Agenda
Here’s the agenda for the 2026 edition of the PBOA Meeting & Conference!
| Oct. 9, 2025 | ||
| 9:00-10:00am | Registration & badge pick-up | |
| 10:00-10:05 | Introductory remarks | Gil Roth • PBOA |
| 10:05-10:35 | Legislative Update | Brent Del Monte • BGR Government Affairs |
| 10:35-11:15 | The State of Pharmaceutical Tariffs | John Stone • BGR Government Affairs |
| 11:15-noon | Onshoring, Insourcing, Emerging Modalities: What’s Real? What’s Not? | Ian Tzeng • L.E.K. Consultants |
| noon-1:00 | LUNCH | |
| 1:00-1:35 | Financial Markets Perspective | Dan Leonard • RBC |
| 1:35-2:10 | CDMO Customer Expectations and Buying Behavior | Kate Hammeke • ISR Reports |
| 2:10-2:45 | ASPR/BARDA Panel: Domestic Manufacturing Resilience & CDMOs | Arlene Joyner, Joe Hamel, Brooke Luck • ASPR/BARDA |
| 2:40-3:10 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 3:10-3:45 | Trends in Bio-Outsourcing and Onshoring Decisions | Eric Langer • BioPlan Associates |
| 3:45-4:25 | CDMO Sector State Of The Union: Wall Street Perspective | Daniel Cohen • Morgan Stanley |
| 4:25-5:00 | FDA Keynote: Inspectional Update | Ivy Sweeney • FDA/OHADI |
| 5:00 | Closing remarks | Gil Roth • PBOA |
| 5:00-6:00 | COCKTAIL RECEPTION | |
| 6:30-10:00 | OFF-SITE NETWORKING DINNER | |
| Oct. 10, 2025 | ||
| 7:00-8:00 | BREAKFAST | |
| 8:00-8:05 | Introductory remarks | Gil Roth • PBOA |
| 8:05-8:35 | FDA Keynote: Inspectional Update | Tina Kiang • FDA |
| 8:35-9:05 | Don't Digitalize Chaos: The Path to AI in Contract Manufacturing Needs Connected Data Infrastructure | Jake Ure • MasterControl |
| 9:05-9:35 | Today's FDA . . . and Tomorrow's | Alec Gaffney • AgencyIQ |
| 9:35-10:05 | Healthcare Cost Conundrum: Innovation, Onshoring, Tariffs, and MFN | David Windley • Jefferies |
| 10:05-10:35 | Fireside Chat: Tariffs, Reshoring, and Supply Chain Security | Marta Wosinska • Brookings Institution |
| 10:35-11:05 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:05-11:40 | PBOA Priorities: Setting the Agenda | Gil Roth • PBOA |
| 11:40-11:45 | Closing remarks | Gil Roth • PBOA |
Visit our Speakers page for bios of our speakers and panelists.
Agenda subject to change
