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Our 2026 agenda 

An agenda built through deep collaboration with our community to ensure every session delivers substance over soundbites. You’ll hear from true subject matter leaders via candid case studies, collaborative roundtables, and varied panel discussions —providing clarity on what’s driving success across the clinical development landscape

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8 July 2025

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Full agenDA
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Future-Proofing Clinical Trial Portfolios for Scale and Agility
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Smarter Trial Design
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Community-Led Trial
Recruitment and Engagement
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AI-Enabled Trial
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Reimagine Clinical Development:
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Day One - October 5

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07:30 – 09:00

Keynotes

Registration and Breakfast


11:20 – 12:20

INTERACTIVE ROOMS

Chair Address

Kick start the day with a clear view of the priorities, challenges, and opportunities shaping clinical innovation today.

11:20 – 12:20

Keynote Presentation

From Pipeline to Patient: Building an End-to-End Clinical Development Engine

• Strengthen pipeline value and trial execution by developing end-to-end drug development capabilities and leveraging innovative development matrices, integrated protocols, and long-acting treatment approaches to better address complex patient needs.
• Enable faster, more collaborative clinical development by forming strategic partnerships where speed, shared expertise, and patient impact are embedded as core drivers of success.

11:20 – 12:20

Keynote Presentation

Embed Agentic AI Across Trial Design, Delivery, and Oversight

• Accelerate protocol design and site selection decisions by deploying agentic AI to continuously synthesise feasibility, recruitment, and monitoring data into prioritized, actionable recommendations

• Maintain regulatory compliance and patient safety by embedding human oversight checkpoints and governance frameworks that ensure agentic AI operates transparently within defined boundaries

11:20 – 12:20

Executive Leadership Panel Discussion

Future-proofing clinical trial portfolios: embedding AI for smarter, faster development at scale

• Strengthen portfolio resilience by leveraging AI-driven insights to optimize trial site selection and operating models to evolving regulation and patient access needs
• Scale agile, inclusive trial portfolios by embedding decentralized approaches and AI-enabled tools to reduce access barriers and support long-term clinical development priorities

12:20 – 13:40

Integrated portfolio approach

Coffee Break & Extended Speaker Q&A

Grab a coffee and join our speakers from this morning's sessions to get the chance to ask your questions directly.

13:40 – 14:00

case study 

Establish Stronger Trial Partnerships with Strategic Site Relationship Management

• Deliver consistently high-quality trial data by building continuous feedback loops with sites to identify risks in real time and enable rapid, targeted intervention

• Maintain regulatory compliance and patient safety by embedding human oversight checkpoints and governance frameworks that ensure agentic AI operates transparently within defined boundaries

14:00 – 14:20

Presentation

Achieve Optimal Clinical Trial Performance Through Data-Backed Site Intelligence

• Improve trial performance by building continuous feedback loops with sites to identify risks in real time and enable rapid, targeted intervention.
• Inform smarter portfolio and operational decisions by using site-level insights to guide where, when, and how resources are deployed across studies.

14:20 – 14:40

Fireside chat

Quality by design, oversight by intent: building end-to-end frameworks that drive safer, smarter trial delivery

• Strengthen sponsor oversight by embedding quality by design principles and central monitoring at site level to trigger targeted interventions when risk thresholds are met
• Drive proactive improvement through a collaborative RBQM framework that connects sponsors, study teams and sites, creating ongoing feedback loops that surface risks early and support more informed, responsive decision-making

15:20 - 16:00

Interactivity

Interactive working lunch break

Grab lunch and head to an interactive workshop or designated topic-based tables to connect with like-minded peers.

14:20 – 14:40

Interactive Workshops & Roundtables

Interactive lunch workshops

Get hands-on in interactive sessions designed to translate ideas into practical, real-world solutions.

Session One: Revolutionizing patient recruitment in the digital world: harnessing digital marketing, social media, and patient advocacy to improve efficiency.


Session Two: Balancing innovation and risk: how far should AI shape trial design and RWE?


Session Three: Patient-centricity in clinical trials: moving beyond the buzzword to evaluate real-world application in trial design, conduct and outcomes

14:20 – 14:40

Interactive Workshops & Roundtables

 

Interactive lunch meet & eat tables

Grab lunch and head to a designated topic-based tables to continue the conversations and connect with like-minded peers.

16:20 – 16:40

Presentation

Bridge the Patient Voice Gap to Strengthen Clinical Protocols

• Improve trial feasibility and recruitment outcomes by creating structured feedback loops with patients that translate real-world insights on awareness, trust, and participation experience into more accessible and better-designed protocols.
• Strengthen patient retention via continuously capturing and acting on patient perspectives around data transparency, AI use, and communication preferences to shape personalized engagement strategies.

