• When 7-9 September, 2026
  • Where InterContinental Barcelona
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08:00 AM
  1. Gebre Hall
    60 mins
    • Investment Summit
    Registration Sponsored by Catalent
09:00 AM
  1. Theatre 1&2 (Ruby & Zafir)
    15 mins
    • Investment Summit
    Setting the context, where the CGT investment landscape stands in 2026, what has changed and what it means for European therapeutic developers today Where are we in the market cycle? interpreting reco ...
09:15 AM
  1. Theatre 1&2 (Ruby & Zafir)
    40 mins
    • Investment Summit
    Story-driven investing is over, what does evidence driven investing actually demand from founders? From narrative to proof: why scientific promise alone no longer closes rounds, and what constitutes a ...
09:55 AM
  1. Theatre 1&2 (Ruby & Zafir)
    40 mins
    • Investment Summit
    Traditional venture capital is growing more selective and early-stage biotech are sourcing other routes of funding to progress their pipelines. Explore how alternative funding models are evolving to s ...
10:30 AM
  1. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    30 mins
    • Investment Summit
     
11:05 AM
  1. Theatre 1&2 (Ruby & Zafir)
    40 mins
    • Investment Summit
    As the cell and gene therapy industry becomes increasingly crowded, differentiation has become a non-negotiable for securing investment. With multiple companies pursuing similar approaches, investors ...
11:45 AM
  1. Theatre 1&2 (Ruby & Zafir)
    30 mins
    • Investment Summit
    Bringing together investor and founder who have successfully navigated the process to share practical insights on what it takes to secure capital in today’s environment. The 2026 investment checklist: ...
12:15 PM
  1. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    60 mins
    • Investment Summit
    • Women in Advanced Therapies Congress
     
01:15 PM
  1. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    5 mins
    • Women in Advanced Therapies Congress
     
01:40 PM
  1. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    30 mins
    • Women in Advanced Therapies Congress
    After years of discussion around bias, barriers, and representation, the question remains: what is actually changing and what isn’t? This candid opening session sets the tone for WiAT by shifting the ...
02:10 PM
  1. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    35 mins
    • Women in Advanced Therapies Congress
    What does success actually look like and how do you get there? In this session, leaders share honest, experience-based insights into building careers, securing investment, and navigating pivotal trans ...
02:45 PM
  1. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    30 mins
    • Women in Advanced Therapies Congress
     
03:15 PM
  1. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    60 mins
    • Women in Advanced Therapies Congress
    • Roundtable
    In Partnership with Advantera
  2. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    60 mins
    • Women in Advanced Therapies Congress
    • Roundtable
    Focus: progression into senior roles in pharma, biotech, and startups
  3. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    60 mins
    • Women in Advanced Therapies Congress
    • Roundtable
    Focus: the operational reality of building companies and careers in CGT/biotech
  4. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    60 mins
    • Women in Advanced Therapies Congress
    • Roundtable
    Focus: refine how you present your experience, expertise, and ambition
  5. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    60 mins
    • Women in Advanced Therapies Congress
    • Roundtable
    In Partnership with Fresenius
  6. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    60 mins
    • Women in Advanced Therapies Congress
    • Roundtable
  7. Theatre 1&2 (Ruby & Zafir)
    60 mins
    • Women in Advanced Therapies Congress
    In Partnership with CGT Circle
04:15 PM
  1. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    5 mins
    • Women in Advanced Therapies Congress
     
06:30 PM
  1. Superlocal, Port Olímpic, Barcelona
    90 mins
    Join our annual kick-off welcome party taking place at sunset along Barcelona beach! Sponsored by Gift of Life Biologics
08:00 AM
  1. Gebre Hall
    60 mins
    Registration Sponsored by Catalent
09:00 AM
  1. Theatre 1&2 (Ruby & Zafir)
    5 mins
    • Plenary
     
