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PPM Summit Philadelphia 2026

Philadelphia Biopharma PPM in Clinical Research and Development Summit 2026
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Wyndham Philadelphia Historic District, 400 Arch Street, Philadelphia, USA

April 14-15, 2026
7:30 AM - 6:30 PM Local Time

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100+
participants
25+
leading speakers
7+
hours of networking
10+
case studies, presentations, panels
20+
interactive breakout sessions (Workshops, Roundtables)
2
days

What to expect

Are you struggling to deliver clinical projects on time, on budget, and inspection-ready while keeping your teams motivated and your sponsors confident? The PPM Summit brings together the brightest minds in pharma and biotech to share the tools, tactics, and strategies that actually work in the real world.

  • LEARN FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS:
    Hear how top pharma and biotech innovators are transforming efficiency, managing risk, and driving smarter decisions across R&D.
  • SOLVE REAL CHALLENGES FAST:
    Join immersive workshops and case studies that turn complex problems into clear, actionable solutions you can use right away.
  • CONNECT & COLLABORATE:
    Network with executives, PMO heads, and project professionals shaping the next era of pharmaceutical project and portfolio management.
  • LEVEL UP YOUR SKILLS:
    Get hands-on experience in portfolio strategy, governance, and digital execution guided by world-class experts.

What will be discussed

  1. STRATEGY TO SUBMISSION
    Explores how a drug development program moves efficiently from early planning through clinical execution to regulatory approval.

  2. SCHEDULE AND CRITICAL PATH IN TRIALS
    Examines how to plan, track, and protect the key milestones that define a clinical trial’s timeline, from the first patient visit to the final database lock.

  3. RISK, QUALITY, AND INSPECTION READINESS
    Focuses on risk-based quality management in clinical trials, highlighting how to turn risk and quality signals into real-time, actionable processes that ensure continuous inspection readiness.

  4. COST, CONTRACTS, AND VENDOR OVERSIGHT
    Focuses on how project managers keep financial control and accountability when outsourcing work to CROs and CDMOs.

  5. HIGH-PERFORMANCE PROJECT TEAMS: CULTURE, COLLABORATION, AND TECHNOLOGY
    Shows how strong culture, collaboration, and digital tools build trust, accountability, and resilience in project teams.

  6. PMO AND PORTFOLIO: FROM ONE-PERSON SHOP TO ENTERPRISE ENGINE
    Describes how a PMO grows from a single manager into a company-wide function that links strategy and execution.

Event speakers

Jimmy Crowley

Account Executive
OnePlan

Christine Mears

Founder
Premiere Consulting

Adam Kolacki

Managing Principal
CMK Select

Wes McCoubrie

President
Rego Consulting

Jayashree Subramanian

Director, Program Management
Calico Life Sciences

Kimberly Hayes

Associate Director Clinical Project Scientist
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Raynelle Mensah

Lead Global Program Manager - Portfolio & Program Management (PPM)
Bristol Myers Squibb

Pawan Kumar Suresh

Senior Program Manager, Integration and Strategic Outputs
Summit Therapeutics

Event HIGHLIGHTS

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Keynotes & Case Studies
think tanks
Roundtables
workshops
Workshops
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Panel discussions
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Networking
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Post-conference networking

Key takeaways

A clear understanding
of how strategic planning and governance drive successful clinical trial delivery from design to submission.
Practical frameworks and templates
for managing timelines, risk, quality, and inspection readiness.
Actionable methods
for integrating technology platforms and digital workflows to improve visibility and control.
Insight
into what makes sponsor oversight and vendor collaboration truly effective.
A stronger professional network
of clinical development and project management experts to exchange ideas and solutions with long after the event.

Everything you need to know about This event in one spot.

Join us at PPM Summit Philadelphia 2026 to shape the future of Pharma & Biotech portfolio management – and take home the insights, tools, and connections to deliver smarter portfolios, stronger projects, and faster results.

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See What the Industry Says about us

PAST AND PRESENT

Our valued partners

TESTIMONIALS

We were proud to be Sponsors for the 31st European Life Sciences Project & Portfolio Management Conference in London. Two really energising days of learning and connection. Huge thanks to Why Summits for such a well-run event. The presentations, panels and workshops sparked great conversations around portfolio strategy, governance, risk and innovation across the sector. Most of all, it was fantastic to reconnect with familiar faces and meet new Life Sciences leaders who share the same passion for PPM.
Rated 5 out of 5
Merryn Horneman
Life Sciences Delivery Partner
MiGSO-PCUBED
Wrapped up the Why Summit Conference on Project Management, Portfolio Management, and CAPEX in Las Vegas today. Great conference and interactions with all of the attendees! Thank you all for connecting and interacting. Fantastic group of folks that I met there!
Rated 5 out of 5
Thomas Seener
Executive Director, The One Project Source, LLC
An outstanding few days of industry relevant PPM topics, from the energetic and thoughtful speakers and panels to networking new relationships to insights into where the industry is going with AI! Huge chops to Why Summits? for putting on an engaging and professional event!
Rated 5 out of 5
Mike Fitzpatrick
Vice President of Business Development & Operations , Umoja Biopharma 
Fascinating conference with seasoned and insightful industry leaders sharing perspectives into a wide range of topics across program and portfolio management. It was the perfect size – around 120 people – big enough to attract diverse and talented people, but small enough for everyone to engage in meaningful networking. We ended each day with roundtable discussions - small table discussions with the speakers and each other, which allowed us to both learn from each other and get to know our peers. Overall, a great experience and I look forward to returning. 
Rated 5 out of 5
Rebecca Rudicell, PhD. 
Translational Program Management (Oncology), Takeda
This conference was exceptional, featuring a diverse group of attendees, all of whom are experts in their fields. The event attracted a strong cross-section of the industry, encompassing both large and small companies. The networking opportunities were invaluable, allowing me to connect with a wide range of professionals and expand my network significantly. I wholeheartedly recommend this conference and plan to attend more events next year. It truly exceeded my expectations, with outstanding attendance and presentations throughout all three days. This conference has established itself as the premier event in the resource planning space, showcasing our commitment to excellence in the industry.
Rated 5 out of 5
Phil Wolf
SVP, On Demand Products, PDWare
It was an honor to be part of such a prestigious event and to contribute to discussions. Thanks Why Summits for the opportunity to engage with such a knowledgeable audience and networking with industry leaders !!
Rated 5 out of 5
Dhawal Upadhyay, PMP®, HBS
General Manager - Global Program Management, Intas Pharmaceuticals