16:40 – 17:20

Presentation

Build a Site Infrastructure That Closes the Patient Recruitment Gap

• Accelerate enrollment timelines by deploying site-centric development models that expand access to underserved patient populations in competitive, multi-sponsor study environments.
• Build scalable recruitment models by equipping sites and participants with integrated digital tools and standardized workflows needed to replace one-off tactics with repeatable, data-driven patient access strategies.

09:10-09:30

Panel Discussion

Creating Trial-Ready Communities to Boost Recruitment and Retention

• Improve recruitment rates and strengthen retention by building meaningful, insight-led engagement with patient communities from the earliest stages of enrollment planning.
• Create more diverse and accessible recruitment pathways via combining digital tools with direct community involvement to build trust, expand reach, and strengthen patient participation.

17:20 – 18:30

Omnichannel Optimization

Coffee Break & Extended Speaker Q&A

Grab a coffee and join our speakers from this afternoon's sessions to get the chance to ask your questions directly.

09:30 – 09:50

Presentation

Before the protocol: using AI to build an evidence intelligence layer for better trial decisions

• Remove the hidden bottleneck in clinical innovation by moving beyond document repositories and use AI to create structured evidence assets
• Support protocol design, competitive intelligence, indication strategy and evidence generation planning with AI-backed, human reviewed evidence intelligence

09:50-10:30

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From Noise to Signal: Using AI to Unlock the Full Value of Your Trial Data

• Reduce the resource cost of data cleaning and query resolution by applying AI-powered automation to identify inconsistencies, anomalies, and missing data points across datasets in real time.
• Build clearer and more compelling evidence packages with AI-driven analysis to help surface meaningful patterns across complex, multi-source datasets.

11:00 – 11:20

Interactive Workshops & Roundtables

Interactive roundtable discussions

Get hands-on in interactive sessions designed to translate ideas into practical, real-world solutions.


Session One: Evolving Trial Oversight: Are Risk-Based Approaches Enough to Safeguard Quality, or Must New Models Take the Lead?


Session Two: Rethinking Site Selection: What Factors Should Truly Drive Selection in Modern Trials?


Session Three: Can the Industry Align Global Regulation Without Slowing Innovation?

12:00 – 12:40

Patient-led, pharma-deployed

Evening Networking Drinks

Wrap up the day with our evening drinks reception, the perfect place to continue the conversations after a full day of insights.

12:00 – 12:40

Patient-led, pharma-deployed

 

Day Two - October 6

Wrap up the day with our evening drinks reception, the perfect place to continue the conversations after a full day of insights.

12:40 – 14:00

Real-time Content Stratgey

Registration & Breakfast


00:00am-00:00pm

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Women in Leadership Community Networking Breakfast

Start the day with purpose – connecting, empowering, and elevating this generation of clinical leaders.

00:00am-00:00pm

Keynote Presentation

Rewiring Clinical Development Teams to Deliver on the Promise of Innovation

• Drive the organizational change needed to turn innovation investment into frontline impact by breaking down silos, realigning incentives, and embedding patient-centric accountability across clinical teams

• Scale innovation beyond pilots by transforming partnerships and technology into enterprise-wide capability through the right infrastructure, governance, and ways of working

00:00am-00:00pm

Presentation

From Automation to Autonomy: How Agentic AI Is Transforming Clinical Trials

• Improve trial monitoring by deploying agentic AI to continuously scan multiple diverse data sets for delivery risks and recommend next best operational action.
• Accelerate execution and avoid delays via streamlining data workflows with AI agents that automate routine reviews and route insights to the right teams for rapid intervention.

00:00am-00:00pm

Executive Leadership Panel Discussion

Redefining Trial Success in the Era of Precision Medicine and Targeted Therapies

• Sharpen pipeline decision-making and resource allocation by moving beyond traditional trial metrics and adopting outcome frameworks that better reflect smaller, more targeted patient populations, where conventional success measures no longer tell the full story.
• Future-proof your evidence generation strategy by aligning trial design, endpoint selection, and data approaches to the evolving and often competing expectations of patients, payers, and regulators.

00:00am-00:00pm

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Coffee Break & Extended Speaker Q&A

Grab a coffee and join our speakers from this morning's sessions to get the chance to ask your questions directly.

00:00am-00:00pm

Presentation

Protect Your Pipeline from Late-Stage Failure Through Adaptive Trial Design Decision-Making

• Reduce the cost of portfolio attrition by using data-driven, agile protocol design to identify and act on early efficacy and safety signals before they reach expensive Phase II and III stages.
• Maximize ROI by integrating flexible, modular trial frameworks that allow rapid reallocation of resources across programs in response to emerging data.

