In response to this growth, the 7th Annual Alliance Management Congress has tailored its agenda with content and speakers from alliance management, diagnostics, and medical devices.  Most of the Congress agenda features unique case studies of specific collaboration and implementation examples.  The main Congress agenda begins with thought leaders discussing industry trends and deal making strategies, followed by shared learnings from different types of alliances, and concluding with how the alliance management infrastructure is developed. In addition to case studies, there will be pre-conference workshops, keynotes, interactive discussion groups, and panel discussions. Themes covered include:

• Industry Trends and Deal Making Strategies
• New Frontiers in Biomarker and Drug Development
• Shared Learnings from Different Types of Alliances
• Personalized Medicine
• Diagnostics Partnerships for Development and Commercialization
• Roadmap to Improving Partnering Capability
• Medical Device Partnerships 
• Successful Pharm-Pharm and Pharm-Biotech Partnerships
• Academia Partnership Examples
• Developing the Alliance Management Infrastructure
• Managing Alliances without an Alliance Management Function
• Negotiating Strategies
• Migrating from Decentralized to Centralized Model of Alliance Management
• Differences between Alliance and Project Management
• Measuring the Financial Impact of Your Partnership