How can we go fast AND far in clinical trials to deliver the treatments patients need?

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Data interoperability is critical to clinical trials, ensuring systems and stakeholders work together smoothly. It’s like texting between iOS and Android—without alignment, communication falters. Bill highlights similar challenges in clinical trials, where a lack of standardized protocols leads to delays and fragmented data. In this talk, he explores how industry-wide collaboration on digital protocol standards can eliminate these roadblocks and speed up clinical research.

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About Bill Illis:

Bill brings over 30 years of experience in Life Sciences R&D, spanning cancer epidemiology, healthcare research, preclinical safety, and clinical development. He has held leadership roles at Novartis, overseeing business and IT functions in drug development and spearheading data transformation projects. For the past five years, Bill has led an innovation project at TransCelerate, focused on driving the adoption of standardized digital clinical study protocols to enhance the efficiency and quality of clinical trials.

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Credits:

• Event Production: Smith & Jones Innovation

• Direction & Speaker Support: Jeff Smith

• Production & Stage Management: Michelle Jones

• Stage Design & Lighting: Steve Harper | Indigo Design

• Video Capture: Armosa Studios

• Video Editing: Kyle Blackburn

• Screen Assets & Video Engineer: Hunter Loveridge | Picture This

• Sound Engineer: Uptown! Knauer Center for Performing Arts