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7:00 am Check In, Morning Coffee & Light Refreshments

7:45 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Contextualising the ADC Landscape & Leveraging Opportunities to Unlock Differentiation For the Future of Targeted Therapies

7:45 am Panel Discussion: Evaluating the Cutting-Edge Innovation & Performance Driving ADC Differentiation & Progression Earlier Line Patient Therapies

Chief Scientific Officer, Iksuda Therapeutics
executive director, AstraZeneca
VP, Research & Head, R&D Technology and Innovation, Amgen
Partner & Co-Founder, Genesis BioCapital
Chief Scientific Officer, Sutro Biopharma
Senior Vice President & Head, Biotech Unit & Development Innovation, BeOne Medicines
  • Understanding the 2026 ADC landscape and how the bar has been raised to develop and deliver differentiated ADCs with meaningful patient impact
  • Assessing the need for novel ADC chemistry innovation: What is showing the most promise across novel payloads and conjugation technologies?
  • Discussing the potential of novel ADC biology approaches across bispecific targeting and antibody engineering to unlock next generation ADC therapies
  • Highlighting methods to best pursue ADC clinical differentiation across patient selections methods, combination strategies, and well executed clinical design

8:45 am WuXiDARx™ Conjugation Technology & Proprietary Payload-Linker Platform: A Powerful Alliance for Next-Generation Dual Payload ADC Development

Chief Technology Officer & Executive Vice President, WuXi Biologics
  • Advancing next-generation dual-payload ADCs to address traditional challenges like drug resistance and narrow therapeutic windows
  • Leveraging WuXiDARx™ technology for flexible DAR1-6 and WuXiTecan2™ hydrophilic linker, enabling streamlined dual-payload construction without antibody engineering
  • Demonstrating a substantially wider therapeutic index alongside significantly enhanced anti-tumor efficacy in proof-of-concept studies

9:15 am The Next Generation of ADCs: Leveraging Novel Conjugation & Enhanced Antibody Engineering for the Future of Targeted Oncology Therapies

executive director, AstraZeneca
  • Laying out the scope to differentiate ADC development through novel conjugation, antibody engineering, and target identification approaches to widen therapeutic index and bring patient benefit
  • Incorporating in silico and AI tools to enhance the ADC discovery toolbox and deliver next-generation ADC engineering and design
  • Highlighting future priorities for next-generation ADC development, including exploring the potential of radio conjugates

9:45 am Why Patient Involvement Matters for the Future of ADC Development in Blood Cancer

Research Involvement Lead, Blood Cancer UK

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10:00 am Morning Break & Networking

Discovery

Discovery

Chair:

Partner & Co-Founder, Genesis BioCapital

Delving Into Rationale & Performance of Novel Payloads to Combat ADC Resistance

11:00 am Auristatin S: Developing an Auristatin Payload with Improved Tolerability & Modified Bystander Activity

Director, Pfizer
  • Rationally designing Auristatin S to improve tolerability of auristatin payloads through the tuning of permeability and bystander activity
  • Explaining how Auristatin S maintains key auristatin properties including strong tubulin binding affinity and induction of immunogenic cell death
  • Exploring Austin S improved preclinical therapeutic window

11:30 am Development of a Site Specific & Versatile Conjugation Approach Based on Bacterial Transglutaminase & the Diels-Alder Cycloaddition Reaction

Senior Director, Chemistry, Abzena
  • Re-purposing maleimides for conjugation to antibodies, a different application that specifically conjugates via cycloaddition reaction
  • Exploring design and synthesis of diene-containing linkers for site-specific transglutaminase conjugation, with modulation for dual-payload ADCs
  • Evaluating in vitro and in vivo activity and assessing stability of ADCs
  • Highlighting the importance of collaborations with CROs for discovering and developing novel linker and conjugation technologies

12:00 pm Evolving ADC Discovery to Design & Develop Next-Generation ADCs with Differentiated Therapeutic Profiles

Scientific Leader, GSK
  • Leveraging automation to improve efficiency and throughput for ADC discovery
  • Laying out the GSK approach and attitude to ADC discovery to ensure development of future ADC therapeutic impact
  • Highlighting novel linker-payload design approaches to improve ADC physicochemical properties and tumour targeting specificity

12:30 pm RenSuper® Biologics: Empowering Next-Gen Dual-Payload ADCs with AI-Driven Precision & Scalability

