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The topic of diversity has always been essential in the pharma, healthcare, and life sciences industries. The future of pharma heavily depends on how we approach digital transformation — which is why it’s crucial to empower women in AI and other technological advancements to take an active part in driving innovation.
In the 13th Pharma Talks episode, Nataliya Andreychuk, CEO of Viseven, and Katrine Bach, Co-founder and CEO of Connected Women in AI, sat down to discuss the importance of women’s leadership in AI. What role do female experts play in digital transformation? Are there enough women entrepreneurs in healthcare? Let’s uncover the insights together on how women in AI and robotics can shape the future of artificial intelligence.
Katrine’s journey spans from leading Anthill Agency to global recognition to now launching Connected Women in AI. She has built her career on vision, inclusion, and the ability to turn bold ideas into action. The conversation between Nataliya and Katrine explores the unique impact women bring to healthcare leadership, why their role in shaping AI matters more than ever, and how Katrine’s new platform ensures women aren’t just part of the conversation but are leading it.
Katrine’s career has been rooted in pharma and healthcare. She explained that she had spent decades working on innovation in these industries and emphasized how crucial it is to combine technical solutions with human insight, collaboration, and trust — especially in healthcare, where mistakes can affect patient outcomes.
She continued that this focus had always guided her work, but lately, her attention had shifted toward the world of artificial intelligence and the unique opportunities AI and data analytics present to everyone, particularly in healthcare.
What excites her most, Katrine said, is that this moment feels historic — a time when women can, to a much larger extent, define the trajectory of innovation. She pointed out that we’ve seen one technological revolution after another where women weren’t fully represented, and that’s exactly what inspires her now. Katrine added that she was looking forward to continuing the conversation around this topic.
Nataliya noted that Katrine had led in one of the most complex and regulated industries out there, doing so in a way that built trust and drove real transformation. She asked what women leaders in AI bring to healthcare that makes a difference; not just for companies, but for patients and the industry as a whole.
As with any industry today, Katrine reflected that healthcare, pharma, and life sciences need to embrace AI. She emphasized that this isn’t limited to healthcare alone, but she believes women have a strong role to play in it. It’s a broad conversation, but especially in AI and healthcare, women’s participation is key.
She explained that women bring strong qualities that can truly influence the success of innovation in new technologies. “I’m not saying men don’t have them,” she clarified, “but women have the opportunity to bring qualities that can make innovation more successful.”
She believes women have a unique opportunity to make AI successful, especially in healthcare.
It’s really about how you bring people along. How do we build trust? How do we make AI part of real workflows?
She added that, while this applies to many industries, in healthcare, we must succeed.
Katrine recalled that she used to say diversity is a catalyst for added value and a source of competitive edge. Without that diversity, she’s not sure if we’ll achieve the full success that AI in healthcare can offer.
Nataliya noted that AI is changing healthcare faster than anyone imagined. But big shifts like this aren’t automatically inclusive. She asked Katrine why it’s critical for women to be front and center in this AI evolution — and what risks we run if they’re not.
From Katrine’s perspective, women naturally think broadly — across multiple tasks, multiple adoption layers — and that kind of thinking adds depth to innovation. This is why it’s so important for women leaders in Data and AI to be there.
She shared an analogy:
I read an article once asking, are you a good cook? My mom could cook twenty different dishes at the same time and still bring them all to the table perfectly. That’s a great example of why it’s so valuable to have women at the heart, in the center, of leadership and innovation — because we’re used to managing multiple tracks at once.
Katrine went on to say that she’s opposed to singling out individuals too often, though. The reason, she explained, is that she frequently hears people say, ‘We can’t find any women to speak at our conference,’ or ‘There are no top women in AI or tech’ “I hear this so much,” she said, “and I regret it deeply because there’s so much talent out there. That’s my mission — to make sure it’s seen.”
