About
What you missed at LEAP HR: Life Sciences East 2025
This conference wasn't just unique in offering an industry-specific platform for the most progressive HR leaders to maximize their own business value; it was also unique in that it rips up the rulebook of traditional conferences.
We believe the traditional conference format is no longer fit for purpose, so we started from scratch.
How it Worked
When you look at the agenda, you will see three main types of session:
Discover Sessions
Develop Sessions
Action Sessions
offer you the chance to hear the HR leaders in life sciences sharing the stories of what they're doing to maximize the impact of their team and function on the business
provide you with the unique opportunity to have your burning questions answered and move beyond the 'what' and the 'why' to get to the 'how'
divide the audience by company size and are designed to help you explore challenges with peers, and decide what you are going to change in order to add greater value to the business
Want to Know What You Missed in 2025?
This was your opportunity to uncover how HR leaders at the most forward-focused biopharma organizations are transforming their ability to meet the changing needs of a future life sciences business.
We unpicked 40+ case studies of how market-leading drug development organizations are shifting to new systems of empowered teams, how they’re accelerating the development of both current and future leaders, and how they’re unlocking the secrets to building high performing teams across a multi-layered, and often global business.
We experienced the most valuable HR life science meeting. Learnt from the success stories of peers, uncovered their solutions and unexpected challenges. Took achievable, practical and strategic plans back to organization's.
Created long-lasting partnerships with HR peers in the life science landscape from our esteemed LEAP community to share ideas and tackle challenges together.
The Most Influential HR
Event in Life Sciences
The Most Innovative Names in the Industry
With organizations from Great Place to Work, Built Ins: Top Biotech Companies 2024, Forbes Best Places to Work in Life Sciences we brought together an elite community of life science HR leaders in Boston, August 2025.
Organizations' such as Takeda, Regeneron, Merck, Bayer, PTC, Syneos and more secured their place to gain valuable insights and elevate their own HR strategies.
This 3-day event included a separately bookable Future Readiness Strategy Pre-Conference Focus Day with two tracks on Strategic HR Head Focus AI, and Automation Tech Slam that will keep ahead of the curve, delve into topics such as:
CEO & CHRO:
- Building Effective Partnerships Between the CEO & CHRO
- Driving Company Performance Through Strategic Talent Management: The ‘Talent to Value’ Approach at Bristol-Myers Squibb
- How to Navigate the Challenges Associated with Being the Strategic Head of HR?
AI & Automation:
- Leveraging Free Tools & AI to Enhance Recruiting & Candidate Experience
- Driving Data Insights into Action: The HR Periodic Table
- Leveraging AI & Large Language Models to Identify & Develop Leaders