The Clinical Trials Innovation Summit returns to 
Roche Headquarters in Basel on 26 June 2025!

PanAgora Pharma and Roche are collaborating once again to bring the 5th Annual Clinical Trials Innovation Summit back to Basel this 26 June! This year's conference agenda will explore how life sciences organizations are delivering more patient-centric clinical trials and how digital health technologies (DHTs) are being implemented to improve efficacy measurement, patient recruitment, safety, and drug delivery.

Core themes for the 2025 conference agenda:

 • Industry Trends and Innovations in Virtual, Hybrid and Decentralized Trials: AI, DHT, Decentralized trials, Evolving Role of CRO’s, Global Perspective
Patient Perspective: Keys to Engagement, Involvement, and Applying Learnings at Scale
• Identifying Innovations & Technologies Accelerating Patient-Centric Trials
• Ideas into Action: Keys to Delivering Inclusive Human-Centered Clinical Trials 

Join 30+ speakers and 250+ senior-level clinical research, operations, and trial design leaders on 26 June at Roche headquarters in Basel!
Location
Roche Building 1
Grenzacherstrasse 124
4070 Basel, Switzerland
Date & Time
26 June 2025
09:00-17:30 Local Time (GMT+2)
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AGENDA THEMES FOR 2025

1. Industry Trends and Latest Innovations in Virtual, Hybrid and Decentralized Trials: AI, DHT, Decentralized trials, Evolving Role of CRO’s, Global Perspective

2. Stakeholder Perspectives: Keys to Involving Patients & Sites Early On, 
Learning, and Applying Learnings at Scale

3. Accelerating Patient-Centric Trials: Innovations & Technologies

4. Ideas into Action: Delivering Human-Centered Clinical Trials


SpeakING FACULTY & ADvisors
Sam Hariry

NOVARTIS
Léa Proulx

ROCHE
Ernst Bos

ROCHE
Paul Cooper

ROCHE
Scott Askin

NOVARTIS
Bola Grace

GSK
Nadir Ammour

SANOFI
Isabela Niculae

UCB
Suki Balendra

IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST
Meri Kay Scott

ELI LILLY AND COMPANY
Dan Karlin

MINDMED
Lauren Sunshine

BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB
Angela Bilkhu

ROCHE
Amri Johnson

INCLUSION WINS
Aude Clement

ROCHE
Steve Bourke

PERSONALPULSE
Bruno Jolain

ROCHE
Alison Holland

MEDABLE
Joachim Lövin
NOVO NORDISK
Thierry Lave
ROCHE
Conference Schedule



26 June 2025
09:00
Opening Remarks from the Conference Chairs

Ernst Bos, Global Medical Director, Roche
Paul Cooper, Personalised Healthcare Strategy Leader,
Roche



CONTENT BLOCK 1 
INDUSTRY TRENDS AND INNOVATIONS


09:05
FIRESIDE EXPERT KICK-OFF

Industry Trends: Innovations in Clinical Trial Design and Execution

• Innovations in Design (AI/ML, Knowledge Management)
• Innovations in Execution (DHTs, Decentralized Trials, and Site Experience)

Isabela Niculae, Head, Clinical Innovation and Digital Solutions, Global Clinical Operations, UCB
Joachim Lövin, DCT Specialist, Novo Nordisk
Additional Panelists TBA


09:30
CASE STUDY

Optimizing Drug Development with Actionable Data Insights:
Secondary Use of Data: Multimodal Data Assets


• Roche's Approach and Leadership in Data Re-use - ROI and Responsibility to Patients
• Development of Datamarts to Generate Insights for Study and CDP Design

Marta Carrasco, Biomedical Data Insights Development Leader, Roche


09:50
CASE STUDY

Patient Recruitment Enabled through EHRs
 
Nadir Ammour, Global Lead, Clinical Innovation & External Partnerships, Sanofi


10:10
Transforming the Clinical Trial Industry with a Patient First Mindset

Alison Holland, Chief Customer Officer, Medable


10:30
Networking Break
CONTENT BLOCK 2
Accelerating Patient-Centric Trials



11:00
CASE STUDY

Navigating Operational Challenges of Multimodal DHT Trials

Speaker TBA


11:20
CASE STUDY

Scaling Clinical Innovation - The Novartis Operating Model for Sustainable Success

This session will explore how Novartis’s Clin Ops Innovation team is transforming clinical operations. Discover how their comprehensive operating model scales innovation through a structured framework, ensuring alignment with operational needs and challenges. Learn how they measure success with clear criteria, match specific innovations to operational requirements, and consistently assess the innovation landscape to identify new opportunities. This session will provide valuable insights into Novartis’s systematic approach to driving sustainable, value-driven innovation in clinical trials.