She said that when asked to highlight a single example, she always hesitates, but if she had to name one, it would be someone who has been both a customer and a friend, a well-known figure in healthcare, and also a customer and friend of Nataliya’s: Alejandra Betancourt from Novo Nordisk.
Katrine explained that Alejandra has truly embraced technology at its core and is driving innovation in how Novo Nordisk uses tech to improve healthcare. “She’s a great role model,” Katrine said, “showing how a female leader can thrive in such a tech-centered position and really excel at it.” She added that there are many more women like her — but if she started naming them all, she could spend the entire interview talking about these amazing leaders.
Turning to the issue of diversity, Katrine explained that the risk of excluding women — or of women not including themselves — is very real and very concrete. “When we talk about healthcare,” she said, “it’s not just about efficiency — it’s about people’s lives.”
If women aren’t represented in developing these systems, she warned, we risk creating blind spots. “Millions of people depend on these technologies,” she added, “and half of the population is women.” She pointed out that there are already plenty of examples in healthcare where diagnostic algorithms were trained mainly on male data, which means some diseases go undetected in women.
Katrine emphasized:
This isn’t a tech flaw. It’s a diversity flaw — because women weren’t there in the innovation and conception phases.
Nataliya noted that Katrine could easily have stepped back after her time as CEO, but instead, she chose to double down and build something new — Connected Women in AI. She asked what the driving idea behind it was, what change Katrine wanted to see, and what was truly motivating her.
Katrine said that when she stepped out of her CEO role, she had already been “bitten by the AI bug.” She laughed and added that she sometimes calls it her “AI epiphany.” To her, AI is a transformative technology — one that’s going to change everything.
She explained that this realization actually happened while she was still at Anthill, when the company launched its first AI product. Even after she left her role, Katrine found herself drawn back to the topic again and again.
That was what led her to create Connected Women in AI. The idea was to act on that sense of urgency — to make sure women don’t just participate in the AI movement (and even that is still a challenge), but also lead it, shape it, and benefit from it equally.
Katrine shared that the response so far has been overwhelming. “We’ve been running for ten months,” she said, “and we already have five thousand women in the community.” Most of the current activity is based in Denmark, a small country, as she pointed out, but the scale of engagement has shown just how strong the need really is.
There’s such a huge demand for community building, for access to mentors, peers, and real conversations. There’s also a big need for capability — connections, resources, and opportunities to build skills and confidence in this area.
Finally, Katrine said, there’s a clear need for change itself — cultural change, systemic change — and that’s exactly what she’s passionate about now.
The opportunity is amazing. It’s historic. And what’s even more encouraging is seeing the willingness and readiness from women to really step into this space. Not just in AI in pharma, but other industries as well.
Katrine’s story is evidently deeply inspiring. Hence, no wonder that, after finding out that over 5,000 women in Denmark were already on the platform, Nataliya wanted to join as well — to bring that same energy and sense of transformation to Viseven.
At the core, everyone in the industry is driven by purpose. “Whether we’re on the vendor side or the customer side,” Nataliya said, “we’re bringing people together, bringing more light into the industry, creating value, and sharing it.” Nataliya then asked what message Katrine most wanted listeners to take away — whether they were just starting out or already in leadership — and how those who wanted to be part of Connected Women in AI could get involved.
Katrine said the main message she wanted to leave was simple: don’t wait for permission.
The future is being written right now. And the female perspective is needed. It doesn’t matter whether someone is a student, a healthcare professional, a leader, or a man — everyone can make an impact by engaging, learning, and connecting.
Her advice was straightforward: “Find your community. Find the upskilling opportunities that are shaped for you.” Connected Women in AI is one of those communities. After just ten months, it already includes more than five thousand members, and this fall, the team is launching an online membership program to meet growing international demand.
Nataliya agreed, adding that this was a great example of how women can share inspiration with one another.
We don’t need permission. What we need is confidence, power, and intelligence — and industries, not just pharma and life sciences, will welcome us as experts and professionals. We can achieve that together, helping one another, sharing knowledge, and learning from both success and failure.
