Congress Noise → Signal

Turn a flood of congress abstracts, presentations, and commentary into a prioritized intelligence brief.

AI Pill #0101 min readCongress coverageFeedly AIPerplexityNotebookLM

This week's problem

Congress coverage collapses when the team tries to summarize everything. The real job is prioritization. What changed? What matters for the brand, competitors, evidence plan, and client decisions? Everything else is conference noise.

3 Useful AI Links

01Feedly AI

Track companies, topics, product launches, and biopharma signals across a large source set.

02Perplexity

Run fast source-linked scans for emerging congress themes and external reactions.

03NotebookLM

Interrogate an approved set of abstracts and presentations with citations back to the source.

Workflow To Steal

Congress objectives + tracked topics
Collect public or approved sources
Tag each item by relevance and novelty
Compare findings against the pre-congress baseline
Publish a what changed / why it matters brief

Copy-paste prompt

Act as a congress intelligence lead. Analyze only the source material I provide and separate signal from noise.

Congress: [Name and date]
Audience: [Internal team or client audience]
Priority topics: [Topics, brands, competitors, mechanisms, endpoints, or populations]
Pre-congress baseline: [What was already known]
Source material: [Paste approved abstracts, notes, links, or presentation text]
Classify each item as Breakthrough, Meaningful update, Confirmatory, or Low relevance.
State what is genuinely new versus already known.
Explain the clinical, competitive, and strategic implication.
Provide the exact supporting source location.
End with the five developments the team should discuss first.

Do not rank novelty without comparing it with the baseline.

Flag uncertainty and missing context.

Do not upload embargoed or confidential congress material to an unapproved tool.

Best for

Congress coverageCompetitive updatesMedical strategyLiterature scansClient recommendations

Verdict

A congress recap is not intelligence. The value comes from showing what changed and what the team should do about it. AI can triage the volume. Humans still make the call.