Join DS2 at the Global Site Solutions Summit 2026
Four days at Bonnet Creek, October 15 to 18. Our team is in the sessions alongside you, with the breaks kept free to meet customers and partners. Book one of them.
Let's Connect in Orlando
Around half the Summit is made up of research site owners and directors, alongside the sponsors, CROs and partners who work with them. Sites are central to everything DS2 does, so this is one of the events we look forward to most. We would love to talk if you are reviewing how kits reach your team, how specimens travel, where samples are stored, whether mobile collection could widen your reach, or how results flow into your systems. We would love to share what we have seen work well for other sites, and to hear what is working for yours.
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 Global Site Solutions Summit?
October 15–18, 2026 · Signia by Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek · Pre-Summit workshops October 14. The Society for Clinical Research Sites built the Summit around one idea: sites collaborating so that sites stay solvent. This is the twentieth anniversary edition, and SCRS frames it as an unrivaled hub for cross-industry collaboration, bringing sites, sponsors, CROs and solution providers into the same rooms.
A program at unusual scale: The scale of the program is unusual for a site-focused event: 175 published speakers, thirty breakout sessions across three blocks, therapeutic area round tables covering everything from oncology to psychiatry, and Site Partnership Symposiums hosted by Parexel, Takeda, Johnson & Johnson, Lilly, Sanofi, AstraZeneca and IQVIA.
The commercial reality of running a site: Content this year runs heavily on the commercial reality of running a site: budget negotiation and fair market value, invoicing, hidden costs, feasibility, the site burden index, FDA inspection readiness, GCP E6(R3) implementation, and AI at both a basics and an advanced implementation level.
Contact hours, then a gala: Contact hours are available across most sessions. The Eagle Award Gala closes Saturday evening.
Why Meet with DS2?
Trial logistics can quietly absorb a lot of coordinator time. DS2 takes that work on for sites: building and delivering kits, moving and storing specimens, running mobile collection, and connecting results back to your systems. Sites bring us in when the study is running fine and the logistics around it are absorbing coordinator hours nobody budgeted for. 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
Kit fulfillment, specimen transport, storage, mobile phlebotomy, and getting results back into your systems cleanly. We'd love to talk any of it through while we're all in Orlando.
Some of Who Is Speaking
From a published roster of 175:
Jimmy Bechtel, Kathy Mickel, Allyson Small, Sean Soth, Lauren Stockwell & Karri Venn
SCRS
Laurie Muldowney
FDA, Office of Scientific Investigations
Inspection readiness
Christina Brennan
Northwell Health
Greg Adams
Pfizer
Kerry Gorman & Jan Holladay Pierre
IQVIA
Debra Rogge
AstraZeneca
Ruma Bhagat & Dan Otap
Genentech
Adam Z. Penna, Melinda Gamba & Rachel Randall
Merck
Karen Kolin
Novo Nordisk
Christine Senn
Advarra
Sandy Smith
WCG Clinical
The full speaker list is on the official speakers page.
The Summit, Day by Day
Four days, plus optional pre-Summit workshops. The published shape: Wednesday's workshops are an additional fee, advance registration required, up to five contact hours, and Thursday's Site Partnership Symposiums are open to SCRS site members only. The full schedule, including every breakout and round table, is on the official schedule page.
Pre-Summit Workshops · Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Hidden Costs Workshop
Deena Bernstein, Vincent Napoli, Adam Z. Penna, Michael Pierre, Justin Purvis
Back to Basics: Fundamentals of Clinical Research
Brandon Doyle, William Jones, Shameika Parks, Kimberly Staeck, Lauren Stockwell
Day One · Thursday, October 15, 2026 · Site Partnership Symposiums
Parexel: Building Resilient Site-CRO Partnerships in the Era of Innovation
Takeda: A Peek Behind the Curtain, insights into sponsor operations
Johnson & Johnson: Exploring EHR2Sponsor Through Cross-Industry Dialogue
Lilly: How Lilly Is Partnering With Sites to Enable Community-Based Research
Sanofi: Redefining Site Partnerships Through Global Innovation
Sweet Start: first-time attendee ice cream social
Day Two · Friday, October 16, 2026 · Opening day
AstraZeneca symposium: Site 2030, communication, collaboration and continuous engagement
IQVIA symposium: See What's Coming and Solve What Matters
Lunch in the exhibit hall
Opening and welcome: 20 Years of Site Voices
Jimmy Bechtel, Kathy Mickel, Allyson Small, Sean Soth
Site Landscape: Benchmark Your Site, part one
Site Spark presentations
Therapeutic area round tables, session one
Cardiology, gastro and MASH, immunology, metabolic and obesity, neurology, oncology, rare disease, vaccines
Therapeutic area round tables, session two
Dermatology, metabolic, neurology, pediatrics, phase 1, psychiatry, respiratory, vaccines
Summit kick-off reception
Day Three · Saturday, October 17, 2026 · Main program
Premier networking breakfast
Opening remarks
Lauren Stockwell, Karri Venn
Site Landscape: Benchmark Your Site, part two
The Patient Voice
Emily Cox, Jade Tuttle
Breakout session one, ten choices
AI basics, community relationships, developing investigators, global positioning, budget negotiation, GCP R3, oncology, recruitment tools, the new site playbook
Clinical Connections Lunch
Breakout session two, ten choices
Cut25 in action, emerging site pathways, what sponsors really want, forecasting and resilience, culture and teams, oncology strategy, site burden index, FDA inspections, retention, charging for work
Breakout session three, ten choices
Advanced AI, KPI benchmarking, oncology integration, showing your site's value, financial strategy, invoicing, leadership roundtables, community populations, recruitment innovation, site technology
Partnering for Success reception
Eagle Award Gala and awards ceremony: Light the Way
Site appreciation reception
Day Four · Sunday, October 18, 2026 · Co-Creation Labs
Cheers To 20 Years networking breakfast
Co-Creation Labs
Beyond the Budget Line · Building the feasibility questions that matter · Your roadmap to optimized patient recruitment
Closing remarks
Useful Global Site Solutions Summit Resources
The official event site.
ScheduleThe full four-day program.
SpeakersAll 175 published speakers.
RegistrationRates, inclusions and group discounts.
Hotel and travelAccommodation, parking and airport detail.
Summit attendance justification plannerFor building the case internally.
Global Site Solutions Summit 2026 FAQ
General
Fees & registration
Venue & travel
See You in Orlando
Bonnet Creek, October 15 to 18. Four days is plenty of room, so tell us what would be useful and we will book it in.