Speaker profile

Samantha Warden

VP & Global Head Clinical Programming & Business Excellence
GSK

Sam Warden is Vice-President and Global Head of GSK’s Clinical Programming and Business Excellence function with teams across Europe, US and Asia. She has led the group through a transformation to working in Open Source programming languages with an agile teams to delivery clinical study and project reporting at GSK for the past 4 years.
She is recognized as an influencer in the field of pharmaceutical data science and analytics. Her career spans 3 decades, bringing depth and perspective of not only how we manage, analyse and share data but why we do it. She is passionate about enabling the data to tell its story to support great decision making as well as innovative design to optimize resources and maximize results.
She has previously worked as a technology consultant to the industry, and held leadership positions at CROs, biotech and pharma companies in the UK and Switzerland.
Sam holds an MBA, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Manchester.

Agenda sessions

Day 1 | May 19, 2026
12:00 (CEST)
Driving Innovation in Clinical Trials Through Data, Advanced Analytics, Automation & AI underpinned by Ambitious Mindsets
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12:45 (CEST)
Panel Discussion and Q&A
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