Breakout Session I
Take a deeper dive into the topics that matter most to your organization. These interactive sessions are designed to share targeted insights and encourage collaborative discussions.
Back To Basics: Enhancing Site Operations & Performance
Success starts with mastering the fundamentals, and this session revisits key aspects of site operations to boost your trial efficiency and effectiveness. We’ll discuss patient recruitment, budgeting, and operational strategies to meet the ideal patient profile and build meaningful relationships. Gain insights on translating science into patient care and positioning your site favorably with sponsors and CROs.
Building Inclusive & Accessible Research Environments
This interactive session focuses on practical solutions and best practices for creating equitable clinical research environments for underrepresented communities. We’ll cover workforce diversity, inclusive facilities, and process improvements to improve diverse trial representation. Discover strategies to overcome common barriers in patient recruitment and accessibility, with insights into fostering a culture of inclusion at your site.
Connections To Contracts: Finding Clinical Trial Opportunities
Learn how to proactively identify and secure study opportunities by building relationships and presenting yourself effectively to sponsors, CROs, and brokers. Understand your range of resources and options, regardless of budget, with tangible tools to help you get started in successfully finding new studies. You’ll leave with key resources and tools for identifying trial opportunities and how to showcase your site’s unique strengths and capabilities.
Harness AI & Technology For Operational Excellence
Discover how clinical research sites can unlock the power of AI and digital tools to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and elevate trial execution. This session dives into practical strategies for automating processes like documentation, recruitment, financial tasks, and contract optimization while maintaining confidentiality and adhering to NDAs. Learn from real-world examples of how innovative technology can reduce costs, accelerate timelines, and optimize site coordination. Equip your site with actionable insights to leverage AI and digital solutions for maximum impact.
Hidden Costs: The Unseen Burden In Clinical Research
Sites face mounting regulatory demands and economic pressures that often lead to absorbing unacknowledged costs. Learn how to identify, quantify, and track these hidden costs while exploring techniques and tools to navigate, negotiate and manage these challenges sustainably.
Next Generation Of Investigators: How To Recruit, Train & Retain PIs
New Principal Investigators (PIs) are essential to the growth of clinical research, yet many sites and sponsors face challenges in recruiting and trusting inexperienced PIs. This session will review methods for mentoring and training new PIs, creating infrastructure that inspires sponsor confidence, and fostering long-term investigator engagement. Learn from site, sponsor, and CRO perspectives on how to support research-naïve PIs to ensure successful trial execution.
Recruitment Success: Technology That Delivers Results
Patient recruitment is one of the biggest challenges in clinical research, but innovative technology is helping sites navigate these obstacles. In this session, sites of all sizes will share their success stories and the tools they use to identify patients within their communities. Discover how recruitment technology can be tailored to diverse environments and populations and learn what’s truly making a difference in real-world scenarios.
Regulatory Guidance Updates: Impact On Site Operations
This session unpacks recent FDA updates on Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCTs), Diversity, and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) ICH-E6. Panelists will break down the critical components of these updates and their operational implications with practical guidance for implementation. Learn what’s expected now, prepare for what’s ahead, and ensure your site stays competitive and compliant.
Streamline Vendor Management: Solutions For Efficient Operations
Vendor management has become one of the most significant burdens for sites in modern clinical trials. From managing technology integrations like eConsent to coordinating external specialists, sites face inefficiencies and logistical hurdles. Discuss solutions for streamlining vendor relationships, addressing pushback from sponsors and CROs, and finding collaborative solutions to improve trial efficiency. Hear from sites, sponsors, and CROs on how to leverage technology and overcome challenges for smoother operations.
Together We Thrive: The Power Of Effective Communication
Effective communication is the cornerstone of strong, resilient relationships between sites, CROs, and sponsors. In this session, we’ll review tools and techniques that foster transparency and maintain engagement across all parties. Through real-world success stories, learn how open communication channels can resolve challenges, build trust, and improve collaboration. Participants will leave with processes to implement in their own relationships, ensuring long-term success and smooth trial execution.