Age of AI Europe, 2026
March 10, 2026 · London
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Rakesh Kantaria
Founder
Circuit Medical
Rakesh Kantaria is a seasoned and successful pharmaceutical executive with a >25-year career spanning the UK NHS, global pharmaceutical industry, consultancy, and AI entrepreneurship. He has led UK, Region, and Global Medical Affairs teams, and launched >30 products. He founded a thriving Global Medical Affairs and Digital/AI consultancy, delivering expert solutions across 100+ projects. As head of Circuit Medical, he merges his passion for advancing life-changing medicines with innovative technologies to drive transformation. He led the development of Beacon, an AI MLR platform that leverages frontier AI technology to tackle a key challenge area in pharmaceutical companies. A strong advocate for driving transformation through cross-functional collaboration and empowerment, he is also an active member of the Association of AI Ethicists.
Sessions
Rakesh Kantaria
12:00 PM – 12:40 PM
The MLR Challenge - how generative AI accelerates time to approval at scale.
- Leading medical, legal and regulatory experts will share the Gen AI tools & processes that help accelerate time to approval.
- Learn about their uses cases, KPIs and plans to further improve global content review and approval.
Rakesh Kantaria, Founder, Circuit Medical
Gareth Worthington, Head of Global Clearance, UCB
Robin Jones, Product Owner for AI and Gen AI, AstraZeneca
Will Fraser, Head of Marketing UK, Roche
Panel Discussion