Join DS2 at the DTRA 2026 Annual Meeting
The DS2 team will be in Cambridge on November 5 and 6, in the general sessions across both days and free around them to meet customers and partners. Put a time in with us.
Let's Connect in Cambridge
DTRA brings together the sponsors, sites, technology partners and service providers advancing decentralized and at-home research. It is a community DS2 believes in and is glad to support, and we are looking forward to two days with it. If your design sends a kit to a participant's door, brings a phlebotomist to their home, or depends on a sample traveling back safely, we would love to talk. Share what you have learned so far and we will talk openly about how we would support it at scale.
We often find during these events that the diary fills up quickly. Use the form and we'll block a time for you to meet our team while availability lasts.
Why Attend the DTRA 2026 Annual Meeting?
The Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance describes its annual meeting as the moment its member community gathers to exchange ideas, forge connections and advance a shared mission of making patient-focused research accessible to all.
An intentionally open program: Two days of general sessions built from panel conversations with leaders working in decentralized research, fireside chats with regulatory and government agency authorities, in-person DTRA CoLab gatherings, company presentations and a live Leadership Council meeting for council members.
Concentration rather than scale: Somewhere between 250 and 400 people, most of them working on at-home and community-based research, in a building that holds everyone in one room.
A member event: It is a member event: registration is open to employees of current DTRA organizational members.
Why Meet with DS2?
Decentralized design lives or dies on delivery. If the kit never reaches the door or the sample never comes back, there is no data to analyze. DS2 builds and runs that layer, including at-home collection. What we do:
- Diagnostic and specimen collection kit design, assembly and fulfillment
- Kit-to-patient and direct-to-patient distribution
- Medical courier services, including STAT and next-flight-out specimen transport
- Cold chain and temperature-controlled logistics, with the documentation to prove the range held
- Biostorage and biorepository services
- Mobile phlebotomy and specimen collection
- LIS, LIMS and EMR integration, including HL7 and FHIR
- Chain of custody and compliance documentation
Direct-to-patient kit supply, at-home phlebotomy, specimen returns, and the integration behind them. That's what we're most looking forward to talking about in Cambridge.
The Meeting at a Glance
DTRA publishes an event-at-a-glance rather than a timed session list. Breakfast and lunch are included on both days. DTRA has said the 2026 speaker roster will be released closer to the event. The current schedule is on the official meeting page.
Day One · Thursday, November 5, 2026
Registration opens
Breakfast
General session: guest speakers, panels and interactive events
Catered lunch
General session: company presentations, guest speakers, panels and interactive events
Networking reception
Day Two · Friday, November 6, 2026
Breakfast
General session: guest speakers, panels and interactive events
Catered lunch
General session: company presentations, guest speakers, panels and interactive events
Main programming concludes
Leadership Council meeting
Council members only
Useful DTRA 2026 Resources
The official meeting page.
ScheduleThe event at a glance.
RegisterPass types, pricing windows and terms.
SpeakersWhere the 2026 roster will be announced.
AccommodationsThe Boston Marriott Cambridge block.
Book the room blockDirect Marriott booking link for the DTRA block.
Become a memberMembership, which registration requires.
Decentralized Trials & Research AllianceThe organization behind the meeting.
DTRA 2026 Annual Meeting FAQ
General
November 5 and 6, 2026, at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Registration is open to employees of current DTRA organizational members. If your organization is not yet a member, that is worth sorting out early, since membership is a prerequisite.
Send the form. The room is small and the schedule is loose, so breakfast, the catered lunches and the Thursday reception are all easy places to talk properly.
DTRA has said the 2026 roster will be published closer to the event. Watch the speakers page for the announcement.
Fees & registration
A two-day access pass runs from $1,795 to $2,495 depending on when you book. DTRA prices a two-day meeting access pass on a rising scale by date: Early, through August 31, $1,795; Advance, August 31 to September 30, $1,995; Regular, October 1 to October 16, $2,295; Final, October 17 to November 2, $2,495. Leadership Council representatives can register for complimentary access to the Friday council meeting only. That ticket does not include the rest of the meeting. Current terms are on the official registration page.
No. Fees are non-refundable, but you can transfer your registration to a colleague at the same member organization, or redeem it in 2027.
Venue & travel
The Boston Marriott Cambridge is the official hotel at $269 plus tax, a four-minute walk from the venue. The block closes October 7 or when it sells out. Book through the official link. The address is 50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142, and nothing is charged until you arrive. The hotel is 0.27 miles from the venue, five miles from Logan, and a short walk from the Kendall/MIT stop on the Red Line.
See You in Cambridge
Cambridge, November 5 and 6. Small room, short diary. Send a line on what you want to discuss and we will lock it in.