Inside ATW 2026: Strategy, Science and Scale in Action


 

Please note: not all sessions at Advanced Therapies Week 2026 were recorded. The videos below highlight a selection of sessions from across the event.

 

Investment Summit | ATW26

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  • How clinical data strategy shapes CGT success. Miguel Forte explores the role of geography, operations and trial design in generating meaningful data.
  • CGT investment is expanding beyond therapeutics. Explore why investors are backing the tools, platforms and technologies powering the industry.
  • What makes a biotech company fundable in 2026? Leading investors reveal the science, data, manufacturing and strategy milestones that drive funding decisions.
  • Investment Summit Opening Keynote

    09 Feb 2026 Phacilitate
    The Investment Summit opens with Christiaan Engstrom, Founder of BLPN, sharing perspectives on capital, strategy and the evolving future of advanced therapies investment.
  • Biotech funding is evolving. Explore alternative capital models, structured liquidity and new investor types shaping how emerging companies fund innovation.
  • Great science isn’t enough. Learn why commercial strategy, pricing and market access are key to turning breakthrough therapies into investable biotech.

Women in Advanced Therapies (WIAT) Congress | ATW26

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  • How inclusive leadership drives innovation in advanced therapies. Leaders discuss representation, allyship and practical ways to improve equity.
  • Kick off the Women in Advanced Therapies Congress with a welcome from Becky Johnson-Kent and leadership lessons from Dr Kristen Hege inspired by the Pacific Crest Trail.

Advanced Therapies Week 2026 - Full Sessions 

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  • She Leads Biotech Podcast Live

    11 Feb 2026 Phacilitate
    A live She Leads Biotech podcast featuring industry leaders discussing leadership journeys, career growth and the evolving role of women in biotech.
  • A new model for biotech funding. Nicole Paulk explains how Siren Biotechnology’s crowdfunding strategy is engaging the public and reshaping investment.
  • A powerful closing keynote on challenging broken systems in rare disease and how patient-led innovation can drive real breakthroughs.
  • Ensuring AAV vector safety. This session explores unbiased assays for detecting rcAAV, improving sensitivity, reproducibility and regulatory confidence.
  • Clinical insights from CARTITUDE studies. Explore biomarkers linked to durable response in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
  • Innovation Exchange Pitch Competition

    12 Feb 2026 Phacilitate
    Innovative biotech start-ups pitch breakthrough ideas to leading investors, gaining real-time feedback on science, strategy and funding potential.
  • Buildings or Biotech Which Comes First?

    11 Feb 2026 Phacilitate
    Advanced therapies need infrastructure to scale. Leaders explore the lab and manufacturing space bottleneck shaping biotech growth and investment.
  • How translational centers accelerate CGT development. Sarah Callens shares lessons from enabling biotech teams to move from IND to GMP readiness.
  • Early regulatory engagement can make or break CGT programs. Experts discuss strategies for aligning data, trials and communication with regulators.
  • How patient advocacy is shaping early clinical development. Experts discuss aligning trial design, endpoints and engagement with real patient needs.
  • How patient insight can transform advanced therapy development. Experts discuss embedding patient perspectives into trial design, endpoints and access.
  • A live Bio2Bedside podcast exploring right-to-try legislation, rare disease access and how biotech leaders can use emerging policies responsibly.
  • How can AI Accelerate R&D for CGT?

    10 Feb 2026 Phacilitate
    AI is transforming CGT research. Experts explore predictive modelling, experimental design and data-driven tools accelerating discovery and development.
  • How geopolitics is reshaping advanced therapies. Experts examine global funding shifts, APAC growth and the impact on supply chains, regulation and access.
  • Collaboration powers progress in advanced therapies. Experts explore partnership models that align academia, biotech and investors to accelerate innovation.
  • How do CGT teams scale from discovery to GMP manufacturing? Experts explore tech transfer strategies, scalability challenges and maintaining quality.
  • What actually moved advanced therapies forward in 2025? Leaders examine what worked, what didn’t and the realities shaping CGT in 2026.
  • A powerful patient story from Luke Keller, founder of Mighty Oaks Foundation, sharing his family’s CAR-T journey and why this work matters. A session to officially open Advanced Therapies Week 2026.

