Innovation Network Gathering
October 3rd and 4th, 2024
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Uptown! Knauer Center for Performing Arts
How do we anticipate and shape the future of human-centric clinical trials?
Together we’ll identify the toughest challenges on the road to more human-centric clinical trials, develop the solutions, & accelerate implementation.
Each participant will contribute critical thinking for the industry’s toughest challenges, and have something to show for it at the end.
Thank you to the following partner organizations for directly supporting innovation and making this event possible.
Presenting Sponsor
Additional Partners
Some of the Companies Represented by Attendees
Gathering Schedule Overview
A schedule with event details will be released in our official conference app as we near the start of the conference. Please note your registration includes all meals noted below.
Day 1: Thursday, October 3rd
Day 2: Friday, October 4th
Conference Elements
Dive Teams*
Each day we’ll be breaking into smaller work groups to tackle topics and deep questions within our industry. Here’s an example of the topics we’ll be working together on:
AI
Technology & Services Quality
Patient Experience
The Sites Experience
Protocol Design
*As the Gathering nears, you’ll receive information in you inbox on how to convey your topic preferences so we can assign you to the appropriate Dive Team. View our current Dive Team topics for 2024 here >>
Main Stage Talks
Each day we’ll gather together as a community in the Uptown Knauer Center to learn and get inspiration. Here are some of the topics this year’s speakers will be presenting about:
Where artificial intelligence and regulation meet.
Innovation Ecosystems: What teaching spies and bureaucrats can teach clinical research design.
Why great ideas fail.
Shipping Containers & Vacuum Cleaners: How better data interoperability can unlock better human trials. (Aka, “to do the cool stuff, we have to do the boring stuff.”)
Whale Tank
Whale Tank is a showcase for innovators who want to raise awareness of their breakthrough offerings.
We bring together tech companies, investors, clinical trial sponsors and experts to give powerful feedback and gauge which innovators are making the biggest impact on the clinical research field.
2024 Registration is Open!
Use the following form to nominate yourself or someone else.
If you have already been nominated and invited, please check your inbox for your special registration link and register ASAP. One of the defining features of the Gathering is that there are only 150 attendees that are invited for the full event.
THE GATHERING VENUES
All of our venues are within one square mile of historic West Chester, Pennsylvania — all within walking distance of each other.
Uptown! Knauer Center for Performing Arts
Our gathering place for main stage talks.
Chester County Historical Center
Meeting point for Dive Teams, cocktail hour, and dinner reception.
Align.space
Additional meeting place for Dive Teams
Hotel Warner
Our official hotel partner.
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For two days in October, thinkers and doers will gather in West Chester, Pennsylvania, to contend with the future. Each participant will contribute critical thinking for the industry’s toughest challenges, and have something to show for it at the end of the day.
There is a rising awareness of the need for human-centric clinical research. (Call it patient-centric or participant-centric – but the human is in there.) Whether Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT) will be a more dominant or more supplemental piece of the clinical research puzzle, we can all agree that the sector is changing, and that we do need Digitally Competent Trials.
The new world faces a growing set of questions. Nearly every researcher, sponsor, vendor, nods their head at these themes. What will they really mean (beyond marketing points)?
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WHEN: The next Gathering will take place October 3 and 4, 2024.
WHERE: The beautiful charming town of West Chester, Pennsylvania where everything is walkable.
The conference generally takes place in the Fall — the best time to be in a small town on the East Coast.
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The full, detailed schedule will be announced as we near the next Gathering.
View our full speaker lineup from the 2023 main stage here. -
Registration is by nomination and invitation. Check your inbox for an official invitation and registration link.
Please seek out an alumni attendee for a nomination connection or fill out an interest form on our website and our team will connect with you about attendance options. -
Innovation Network Gathering registrations are non-refundable.
In the case where an attendee can no longer attend, the Innovation Network Gathering registration can be transferred until 9/26/24 (one week before the conference) by contacting us via email at hello@innovationgathering.network.
Once the transfer deadline has passed, the registration will still be held for the original purchaser with the hopes they are still able to make the event.
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Let us know how we can help by emailing us at, hello@innovationgathering.network
THE GATHERING FAQs
2024 Registration is Open!
Use the following form to nominate yourself or someone else.
If you have already been nominated and invited, please check your inbox for your special registration link and register ASAP. One of the defining features of the Gathering is that there are only 150 attendees that are invited for the full event.