09:15 AM
  1. Theatre 1&2 (Ruby & Zafir)
    35 mins
    • Plenary
    From legislation to execution: What ATMP developers must change now in regulatory, CMC and evidence planning to stay aligned with EU reform over the next 12 months. Fixing fragmentation where it hurts ...
10:30 AM
  1. Exhibition Hall
    45 mins
    • Networking Break
     
11:15 AM
  1. Theatre 1 (Zafir)
    15 mins
    • Cell & Gene Therapy Clinical Pathways
     
  2. Theatre 2 (Ruby)
    15 mins
    • Operational & Commercial Performance
     
  3. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    60 mins
    • Workshop
    Sponsored by Dark Horse Consulting. Content coming soon.
11:30 AM
  1. Theatre 1 (Zafir)
    15 mins
    • Cell & Gene Therapy Clinical Pathways
     
  2. Theatre 2 (Ruby)
    15 mins
    • Operational & Commercial Performance
    Biology isn’t the only limiter anymore: As in vivo programmes advance, why delivery consistency, biodistribution insight and execution infrastructure are becoming the real differentiators. Where momen ...
11:45 AM
  1. Theatre 1 (Zafir)
    30 mins
    • Cell & Gene Therapy Clinical Pathways
    A view on the latest clinical trials, innovations and trends coming out of Europe, US and further afield and what practical coordination would make cross-border trials, faster, simpler and more attrac ...
  2. Theatre 2 (Ruby)
    30 mins
    • Operational & Commercial Performance
    Session Overview Advanced therapies are stretching not just science and regulation but the very design of capital itself. Across Europe, a growing sentiment has emerged that traditional venture capita ...
12:45 PM
  1. Exhibition Hall
    75 mins
    • Networking Break
     
01:00 PM
  1. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    60 mins
    • Workshop
    Advanced therapy developers face intense pressure to accelerate timelines, but speed without early discipline across CMC, delivery, analytics, and manufacturing can introduce risks that surface later ...
    Cytiva
02:00 PM
  1. Theatre 1 (Zafir)
    15 mins
    • Cell & Gene Therapy Clinical Pathways
     
  2. Theatre 2 (Ruby)
    15 mins
    • Operational & Commercial Performance
     
02:30 PM
  1. Theatre 1 (Zafir)
    15 mins
    • Cell & Gene Therapy Clinical Pathways
    Why scaling AAV is still hard: The recurring technical bottlenecks seen across programmes—spanning upstream productivity, downstream resolution, analytics and batch-to-batch variability. Manufacturing ...
  2. Theatre 2 (Ruby)
    30 mins
    • Operational & Commercial Performance
     
02:45 PM
  1. Theatre 1 (Zafir)
    30 mins
    • Cell & Gene Therapy Clinical Pathways
    AAV demand has outpaced infrastructure: Why current production models struggle to meet clinical and commercial demand and which upstream, downstream and process innovations are finally closing the eff ...
03:00 PM
  1. Theatre 2 (Ruby)
    15 mins
    • Operational & Commercial Performance
    Scaling MSC manufacturing remains a major challenge in cell therapy development, particularly as processes move from early research into clinical and commercial production. This presentation reviews f ...
03:15 PM
  1. Theatre 1 (Zafir)
    30 mins
    • Cell & Gene Therapy Clinical Pathways
    The inflection is measurable: What recent in vivo clinical readouts are showing about delivery efficiency, expression control and safety—and where performance is becoming reproducible rather than exce ...
  2. Theatre 2 (Ruby)
    15 mins
    • Operational & Commercial Performance
    Cost isn’t just efficiency it’s architecture: How advanced facilities change the cost curve of CGT production, from automation and digitalisation to scale, standardisation and multi-product flexibilit ...
03:30 PM
  1. Theatre 2 (Ruby)
    15 mins
    • Operational & Commercial Performance
    CAR-T has delivered transformative clinical outcomes, but its manufacturing model still resembles the early biologics era: complex, bespoke, variable and difficult to scale economically. Antibodies be ...
03:45 PM
  1. Exhibition Hall
    30 mins
     
