Thank you for attending today's DT & IT Pharma Townhall! In today's meeting, we delved deeper into the successful launch of the Pharma Control Tower (go/PHCT), which serves as a central entry point for all your needs related to financial, operational stability, and governance for your applications, portfolios, and functions. Additionally, we shared some updates on the rollout of MyGenAssist at Pharma, highlighting our crucial role as key ambassadors. This past year has underscored the accelerated pace of innovation, with GenAI standing out as a prime example of the agility needed to proactively evolve our skill sets. Furthermore, we collectively reviewed our key priorities for 2024 and provided updates on our DSO learning journey. In summary: ///// PH Control Tower ///// Business priorities per department ///// MyGenAssist roll-out PH ///// DSO Champions update Bayer terms & conditions apply: https://www.bayer.com/en/poap-tc

Cheers to our global gang! 🌍🌟 As the year draws to a close, we're giving a shoutout to the 13,000 amazing contributors on our platform. By leveraging Byron, the exchange within our company becomes more seamless, paving the way for new projects and strengthening our unity within Bayer. 🚀 Presenting this exclusive POAP as a massive thank you, because without you, this platform wouldn't be what it is. 🙌 Byron, an acronym for Bayer Open Network, is our Skills database for Bayer employees, including speed networking. We kicked off in 2018 as a True North grassroots side initiative, going live in 2020. Created by over 40 students and programming enthusiasts with the help of EY Croatia. Today, we have 13,000 registered users from 89 countries, in 293 cities. People have searched for something in Byron at least 25,000 times and engaged in 31,000 1:1 Speed network meetings. http://go/byron Looking ahead, we're thrilled about the future and the prospect of our community growing even larger. Can't wait for more collaborations and successes together in the coming year! 🎉✨ Art created by Lena Schermer

I took part in the IT Academy Live Event: Unleash the Power of Generative AI, Thursday, November 2

AWS car racing event @Bayer to learn and connect artificial intelligence enthusiasts. On June 21, 2023, Bayer will participate in an AWS-organized DeepRacer event. In 4 hours, teams will program small cars using machine learning algorithms to race in tracks and compete to win. From their website, it is a “cloud-based 3D racing simulator, fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning”. A fun way and excellent opportunity to get hands-on experience in machine learning. The main events will run in Berlin, São Paulo, and St. Louis, and many colleagues will participate remotely in the race from other cities not only in Germany, but also in Poland, Spain, and other countries. You can support the event with logistics or learn some machine learning and be a participant, or just be there to meet other AI / data scientists from other departments, since many colleagues from Marketing, R&D, IT, Product Supply, Controlling, Facility Management, and Site Security, are co-organizing or participating in this. Imagine how much you will learn. For more information about the AWS DeepRacer, see: https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/

I attended the CID townhall meeting with Patrick on March 24, 2023