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Life sciences industry's big win: last in the digitalization race

The Industry Forward Podcast··6 September 2026·12 min

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Every process industry is unique, but few have the life-or-death stakes of the life sciences industry. This cost of failure, the regulatory burden that results and the heavy data load of the industry have slowed its adoption of new digitalization technologies, like comprehensive Digital Twins and artificial intelligence (AI). But this delay has a silver lining. The life sciences industry can now implement new digitalization tools that have been proven and perfected by others. And they can do so during a time where the industry stands to improve more than any other has. In this podcast you will learn: 00:50 – What Digital Transformation challenges uniquely affect life sciences 04:48 – How an explosion of data in life sciences outpaces other industries 07:01 – How this explosion of data affects the adoption of digitalization tools like AI John Nixon - Global Vice President of Process Industries at Siemens Digital Industry Software Connect with John on LinkedIn Patrick Ansems - Global Head of Life Sciences at Siemens Digital Industries Software Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn