Live Webinar

AI Readiness vs. Reality: Turning AI Potential Into Better Health Outcomes

Learn how health care and life sciences organizations are moving beyond AI experimentation to create trusted, scalable business value

Oct. 30, 2026 • 10 a.m. ET

 

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About the webinar

Health care and life sciences organizations are under increasing pressure to turn AI investments into measurable business outcomes. While enthusiasm for AI remains high, many organizations are still working to bridge the gap between experimentation and scalable adoption.

Join SAS experts and industry leaders will explore what it takes to move from AI potential to practical results. You'll hear how organizations are approaching AI readiness through governance, trust and adoption while identifying opportunities to create meaningful value in highly regulated environments.

For health care and life sciences organizations, success depends on more than implementing new technology. It requires building trusted foundations, enabling people to work confidently with AI and creating an approach that balances innovation with accountability.

You’ll learn more about:

  • Why AI readiness is as much about people, processes and governance as it is technology.
  • How organizations are building trust and accountability into AI initiatives.
  • Where leaders are finding practical opportunities to create business value with AI.
  • What it takes to move beyond experimentation and scale AI responsibly.
  • How health care and life sciences organizations are preparing for the future of AI adoption.

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About the experts


Michelle Wells

Director of Marketing for Global Industry and Vertical Solutions, SAS (Host)

Michelle Wells leads portfolio marketers responsible for industry market strategy, messaging and content, and sales enablement. With deep experience helping organizations translate advanced analytics and AI into real business value, Michelle brings a practical, customer-centric perspective to market conversations. She has spent her career connecting strategy to execution and is passionate about showcasing real-world customer stories that turn innovation into impact.


Jules van der Zalm

Manager of OCS Life Sciences, OCS Consulting

Twenty years in life sciences have given Jules a good eye for where technology can improve the way clinical trials are run, in statistics and programming, as well as in the integration of clinical systems. Jules follows developments in AI closely and looks for responsible ways of applying them in a regulated environment, where data integrity and patient privacy cannot be compromised. As manager of OCS Life Sciences, Jules leads a team delivering biometrics and integration services of the highest quality.


DJ Penix

President & CEO, Pinnacle Solutions

With over 30 years of personal hands-on SAS experience, DJ Penix and his company, Pinnacle Solutions, have been building prominent analytic, reporting and data management solutions in a wide variety of industries, including pharmaceutical, health and life sciences, manufacturing and many others.

Pinnacle Solutions also provides a wide range of leading-edge cloud hosting on AWS and Azure and analytic services utilizing SAS® Viya®, which include IoT, forecasting, data mining, machine learning and deep learning. Penix graduated from Kalamazoo College with a BS in both mathematics and computer science.

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