Redefining Your Conference Experience with Excellence!
About The Event
AFSG is delighted to announce the 14th Clinical Trials Strategic Summit (CTSS), in San Francisco. Join us on October 24th-25th 2023 CA for the two-days of insightful and exciting business development opportunity. This year’s CTSS like our previous summits is packed with great talks from industry top speakers, panel discussion among thought leaders, poster sessions, prescheduled meetings and ground breaking research presentations overcoming the challenges and avenues in clinical trials. Explore our website to learn how all of this and more redefines your networking experience and ensures that you get the maximum out of your time and investment with us.
Main Focus of The Event
Growing The Industry
Industry Thought Leaders Discussing the Challenges of the Market.
Connecting The People
An exclusive closed door c-suite management gathering, designed to help you make connections that matters!
“The experience was fantastic; it was my first time going, and it was very beneficial to me since I was able to engage with a large number of individuals. for someone who has worked in the industry for a long time, there is nothing new to learn, but after this summit, I will learn a few things.”
Colleen Newman
VP, Head Clinical Operations
Centrexion
- The One to One Meetings will no Longer be for Introductions!






Audience Stats at 14th CTSS




Key Talks You Shouldn’t Miss
Meet the world’s leading Clinical Trials, development, and data analytics experts
and thought leaders in San Francisco.

Oscar Segurado
Chief Medical Officer at ASC Therapeutics

Sarfraz Nawaz
Senior Manager, Digital Product Management at J&J

Stephen Boccardo
SVP of Sales at Clinical Research IO

Jane Hart
Sr Director, Clinical Affairs at Exact Sciences

Farah Ahmad
President, Life Sciences at Press Ganey

Boxiong Tang
Executive Director at BeiGene

Vij Senthilnathan
Director Clinical Operations, Rare & Ultra Rare Disease at PTC Therapeutics

Gail Rosen Spahn
VP Medical Affairs at AcelRx Pharmaceuticals

Hope Meely
Chief Clinical Officer at Slope

Dr. Prasun Mishra
CEO at Agility Pharma

Meghan Mckenzie
Principal Inclusion, Internal Partnering in Chief Diversity Office at Genentech

Chris Chan
Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis at IGM Biosciences

Dr. Shreya Badhrinarayanan
Medical Director, Clinical Development Oncology at Genentech

Emma James
Vice president Medical and Patient affairs at Encoded Therapeutics

David Suendermann Oeft
Founder and CEO at Modaility

Peter Heessels
Vice President at JSS Medical Research

Amir Emadzadeh
Director, Data science at Gilead Sciences

Israel Gutierrez
Vice President Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance at Compugen

Greet Heremans
Vice President,Clinical Operations at Sutro Biopharma

Leen Kawas
Managing General Partner of Propel Bio Partners

Andreas Grauer
Chief Medical Officer at Federation Bio

Huma Qamar
Associate Vice President and Head of Clinical Development at Ocugen

Abla A Creasey
Vice President, Therapeutics Development at California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Keith Parent
CEO at Court Square Group

Kiran Kanetkar
Vice President Data and Analytics at Pedulum Therapeutuics
Key Talks You Shouldn’t Miss
Meet the world’s leading Clinical Trials, development, and data analytics experts
and thought leaders in San Francisco.

Our venue
We are committed to providing equal access and opportunity for individuals with disabilities. The features also make our hotels more accessible for older individuals with changing abilities to ensure a seamless experience. Our overall goal is to improve usability throughout the hotel for all guests.

Event Headlines
Our aim is to deliver personalized, integrated and measurable conferences that address the unique requirements and goals of our clients. Agile Falcon (AF) Strategic Group conferences get the right requirement to the right audience at the right time.

Keynote Presentations

100+ Attendees

Panel Discussions

One-to-One Meetings



What Our Clients Say About us

The meeting went well. The themes were interesting and varied. The hotel's shuttle service was excellent. I made a few nice contacts.


I enjoyed the meeting. The conference had very good speakers, and I was able to speak with a few of them and develop new connections.


Thanks for organizing and Inviting us to the DDSS, the staff on site is really friendly and helpful all the time. Perhaps we'll see you in Munich next year!


Many thanks for having done a great job in organizing the Drug Discovery Strategic Summit!
We had a fantastic
conference.


Thank you for the invitation to this excellent conference. I have loved attendance from various levels from the all Industries, especially the poster sessions.
