2026 Day 1 AgendaMonday, 27 April 2026 - ET (Eastern Time, GMT-05:00)

Audience icebreaker activities during the Chair’s opening session

• Compliance department focus: What is in scope for 2026?
• Expanding the compliance umbrella: Do trade compliance, privacy, cybersecurity, and enterprise risk now fall under compliance?
• Transparency reporting: Should this function sit within compliance or remain under business functions like finance?
• Executive Committee attitudes: Are leadership perspectives on compliance evolving, and how are compliance leaders navigating these changes?
• Strategies for resilience: How can compliance leaders prepare for future regulatory challenges in an era of unclear enforcement?
• Agility in compliance programs: How do you keep your program nimble and ready to adapt as priorities shift?
• Influencing organizational decisions: What are effective ways for compliance to shape key decisions directly or indirectly?
• Emerging technologies: How are companies leveraging AI and data analytics to enhance compliance?

What should Life Science companies be focused on around combatting fraud, waste, and abuse?

• Expectations around AI governance
• Updates to Compliance program guidance

• Hear directly from U.S. Attorneys on the most recent CIA’s and an analysis of settlement trends
• Areas currently being closely looked at by investigators?
• What methods, analysis, and data are being utilized during investigations?
• Has the Blanche Memo led to an increase in cases?
• SEC perspective and priorities

• Where do their current enforcement priorities lie?
• Are there any practices that Compliance leaders should be on the lookout for within their organizations?
• Will there be a ramp-up on how good enter/exit the US in light of the administration and the direction they are going?

• DOJ-HHS-CMS partnerships enforcement priorities
• Latest updates from the working group and what Life Science organizations should be doing proactively

• Establish a foundation of Compliance using the seven elements of a Compliance framework
• Are all Compliance programs the same? Building a program for a start-up vs. a fully commercialized organization
• Examining the three foundational questions in the DOJ Evaluation of Effective Compliance Programs
• Reality of operationalize your Compliance program: resources needed for implementation, realities of monitoring and auditing, pragmatic approaches to new trends and risks

• Differing phases of your career: explore career development across different stages
• Learn about essential technical and soft skills necessary for success in compliance, including legal knowledge, communication, problem-solving and increasingly the data analytics
• Understand the importance of mentorship, networking, and professional connections in shaping career progression and uncovering new opportunities
• Effectively position yourself for recruiters and hiring managers
• Understanding the nuances of different roles and how to tailor your approach to align with expectations
• How to ask for new opportunities: practical advice on identifying and pursuing new opportunities within your organization or industry

• Why Compliance professionals must upskill their data literacy
• Key advice and common trip points for data ethics, data systems and mapping data flow within your organization
• Tools to help you advance your data analytics output and insights
• How data can underpin compliance conversations and amplify your message: powerful tools to strengthen compliance-related discussions

• Strategies and tactics on what should be monitored
• Best practice for live monitoring activities
• Role of data analytics in monitoring programs
• Advancing monitoring activities across the business: reframing monitoring to business insight gathering
• How can audit and monitoring work together in partnership?