AI-Driven Data Cuts Time, Boosts Innovation & Saves Lives at AstraZeneca

Speaker 2  06:12:01

We all have our stories of people who have been hit with a chronic disease. For me, it's January 2019, and I get a call from my dad that he was diagnosed with cancer, and two weeks later he passed away. I felt powerless. That's why I'm here at AstraZeneca to develop new medicines that can help treat and maybe someday cure diseases like cancer. We had multiple technology solutions managing our data, to be able to interoperate with that data and to be able to quickly bring that into the decision making process. We needed to choose one technology that could work with us, our core foundation within snowflake unlock efficiencies that allow us to focus on things that matter more to our patients and to help us get more medicines to the market quickly.

06:12:46

A year ago, it took us about six months and 16 engineers to just create one data product. Today, it takes us four days and two engineers to create one data product. Just to think about that, we have 118 data products out there now that is now releasing and unlocking the value of, I would say, 1000s of hours in terms of productivity, and over $10 million in terms of savings.

Speaker 2  06:13:10

 To us with snowflake, we're able to bring together our data from across the enterprise at a faster pace. We're going to be moving to open flow as our standard extract and load technology partner. We're really excited about cortex AI and the ability to bring AI to our data products.

06:13:27

We have, what we call AI powered chest X ray. The data tells us that lung disease, actually, 70% of them, is always detected late. And there's data that tells us that if we have early detection, we are able to improve survival rates by 90%

Speaker 2  06:13:45

Faster innovation means faster breakthroughs in our science, and that means greater outcomes for our patients.