00:00am-00:00pm

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Strengthen Trial Data by Embedding Decentralized Models into Your Clinical Strategy

• Expand access to underrepresented and geographically dispersed patient populations by removing logistical barriers through remote participation, telehealth visits, and local healthcare provider integration.
• Generate richer, more diverse evidence across your portfolio by leveraging real-time data capture and continuous remote monitoring to deepen the quality and breadth of findings across trial programs.

00:00am-00:00pm

Panel Discussion

Designing for the Real World: Integrating RWE to Strengthen Trials from Day One

• Reduce feasibility risk and strengthen the relevance of your evidence base by using patient registry, EHR, and claims data to validate inclusion/exclusion criteria against the realities of how patients present and progress in clinical practice.
• Shorten recruitment timelines and produce more generalizable findings by mapping real world patient pathways to identify the right sites, populations, and touchpoints before a trial launches.

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Concluding Networking Lunch

Wrap up the day over lunch, connecting with peers and reflecting on key insights and next steps.

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Day One - October 5

Session Description

11:20 – 12:20

Keynote Presentation

From Pipeline to Patient: Building an End-to-End Clinical Development Engine

• Strengthen pipeline value and trial execution by developing end-to-end drug development capabilities and leveraging innovative development matrices, integrated protocols, and long-acting treatment approaches to better address complex patient needs.
• Enable faster, more collaborative clinical development by forming strategic partnerships where speed, shared expertise, and patient impact are embedded as core drivers of success.

11:20 – 12:20

Keynote Presentation

Embed Agentic AI Across Trial Design, Delivery, and Oversight

• Accelerate protocol design and site selection decisions by deploying agentic AI to continuously synthesise feasibility, recruitment, and monitoring data into prioritized, actionable recommendations

• Maintain regulatory compliance and patient safety by embedding human oversight checkpoints and governance frameworks that ensure agentic AI operates transparently within defined boundaries

11:20 – 12:20

Executive Leadership Panel Discussion

Future-proofing clinical trial portfolios: embedding AI for smarter, faster development at scale

• Strengthen portfolio resilience by leveraging AI-driven insights to optimize trial site selection and operating models to evolving regulation and patient access needs
• Scale agile, inclusive trial portfolios by embedding decentralized approaches and AI-enabled tools to reduce access barriers and support long-term clinical development priorities

00:00am-00:00pm

session type

Day One - October 5

Session Description

13:40 – 14:00

Case study

Establish Stronger Trial Partnerships with Strategic Site Relationship Management

• Accelerate protocol design and site selection decisions by deploying agentic AI to continuously synthesise feasibility, recruitment, and monitoring data into prioritized, actionable recommendations

• Maintain regulatory compliance and patient safety by embedding human oversight checkpoints and governance frameworks that ensure agentic AI operates transparently within defined boundaries

14:00 – 14:20

Presentation

Achieve Optimal Clinical Trial Performance Through Data-Backed Site Intelligence

• Deliver consistently high-quality trial data by building continuous feedback loops with sites to identify risks in real time and enable rapid, targeted intervention

• Inform smarter portfolio and operational decisions by using site-level insights to guide where, when, and how resources are deployed across studies.

00:00am-00:00pm

Fireside chat

Quality by design, oversight by intent: building end-to-end frameworks that drive safer, smarter trial delivery

• Strengthen sponsor oversight by embedding quality by design principles and central monitoring at site level to trigger targeted interventions when risk thresholds are met
• Drive proactive improvement through a collaborative RBQM framework that connects sponsors, study teams and sites, creating ongoing feedback loops that surface risks early and support more informed, responsive decision-making

00:00am-00:00pm

session type

Day One - October 5

Session Description

16:20 – 16:40

Presentation

Bridge the Patient Voice Gap to Strengthen Clinical Protocols

• Improve trial feasibility and recruitment outcomes by creating structured feedback loops with patients that translate real-world insights on awareness, trust, and participation experience into more accessible and better-designed protocols.
• Strengthen patient retention via continuously capturing and acting on patient perspectives around data transparency, AI use, and communication preferences to shape personalized engagement strategies.

16:40 – 17:20

Presentation

Build a Site Infrastructure That Closes the Patient Recruitment Gap

• Accelerate enrollment timelines by deploying site-centric development models that expand access to underserved patient populations in competitive, multi-sponsor study environments.
• Build scalable recruitment models by equipping sites and participants with integrated digital tools and standardized workflows needed to replace one-off tactics with repeatable, data-driven patient access strategies.

