The Long Tail of Adoption - "My Colleagues Still Use Excel. Now What?"

[drorberel]

Across pharma, regardless of company size, many teams still rely primarily on Excel or SAS. This includes talented statisticians running sophisticated Bayesian analyses with nothing but domain expertise and a sharp pencil.
But this isn't a change management talk.
This roundtable is about the view from the ground up: the practitioner navigating real organizational friction. How do you establish a productive dialogue with IT when your requirements don't fit their standard toolkit? How do you earn leadership buy-in for analytical approaches that feel less conservative than the status quo? How do you build credibility for R, pharmaverse frameworks, and AI/LLM tooling in an environment where "we've always done it this way" is a complete sentence?
We'll trade strategies, hard-won lessons, and honest war stories, from the people actually trying to move the needle, one colleague at a time.