An Executive Dinner by GEN - The Global Executive Network is an excellent opportunity for exchanging ideas with experts and your peers and discussing the latest and most important trends for a specific industry-related or management-focused topic. Executive Dinners are usually attended by between 20 and 35 executive guests and participation is always free of charge. 

Learn at the "Healthcare/Life Science" Executive Dinner how leading companies deal with the current market challenges and engage in high-level networking.

With the challenge of surviving and succeeding in an environment that has become more complicated and uncertain, the Healthcare/Life Science sector has faced increased competitive pressure characterized by rapid developments in science and technology, as well as organizational change. From the standpoint of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, the impetus for change is the result of a combination of political, economic, technological and social factors; all of which have helped redefine the competitive dynamics of the industry. To compete successfully in this demanding and changing market, leveraging proven innovative solutions has become more essential than ever.

Topics to be discussed at the Executive Dinner:

• Competitive Market
  The Healthcare/Life Science sector comprises a highly competitive market which includes organizations producing biotechnology, pharmaceutical and other scientific services. With many new regulations and pharmacoeconomic issues, encompassing a set of approaches for making more rational decisions for selecting drugs, the dynamics of this competitive industry has been rapidly changing.

• Agility
  Responding to changes in government policies, generic competition and the rising cost of R&D is difficult due to increasing legislative requirements, growing technological sophistication and measures pertaining to the safety and efficacy of drugs.

• Differentiation
  Life Science organizations need ways of differentiating by providing accurate product/service information, better segmentation of customers and the need to demonstrate proven value to educated consumers.

• Integration
  Process & information flow-optimization often require rethinking existing tools and communication-platforms to provide a set of practical methods for making more rational healthcare decisions. Such approaches include analyses of cost benefit, cost effectiveness, cost minimization, cost utility, the quality of adjusted life years, and eventual outcomes.

This Executive Dinner is of particular interest to:

• CEO / CIO / CTO / CMO / COO
• Managing Directors
• Directors / VPs / Heads of Corporate Development, Corporate Strategy, Strategic Planning, Strategy Development, Marketing, Sales, Logistics, Operations, IT, Controlling

Impressions of previous "Healthcare/Life Science" Executive Dinners:

GUESTS

In March 2010, 26 guests from companies such as Pfizer, Wyeth, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Amgen, Gilead Sciences, Mylan, Genzyme, Allergan, Biogen Idec, Immtech Pharmaceuticals Inc., Forest Laboratories, Inc.(New York); Eli Lilly and Co., Roche Diagnostics, AgroSciences LLC,/ DCL Medical Laboratories, Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc., Seradyn Inc., Covance Inc., Bio Link, Elan Pharmaceuticals, Immune Works, The Medicines Company (Indianapolis) and others exchanged experiences and best practices, expanded their personal networks and engaged in shop talk.

DINNER SPEAKERS

At this Executive Dinner, you will listen to an "Healthcare/Life Science" Dinner Speech (exactly 15 minutes) by a distinguished expert presenting a concrete business case. All dinners are sponsored by the speakers. The focus of the evening is to encourage quality networking among the guests, facilitated by detailed guest introductions and GEN's unrivaled Connecting Services.

OPINIONS
What participants say about our Executive Dinners:

"Outstanding contacts at the dinner and first-class information provided by a real insider."
"High level of guests, i.e. general, department, division, and project managers – a very successful ambience."
"Very good, condensed talks, completely understandable – a great deal of top-level insider news – definitely worth recommending!"

"Thank you very much for the updated list of participant summaries. The event in Zurich persuaded me: very good organization, wonderful atmosphere in the Guild Hall, with good food and excellent beverages, enough time for networking, and interesting introductions of the participants and short presentations by the sponsors. A big Thank You. I'm glad I was able to be there."
Urs D. Schmid
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