About
Why the collective exists
Agentic AI is leaving the slide deck and arriving in plants, labs and quality systems. The people who decide where it goes, and answer for it afterwards, rarely get to compare notes with someone facing the same choice.
The collective is a gathering of peers: people in pharma and biotech putting agentic AI to work inside GMP operations. Small rooms, honest conversation, no sales pitch.
It is free. Two practitioners run it in a personal capacity because it is the group they wanted for themselves.
The founders
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Bharath Sundararaman
Bharath leads AI product, innovation and emerging technology for a global pharma supply organisation, after a career spent turning new technology into measurable business value in life-science manufacturing. He is a keynote speaker on three continents and created DemystifAI, a series that explains agentic AI to industry leaders.
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Martin Kockx
A Principal Engineer who has spent his career connecting automation, data and quality systems across biopharma manufacturing, and now puts agentic AI to work safely in GMP operations. Contributes to industry work at BioPhorum, ISPE and IAAE, and researches how AI governance holds up in regulated operations.
Independent
Both founders run the collective in a personal capacity, unpaid, alongside their day jobs. It is not affiliated with any employer, vendor or industry body, and it takes no sponsorship.
Questions, or want to help? info@pharmaaicollective.org