

DataDrivenPharma Evening Forum at Merck
We are excited to announce our last DataDrivenPharma Evening Forum event of 2025, at the beautiful Merck event space in South San Francisco.
DataDrivenPharma is a premier forum for pharma and biotech data science leaders and practitioners to connect. Our mission is to use these connections to solve data problems in our industry.
Our Evening Forums feature short talks from Pharma and Biotech leaders and plenty of time to network and connect.
Please register here in advance - there will be no walk-ins. Parking 3rd level and up, push the intercom button and let them know you are here for DataDrivenPharma.
In this event we'll learn about data-driven projects from 2 leaders in the field:
Radia Johnson, Senior Director Computational Biology, Target Discovery at Tempus AI
Paul Shi, Associate Director of computational Biology at Amgen
Thank you to Collaborative Drug Discovery for sponsorship, Merck for use of their space, and our top notch speakers for sharing their insight.
Event Agenda:
5:00 - 6:15 pm: Check-in and networking
6:15 - 7:15 pm: Announcements, Presentations, and Q&A
7:15 - 8:45 pm: Networking
Light food and refreshments will be provided.
Sponsor info:
Collaborative Drug Discovery provides a modern approach to drug discovery informatics that is trusted globally by thousands of leading researchers. Our CDD Vault is a hosted informatics platform that securely manages both private and external biological and chemical data. It provides core functionality including chemical registration, structure activity relationship, assay management, curve analytics, inventory, visualization, electronic lab notebook (ELN), automation and AI / DL capabilities.
Zifo is the leading global enabler of AI and data driven enterprise informatics for science driven organizations. With extensive solutions and services expertise spanning research, development, manufacturing, and clinical domains. Trusted by over 190 science-focused organizations worldwide, Zifo is the partner of choice for advancing digital scientific innovation.
TileDB is foundational software designed by scientists for scientific discovery. TileDB structures all data types, including that data that does not fit into relational databases built for structured tabular data. Built on a powerful shape-shifting array database, TileDB handles the complexities of non-traditional “unstructured” multimodal data, such as genomic variants, bulk and single-cell transcriptomics, proteomics, biomedical imaging, as well as the frontier data of the future.
About Us
Who is this event for? Data scientists in pharma and biotech, including people with a focus on Machine Learning, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IT, and other computational fields. Technology enthusiasts and vendors who are passionate about advancing data science in pharma and biotech.
How can I help? Reach out if you have a data driven story to share and you enjoy talking about your work, you can provide space for our next event, or you're interested in sponsoring an event.
Can I volunteer? We welcome help with check-in and general upkeep. We are happy to give you free admission and plenty of time to network. We are also open to longer-term projects so long that there is a lasting mutual benefit.
Contact: icaptain@datadrivenpharma.com