IQVIA Virtual NLP Summit - Day 1

Stephen is currently IT service delivery manager focused on data integration & analysis techniques at Novartis Pharmaceutics. His goal is to focus on analytics end-user needs, remove the technological jargon and barriers to allow user to integrate and analyze all types of clinical data in an easy intuitive way 

Stephen is an experienced pharmaceutical IT and business Product Owner with a demonstrated innovative and dynamic history of working in the pharmaceuticals industry. He is skilled in working on a developing systems for clinical data analytics, clinical metadata & semantics modelling expertise, Clinical Data Analysis & related systems, Clinical Data Management, Analytics tool sets, Clinical Images processing, processing unstructured textual documents using NLP, and Validation. He is a strong product management professional with educational background in Mathematics, Computers & Statistics

Dr. Rebecca Racz has worked for the US FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) as a pharmacologist for 5 years, leading multiple initiatives to predict adverse events, identify secondary drug targets, and accelerate pediatric cancer drug development. She is the Principal Investigator on a Research Collaboration Agreement with a commercial predictive analytics platform to assess the safety profile of small molecules based on secondary drug targets.  She has published multiple peer-reviewed articles describing safety database and ontology development, adverse event prediction, and pathway analysis.  Dr. Racz holds a BS in Biomolecular Sciences and PharmD from the University of Michigan. 

John is a serial entrepreneur. After graduating in Law and Computer Science from Trinity College, Cambridge, he founded Jobstream Group plc, which provides specialist ERP software to the international financial services sector. Brimacombe subsequently co-founded pioneering mobile entertainment start-up nGame Ltd., which was acquired by Hands-On Mobile Inc. He served as President/COO of HandsOn Mobile for over 2 years, leading the company through 7 major M&A transactions and massive global expansion. In addition to an ongoing commitment to Jobstream, Brimacombe currently chairs the enterprise natural language search tools provider, Linguamatics, is a Partner at Sussex Place Ventures, the venture-capital arm of the London Business School, is a seed-investor in multiple US and UK start-ups and has extensive experience as a non-executive director from start-up to Public markets.​

Paul started at the company as an Application Specialist in 2005. In his role, he is responsible for product management, marketing, and strategy guidance of I2E, an award-winning agile, high performance enterprise text mining software. Paul also has responsibility for the I2E Web Services API, to allow integration of text mining capabilities into large-scale workflows. He has worked on many customer projects, including analysis of historical pre-clinical records, large-scale extraction of information from patents and semantic annotation for enterprise search. Paul has a PhD from University of Cambridge in computational drug design where his work involved developing algorithms to optimize combinatorial libraries for protein-ligand interactions. Before joining Linguamatics, Paul worked in the Cambridge biotech sector creating bioinformatics and chemoinformatics tools for processing of diverse large databases, including PDB, compound registries and PubMed.​

Hywel has over 18 years of experience in consulting, analytics and data solutions with multi-industry experience across life science, health, consumer, manufacturing and retail. Hywel has applied his behavioural science expertise to the creation of real-world data analytics solutions for patient level data, developing NLP powered search and insights solutions, machine learning for predictive resource allocation and digital behavioural patient and HCP insights. Hywel holds a Master's degree in Engineering from Cambridge University.  

David Milward is chief technology officer (CTO) at Linguamatics. He is a pioneer of interactive text mining, and a founder of Linguamatics. He has over 20 years experience of product development, consultancy and research in natural language processing (NLP). After receiving a PhD from the University of Cambridge, he was a researcher and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He has published in the areas of information extraction, spoken dialogue, parsing, syntax and semantics.​