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

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

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

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