04:15 PM
  1. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    75 mins
    • Roundtable
  2. Theatre 1&2 (Ruby & Zafir)
    75 mins
    • Roundtable
  3. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    75 mins
    • Roundtable
  4. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    75 mins
    • Roundtable
  5. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    75 mins
    • Roundtable
  6. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    75 mins
    • Roundtable
  7. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    75 mins
    • Roundtable
  8. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    75 mins
    • Roundtable
  9. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    75 mins
    • Roundtable
  10. Workshop Room (Rossini 1&2)
    75 mins
    • Roundtable
05:30 PM
  1. Exhibition Hall
    105 mins
    • Networking Break
     
09:00 AM
  1. Theatre 1 (Zafir)
    90 mins
    • Plenary
    Join us for an exciting session where innovative biotech start-ups pitch their groundbreaking ideas and solutions. Watch as they present to a panel of expert investors, who will provide real-time feed ...
11:15 AM
  1. Exhibition Hall
    30 mins
    • Networking Break
     
11:45 AM
  1. Theatre 1 (Zafir)
    30 mins
     
  2. Theatre 2 (Ruby)
    15 mins
    • Operational & Commercial Performance
    Capacity solved, complexity exposed: Why increasing CGT manufacturing capacity alone doesn’t unlock commercial success and how variability, flexibility and operational friction now limit real-world ad ...
12:00 PM
  1. Theatre 2 (Ruby)
    15 mins
    • Operational & Commercial Performance
     
12:15 PM
  1. Theatre 1 (Zafir)
    15 mins
     
  2. Theatre 2 (Ruby)
    15 mins
    • Operational & Commercial Performance
    The uncomfortable truth: Where early CMC and manufacturing assumptions quietly inflated cost of goods as programmes moved toward later-stage development and why these issues only surfaced under scale ...
12:30 PM
  1. Theatre 1 (Zafir)
    15 mins
    • Cell & Gene Therapy Clinical Pathways
    Remission without bespoke manufacturing: What recent European clinical results in aggressive leukaemias show about the true potential of off-the-shelf CAR-T and NK therapies and how this changes assum ...
  2. Theatre 2 (Ruby)
    15 mins
    • Operational & Commercial Performance
    Why COGS stays stubbornly high: The recurring technical and operational drivers of cost across CGT programme from starting materials and batch failure rates to logistics and facility utilisation. Wher ...
12:45 PM
  1. Theatre 1 (Zafir)
    15 mins
    • Cell & Gene Therapy Clinical Pathways
    Hospitals are the bottleneck and the solution: Why even off-the-shelf cell therapies fail without hospital integration and what practical delivery models are emerging across Europe. Designing delivery ...
01:00 PM
  1. Theatre 1 (Zafir)
    30 mins
    • Cell & Gene Therapy Clinical Pathways
    Understanding the AGORA model:How collaborative, hospital-anchored models like AGORA are reshaping access to gene and cell therapies for rare and ultra-rare diseases. We cannot scale without hospitals ...
  2. Theatre 2 (Ruby)
    30 mins
    • Operational & Commercial Performance
    The cost equation is breaking :Are allogeneic therapies genuinely approaching a manufacturing inflection point and if so, what does that mean for the long-term viability of autologous models that stil ...
01:30 PM
  1. Exhibition Hall
    75 mins
    • Networking Break
     
  2. Workshop Room
    60 mins
    • Workshop
    Sponsred by VIVEbiotech. Content coming soon
03:00 PM
  1. Theatre 1&2 (Ruby & Zafir)
    20 mins
    • Plenary
    What it takes to build a decentralised CAR-T manufacturing model in practice, and where the original “point-of-care” vision met operational reality. Key lessons from running multi-site GMP manufacturi ...
03:20 PM
  1. Theatre 1&2 (Ruby & Zafir)
    40 mins
    • Plenary
    The next modality frontier is not guaranteed: Which modalities are genuinely emerging as the next growth engines, whether cell therapies face structural headwinds or reinvention, and what lessons Euro ...