Speakers
Jamie Demaria
Global Head Medical Affairs Excellence, Boehringer Ingelheim
Jamie DeMaria has over twenty-five years of experience in driving excellence and innovation across multiple sectors, particularly within the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.
Sara Rodrigues, PharmD
Associate Director, Medical Affairs, AI Champion, Vertex
Sara has over a decade of healthcare experience—from clinical pharmacy to medical information and medical affairs. Currently, she is an Associate Director in Medical Affairs at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, where she leads medical strategy for gene therapy launches across the international region.
Sara's AI journey began in early 2024 when she enrolled in a no-code tools course and built her first solution—a prescription tracking platform that eliminated patient waiting times at pharmacies.
Today, as a Microsoft Copilot power user, she's applying that same mindset to medical affairs, creating an "army of agents" that handle repetitive and/or lengthy tasks such as product-related queries, congress insights capture, and reporting. Her mission is to empower and free up medical affairs teams so they can focus on what matters the most.
Phil Wakefield
Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer, Inizio Medical
Phil has over 20 years of experience working in key leadership roles, both industry and agency. With oversight of the Specialized Services function of Inizio Medical (MEDiSTRAVA) Phil is responsible for medical excellence and innovation to ultimately help improve patient access to medicines.


