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Pharma Forum EMEA
3-5 November 2025
Vienna Marriott HotelVienna Austria

Alastair Cotton
Director, Global Congress Centre of Excellence - Global Commercial Operations at Gilead Sciences
Speaker

Profile

Alastair Cotton currently leads operations and technology strategy within Gilead's Global Congress Centre of Excellence. In this role, he collaborates with his colleagues in the CoE and with broader cross-functional teams to lead strategic global programmes, delivering technology and operational solutions that support Gilead's congress and event objectives.

Alastair joined Gilead in 2021, where he first led global congress operations for the Commercial function. Prior to that he was Senior Manager of GSK's Meetings Management Centre of Excellence for five years, managing GSK's global SMMP activity. Before his time at Gilead and GSK, he held different roles at a specialist Life Sciences event management agency for 9 years, supporting event programmes for multiple Pharma clients.

Agenda Sessions

  • Closed Door Discussion: Event Strategy for Event Executives - Center of Excellence Approaches and Blueprints

    14:55
  • Closed Door Discussion Session Event Strategy for Event Executives – Centre of Excellence Approaches and Blueprints (continued)

    16:35