Outro

What if biotech teams could automate the most information-intensive parts of bringing a drug to market? In this episode of Data in Biotech, host Ross Katz speaks with Convoke co-founders Alex Telford and Maged Ahmed about building an AI-native knowledge acquisition and curation system for biopharma. Learn how they're transforming clinical research, regulatory writing, and competitive intelligence using LLMs, semantic search, and scalable data infrastructure.

​​What You'll Learn in This Episode:

>> How Convoke unifies public and private biotech data into a single workspace for smarter decision-making

>> Why structured outputs and semantic layers are key to high-quality AI-driven insights

>> Real-world use cases including clinical trial design, competitive landscape analysis, and regulatory documentation

>> How feedback loops and model evaluations drive product reliability and user trust

>> The future of AI in biotech: continuous decision-making and multimodal intelligence

Meet Our Guests

Alex Telford is Co-Founder and CEO of Convoke, an AI-native OS transforming drug development workflows. His background in life sciences consulting drives his mission to unify data and streamline outputs like clinical documents and regulatory submissions.

Maged Ahmed is Co-Founder of Convoke and a former AI lead at Applied Intuition. He brings deep data infrastructure expertise to biotech, aiming to reduce friction in regulated environments by automating knowledge generation.

About The Host

Ross Katz is Principal and Data Science Lead at CorrDyn. Ross specializes in building intelligent data systems that empower biotech and healthcare organizations to extract insights and drive innovation.

Connect with Our Guest:

• Sponsor: CorrDyn, a data consultancy
• Connect with Alex Telford  on LinkedIn 
• Connect with Maged Ahmed on LinkedIn

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Sponsored by…

This episode is brought to you by CorrDyn, the leader in data-driven solutions for biotech and healthcare. Discover how CorrDyn is helping organizations turn data into breakthroughs at CorrDyn.