Data Mesh Day for Life Sciences

Data Mesh is a strategic approach to modern data management and a way to strengthen an organization’s digital transformation journey. Data Mesh Days are where data leaders and practitioners gather to share best practices and use cases, forge critical relationships, and learn about advancements in data mesh. The intent of this day is to provide a vendor-neutral space for sharing and learning about data mesh.

Data Mesh Days are hosted by the Data Mesh Learning community and will showcase talks from end users and others in the industry who are implementing data mesh. Each Data Mesh Day will focus on a different industry vertical.

Our inaugural Data Mesh Day focuses on Life Sciences.

SESSIONS:

Two Years of Data Mesh at Roche Diagnostics
Omar Khawaja, Roche Diagnostics
Roche Diagnostics’ data mesh journey began in early 2021 and today they have five global functions delivering high quality data products that have drastically accelerated the speed and scale of data-driven intelligence–from five years to three months in some cases. Khawaja will share the steps for their data mesh implementation, as well as a specific use case for safety stock raw material inventory forecast that demonstrates how Roche Diagnostics was able to improve stocking, procurement, and overall impacts to customers. We’ll also hear what’s coming next in the company’s data mesh journey.

The Federated Data Governance Journey
Mariana Hebborn PhD, Merck Gruppe
In a data mesh implementation, federated data governance paves the way for broad experimentation and innovation in data in ways that were not previously possible. But an organization must carefully consider how to do this safely, and how to bring stakeholders along on the journey. In this talk Hebborn will discuss the importance for an organization to define why to invest in data governance up front, how to inspire stakeholders by sharing expected benefits, and empowering them to contribute by setting clear processes and procedures. Throughout the talk, she’ll refer to how this was successfully managed at Merck Gruppe.

Data Mesh Strategies in Pharma and LifeScience: Insights from Industry Leaders
Ammara Gafoor, Thoughtworks
Antonio Agudo from Roche Diagnostics
This talk will provide an insider view of the different data mesh strategies adopted by some of the top 10 Pharma and LifeScience companies across the world. We will take a deep dive into one specific data mesh strategy hearing directly from the Data Mesh Program Manager at Roche. The talk will touch upon focus areas, main challenges, mitigations and definitive next steps in their respective data mesh journeys.

The RWD Store - Accelerating Evidence Generation with Data Mesh
Alexandra Grebe de Barron, Bayer
Bayer runs a Real-World Data Store (RWD), the human- and machine-friendly self-service data product that accelerates real-world evidence generation across the lifelong patient pathway– from pre-diagnosis to treatment. The company has achieved this by embracing data mesh and the data product approach, shifting the mindset internally from application-centric thinking to data-centric thinking with data exposed to the many users and many domains. In this talk de Barron will discuss why data mesh and data products accelerate evidence generation, how they achieved this within Bayer and what were the challenges and learnings.

Implementing Federated Computational Governance with Metadata-driven Automation
Amber Hilton, Google Cloud
Thinh Ha, Google Cloud Professional Services
Metadata management is a central component for data governance in Life Sciences, for example, when implementing FAIR principles using open standards such as GFF3. In this talk, we show how metadata-driven automation will allow organizations to scale and embed metadata management into daily developer workflows. The talk will outline an events-driven architecture for metadata-driven automation.

Breakout Session
We'll end the event with breakout rooms for attendees to meet and share learnings.