The Pistoia Alliance User Experience for Life Science (UXLS) Conference will be held in-person on the 22nd-23rd of September 2025 at Merck, Rahway site, in New Jersey.
This year’s theme is connected with the main UX Workstreams developed by the Pistoia Alliance UX Community:
- UX for Digital Life Sciences. This Workstream aims to enhance data re-usability, visualization, and AI-driven insights by applying UX principles to scientific workflows, data management, and AI-human interaction.
- UX Best Practices in Life Sciences. This Workstream aims to establish measurable UX impact, foster adoption of new methodologies, and articulate the value of UX through structured frameworks, case studies, and practical guidance.
The conference is specifically focused for UX practitioners in the life sciences field and will have a mixture of hands-on interactive sessions in addition to seminar style talks.
Speakers from: Merck & Co, Lextech, GSK, Whitespace, Novartis, Astrazeneca, Genentech, Charles River Laboratories, Capptoo AG, QBD Vision, VectorHX, Thoughtworks, Zifo and other companies.
Agenda
Monday September 22
| Time | Event | Details |
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| 14:00 | Registration & Networking | |
| 14:30 | Intro and Opening Remarks |
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| 14:45 | What is the UX Expert Community |
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| Session 1 – UX for Digital Life Sciences | ||
| 15:00 | The Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected |
Perceptions and Adoption of AI Tools in UX Practice
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| 15:30 | UX and Data Quality | Two Sides of the Digital Transformation Coin
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| 16:00 | Break & Networking | |
| Session 2 – UX Best Practices | ||
| 16:30 | UX Is Not Enough | Why Strategic Credibility, Not Craft, Will Save Your Role
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| 17:00 | UX Overhaul | How to Affect Apps You Don’t Own via Structured Frameworks?
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| 17:30 | Close | |
Tuesday September 23
| Time | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Registration & Networking | |
| 9:00 | Welcome Note |
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| Session 1 – Sharing Best Practices | ||
| 09:10 | Designing the Future of Personalized Medicine | UX Collaboration for a Digital Orchestration Platform
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| 09:40 | Revolutionizing Product Launches with Smart VoC Across the Patient Journey |
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| 10:10 | Beyond the Lab Coat | Integrating Design Talent into Life Science Organizations
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| 10:40 | Break & Networking | |
| 11:00 | TBC | |
| 11:30 | UX Best Practices in Life Sciences | Redesigning the Charles River Laboratories Website as a Customer Journey Transit Hub
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| 12:00 | Lunch & Networking | |
| Keynote Speakers | ||
| 13:00 | Keynote Speaker Presentations |
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| Session 2 – UX for Digital Life Sciences | ||
| 13:30 | Empowering Clinical Trials | Leveraging UX to Optimize Data from External Partners
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| 14:00 | Finding the Unfindable | UX Strategies for AI-Driven Information Discovery in Pharma
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| 14:30 | Researcher Workbench in Action | Turning Signals into Discovery Insights
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| 15:00 | Break & Networking | |
| Session 3 – UX for Digital Life Sciences | ||
| 15:30 | AI Beyond the Chat Box |
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| 16:00 | Embracing Uncertainty | How Meaningful Co-Design Can Reduce Risk and Improve Your Research Data Products
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| 16:30 | CMC Decisioning Driven through FAIR Data and LLMs |
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| Session 4 – Group Discussions | ||
| 17:00 | Interactive Discussion |
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| 17:30 | Close | |
For any questions please contact anca.ciobanu@pistoiaalliance.org
The UXLS Community is a not-for-profit community enabling UX practitioners to share UX best practices in the life sciences. Find out more about us here
Prices
- Early bird member rate (by end of May): $300
- Early bird non-member rate (by end of May): $450
- Member price (as of 1st of June until September 15): $400
- Non-Member price (as of 1st of June until September 15): $650
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