Archives: Agenda

📊 LIVE POLL

• How to reposition CTS from a pure logistics function to a strategic partner and enable teams to advocate their value internally to improve ClinOps outcomes
• Protocol vs. Reality: How to close the gap between protocol design and operational reality through early collaboration to ensure the supply chain matches the realities of patient care
• How to establish shared goals, KPIs, and communication frameworks between CTS and ClinOps to sustain alignment and ongoing collaboration throughout the study

Panelists will share their perspectives in short, dynamic talks
Each company addresses a set of thought-provoking prompts:

• Biggest mistake in clinical trials today

• One thing pharma should stop doing

• Navigating Funding Challenges

• One prediction for 2030

• What’s overhyped vs. what’s worth the hype

• What vendors misunderstand

• Where trials fail most often

• Biggest recruitment mistake

• Early engagement between clinical operations and the manufacturing network for the biggest impact on waste

• Forecasting and supply strategies to reduce waste without increasing stock-out risks

• Organizational foundations to enable effective inventory and waste management

• Advanced Modalities, biomarkers, amendments, DCTs, globalization
• How data and early signals can help anticipate shifts in supply chain needs, competitive intelligence and site selection.
• Navigating challenges around CDMO and supply chain vendor planning and selection

 📊 LIVE POLL

• What can we actually do about our demand planning data strategy? 
• How can planners move towards supporting decision-making to help make trial supply more efficient? 
• What specific processes or governance models work best in your organizations to align data collection and strategic decision-making? 
• How do you strike the right balance between over and under planning? 
• AI and the Future of Planning: How planning will be automated in the future