The Bayer Pharma Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (DS&AI) F2F meeting in Madrid was a great event! The motto Connect, Clarify & Commit came to life as we connected during networking sessions, breakout sessions and social events. At the poster session we learned about our progress embedding a product mindset and driving operational excellence, closely collaborating with our partners across R&D. We heard presentations, took part in discussions, unconference sessions, asked questions and shared ideas, setting foundations for the growth of DS&AI beyond 2023. The use of POAPs was a definite social success and I am sure you did not miss Jesús’ enthusiasm as he gave an overview of this new tool. By promoting its use, we drive new ways of using this sustainable and effective tool, ultimately helping to innovate its use by doctors, within clinical trials, for patients and more. There were fun elements as well, like the final night, where our very own flash-mob took to the dance floor and we danced until way past midnight! All this was made possible by the org team: Anke Ebert, Larsen Schnadhorst, Kathleen Thies, Sheila Elz, Stefanie Holt-Noreiks and Claudia Vogt. They have done an excellent job coordinating the event, with the perfect balance of presentations, speakers, entertainment, and networking. Now let us make sure we continue to further the impact we have on bringing innovative medicines to our patients. Sai Jasti, Head of DS&AI https://bayer.com/poap

Part of the Clinical Trial Technology and strategy group. Bringing new technology and services to our organisation

I am Lead Business Technology Manager with Bayer, from Hyderabad, India. I have total 14 years of experience in various capacities on both business and technology side.

Data Acquisition Technology Expert (Associate Director) at Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals

The R&D Digital Fluency Program (DFP) is supporting you with learning offerings to build up competencies and further skillsets around digital technologies to enable a competitive and digitally literate organization. At the Digital Fluency Program, we set ourselves apart by offering learning opportunities created by your peers who understand the unique challenges you face in your job. Our tailored approach focuses on real-life use cases, taking our training far from generic and providing you relevant and impactful skill development. In 2020 we, a small team of four people, started our journey with the DFP as part of the R&D Digital Roadmap. Since technologies are ever evolving and impacting our work environment it is more important than ever to foster a culture of continuous learning and enable future opportunities. Thus the DFP learning portfolio includes something for everyone, regardless of your level of knowledge: It offers general awareness programs to enhance basic digital literacy, self-learning pathways on data analysis & visualization and the ability to access online courses like Coursera via the Digital Curriculum. The team ensured the learning objective was met by piloting newly developed learning programs, making use of cross-functional development, and incorporated R&D specific components prior to a broader roll-out in the organization.

At the Fiesta de las funciones, we celebrated DS&AI's teams, sub-teams and projects in a dynamic, interactive poster session where everyone presented their work, and attendees could collect a POAP (Proof of Attendance Protocol) for each poster they visited, 20 posters and 21 POAPs. The POAPs served as a digital certificate of attendance and allowed attendees to gamify their participation in the event while getting to know a new digital technology. Utility was given to the person that collected the most POAPs, in the form of a prize given at the end of the event. Additionally, at the end of the poster session, there was a quiz that allowed attendees to test their knowledge of the presented posters. This quiz was a fun way to encourage attendees to interact with the posters and learn more about the various data science, ML and AI work currently going on in DS&AI. It was a great opportunity for Bayer DS&AI colleagues to interact and get to know each other and what we do, and to set the foundations for future collaborations.