Phacilitate.TV Interviews | ATW26

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  • Saudi Arabia is expanding its ambitions in advanced therapies through Vision 2030, focusing on building local biomanufacturing capabilities and accelerating access to cell and gene therapies.
  • This discussion examines how next‑gen platforms and predictive modelling approaches provide the process insight to drive consistency, yield, and potency as programs move towards commercialization.
  • Vitrafy solves the challenge of inconsistent, manual, and hard-to-scale cryopreservation processes that can compromise cell quality and therapy outcomes.
  • This session is designed for cell and gene therapy developers, process development teams, and manufacturing leaders seeking to accelerate timelines while reducing manufacturing costs.
  • US biotech companies expanding clinical trials into the EU and UK face complex regulatory and logistics challenges. Damian Larington shares key requirements, common mistakes and emerging trial trends.
  • BBG Advanced Therapies has built infrastructure to both help developers access reliable high-quality starting material, as well as downstream support for testing, manufacturing, and logistics.
  • Excellos specializes in deep characterization of starting materials for adaptive immunotherapies for the better cellular immunotherapies as well as being flexibility in novel process development.
  • The Evolution of Bioprocessing Reagents

    11 Feb 2026 Phacilitate
    Teknova leverages their modular manufacturing platform to help novel therapy developers across cell and gene therapy, mRNA, and next-generation antibodies accelerate their breakthroughs.
  • Symcel addresses one of the biggest remaining bottlenecks in cell & gene therapy: QC release, through a breakthrough rapid, growth-based microbial detection system.
  • What if accelerating innovation and reducing risk were not opposing forces? This session looks at how the trade-off can be overcome from a CMC perspective.
  • Hear how Marken is rising to constant global disruptions — embracing innovation, reducing risk, and building future-ready solutions that balance speed, cost, and control.
  • Assurea in 2026

    10 Feb 2026 Phacilitate
    Life sciences companies are accelerating digital transformation while maintaining regulatory compliance. Assurea explains how AI, integrated quality systems and analytics are reshaping the industry.
  • One of the biggest hurdles sponsors face is finding a CDMO with true commercial AAV experience—partners who have successfully taken them through global approvals into the commercial market.
  • GeminiBio and Tolemy Bio will introduce aiMOS™, an AI-driven media optimization service that helps teams reduce variability, increase performance, and improve manufacturability.
  • Limula is addressing the challenges of clinical centres and biotech companies looking for a solution enabling fully automated production of cell therapies at the point-of-care.
  • As a cell therapy advances to commercial-scale manufacturing, success depends on strategic partnerships that ensure quality, consistency, and regulatory compliance while enabling scalability.
  • In a complex, volatile global market, manufacturability is no longer something to address “when the time comes”-it must be built into the therapy from day one
  • CaseBioscience focuses on preservation of cells for storage and transport, so cell therapy developers have a partner for this crucial aspect of the cell therapy workflow.
  • NKILT Therapeutics brings a novel off-the-shelf cell therapy to tackle over half of cancers across hematologic and solid tumors.

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  • “I get SO MUCH information at this show that sets me up for the year. It’s what I love about it. To me, ATW is the start of the year.”
    Beth Willers
    Principal, WMC
  • “The Super Bowl of Advanced Cell Therapy conferences.”
    Chris White
    Patient & Author, Killing Cancer with TILs
  • “Everyone that has a word to say, or a finger on the lifecycle of a cell therapy product should come here…”
    Raphaël Ognar
    President & CEO, Co-founder, NKILT Therapeutics Inc.
  • "Advanced Therapies Week 2025 was a fantastic opportunity to connect with peers across technical, regulatory, and business functions, fostering meaningful conversations that continue well beyond the event."
    Jorge Santiago Ortiz
    Aperture Gene Therapy
  • “Advanced Therapies Week has been the epicenter of the cell & gene therapy revolution. This is a dynamic and must-attend forum where breakthrough technologies and impactful partnerships come to life to transform drug development.”
    Bullpen