Explore the Agenda
7:00 am Registration, Networking & Coffee
8:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Securing Confidence in Uncertain Market Conditions
8:10 am Pharma & Biotech Panel Discussion: Meeting Evolving Project Requirements to Deliver High-Value Life Science Facilities on Scope
- Interpreting shifting owner priorities and program needs to shape project strategies that reflect real world constraints and long-term goals
- Anticipating the drivers behind capital investment: how are portfolio needs evolving and how will that impact project scope?
- Understanding what end-users require from facilities to ensure project delivery aligns with operational needs, supports productivity, and maximizes long-term value
8:50 am Navigating Market Volatility, Funding, & Tariffs Over the Next 12 Months to Inform Life Science R&D & Manufacturing Project Decision-Making
- Analyzing market volatility and tariff impacts to provide accurate forecasts on future project investment and disruption
- Evaluating funding strategies and capital allocation models to align project partners behind investment plans
- Leveraging scenario planning and risk modeling as contingency plans to better anticipate the impact on projects, such as supply chain and pricing fluctuations
10:00 am Speed Networking & Morning Refreshments
Achieving Supply Chain Certainty
10:40 am Case Study: Building Digitization into Supply Chain Management to Drive Visibility & Deliver Equipment on Time
- Harnessing real-time visibility tools to flag material shortages and logistics constraints early, allowing teams to respond proactively and prevent project delays
- Analyzing supplier performance data to identify weak links, improving supplier reliability and ensuring consistent, on-time delivery across projects
- Evaluating how we integrated digital platforms across procurement and logistics functions to streamline communication, reduce manual errors, and enhance overall supply chain coordination
11:20 am Audience Discussion: Redefining Your Procurement Model & Relationship With Suppliers to Prevent Disruption of Critical Facility Equipment Impacting Your Project
- Identifying long-lead items early to initiate procurement sooner, minimizing schedule risk and keeping aggressive life science timelines on track
- Integrating contingency sourcing and alternative vendor pathways to maintain critical equipment flow and avoid stoppages on site
- Expanding and qualifying global suppliers to diversify sourcing and mitigate risk: how can I balance this with the impact of tariffs?
12:00 pm Lunch Break
Optimizing Facility Design
1:00 pm Standardizing Facility Design to Enable Portfolio Scalability Across Multiple Sites
- Exploring standardization of equipment across multiple facilities to create repeatable, scalable facility models that support portfolio-wide growth
- Evaluating the balance between global design consistency and local adaptation to align with regulatory, cultural, and market-specific demands
- Developing a blueprint of design standards from capital planning with the end-user, designer and contractor to ensure portfolio-wide operational resilience
1:40 pm Case Study: Designing Manufacturing Facilities for Long-Term Compliance & Sustainability
- Embedding sustainability into facility design from the outset, across building materials and equipment, to reduce emissions and lower long-term operational costs
- Prioritizing energy, water, HVAC, and chemical efficiency to meet evolving environmental standards and power demands, and minimize regulatory risk impacting project approval
- Sharing how we made strategic design decisions early to extend facility lifecycles and maintain compliance with shifting regulations
2:20 pm Case Study: Delivering Flexible Manufacturing Facilities to Enable Rapid Adaptation & Minimize Production Disruption
- Planning for long-term facility needs during early design to accommodate shifting drug pipelines and evolving manufacturing demands without costly overhauls
- Embedding modular systems, utility connections, and scalable layouts into designs to enable smooth adaptation to new production requirements
- Executing changeovers effectively when manufacturing needs shift, minimizing downtime while maintaining regulatory compliance and output quality
3:00 pm Afternoon Refreshments & Networking
Achieve Predictable Costs & Smooth Execution
3:40 pm Leveraging Target Value Design Across Hybrid Life Science Projects to Align Project Scope & Budget
- Understanding how Target Value Design (TVD) links design decisions with budget realities, and what alignment and buy-in is required from day one
- Coordinating designers, suppliers, contractors, and estimators to establish a target cost that balances cost and quality
- Validating final designs continuously to ensure adherence to target budgets and maintain financial predictability throughout the project
4:20 pm Case Study: Adopting Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) to Drive Collaboration & Build Trust With Project Teams
- Evaluating alternative project delivery methods, and why we chose IPD over design-build to align project complexity with equitable dispersal of risk
- Structuring agreements that support IPD to support team cohesiveness and responsiveness
- Embedding clear performance metrics and escalation pathways to maintain momentum throughout the project lifecycle
- Revealing the data behind the scheduling, cost, and efficiency benefits IPD saved on our project, and the lessons learned we will adopt on every future project