Archives: Agenda

FIRESIDE CHAT Considerations and best practice for working effectively with vendors and partners

  • The importance of integrated systems with CMOs: how much integration is useful?
  • Considerations when choosing technology partners in order to facilitate a strong partnership
  • Balancing degree of oversight over vendors and partners: how involved should you be?
  • Designing your vendor strategy: is it beneficial to work with multiple vendors or with one single partner?
  • Ensuring a successful relationship with vendors, CMOs and other partners: tips and tricks

PANEL DISCUSSION Enhancing communication and relationships between clinical supply and other stakeholders to improve collaboration and outcomes

  • Breaking down silos to include clinical supply team in collaborations with other departments such as clinical operations, quality, CMC
  • Changing internal mindsets to view clinical supply team as part of the company rather than considering them a service provider
  • Establishing robust communication plans which in turn accelerates drug development, speeds up trials and helps mitigate risk

Maximizing strategic trial success through domain knowledge, operational leadership, and clinical supply expertise

This session will explore how deep industry expertise and operational leadership drive innovation in clinical trial design and execution, fostering strategic success. Through adaptive strategies and practical insights, it will showcase how expert-led teams partner with study teams to address challenges, enhance outcomes, and uphold trial integrity.

  • Aligning trial design to anticipate and address challenges proactively
  • Strategies of experienced teams to help sponsors avoid common pitfalls, such as randomization errors, to ensure trial success
  • Insights into navigating complex scenarios like First-In-Human (FIH) trials with expert-driven risk management
  • The role of operational distinction in maintaining data integrity and trial credibility

Panel Discussion: Harmonising global R&D and clinical supply operations

  • What is the importance of driving optimisation across each step of the clinical supply chain journey?
  • How can we streamline resource utilisation in other critical processes of the drug discovery and development journey through integrated supply operations and precision logistics?
  • What are the essential requirements for achieving harmonisation in clinical supply operations across multiple stakeholders, strategic providers, and vendors?