AI Project Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry – with Sumathi Arcot

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on managing AI in the pharmaceutical industry with insights from Sumathi Arcot.

In this episode of AI Today, host Kathleen Walch sits down with Sumathi Arcot, Project Director for Lean Agile Transformation in AstraZeneca’s U.S. Oncology Business Unit, for a candid conversation on what it really takes to manage AI responsibly in one of the world’s most regulated industries. Sumathi shares how the CPMAI methodology fundamentally shifted her perspective on AI, from something experimental and exploratory to a product discipline with defined outcomes, built-in governanc...

People in this episode

Host: Kathleen Walch

Guest: Sumathi Arcot

Topics covered

• AI project management
• pharmaceutical industry
• Lean Agile Transformation
• AI governance
• regulated industries

Keywords

• AI
• pharmaceuticals
• project management
• Lean Agile
• governance
• AstraZeneca
• U.S. Oncology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AstraZeneca, U.S. Oncology Business Unit

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