Engage Canadian physicians effectively by emphasizing trust and credibility within a competitive healthcare landscape. Create a roadmap to:

  • Gain a deep understanding of the unique needs and preferences of Canadian physicians through data-driven insights.
  • Develop tailored, authentic communication strategies that acknowledge time constraints while delivering high-value information.
  • Examine successful engagement examples, highlighting best practices and common pitfalls to avoid when building long-term trust.

Transform how your organization connects with Canadian physicians to ensure it stands out as a trusted and credible partner in advancing patient care.

9:25 am

PANEL: BRIDGING THE GAP

Aligning Sales and Marketing Teams to Drive Commercial Success

Misalignment between sales and marketing teams can lead to missed opportunities, inconsistent messaging, and inefficiencies. Take back to your office strategies to:

  • Break down silos and establish clear communication channels to ensure alignment on messaging, strategy, and execution.
  • Leverage data to support smarter decision-making and optimize marketing campaigns and sales strategies.
  • Establish best practices for aligning sales and marketing to enhance engagement with healthcare professionals, patients, and other stakeholders.

Bolster collaboration between sales and marketing to maximize commercial impact and drive success.

9:55 am

SPEED NETWORKING! MAKE MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS

Grow your network by meeting like-minded individuals to share your latest ideas and projects with:

  • Enjoy a quick icebreaker, exchange LinkedIn information, and build lasting business relationships.
  • Achieve your conference networking goals in a fun and agile fashion.
  • Join a community of pharma marketing and sales leaders to gain invaluable support.

10:15 am

INDUSTRY EXPERT:

Beyond the AI Buzz: Real Transformation Stories in Pharma

For many pharmaceutical companies, the word data still triggers stress more than excitement, synonymous with messy spreadsheets, manual work, and constant firefighting. Yet when CEOs talk about the future, it’s all about data, KPIs, and AI. Why does the reality so often fall short of the rhetoric?

  • Share real stories from pharmaceutical organizations that have turned chaotic data environments into backbones of smarter work.
  • Cover some of the most exciting Gen AI projects happening in Canada, but more importantly, what it actually takes to become AI ready.
  • These are transformation stories with all the highs, lows, and lessons; the wins, the missteps, and the moments that reshaped how teams work and think about data.

10:45 am

NETWORKING BREAK & EXHIBITOR LOUNGE VISITS

  • Explore the latest pharma marketing and sales strategies with our industry-leading sponsors.
  • Share your challenges with the biggest innovators in the business.
  • Schedule one-to-one private meetings for personalized advice.

11:15 am

INDUSTRY EXPERT

Unlocking Script Lift Potential Through Prescriber & Patient Opportunity Insights

  • Discover how aligning patient potential with strategy, execution, and measurement can uncover new opportunities for meaningful script lift.
  • By integrating deep population and patient insights with a precise understanding of healthcare provider dynamics, life sciences organizations can create a clear thread that connects high-potential patient populations to strategic priorities.
  • This approach not only enables more effective and efficient HCP engagement but also transforms measurement—linking script lift directly to investment decisions and ensuring resources drive maximum impact.

11:45 am

CASE STUDY: DATA-DRIVEN CAMPAIGNS

Lessons from a Successful Rollout

Design and execute data-driven campaigns that deliver measurable results in the pharmaceutical industry. Take back to your office strategies to:

  • Leverage data analytics to identify key audience segments and tailor messaging for maximum impact.
  • Optimize campaign performance through continuous data monitoring and agile adjustments.
  • Learn from real-world examples of successful data-driven campaigns, including strategies to replicate success and common pitfalls to avoid.

Amplify the impact of your campaigns by adopting data-driven methods to achieve greater precision, improved engagement, and sustained success.

12:15 pm

INDUSTRY EXPERT:

From Insight to Impact: Driving Rx (Healthcare) Campaign Success Through Audience Focus

The foundation of any successful digital marketing campaign is a deep understanding of its intended audience – not just who they are, but what they’re thinking, feeling, seeking, and how they navigate the digital ecosystem (when and where). By integrating insight-driven creative with agile, data-informed media strategy, Healthwise and Healthing deliver campaigns that connect in the moment and perform over time. We’ll explore how this approach fuels real engagement, grounded in:

  • Understanding the patient and HCP mindset to shape meaningful creative
  • Mapping where and when to reach your audience across search and social
  • Using data driven decision making to refine strategy and uncover unmet needs

Together, these strategies show how audience-first thinking leads to meaningful impact and greater return on marketing investment.

12:45 pm

NETWORKING LUNCH & EXHIBITOR LOUNGE VISITS

  • Meet interesting speakers and pick their brains on the latest industry issues.
  • Expand your network and make connections that last beyond the conference.
  • Enjoy great food and service while engaging with your pharma marketing and sales colleagues.

1:30 pm

EXHIBITOR LOUNGE: VISIT BOOTHS & WIN PRIZES

  • Browse through different sponsor booths and test drive new technology.
  • Enter your name for a chance to win exciting prizes.
  • Take advantage of event-specific offers and special content.

1:45 pm

CASE STUDY Leadership for the Future:

TRACK A: BUILDING A WINNING TEAM

Cultivating Resilience and Innovation in Pharma Sales Teams

Understand the evolving challenges in pharma sales leadership. Walk away with an action plan on:

  • Exploring strategies to build resilient and adaptable sales teams.
  • Fostering a culture of innovation to stay competitive.
  • Developing actionable leadership techniques for sustained success.

