Stephen Cofone | Future Pharma

Future Pharma 2025

June 24 - 26, 2025

The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA

Stephen Cofone

Director, Head of Medical Affairs IT Bristol Myers Squibb

Steve has over 25 years of experience serving multiple industries, primarily Life Sciences, as both an Industry employee and in a Management Consulting capacity. He is an enterprise-minded, energetic, results-driven leader and strategic thinker with a broad background centered upon determining business needs, and addressing them through the right balance of people, process, and technology. Steve entered the latest stage of his career at Bristol Myers Squibb four years ago, and as the Head of IT for Global Medical Affairs, leads a dedicated team responsible for changing the way Medical Affairs operates. Select recent accomplishments have been the first-in-industry Digital Integrated Evidence Planning process, various Medical & Commercial collaboration techniques, embedding AI in key business processes, and driving use of “next best action” for Medical Affairs globally.

Theme: Omnichannel Orchestration

10:05 AM Case Study | How Technology Innovation REALLY Succeeds in Pharma – from Gen Ai to Everyday Hacks

  • How do Pharma Commercialization functions leverage their internal talent to successfully innovate in technology?  Here’s a hint – you need more than IT and a vendor! 
  • What skillsets are needed to make an AI/GenAI solution or a technology product come to fruition in Pharma Commercialization? 
  • What factors really matter in successful implementations of AI-based solutions? 
  • What is a good Framework for determining the highest value use cases for Technology Innovation (including AI) and how do we avoid overlap? 

If these are questions you have regularly, then please join us for some hints and “best practices”.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Stephen.

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