Q3 2026 T2Bmeets

New at the Q3 T2Bmeet @ Boston: Coaches Corner

Get focused support for a real workplace challenge in a 20-minute Power Coaching Session with leadership coaches Carly Goldsmith or Deb Becker. Both bring deep experience working with communications professionals and leaders in the biotech industry. Use your session to think through a decision, team dynamic, difficult conversation, or other pressing challenge and leave with greater clarity, confidence, and practical next steps. Sessions will be available during the event’s networking portions, with onsite sign-up when you arrive.

Panel Discussion: Staying Relevant Between Milestones

In biopharma, attention spikes around data readouts, regulatory decisions, financings, partnerships, and launches. We’re the ones responsible for keeping a company’s story alive in between, translating steady, unglamorous progress into something stakeholders can still follow. Yet staying visible between catalysts means walking a line: go too quiet and the narrative stalls, say too much and it starts to look manufactured. This panel opens a discussion on how communicators sustain narrative momentum between major catalysts, decide which interim stories are worth telling, and protect credibility for when it matters most.

Key Takeaways:

• Tie individual announcements to a bigger enterprise narrative that can evolve through pipeline setbacks, leadership changes, and shifting timelines, while keeping the company’s credibility intact.
• Sustain stakeholder confidence during long stretches when meaningful work is underway but headline results aren’t.
• Identify which scientific, corporate, patient, leadership, and organizational stories meaningfully advance positioning, and who the right voice is to carry them.
• Protect visibility without manufacturing news, overstating the data, or setting expectations the business can’t support.

Program:

• 4:30-5 p.m. – Check-in and networking
• 5-5:45 p.m. – Panel discussion and Q&A
• 5:45-7 p.m. – Reception and networking

How Exelixis Grew Employee Volunteering 41% and Made the Business Case for Giving

Employee giving and volunteering can support several priorities at once: employee engagement, internal communications, social storytelling, and a company’s relationship and reputation with its local community and beyond. At Exelixis, these priorities come together in a Public Affairs-led program that grew employee volunteering 41% from 2024 to 2025.

In this case study, Kathleen Brennan and Lindsay Treadway will share how Exelixis creates a steady pipeline of engagement opportunities, uses a strategic year-round communications plan and channels to sustain participation, and partners across many internal departments to drive engagement among the Company’s employees. They will also discuss how external organizations and technology help a lean team expand its capacity, manage giving and volunteer activities, and capture meaningful data.

Attendees will gain a practical look at the operating model, communications approach, and measures of success that have helped Exelixis grow participation while strengthening employee sentiment, corporate storytelling, and its presence in the local community.

Key Takeaways:

• ​Structure a giving and volunteer program that can grow with clear ownership and limited staff.
• Sustain participation through a consistent communications cadence, accessible opportunities and employee recognition.
• Partner across HR, Employee Experience and external organizations to expand reach and execution capacity.
• Use technology to simplify giving, matching, volunteer tracking and reporting.
• Connect program metrics to employee engagement, communications value and community impact.

Program:

• 4:30-5:30 p.m. – Check-in and networking
• 5:30-6 p.m. – How Exelixis Grew Employee Volunteering 41% and Made the Business Case for Giving
• 6-7 p.m. – Reception and networking