Innovation Network Gathering

October 7-10, 2025

West Chester, Pennsylvania
Uptown! Knauer Center for Performing Arts

How do we anticipate and shape the future of human-centric clinical trials?

Our 2024 Conference Has Concluded

Submit a Nomination for the 2025 Gathering

Nominate yourself or someone you know that should be at next year’s conference.

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

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, attendees receive information choose the topic they are most interested in and are drafted to a team according to their preference.

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.

Our 2024 Conference Has Concluded

Submit a Nomination for the 2025 Gathering

Nominate yourself or someone you know that should be at next year’s conference.

Unlike most conferences where you’re stuck in one building, the entire historic downtown of West Chester is our venue.

All of our venues are within one square mile of historic West Chester, Pennsylvania — all within walking distance of each other.

GATHERING VENUES

Uptown! Knauer Center for Performing Arts
Our gathering place for main stage talks and workshops.

Chester County Historical Center
Meeting point for Dive Teams, workshops, and closing party.

Hotel Warner
Official hotel partner.

Hotel Indigo (IHG)
Official hotel partner.

  • 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)?

  • WHEN: The next Gathering will take place October 7-10, 2025.

    • Tuesday, 10/7: Arrive to West Chester, take part in attendee and Partner-led meetups

    • Wednesday, 10/8 - Conference Day 1: Main stage talks, Dive Teams, Workshops, Whale Tank pitches, and Dinner reception.

    • Thursday, 10/9 - Conference Day 2: Main stage talks, Dive Teams, Workshops, Whale Tank meetings, Presentations, and Closing Party & Awards Ceremony

    • Friday, 10/10: Depart West Chester // take part in attendee and Partner-led meetups

    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.

  • The full, detailed schedule will be announced as we near the next Gathering.

    We’ll update our Speakers page as our lineup gets confirmed.

  • 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 registrations can be transferred to another attendee up to one week before the conference. To transfer a registration, please contact 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.

  • Let us know how we can help by emailing us at, hello@innovationgathering.network

THE GATHERING FAQs

Our 2024 Conference Has Concluded

Submit a Nomination for the 2025 Gathering

Nominate yourself or someone you know that should be at next year’s conference.