Patient recruitment is one of the biggest bottlenecks in clinical research. Failure to meet enrollment targets creates costly delays, and more importantly, impacts the time that it takes to bring new medicines into the hands of patients that need them. SCOPE’s 16th Annual Patient Recruitment & Engagement stream delves into strategies to enroll for global trials, leverage AI/ML and data analytics to improve recruitment, retention and diversity, and tactics to improve up-front enrollment planning. The Enrollment Planning and Patient Recruitment conference shares best practices to enroll for global trials, multi-channel approaches to accelerate recruitment, and new data-driven processes to identify patient populations.  Patient Engagement and Retention through Communities and Technology conference explores pathways to engage diverse populations, opportunities for partnering with advocacy, and best practices for leveraging new technologies without losing sight of the participant’s user experience and potential technology burden.