Reflections on the JMP Explore biopharma event in Boston

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After years of virtual events and limited in-person events, we were so excited to hold a live biopharma event in Boston last week. Attendees were also excited, as evidenced by the packed house!

Julia O’Neill’s plenary was riveting. The services she provided to her biopharma clients, to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and to all of us (who doesn’t know someone who’s received a Moderna Covid vaccination?) to bring lifesaving and life-enhancing treatments to market faster are remarkable. Attendees were eager to learn best practices to speed innovation so that critical treatments can be delivered more quickly to those in need. O’Neill inspired everyone to contribute to the incredible advances taking place in the biopharma space.

Our JMP experts did a fantastic job explaining how to get to market faster by implementing smart experimentation and building a culture of analytics – building on two of the themes in O’Neill’s keynote. During the optional “after party,” our JMP experts deftly covered even more topics of interest, delighted for the chance to engage with this wonderfully curious audience!

Julia O’Neill

For those of you who couldn’t attend (and for those who’d like to see her presentation again), stay tuned for an upcoming Statistically Speaking with O’Neill. In the meantime, you can see her on this pre-pandemic Statistically Speaking and in this session on Building a Culture of Data Literacy: The Power of Analytics Advocacy  (around the 40:30 mark).

O’Neill is an award-winning statistician, Founder and Principal Consultant of Direxa Consulting, and former Distinguished Fellow and CMC Statistics Lead at Moderna Therapeutics. Among her many noteworthy accomplishments is leading all the statistical heavy lifting necessary to bring the Moderna Covid vaccine to market so quickly. To Boston’s amazing audience of biologists, scientists, engineers, statisticians, and data enthusiasts, she’s nothing short of a celebrity. 

We had a good number of JMP users attending, and we encouraged them to join us in person again at Discovery Summit Americas in October. Since nearly half the attendees were women, we reminded them to vote on the next choice for the Women in STEM book club. Anyone interested in participating can join the Women in STEM discussion group on the Community and vote. 

Attendees, we’d love to hear your thoughts on the event and on any of the additional materials shared here. Please tell us what you think in the comments. For those of you who couldn’t attend, we hope you’ll join us for the upcoming Statistically Speaking with O’Neill; in the meantime, please enjoy any of the other online materials. Comments are welcome from all!