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Regulator-led sessions fill quickly. Use the searchable program to identify regulatory speakers in your therapeutic area and pre-schedule conversations before you arrive.
Explore the AgendaYou're doing the work. DIA 2026 shows you how it lands on the other side.
Breakthroughs don't happen in isolation. The path from discovery to patients runs through clinical operations, regulatory science, data strategy, and quality systems—and the people at every stage of that path are here.
At DIA 2026, you'll hear directly from the regulators who review your submissions and the patients who will use your science. Walk in with the questions you can't answer from inside your organization. Leave with the answers.
Four reasons Builders make DIA a priority
Hear What Matters Most
Gain direct insight into what’s working in submissions, where dossiers break down, and how guidance is evolving—so you can reduce avoidable delays and costly cycles." Note that a "reviewer" is a specific role within an regulatory agency and I am not sure if we will have them at the meeting.
Cross-Pollination Unique to This Forum
DIA brings together clinical researchers, regulatory scientists, and medical affairs professionals across therapeutic areas. The cross-pollination of methodology and approach is unique to this annual forum.
Compare Notes on What's Actually Working
Oncology, personalized medicine, combination products, cell and gene therapy—the Builders working on what's next gather here to compare notes on what's actually working.
Evaluate What Tools to Adopt and How
From real-world evidence to AI in clinical trials, DIA 2026's content on data strategy is built for the scientists and operations leaders who need to make decisions about what tools to adopt and how.
The people across the table from your work are here
Regulators (at the meeting, not in a briefing)
FDA, EMA, PMDA, and global health authority representatives participate actively in DIA 2026—in sessions, roundtables, and on the show floor. The direct dialogue between Builders and regulators is the most distinctive feature of this meeting. The conversations that happen here don't happen anywhere else.
Decision Makers (your leadership)
Your C-suite and senior directors are in the room. DIA 2026 creates rare overlap between those doing the science and those setting the strategy—a chance to align on pipeline priorities and surface what leadership needs to understand about the work.
Operators (the people executing alongside you)
Regulatory affairs, quality, and clinical operations teams bring a compliance and execution lens to the science. Builders who engage with Operators at DIA often return with clearer submission timelines and fewer late-stage surprises.
Accelerators (your funders and future partners)
Investors and BD leaders are evaluating the science landscape in real time at DIA. This is an opportunity to tell your story to the people who fund the next phase—before a formal process begins.
How to get the most out of your four days
Priority Tracks
Track 2 covers clinical trial innovation—methodology, operations, and technology. Track 5 is the home for novel modalities and personalized medicine. Track 7 addresses regulatory CMC and product quality. Track 3 surfaces AI and data strategy implications directly relevant to R&D decision-making.
Explore Full Agenda →Formats to Seek Out
- Short Courses — deep-dive workshops on specific technical topics, offered as pre-conference and elaborated further in meeting sessions
- Poster sessions — the best cross-disciplinary scientific exchange format at DIA; plan significant time here
- Community Roundtable Discussions — small-group conversations on pressing questions in your field
- Regulator-led sessions — prioritize these; they fill quickly and offer access not available in any other format
- DIA Celebrate (Wednesday, June 17) — maximize the connections you made throughout the week at this capstone event at the National Constitution Center
Networking Guidance
Use the searchable program to identify regulatory speakers in your therapeutic area before arriving. Prioritizing those sessions and engaging in the right settings can be one of the highest-value uses of your DIA experience.
Short Courses
Short Courses are intensive, pre-conference and in-meeting workshops built for deep technical immersion. For Builders, these are the highest-density learning experiences at DIA 2026—structured around specific submission challenges, clinical trial methodologies, quality systems, and emerging modalities. Register separately and early; these workshops have limited enrollment.