Agenda March 18, 2027: Main Conference Day Two - PT (Pacific Time, GMT-08:00)
This session will focus on intensified seed trains, hybrid formats, high-density cell culture, and the consequences intensification creates for control, monitoring, harvest, and downstream fit. Talks should emphasize what is truly working now.
One of the clearest ways to reduce development timelines is to reduce the experimental burden required to reach confident process decisions. This session will focus on high-throughput upstream platforms, automation, smarter experimental design, and the use of prior knowledge to shorten development cycles while preserving process understanding.
Senior leaders are increasingly asking not only how to move faster, but how to do so with fewer manual steps and less scientist touch time. This session will focus on organizational and technology strategies for reducing effort while increasing output and confidence in upstream development.
This session will focus on how upstream organizations need to evolve in team design, capabilities, investments, and cross-functional integration to support faster development and stronger manufacturing performance. It will connect process science to long-term organizational strategy.