AI Project Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry – with Sumathi Arcot

AI Project Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry – with Sumathi Arcot

Author: AI & Data Today March 18, 2026 Duration: 33:13
In this episode of AI Today, host Kathleen Walch sits down with Sumathi Arcot, Project Director for Lean Agile Transformation in AstraZeneca’s U.S. Oncology Business Unit, for a candid conversation on what it really takes to manage AI responsibly in one of the world’s most regulated industries. Sumathi shares how the CPMAI methodology fundamentally shifted her perspective on AI, from something experimental and exploratory to a product discipline with defined outcomes, built-in governanc...

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