Third Annual
Clinical Trial Forecasting, Budgeting, and Project Management:
Managing Resources and Decision Making to Improve Outcomes
February 6-7, 2013 * Hyatt Regency Miami * Miami, FL
Part of: Summit for Clinical Trials Operations Executives (SCOPE)

Dear Colleague:

We are pleased to announce production of Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Third Annual Clinical Trial Forecasting, Budgeting, and Project Management: Managing Resources and Decision Making to Improve Outcomes being held February 6-7, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Miami in Miami, Florida.

This gathering is co-located within the Summit for Clinical Trials Operations Executives (SCOPE), a three-day cluster of events that attracted 400 leaders in clinical operations and research in February 2012. CHI’s Clinical Trial Forecasting, Budgeting, and Project Management will be preceded by the Global Site Selection, Feasibility Assessment, Operations and Site Management; Implementing and Managing Strategic Alliances; Electronic Data in Clinical Trials; and Post-Marketing Studies as a Tool for Safety, Outcomes and Comparative Effectiveness Research conferences. Topics to be discussed include:

• Getting the strategy right: Enabling portfolio-level decision making through accurate forecasting and budgeting
• Improve strategic planning for long-term clinical research and commercial success
• Implementing Strategic Relationships for large and small Companies: How to best structure them with your partners
• Clinical trial budgeting: Evaluating real vs. hidden costs and the long-term financial risk of a study
• Optimizing the grant payments process: Rules, payment systems, tracking for global trials
• Improving site and patient recruitment forecasting: Driving operational efficiencies and accelerating clinical development
• Effectively managing resources: Driving strategic clinical resource planning and capacity management
• Delivering knowledge to management and project teams: Leveraging IT to analyze data and inform decision making
• Improving processes and systems: Integrating clinical trial operations, resource planning, project management and finance
• Budgeting and contracting in today’s economy: Mastering costs, contract management, and negotiations
• Effective financial management of clinical trials: Assessing finances and progress during the conduct of study
• Mastering outsourcing and management of global clinical trials: Succeeding in Emerging Regions
• Clinical trial project management: Overcoming challenges with internal and external partners to ensure clinical trial success
• Creating productive relationships with CROs: Moving beyond budgets and contracts to an equal partnership
• Managing global project teams across cultures and time zones: Identifying risks early and achieving an agile process
• Clinical trial modeling and simulation: Utilizing real-time data from the site level up through regions and countries
• Leveraging IT and tools: Building an integrated system for clinical operations planning, forecasting, outsourcing, and project tracking
• Optimizing logistics for clinical trials: Balancing capacity planning, forecasting and supply chain optimization

If you are interested in presenting, please submit a speaking proposal for review. Please note that due to limited speaking slots, preference is given to pharmaceutical and biotech companies, regulators and those from academic /hospital centers. Additionally, as per CHI policy, a select number of vendors/consultants who provide products and services to these biopharmaceutical companies are offered opportunities for podium presentation slots based on a variety of Corporate Sponsorships.

The deadline for submission is May 25, 2012.  Click here to submit a proposal.