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Who should attend?

PHARMA & BIOTECH – Heads of Project Management, Portfolio Strategy, R&D Operations, Clinical Development, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Capital Projects.

CROS & SERVICE PROVIDERS – Clinical, operational, and data management leaders partnering with pharma on critical programs.

DIGITAL, AI & PPM TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS – Offering solutions for forecasting, dashboards, decision intelligence, and digital transformation.

CONSULTANCIES & ADVISORS – Supporting governance, change management, and large-scale project execution.

Event partners

Gold Sponsor

CMK Select is a certified WBENC company providing program, project, and process management services exclusively to the pharmaceutical industry. Our expert team consists of agency, industry, and consulting professionals who step in to operationalize your strategy, ensuring seamless and efficient project completion across workstreams within Early Development, Medical Affairs, Commercial, and Business Services. 

Gold Sponsor

OnePlan offers a strategic portfolio, financial and resource management solution that fits the needs of every PMO. Optimize your portfolio, financials and resources enterprise wide. Connect OnePlan with Microsoft Project, Office 365 Planner, Azure DevOps, Jira, and more for a complete view into all work across the enterprise. 

Gold Sponsor

Planview has one mission: to build the future of connected work, from ideas to impact. Planview helps organizations accelerate the achievement of what matters most, supporting our customers from need to speed, from passion to progress, and from overhead to optimization. Our connected platform of solutions underpins the business and digital transformations of more than 4,500 customers globally, including 59 of the Fortune 100. Planview empowers enterprises to improve time-to-market and predictability, increase efficiency to unlock capacity, and ensure their most strategic initiatives deliver the desired business outcomes.

Gold Sponsor

Rego Consulting is one of the world’s leading Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) consulting firms. With a 98% customer retention rate, we are focused on helping our clients reach their goals and partnering with them every step of the way. We also provide PPM solution, Clarity by Rego, designed to seamlessly help you manage all your projects. 

Gold Sponsor

Broadcom’s ValueOps® provides an end-to-end value stream management solution, driving digital transformation by enhancing visibility, alignment, and efficiency. The platform, including Clarity®, Rally®, ConnectALL®, and Insights, enables leaders to plan, fund, manage, track, and optimize efforts, aligning strategy, investments, people, and work across the enterprise. www.broadcom.com

Gold Sponsor

PDWare is a provider of dynamic resource and work planning solutions for strategy and portfolio execution. ResourceFirst, our flagship product, emphasizes prioritization, feasibility and execution as the pillars of successful project and program delivery. ResourceFirst™ is available for cloud and on-premise installations, providing first-line managers, executives, PMO and EPPMO functions the agility to meet fluctuating work priorities, schedules, demand and staff capacity.

Silver+ Sponsor

Turnberry Solutions is a business, digital, and Salesforce consulting and implementation firm that believes brilliant strategy only matters when paired with excellent execution. Through a deep understanding of each client’s challenges and opportunities, we deliver tailored solutions and premium talent for sustainable, meaningful, and fearless growth. With offerings in business excellence, digital design and build, platforms of innovation, AI, data & insights, and talent transformation, we set the best teams, technologies, and solutions in motion. At Turnberry, we welcome challenges and embrace complexity so our clients can shape the future and reach their biggest goals.  

Silver Sponsor

Orchestra helps R&D organizations reduce the operational complexity of drug development by unifying planning across science, finance, and operations – then using AI agents to monitor progress, risks and outcomes against that plan. Orchestra automates the synthesis and analysis creating an institutional knowledge base to answer strategic questions instantly. 

Joint Silver Sponsor

L7 Informatics is redefining digital transformation in life sciences with L7|ESP®, the execution layer that unifies workflow orchestration and contextualized data across lab and manufacturing. It enables organizations to flawlessly move from AI-ready foundations to AI-actionable operations across R&D, CMC, manufacturing, QC, diagnostics, and clinical environments. L7|ESP connects the dots between disparate instruments, software, and teams by providing a single digital scientific platform with flexible data modeling, extensive API integrations to fit seamlessly into any ecosystem, and a full suite of built-in applications, including LIMS, ELN, MES, Inventory, and Scheduling.

Strategic Partner

Planisware is a global provider of software solutions for project portfolio management. Planisware solutions are specifically designed to support product development, engineering and IT business processes. For more than 20 years, Planisware has been helping its customers to achieve strategic and innovative excellence, make valid business decisions and increase portfolio value.

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