Video podcast · MedTech & Pharma
Executives, managers and early-career professionals take on the same topic, then meet in one room. Honest conversations about regulation, clinical trials and how work really gets done.
Latest episode Episode 1- Introducing The Open Circle | A MedTech & Pharma Podcast 
Our story
Vidya started at a lab bench, studying new ways to fight drug-resistant bacteria. Priya started in a pediatric therapy room, working with children and their families. Over the next two decades, Vidya moved into pharma program and regulatory leadership, and Priya into medical device regulatory affairs.
We have each been the individual contributor, the manager and the leader. In both industries we kept seeing the same thing: the most useful conversations about regulation, clinical trials and how work really gets done rarely include every level at once.
The Open Circle pulls up those chairs.
On YouTube, we sit down with executives, managers and early- to mid-career professionals in MedTech and Pharma to talk about what is happening in the field, and how it looks from each seat.
30+ years of combined experience
Pull up a chair
Most industry podcasts interview one senior leader. We hear the same topic from three levels, so every seat gets something.
Honest insight into how decisions are made above you, plus career lessons from people who have made the climb.
Ways to translate strategy for your team, and a clear read on what your team needs from you.
A direct view of how your decisions land across the organization, from the people they land on.
An inside look at regulatory, clinical and product careers, and the paths people took to get there.
How a season works
Each quarter is a season of four episodes on one theme. We hear it from the top, the middle and the front line, then bring all three guests together to compare notes.
Executive seat · 30–45 min
One-on-one with a C-level leader on strategy, risk and where the industry is heading.
Manager seat · 30–45 min
A people manager or function lead on turning direction into plans, and teams into results.
Team seat · 30–45 min
An early- to mid-career professional on the day-to-day work and what reaches them.
Roundtable · 45–60 min
All three guests with Vidya and Priya: where the views line up, where they don't, and what to do about it.
Seasons alternate every quarter between MedTech and Pharma.
What makes it different
What we talk about
Every episode covers a live topic in the field and asks how it is decided, communicated and carried out at each level.
Spotting shifts in guidance and policy early, and getting that signal to the people who need it.
Submissions, agency interactions and the handoffs that make or break a filing.
Design, operations and site partnerships, and keeping patients at the center of the timeline.
Design controls, quality systems and bringing devices from concept to market.
Pipelines, development decisions and how strategy reaches the teams that deliver it.
From AI-enabled discovery to AI governance: what changes for the people doing the work.
Where expectations and information get lost between levels, and how teams close the gap.
Your hosts
More than three decades of combined experience across pharma and medical devices. Both hosts lead RAPS Southern California networking groups, so the circle comes with a community built in.
MS, MBA, PMP
Lab bench AI drug discovery & regulatory leadership
Life sciences portfolio, program, and regulatory leader with more than 18 years of experience spanning AI-enabled drug discovery, preclinical and clinical development, global regulatory submissions, and cross-functional R&D execution.
MBA, RAC-Devices, PMP
Therapy room Global device regulation & AI governance
Regulatory affairs, policy, and digital transformation leader with nearly two decades of healthcare experience, including nine years of focused medical device regulatory practice.
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Be a guest
We're looking for executives, managers and early- to mid-career professionals in MedTech and Pharma. Nominate a colleague, or yourself. It only takes a few minutes.
