12:07 PM

Sponsored by: State of the Clinical Trial Landscape—Key Trends and Expectations for 2026

Decode Trial Growth: Understand which types of clinical trials truly increased in 2025, factoring in reporting lags, start-date shifts, and withdrawn studies. Understand the true market size. Know Where to Focus: Get clarity on growth by therapy, modality, geography, and sponsor type to align your focus and competitive advantage with the clinical research market shift. Spot Signals Early: Learn how hirings, patents, and other data reveal opportunity before it’s reported in clinical trial registries and products. Prepare for 2026 and Beyond: Understand forecasts for 2026 and beyond to align sales, competitive intelligence, capacity, and strategy.

12:45 PM

Sponsored by: Innovative Models for Aligning Incentives for Clinical Trials in the Age of AI

Ariel Katz and Robert Stevens are thrilled to be teaming up for a fireside chat! They're excited to bring their combined expertise to the stage and create a dynamic, conversational experience.

3:55 PM

Sponsored by: Beyond the Hype: What It Really Takes to AI-Author Clinical Trial Documents

Generative AI is gaining rapid attention in clinical research, but turning promise into production remains a challenge, especially for clinical trial documentation, where accuracy, traceability, and regulatory rigor are non-negotiable. In this session, Jef Benbanaste, SVP & Head of Product at Veridix, shares real-world lessons learned and success stories from applying AI to clinical trial document authoring across protocols, statistical analysis plans, clinical study reports, and operational plans. Drawing from live deployments, the talk explores what it takes to move beyond experimentation, including the role of intelligent agents, curated knowledge bases, and content- and context-aware generation in creating scalable, reviewable, and compliant authoring workflows. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of what has worked, what hasn’t, and the practical design and organizational decisions that matter most when adopting AI for clinical trial documentation.

4:20 PM

Sponsored by: Elevating Clinical Data Management: Using Next-Gen AI and Automation to Streamline Data Collection & Review Processes

In this presentation, we explore how AI and Automation plays a key role in streamlining clinical data management processes, focusing on data aggregation from multiple sources, improving data review, medical monitoring processes, and query management. We will also talk about how a strong data foundation is essential to enabling these capabilities at scale. By the end, you will see how these innovations can lead to more efficient, reliable, compliant, and scalable clinical data workflows.

5:10 PM

Sponsored by: Redefining Clinical Operations: The Power of Integrated Agentic AI Platform in Action

Clinical development is often slowed by fragmented systems and inefficiencies in patient recruitment, site selection, trial optimization, and continuous monitoring. We present an AI-enabled life sciences solution that integrates diverse data sources to streamline operations. By leveraging predictive and reasoning models, automated insights, and real-time performance tracking, it enhances recruitment, optimizes site selection, and proactively monitors trials, resulting in faster timelines, improved compliance and ultimately bringing new therapies to patients more quickly and safely.

8:00 AM

BREAFAST PRESENTATION OPTION #1:
Sponsored by: Reaching the Unreachable: Proven Strategies You Can Apply to Engage Underserved Populations in Global Clinical Trials

Underserved populations are often excluded from clinical trials, limiting engagement, scientific validity, and real-world relevance. Traditional strategies often rely on outdated assumptions and overlook patient realities. This session reveals proven, globally scalable strategies to engage these communities through real-world data (RWD), behavioral insights, and human-centered approaches—replacing guesswork with precision to accelerate inclusive trial enrollment and shorten study timelines.

8:00 AM

BREAKFAST PRESENTATION OPTION #2:
Sponsored by: From Elusive to Enrolled: A Case Study in Precision Recruitment 

As the pace of innovation accelerates, scientific breakthroughs bring new hope to patients. Effectively including and supporting underrepresented populations is critical for the success of clinical trials designed to benefit these communities. GCI Health’s experts will share their “secret sauce” for building meaningful engagement with niche communities along with a real-world example of its methodology in action through its work with the University of Florida’s traumatic brain injury trial.

8:35 AM

Sponsored by: How Causal AI, Powered by Data, Is Revolutionizing ClinOps: Optimized Site Selection and Real-Time Dashboards

PhaseV ClinOps Platform brings precision to site selection by integrating multi-modal patient- and site-level data with causal AI, enhancing diversity and boosting efficiency. Real-time dashboards provide continuous oversight of recruitment, adherence, and site performance, while predictive “what-if” analytics enable proactive decisions, reduce risk, and support adaptive trial execution from day one.

9:35 AM

Sponsored by: Leveraging a Data-Mesh Framework in Clinical Trials

Data mesh, a decentralized architectural framework that enables domain teams to own and govern their data while facilitating cross-domain analysis, addresses the unique challenges of clinical trial operations by democratizing access to trial data while maintaining strict regulatory compliance and patient privacy standards.Data mesh, a decentralized architectural framework that enables domain teams to own and govern their data while facilitating cross-domain analysis, addresses the unique challenges of clinical trial operations by democratizing access to trial data while maintaining strict regulatory compliance and patient privacy standards.

9:50 AM

Sponsored by: How to Build an AI Study-Simplification System

In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, digitalization is more than just going paperless—it’s about transforming the way we operate, connect, and deliver value. At the heart of this transformation is Artificial Intelligence (AI), a powerful force driving automation, insight, and innovation. As we digitalize our workflows, data, and services, we unlock the potential for AI to enhance decision-making, streamline operations, and personalize experiences at scale. Together, digitalization provides the foundation and AI delivers the intelligence—enabling smarter systems, more agile organizations, and deeper customer engagement. By embracing both, we’re not just adopting new technologies—we’re building a future where efficiency, creativity, and data-driven efficiencies go hand-in-hand.

12:30 PM

Sponsored by: The Hidden Cost of Misaligned Protocols—and How to Fix It

Eighty percent of clinical trials fail to meet enrollment targets, often due to misaligned eligibility criteria and protocol design that doesn’t reflect real-world clinical practice. By leveraging real-world data (RWD) during protocol development—especially when defining inclusion and exclusion criteria—sponsors can reduce costly amendments, improve recruitment efficiency, increase patient diversity and increase the likelihood of meeting their target enrollment. This is the critical moment—before trial initiation—when thoughtful design can make or break a study. A holistic review involving clinical stakeholders ensures criteria are interpretable within EHR systems and aligned with how care is actually delivered. Understanding how diagnoses are documented, labs are ordered, and procedures are performed helps sponsors create protocols that sites can easily interpret, execute effectively, and ultimately improving trial outcomes.

9:00 AM

Sponsored by: From Trial Data to Confident Decisions: AI-Enabled Clinical Oversight

Clinical teams face growing trial complexity, fragmented data, and increasing pressure to make timely, defensible decisions. This session explores how an integrated, data-driven approach to clinical oversight can simplify review workflows and improve visibility across data, medical, and operational review. Learn how governed, AI-enabled analytics, including natural-language custom listings, can reduce manual effort, strengthen collaboration, and support consistent, transparent decision-making across the trial lifecycle.

12:00 PM

Sponsored by: From Proven Results to Product Vision: Advancing Clinical Trial Data Exchange with IgniteData Archer 

Clinical trial data exchange has long limited the pace of innovation in research. This session explores how IgniteData Archer is redefining what’s possible, drawing on proven results from live trials at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Presented by Joe Langfellner, IgniteData’s Chief Product Officer, the talk connects real-world impact to a forward-looking product vision—explaining why Archer’s success led him to join IgniteData and how he and the team are shaping the future of clinical trial data exchange.