Your New West Coast Forum for Finance and Accounting for Bioscience
Advancing Financial and Commercial Success in Biotech and Pharma
Discover innovative financial strategies and actionable insights tailored to the unique challenges of bioscience companies. This event will equip finance professionals with cutting-edge approaches to drive growth, manage risk, unlock digital transformation and navigate regulatory landscapes.
What's on the Finance & Accounting for Bioscience West 2026 agenda?
Navigate Capital Constraints, Board Expectations, and Strategic Finance Decisions
- Hear how CFOs and finance leaders are navigating capital constraints, investor scrutiny, delayed IPOs, down rounds, restructurings, and shifting board expectations.
- Explore practical frameworks for capital allocation, spend prioritization, outsourcing decisions, and aligning runway with clinical and commercial milestones.
- Strengthen how finance teams communicate revised forecasts, delayed milestones, strategic pivots, and difficult financial updates to investors, boards, and executive leadership.
Prepare Finance Teams for Launch and Commercial Complexity
- Build a finance-led launch readiness playbook across forecasting, manufacturing readiness, order-to-cash, distribution, reimbursement flows, and GTN planning.
- Identify common commercialization gaps in systems, infrastructure, team design, and cross-functional alignment before they become post-launch problems.
- Examine how payer access challenges, reimbursement complexity, GTN assumptions, affordability expectations, and evolving market access dynamics are reshaping commercial planning.
Modernize Finance Operations, Risk Management, and CFO Leadership
- Learn how finance teams are using ERP systems, AI tools, and data infrastructure to improve forecasting, reporting accuracy, operational efficiency, and decision-making.
- Address accounting, tax, reporting, SEC readiness, and equity management risks to stay audit-ready.
- Discuss how finance leaders in biotech are expanding beyond accounting into strategy, IR, HR, IT, operations, and enterprise leadership.
Meet the Experts Speaking at Finance & Accounting for Bioscience West
Join top biopharma finance executives and accounting leaders in sunny San Diego for real-world insights, practical tools and candid conversations with your peer community - and unlock game-changing solutions to your everyday business challenges.
Convening Finance and Accounting Leaders in Life Sciences For Over 20 Years
Building on more than a decade of our Finance & Accounting for Bioscience East forum and over two decades of convening finance and accounting leaders across the life sciences industry, we are excited to bring you Finance & Accounting for Bioscience West — your new West Coast forum for CFOs, Chief Accountants, Controllers, and senior finance and accounting leaders. Designed with a focus on the needs of both pre-commercial and commercial organizations, this event provides cutting-edge solutions, expert guidance and innovative approaches to tackle the unique challenges faced by emerging, small and mid-sized biotech companies throughout the product lifecycle and commercialization process.
Who should attend the Finance & Accounting for Bioscience West conference?
Designed for finance and accounting professionals, including innovative clinical and pre-clinical biotechs through mature commercial-stage bio/pharmaceutical companies, you will benefit from attending the conference if you are a Chief Finance Officer (CFO), Chief Accounting Officer (CAO), Controller, and senior-level finance or accounting professional working within a biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device and/or other life sciences company with responsibilities or involvement in the following areas:
Accounting / Technical Accounting
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Financial Reporting / External Reporting / SEC Reporting
Revenue Accounting / Revenue Recognition
Internal Controls
R&D Finance
SOX Compliance
Forecasting
Auditing
Consultants / Software Providers / Auditing Firms
FAQs
What is the Finance and Accounting for Bioscience West conference?
Finance & Accounting for Bioscience West is the brand new West Coast event tackling the most pertinent challenges faced by finance and accounting professionals within life sciences organizations. Sister to Informa's long-standing Finance and Accounting for Bioscience event in Philadelphia, this conference will provide a crucial opportunity on the West Coast's San Diego in California to hear from regulators on the latest updates, navigate financial strategies from conception to market approval, and raise questions for valuable insights from leading industry experts.
This CPE-accredited* conference provides the ultimate platform to access innovative accounting and reporting strategies, discover new trends, benchmark, share ideas and address challenges in the unique sector of finance for bioscience.
*See CPE credits page for details.
When and where is Finance and Accounting for Bioscience West taking place?
The Finance and Accounting for Bioscience West conference will be held on December 7-8, 2026, at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines, San Diego, California.
Are there any discounts available?
Yes, there are early bird savings as well as group savings when you register a team of 3+ colleagues from the same company.
Early Bird Savings:
Save $300 when you register by Friday, October 9th, 2026. Find out more on the Book Now page.
Pre-commercial Company Rate:
Pre-commercial life sciences manufacturers benefit from an exclusive lower rate. Find out more on the Book Now page.
Group Registration Savings:
You can save on your registration when you book a team of 3+ colleagues from within the same company.
Complete the group booking rates form to request your discounted team registration rates.
Is the Finance & Accounting for Bioscience West conference CPE accredited?
Yes. At Finance & Accounting for Bioscience West 2026, attendees can earn up to 14 group live (in person attendance) credits. See the full details on our CPE credits page here.