Archives: Agenda

• Fostering transparent and constant communication with CROs and other suppliers to minimize delays and ensure timelines stay on track
• Ensuring your suppliers’ goals align with your study goals
• Monitoring CRO and supplier performance with clearly defined KPIs
• Aligning on project timelines, milestones and quality expectations from the beginning

MODERATOR
Rich Polgar, Managing Director, Danforth Advisors

• The importance of transferrable skills and assessing potential hires based on more than direct industry experience
• Challenging your mindset to expand your talent pipeline
• Integrating fresh perspectives and how this can drive innovation and broaden your knowledge
• Onboarding and supporting cross-sector hires for long term impact and retention

• Why today’s constraints make nimbleness essential
  Innovative approaches to accelerate time to market
• Creating an ecosystem of collaborations that inspire and enable flexibility

• Focus of the innovation and phase of AI implementation (pilot, partial implementation, full implementation) as well as the organizational resources required to deploy the innovation
• Impact on cycle times and costs
• Key challenges to implementation and how they have been addressed by organizations
• Metrics tracked and outcomes that have resulted

• Understanding the provider-patient conversations: point-of-patient and provider discussions to shape trial design that is patient centric
• Survey design: creating questions focused on patient and caregiver needs during the trial and post-trial to keep patients engaged and enrolled leading to better outcomes
• Share your Rare Action: mention your post-session action to improve your process that includes rare patients, caregivers, and non-profits

• Define AI use across the biotech industry
• Provide a framework for when and how to incorporate AI into clinical trials
• Uncover areas where AI is relatively easy to use within your current corporate environment
• Share real-world examples of how rare disease focused companies are leveraging AI to expedite drug development

• Engaging with patient advocacy groups to uncover true patient needs
• Incorporating patient insights early on in design and launch plans
• Identifying clinical trial design elements that may hinder recruitment and retention
• De-risking development programs by aligning with patient priorities
• Real world case studies on how advocacy input shaped treatment selection, clinical trial design, and trial results dessemination