Sebastian Dreyfus

Sebastian Dreyfus

Managing Director Sparks EMEA
Seb Dreyfus leads EMEA for Sparks, the brand experience agency, where he's responsible for the region's client strategy, growth, and delivery. He sits on the company's global senior leadership team. With over 25 years leading agency and marketing businesses across Europe, Seb has spent some of his career helping pharmaceutical and healthcare brands navigate one of the hardest briefs in marketing: building trust with clinicians and patients inside heavily regulated environments. He has partnered with organisations including Allergan, GSK, Novartis, Medtronic, CVS Health, and Sandoz, helping develop and manage their brands within regulated and complex ecosystems — working across congress experiences, HCP engagement, and global launch programmes that turn complex science into moments of genuine connection. Before Sparks, Seb was CEO of Adgistics, a brand management system, and CMO of Octopus Group, which included Octopus Energy. He also held senior leadership roles at Rosetta Europe and Saatchi & Saatchi EMEA, where he ran the business across 24 markets. At Future Pharma, Seb will share what it takes to design experiences that influenced by behavioural science.

Day 1 | 20th October

11:00 AM Workshop 1 - TAKING AIM AT MOTIVATION: Decoding HCP Behaviour

Somewhere in Schiphol Airport is a tiny piece of design that quietly changed how thousands of people behave every day, without a single instruction, incentive, or request. You've probably walked past it. You may even have used it. We'll tell you where to find it, and why it matters more to your HCP strategy than most engagement plans do.


Because engagement without behaviour change is just noise. Behaviour starts with motivation: understand what an HCP actually wants from you, and you can design interventions that give them the same nudge that small piece of design gives visitors to Schiphol.


Hosted by Seb Dreyfus, MD, Sparks, and led by Dr Guy Champniss, this short, practical session takes a quick tour around the mechanics of HCP motivation. We'll get concrete about what a behaviour actually is (and isn't), and introduce a decision-making framework you can put to work on your HCP strategy straight away.


Then we'll turn the science into design. Trin Basra, Executive Creative Director, will show how the right design decisions can turn understanding a motivation into actually shifting a behaviour. A science-based experience is a repeatable one: it travels across your markets, your events programme, and flexes for your audience.


For brands that lead, never follow.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Sebastian.

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