- Baselining the magnitude of China Biotech & Pharma
- Understanding the shift for the broader industry
- Reflecting on China market realities
- Implications for agencies, contractors, and vendors
- The way out
Archives: Agenda
KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION Strengthening trial resilience by navigating FDA volatility and global uncertainty
- Exploring how regulatory and economic shifts disrupt timelines
- Supporting teams to adapt while protecting patient access
- Strengthening readiness for rapid pivots in study delivery
Moderator:
Mary MacDonald, Director, Clinical Quality Assurance, Eisai
More than blood draws: bringing human connection back to research
- Exploring community-based research solutions — particularly mobile visits — beyond simple procedural support, toward a more holistic, human-centered approach
- Demonstrating how mobile research clinicians deliver far more than sample collection, bringing diverse skilled clinician types directly to patients’ homes and communities to perform complex protocol activities
- Highlighting how expanded clinical capability strengthens trust, enhances patient experience and drives high-quality data collection, reinforcing human presence as a key differentiator in an increasingly technology-driven research environment
CASE STUDY Optimizing resourcing models by evolving from full outsourcing to flexible FSP partnerships
- Exploring lessons from shifting between outsourcing models
- Supporting clearer expectations between sponsors and CROs
- Strengthening RBQM alignment across portfolios
Streamlining sponsor oversight in outsource trials: reducing redundancies and enhancing decision efficiency
- Defining clear roles between sponsors and vendors in hybrid models to avoid overlap
- Facilitating seamless exchange of operational metrics and risk indicators across vendors ensuring proactive oversight and responsive decisions
- Implementing risk-based oversight to focus on what matters most eliminating redundancies while enhancing quality
- Designing governance frameworks that accelerate decision making while ensuring continuous inspection readiness
PANEL DISCUSSION Beyond the checkbox: vendor oversight challenges and insights
- Understand when oversight creates real value versus when it’s just a checkbox
- Hear what vendors wish sponsors would stop doing (and vice versa)
- Explore 3 key pillars of oversight: relationship management, performance management, and quality & compliance
- Learn how industry leaders are navigating the hardest parts of risk-based oversight: scalability, regulatory complexity, and the resource-intensive nature of the work
- Walk away with practical insights you can apply to your own oversight plan — whether you’re building one from scratch or maturing an existing program
Moderator: Peter Haessig, Head of Client Partnerships, Diligent Pharma
VivoSense: The wearable sensor CRO who biopharma trusts when digital evidence must withstand regulatory scrutiny
- How well‑designed digital measures deliver measurable ROI in clinical trials by reducing missing data, improving statistical power, accelerating timelines, and preventing costly trial rework or failure
- How an end‑to‑end Wearable Sensor CRO delivery model integrates scientific strategy, operational oversight, and analytics to consistently produce regulatory‑ready datasets
- Real‑world case examples showing how proactive compliance monitoring and fit‑for‑purpose algorithms dramatically improve data completeness and statistical power
- The critical role of disease‑specific digital endpoint design versus off‑the‑shelf wearable algorithms in capturing meaningful treatment effects
- Practical guidance for clinical operations and outsourcing teams on reducing sponsor burden while scaling wearable technologies across global trials
Lunch and networking
Maintaining inspection readiness in clinical trials by navigating regulatory uncertainty and evolving expectations
- Demonstrating good faith compliance with emerging expectations
- Documenting rationale and regulatory intelligence in trial files
- Engaging with FDA proactively to validate regulatory strategy