Optimize your leadership approach to cultivate resilience, drive innovation, and ensure long-term success in pharma sales teams.

1:45 pm

CASE STUDY

TRACK B: BRANDING & PATIENT ENGAGEMENT

Winning Trust in a Competitive Market: Specialty Edition

Stakeholder dynamics and channel complexity can quietly shape trust. In the specialty landscape, strategic alignment, execution, and patient centricity are prerequisites, not value-adds

2:15 pm

FIRESIDE CHAT

TRACK A: BUILDING A WINNING TEAM

Driving Team Collaboration Across Sales, Marketing, and Operations

Boost overall organizational performance by fostering a culture of collaboration among marketing, sales, and operations. Achieve a step-by-step action plan to:

  • Recognize the importance of cross-functional collaboration.
  • Identify barriers to effective teamwork between sales, marketing, and operations.
  • Develop strategies to enhance communication and alignment.

Bolster your culture of collaboration to improve coordination, decision-making, and cross-departmental relationships.

2:15 pm

CASE STUDY

TRACK B: BRANDING & PATIENT ENGAGEMENT

Improving Patient Outcomes Through Effective Engagement Strategies

Enhance patient outcomes by building stronger connections and supporting informed decision-making. Source practical tips to:

  • Utilize personalized communication and digital tools to engage patients at each stage of their healthcare journey.
  • Develop patient support programs that address barriers to adherence and empower patients to take control of their health.
  • Review successful case studies that have demonstrated tangible improvements in patient outcomes through targeted engagement and identify pitfalls to avoid.

Improve your engagement approach to prioritize patient needs, ultimately enhancing health outcomes and fostering long-term loyalty and trust.

2:45 pm

C-SUITE POWER PANEL: DATA OVERLOAD

Turning Insights into Action for Pharma Marketing and Sales

Harness the power of data effectively, transforming overwhelming information into actionable insights for pharmaceutical marketing and sales. Develop a blueprint to:

  • Identify the most relevant data sources and metrics to inform marketing and sales strategies.
  • Streamline data analysis processes to extract meaningful insights that drive decision-making.
  • Analyze real-world examples of data-driven marketing and sales successes, including common pitfalls to avoid.

Improve how your organization manages and applies data to ensure it can translate insights into impactful actions that enhance performance and outcomes.

3:20 pm

NETWORKING BREAK & EXHIBITOR LOUNGE VISITS

  • Enjoy exclusive sponsor demos and experience the next level of pharma marketing and sales innovation firsthand.
  • Meet one-on-one with leading solution providers to discuss organizational hurdles.
  • Brainstorm solutions and gain new perspectives and ideas.

3:50 pm

INDUSTRY EXPERT

There and Back Again: The Med Ed Hero’s Journey

  • Evaluate the value medical education brings to clinicians, patients, and the pharmaceutical industry
  • Identify best practices for designing medical education programs that drive measurable outcomes
  • Explore methods to assess the impact of medical education

4:20 pm

INDUSTRY EXPERT

Practice Makes Personalization Possible: How AI Roleplay and Digital Cloning Drive More Engaging HCP Conversations

In an environment where access is limited and personalization is expected, effective HCP engagement depends on more than great branding and messaging. It depends on great delivery.

While marketing teams invest heavily in crafting omnichannel strategies, what happens when that strategy meets the field? Too often, there is a gap between what is designed at headquarters and what is executed in the conversation.

In this session, we will explore how AI-powered roleplay tools, built specifically for pharma, help close that gap by aligning brand strategy with real-time field performance. You will learn how these tools:

  • Help reps translate complex messaging into personalized, compliant conversations
  • Enable reps to practice in a personalized way with AI avatars modeled after real HCP personas
  • Generate actionable insights to refine coaching and drive brand strategy pull-through

Unlike traditional training tools, this approach is dynamic, personalized, and designed for how pharma reps actually work. The result is a solution that reps want to use because it helps them succeed, and that marketing and commercial leaders can rely on to translate brand and commercial strategy into action at the point of conversation.

Whether you are in brand, field excellence, commercial operations, or medical affairs, you will leave with a new perspective on how AI can help unify your teams around the one moment that matters most: the face-to-face HCP interaction.

4:50 pm

PANEL: GETTING OMNICHANNEL MARKETING RIGHT

Integrating Digital and Traditional Sales Strategies

Explore the growing importance of omnichannel marketing in pharma and how integrating digital and traditional sales tactics can enhance reach and engagement. Source practical tips to:

  • Develop a cohesive strategy that blends digital platforms with traditional sales methods for a seamless customer experience.
  • Optimize communication across multiple channels to effectively engage healthcare professionals and patients.
  • Explore successful omnichannel campaigns, identifying key strategies, benefits, and common pitfalls to avoid.

Amplify your marketing strategy by embracing omnichannel integration, ensuring a unified approach that maximizes engagement, drives sales, and strengthens brand loyalty.

5:20 pm

END OF DAY 1 SUMMARY & CLOSING REMARKS FROM YOUR HOST

Review the key solutions and takeaways from today’s sessions. Source a summary of action points to implement in your work. Discuss tomorrow’s highlights!

5:30 pm

EVENING RECEPTION & ENTERTAINMENT

  • Relax and unwind with tasty cocktails after a long day of learning.
  • Don’t miss your chance to win fun prizes by scanning your badge at our exhibitor booths.
  • Make dinner plans with your new connections and explore the best of what Toronto nightlife has to offer. Just be sure to set your alarm for Day 2!

7:30 pm

CONFERENCE ADJOURNS TO DAY 2

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