2025

Tony Fantana | How to Speed up a Miracle

When you think of the work that we do, what do you feel? Gratitude? Fear? Sometimes Sadness? Frustration? What about Awe? The work we do sometimes can help save and improve lives -- at scale. And that is worthy of some awe.

Tony Fantana feels that awe.

It gets his huge brain pinging in many directions. Including questions about our regulatory environment. There is a debate raging, sometimes in scared silence, about the role of the government. Too often simplified as bigger or smaller -- more or less. Instead of better and future. Could this time of uncertainty also be a time when we redesign the systems by which we govern ourselves?

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About Tony
Tony is a strategic innovation leader with 15+ years of experience driving patient and business outcomes in Pharma, Digital Health, and Medical Devices. Currently, he leads Digital Transformation and Innovation for Global Regulatory Affairs, incorporating AI and advanced computing to accelerate submissions and approvals.

He is passionate about improving health outcomes through building and leading high-performing teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence, and leveraging 21st century technology solutions.

At Lilly, Tony founded and scaled Digital Health and patient-centric blood sampling, now deployed in dozens of clinical trials, cutting millions in costs and reducing timelines. He is driving cross-industry collaboration as the leader of an Innovative Healthcare Initiative consortium with 50+ partners, and works with regulators in the EU and US.

He has delivered AI solutions solving thousands of manual labor annually, benefiting 1000+ global users. Part of several company-wide core teams, Tony drives cross-functional strategy with C-suite visibility.

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Filmed at Innovation Network Gathering | West Chester, PA, USA | October 2025

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