Scott Askin, Portfolio Innovation Director, Global Clinical Operations, Novartis 


11:40
Bringing Clinical Trials Direct-to-Patient

Speaker TBA, Cambridge Cognition


12:00
PANEL

Identifying Innovations & Technologies Accelerating Patient-Centric Trials

Lauren Sunshine, Director, Product Management, Digital Health, Bristol Myers Squibb
Bola Grace, Senior Director, Digital Health, Digital Biomarkers,
GSK
Sam Hariry, Global Head, Clinical Innovation, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)


12:30
NETWORKING LUNCH
CONTENT BLOCK 3
Enhancing Diversity in Clinical Trials


13:30
PANEL

Patient Perspectives & Cultural Considerations in Clinical Trials

This panel will bring together a group of patients to explore how their perspectives on cultural considerations in clinical trials.

Moderated by: Steve Bourke, Founder, PersonalPulse


13:50
CASE STUDY

IHI READI

This session will explore the collaboration behind the IHI-funded project - IHI READI - aimed at fostering a more cohesive and integrated clinical studies ecosystem for underserved (US) and underrepresented (UR) communities.

Lea Proulx, Patient Voice Partner, Roche


14:10
CASE STUDY

End to End Inclusive Research

What can early development bring to late stage development?

Thierry Lave, R&D Academy and Faculty Lead, Roche


14:30
FIRESIDE CHAT

Site Perspective on Diversity in Clinical Trials

• How are sites addressing recruitment diversity? How are patients actively participating in this discussion?
• How are people managing trust in the clinical trial system with the trust of digital health technologies?

Suki Balendra, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Imperial College Healthcare, NHS Trust


14:50
NETWORKING BREAK


CONTENT BLOCK 4
IDEAS INTO ACTION


15:20
Driving AI Adoption within Clinical Operations

Speaker TBA


15:40
CASE STUDY

How MindMed is Deploying AI to do Analysis of Patient Interviews Around the Primary Endpoint of All Clinical Studies

Dan Karlin, Chief Medical Officer, MindMed


16:00
Patient Perspective: First Hand Experience with DCTs

Patient Speaker TBA


16:25
CLOSING PANEL

Challenges of Implementation of DHTs

Meri Kay Scott, Associate Vice President, Digital Health R&D, Eli Lilly & Company
Suki Balendra, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Imperial College Healthcare, NHS Trust
Matteo Lai, CEO,
 Empatica


16:55
Closing Reflection

Ernst Bos, Global Medical Director, Roche
Paul Cooper, Personalised Healthcare Strategy Leader, 
Roche



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Conference Venue
Roche Tower (Building 1)
The Clinical Trials Innovation Summit (26 June) and the Digital Biomarkers Summit (25 June) will both be held in the Auditorium of Building 1 on the Roche campus in Basel.

Address:
Roche Tower (Building 1)
Grenzacherstrasse 124
4070 Basel, Switzerland


About: The office high-rise, Building 1, is a key pillar of Roche's site development strategy. With its straightforward yet unmistakable design, it blends in perfectly with the Roche grounds and the Basel cityscape. With 41 floors and workspace for around 2,000 employees, the office high-rise also shows a clear commitment to the Basel site.
Hotel Room Block
Hyperion Hotel Basel

(4 Star Hotel) Hyperion Hotel Basel in Basel, Switzerland
Location: Messepl. 12, 4058 Basel, Switzerland

In Basel's tallest habitable building, the HYPERION Hotel Basel is next to the Basel Messe trade fair center and just a short walk from the Old Town. It offers a sauna and a fitness center. Each of the 224 non-smoking guest rooms offers panoramic views of the city, free WiFi, air conditioning, refreshing bath products, a safe, hair dryer, and flat-screen TV with Sky channels.

PanAgora Pharma has a conference room block at the Hyperion Hotel Basel - just 1km from Roche Building 1. To book your room at the preferred room block rate, please use this link: CTIS Room Block at Hyperion Hotel Basel

***The Room Block closes on 13 May 2025, so we encourage all attendees staying in Basel to please make your reservation before then.

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