Breakout Session III
Take a deeper dive into the topics that matter most to your organisation. These interactive sessions are designed to share targeted insights and encourage collaborative discussions.
Beyond Metrics: Hidden Success Factors Of Top Sites
Site selection involves more than metrics – team enthusiasm, cultural factors, and leadership practices also differentiate top performing sites. This session explores the unseen drivers of success, examining how team culture and workforce strategies impact recruitment, data quality, and retention. Learn tactics to cultivate these success drivers at your site.
Engaging Diverse & Rural Communities
Diverse and rural communities remain underrepresented in ANZ clinical research, limiting generalizability and health equity. This session explores strategies for engaging these populations and addressing ANZ-specific challenges including geographic distances and cultural considerations. Attendees will learn from sites successfully reaching underserved populations and gain actionable tools for building inclusive recruitment strategies.
Managing Financial Risk: R&D Tax Incentives & Payment Protection
Research sites across ANZ increasingly encounter sponsors utilizing R&D tax rebate structures, creating heightened financial risk when contracting with shell companies. This session brings together tax and legal expertise to help sites understand the R&D landscape and recognise risk factors. Learn practical approaches to contract negotiation, financial due diligence, and payment safeguarding.
Site Technology Systems: Finding The Right Fit
Sites face a critical technology decision: implement an integrated all-in-one platform or select best-in-class individual systems. This session explores pros and cons of each approach, helping sites understand which strategy aligns with their operational needs and maturity level. Includes practical guidance on prioritizing technology investments and overcoming adoption obstacles.
The National One Stop Shop: Impact & Implementation For Australian Sites
Australia’s National One Stop Shop is a major reform to clinical trial approvals with significant implications for public and private research sites. Hear from Department of Health and Ageing representatives on implementation realities while exploring timelines, operational impacts, and transition strategies through open Q&A.
Why New Zealand: Leveraging National Advantages To Win Trials
New Zealand offers unique advantages for clinical research including government tax incentives, efficient regulatory processes through Medsafe, and a streamlined ethics review system, but many sites struggle to articulate these benefits effectively to sponsors. This session explores New Zealand’s country-level value proposition and translates it into site-level strategies for winning studies, covering which KPIs matter most to sponsors, what marketing strategies resonate with CROs, and how to leverage national advantages in site proposals and negotiations.