09:10-09:30

Panel Discussion

Creating Trial-Ready Communities to Boost Recruitment and Retention

• Improve recruitment rates and strengthen retention by building meaningful, insight-led engagement with patient communities from the earliest stages of enrollment planning.
• Create more diverse and accessible recruitment pathways via combining digital tools with direct community involvement to build trust, expand reach, and strengthen patient participation.

00:00am-00:00pm

session type

Day One - October 5

Session Description

09:30 – 09:50

Presentation

Before the protocol: using AI to build an evidence intelligence layer for better trial decisions

• Remove the hidden bottleneck in clinical innovation by moving beyond document repositories and use AI to create structured evidence assets
• Support protocol design, competitive intelligence, indication strategy and evidence generation planning with AI-backed, human reviewed evidence intelligence

09:50-10:30

Presentation

From Noise to Signal: Using AI to Unlock the Full Value of Your Trial Data

• Reduce the resource cost of data cleaning and query resolution by applying AI-powered automation to identify inconsistencies, anomalies, and missing data points across datasets in real time.
• Build clearer and more compelling evidence packages with AI-driven analysis to help surface meaningful patterns across complex, multi-source datasets.

11:00 – 11:20

Interactive Workshops & Roundtables

Interactive Workshops & Roundtables

Get hands-on in interactive sessions designed to translate ideas into practical, real-world solutions.

Session One: Evolving Trial Oversight: Are Risk-Based Approaches Enough to Safeguard Quality, or Must New Models Take the Lead?

Evolving trial oversight: are risk-based approaches enough to safeguard quality, or must new models take the lead?


Session Two: Rethinking Site Selection: What Factors Should Truly Drive Selection in Modern Trials?

Rethinking site selection: what factors should truly drive selection in modern trials?


Session Three: Can the Industry Align Global Regulation Without Slowing Innovation?

Can the industry align global regulation without slowing innovation?

12:00 – 12:40

Patient-led, pharma-deployed

 

Day Two - October 6

Wrap up the day with our evening drinks reception, the perfect place to continue the conversations after a full day of insights.

00:00am-00:00pm

Keynote Presentation

Rewiring Clinical Development Teams to Deliver on the Promise of Innovation

• Drive the organizational change needed to turn innovation investment into frontline impact by breaking down silos, realigning incentives, and embedding patient-centric accountability across clinical teams

• Scale innovation beyond pilots by transforming partnerships and technology into enterprise-wide capability through the right infrastructure, governance, and ways of working

00:00am-00:00pm

Presentation

From Automation to Autonomy: How Agentic AI Is Transforming Clinical Trials

• Improve trial monitoring by deploying agentic AI to continuously scan multiple diverse data sets for delivery risks and recommend next best operational action.
• Accelerate execution and avoid delays via streamlining data workflows with AI agents that automate routine reviews and route insights to the right teams for rapid intervention.

00:00am-00:00pm

Executive Leadership Panel Discussion

Redefining Trial Success in the Era of Precision Medicine and Targeted Therapies

• Sharpen pipeline decision-making and resource allocation by moving beyond traditional trial metrics and adopting outcome frameworks that better reflect smaller, more targeted patient populations, where conventional success measures no longer tell the full story.
• Future-proof your evidence generation strategy by aligning trial design, endpoint selection, and data approaches to the evolving and often competing expectations of patients, payers, and regulators.

12:00 – 12:40

Patient-led, pharma-deployed

 

Day Two - October 6

Wrap up the day with our evening drinks reception, the perfect place to continue the conversations after a full day of insights.

00:00am-00:00pm

Presentation

Protect Your Pipeline from Late-Stage Failure Through Adaptive Trial Design Decision-Making

• Reduce the cost of portfolio attrition by using data-driven, agile protocol design to identify and act on early efficacy and safety signals before they reach expensive Phase II and III stages.
• Maximize ROI by integrating flexible, modular trial frameworks that allow rapid reallocation of resources across programs in response to emerging data.

00:00am-00:00pm

Presentation

Strengthen Trial Data by Embedding Decentralized Models into Your Clinical Strategy 

• Expand access to underrepresented and geographically dispersed patient populations by removing logistical barriers through remote participation, telehealth visits, and local healthcare provider integration.
• Generate richer, more diverse evidence across your portfolio by leveraging real-time data capture and continuous remote monitoring to deepen the quality and breadth of findings across trial programs.

00:00am-00:00pm

Panel Discussion

Designing for the Real World: Integrating RWE to Strengthen Trials from Day One

• Reduce feasibility risk and strengthen the relevance of your evidence base by using patient registry, EHR, and claims data to validate inclusion/exclusion criteria against the realities of how patients present and progress in clinical practice.
• Shorten recruitment timelines and produce more generalizable findings by mapping real world patient pathways to identify the right sites, populations, and touchpoints before a trial launches.

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