i2e Elevate NYC 2025 | Pharma R&D leadership forum

About i2e Elevate

The most exclusive pharmaceutical R&D leadership forum

Elevate 2025 brought together a small group of senior R&D leaders and portfolio executives in an invite-only forum at New York city – working through the challenges specific to pharma R&D portfolios via significant peer discussions, key insights & meaningful takeaways.

Watch the forum unfold: insights, moments & voices from Elevate 2025

Elevate 2025 footprint: Focused discussions, outsized impact

From expert perspectives to candid hallway conversations, Elevate started meaningful dialogues shaping the future of pharma R&D decision making – prioritization, resource allocation, governance, AI’s role in portfolio intelligence, and more.

senior leaders

companies

expert sessions

Voices that shaped Elevate 2025

Sudhir Karanth

CEO, i2e Consulting

Vishal Rane

COO, i2e Consulting

Sri Kanagala

CDO, i2e Consulting

Carlos Nunes

VP - Portfolio Analytics, i2e Consulting

Jerry Whaley

Sr VP, Clinical Ops Technologies, i2e Consulting

Dave Penndorf

Strategic Advisor, i2e Consulting

Angelo Morello

VP - Growth and Strategy, i2e Consulting

Peter Green

VP - Data & Analytics, i2e Consulting

Tim Rumbaugh

VP, Program Management, Edwards Lifesciences

Joe Stalder

VP, Project Management, Zentalis Pharmaceuticals

Elaine Ravasco

VP, Head of Portfolio Planning & Intelligence, Pfizer

KeYi Cheng

Head of Portfolio Planning, Genmab

Magnus Ytterstad

Chief Product Officer, Captario

Jose Levy

Director, Sr AE, OnePlan

Mark Lee

Industry Ecosystem GTM, HLS, Databricks

Our Partners

Key highlights from i2e Elevate NYC, 2025

SPM excellence framework: From insight to impact

Walkthrough of the SPM Maturity Framework, and what each maturity level looks like in real-world practice
Experts take on how to transition from basic tracking to strategy-driven portfolio decisions with clear next steps
Benchmarking against peers, with takeaways on gaps, priorities, and which areas to prioritize improving first

Breaking free from tool lock-in: Empowering resource forecasting with agentic AI

Beyond maintenance: AI insights to unlock PPM agility

Next-generation portfolio intelligence/ Actionable portfolio intelligence

Partner Connect: Shaping the Future of AI-Enabled PPM

AI is not your next step, get your house in order first

Automating clinical trial reporting using a central database & data visualizations

Relive the sessions

Explore the moments that sparked new thinking, challenged the status quo, and advanced the conversation on modern PPM.

Opening Remarks

i2e Leadership team

Breaking free from tool lock-in: Empowering resource forecasting with agentic AI.

Peter Green, Carlos Nunes

Beyond maintenance: AI insights to unlock PPM agility

Dave Penndorf

Automating clinical trial reporting using a central database & data visualizations

Joe Stalder

Reflections from attendees

Thank you so much for contacting me and organizing my participation in the i2E meetup. I learned a lot.

VP, Head of R&D Data Strategy and Governance

Bayer

I found the conversation to be very insightful and thought provoking. Hearing the different perspectives and challenges that other organizations are facing was worth the trip.

VP, R&D Innovation Transformation

Alcon

Even remotely there were some worthwhile discussions and perspectives.

Executive Director, Program Management Office

Incyte

Thank you very much for your coordination and communication. It was truly a wonderful and valuable event. I have many take-aways that will help me and my organization.

VP, Project Management

Edward Lifesciences

Let’s continue the conversations that strengthen pharma R&D decisions

Elevate 2025 advanced the dialogue with key insights for pharma R&D portfolio innovation. If this year was a glimpse, the next will go further. Want to be a part of it?

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Elevate NYC, 2025