Archives: Agenda

Finding the perfect match: Selecting and supporting the right oncology sites in an increasingly competitive landscape by rethinking selection, readiness and partnerships

  • Overcoming site readiness challenges through targeted education, certification, and operational support, ensuring sites are equipped and committed from day one
  • Competing smarter in a crowded oncology landscape by making your trial more attractive to sites through simplified protocols, better support, and stronger partnerships
  • Moving beyond traditional site selection to identify truly trial-ready sites, assessing infrastructure, staff capacity, competing studies, and long-term engagement potential
  • Redefining sponsor–site collaboration with more flexible, locally informed strategies that prioritize feasibility, performance, and sustainable site relationships
  • Addressing the growing divide between academic and community sites, and unlocking new models to expand access, improve recruitment, and reduce site drop-off

 

What strategic investors want in 2027 and how smaller biotechs can compete

  • Navigating the VC & strategic investment landscape: Understanding fund priorities, timing, and risk thresholds to position your trial and company for maximum appeal amid intense competition for limited budgets
  • Crafting a compelling narrative, highlighting niche advantages, and strengthening your pipeline to secure funding partnerships that bridge financial gaps and accelerate oncology innovation
  • How adaptive designs, decentralized elements, synthetic control arms, and AI-driven efficiencies can make oncology studies more capital-efficient and more attractive to venture capital and strategic investors
  • Avoiding bankruptcy risk for biotechs with clear early efficacy signals, validated biomarkers and programs with strong regulatory alignment

Beyond expansion: Why Canada belongs in your primary trial strategy

With a disproportionately large number of patients willing to participate in global studies, Canada’s world-class researchers and diverse patient population, trial cost efficiency, robust health authority with reliable process times, consistent data quality, and national therapeutic expertise in oncology make it an attractive country for enrollment to your global clinical trial program. This presentation explores how to succeed with your oncology trial in Canada with insights on:

  • The Perception Gap
  • How Sponsors Receive: Predictability – Speed – Quality – Partner Accountability
  • Competitive Structural Advantages
  • Real-World Global Trial Examples
  • What to Expect in a Partner for the Region

From protocol design to operational reality: Making clinical trials work before they start

  • Transforming Protocol to Execution: How AIKA uses advanced AI to streamline protocol generation, enhance feasibility analysis, and reduce study start-up timelines.
  • Data-Driven Decision Support: Leveraging real-time operational insights and predictive analytics to improve trial performance and risk mitigation.
  • Scaling Clinical Operations: Practical examples of AIKA in action, from automated task orchestration to cross-functional collaboration that drives efficiency and quality.

KEYNOTE: Engaging CRO partners earlier: A collaborative outsourced operating model for faster early-phase oncology trials

  • Building an operating model that aligns sponsors, CROs, and clinical sites around shared timelines and delivery expectations
  • Operational strategies for condensing early-phase development timelines while maintaining trial quality and oversight
  • Cellectar Biosciences case study: Lessons from a COO on partnering with CROs and clinical sites to rapidly execute studies and meet key clinical milestones
  • Managing operational complexity when multiple partners support a single oncology program