January 30 - February 3, 2027
San Diego, CA, USA
January 30 - February 3, 2027
San Diego, CA, USA
Designed for a broad audience — from bench scientists and automation engineers to IT leaders and executives — the course covers the production readiness framework Integrant has developed through active life sciences deployments, illustrated by live case studies. Attendees will hear directly from practitioners at two leading organizations, apply the framework to their own workflows, and leave having built a working AI agent skill during a hands-on session using leading platforms including Claude, Amazon Bedrock, and Azure AI Foundry.
Nearly 80% of life sciences organizations have deployed AI agents in some form, but fewer than one in four have scaled them to production. The gap is not the technology. It is what gets built around it: workflow design, governance, evaluation, and team structure. This introductory course addresses the questions scientific and organizational leaders are actually navigating: why pilots stall, what separates organizations that ship from those that don't, and what a production-ready agentic system in a regulated environment actually requires.
Yousef Awad
Integrant, Inc.
Yousef Awad is the CEO of Integrant, Inc., a global software engineering partner specializing in AI-powered and agentic systems for life sciences and manufacturing. He leads a 300+ engineer organization that builds secure, scalable software for enterprise R&D environments.
A data architect by training, Awad has spent more than three decades bridging software engineering and applied science, helping organizations evolve from modular architectures to intelligent, AI-driven systems. Under his leadership, Integrant’s teams have delivered solutions supporting digital transformation for biotech, medical device and manufacturing innovators worldwide. His current focus is on advancing enterprise-ready agentic frameworks that enable labs to prototype and scale AI safely, securely, and effectively.
Bishoy Youssef
Integrant, Inc.
With over two decades of experience in software engineering, Bishoy Youssef specializes in designing intelligent systems that simplify complex scientific and automation workflows. As a Senior Solutions Architect, he focuses on building practical, modular and agentic tools that integrate seamlessly with the way scientists and engineers work.
Youssef is one of Integrant’s leading experts in AI and agentic architectures, contributing to the development of MCP-based integrations, multi-agent frameworks and advanced prototypes used across chemistry, biology and research informatics. His approach emphasizes collaboration, experimentation, and problem-solving — enabling teams to rapidly prototype AI agents while maintaining the reliability, security and scientific rigor required in enterprise lab environments.
Julie Pacheco
Integrant, Inc.
Julie Pacheco is VP of Client Services at Integrant and co presented Integrant's "From POC to Production" session at Bio-IT World 2026. Having facilitated the 2026 SLAS short course, she joins as a named instructor for 2027. Julie brings the organizational and change-management perspective drawn from active engagements with life sciences clients navigating the pilot-to-production transition, and facilitates the interactive exercises throughout the course.