CSO, Biocytogen
  • Leveraging RenLite® common light chain to eliminate mismatching, ensuring high homogeneity and "antibody-like" stability for complex dual-payload formats
  • Combining two distinct, complementary MoAs on a single molecule to tackle tumour heterogeneity and bypass resistance.
  • The RenSuper Workstation AI Platform scans 200+ TAA targets and hundreds of thousands of ready-to-go antibodies to match the ideal lead with optimal internalization in record time
Preclinical & Translational
Clinical Lessons
Process & Analytical Development
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

1:00 pm Lunch & Learn Session Presentation Hosted By Proveo

Invitation-only session. For all other attendees, lunch is provided in the exhibition area.

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Discovery

Is Two Better Than One? Investigating Dual Target & Dual Payload ADC Development

2:00 pm Fine-Tuning Next-Generation Bispecific ADCs for Improved Efficacy & Safety

BCT, SOTIO Biotech
  • Leveraging site-specific conjugation and linker-payload technologies to advance a pipeline of ADCs
  • Exploring preclinical development of bispecific ADCs aspiring to minimise on-target toxicity and overcome tumour heterogeneity
  • Optimising the bispecific format for optimal effect on tumour cells with varying antigen expression and discussing translation of functional in vitro data into in vivo efficacy

2:30 pm Contextualising Trifecta ADC Design & Advancing Next-Generation Branched Linker ADC Development

Head of ADC Research & Technologies, Debiopharm
  • Applying a trifecta approach to design a fit-for-purpose linker for haematologic ADCs, with preclinical insights from Debio-1562M incorporating MLINKSELECT DM1
  • Developing and implementing branched linker technology for next-generation dual payload ADCs in solid tumours
  • Recapping lessons learned in advancing high-DAR ADCs from discovery to the clinic

3:00 pm TME-Specific Payload Release: Discovery & Preclinical Validation of a Novel Enzyme-Cleavable Linker

Scientific Advisor, Nona Biosciences
  • Addressing tumour heterogeneity and drug penetration challenges with internalisation-independent payload release
  • Screening and identifying a unique linker using a specific TME enzyme expressed across cancer models for next-generation ADC development
  • Achieving superior efficacy and safety with an internalisation-independent linker-payload system in ductal and squamous carcinoma cell lines
Preclinical & Translational
Clinical Lessons
Process & Analytical Development
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

3:30 pm Afternoon Break & Networking

Scientific posters will be displayed all day. Use this dedicated time to meet poster authors and ask your burning questions.

Spotlighting Late-Stage ADC Clinical Programmes Bringing Better Earlier Line Oncology Treatments to Patients in Need

4:30 pm From IND to Long Term Commercial Supply: A Step Ahead Against the Challenges of Bioconjugates

Manager, Technology Transfer Large Molecules Adcs Platform, BSP Pharmaceuticals S.p.A
  • Serving the innovators from the candidate selection to the IND, from Phase I to the long-term commercial supply
  • Highlighting the approach to support early-stage programme through robust development studies
  • Overviewing conjugation and fill/finish capabilities
  • Delivering important updates on conjugation and fill-finish capacity

5:00 pm Belantamab Mafodotin Mechanism of Action: Explaining Induction of Immunogenic & Inflammatory Cell Death to Remodel the Tumour Microenvironment in Patients

Vice President, Translational Haematology & Tumour Omics, Oncology Translational Research, GSK
  • Highlighting the importance of in-depth translational characterisation of late-stage ADC assets to understand clinical success
  • Explaining how belantamab Mafodotin mechanism of action enables durable patient responses in the clinic
  • Laying out lessons learnt that can influence how subsequent and future ADCs are designed

5:30 pm Enhanced ADC Development Through Integrated Chemistry & Technology

Director of Bioconjugate Process & Analytical Development, Merck KGaA
  • Discussing an integrated platform approach that utilizes real-time PAT, engineering principles, and strategic methodologies
  • Outlining strategies for optimizing conjugation chemistry and dual-payload conjugates
  • Exploring case studies to demonstrate how this approach enhances decision-making, reduces timelines, and improves cost efficiencies in the ADC pipeline

6:00 pm Exploring Clinical Profile & Approval Journey of EMRELIS Against Nonsquamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer With High c-Met Protein Overexpression

Global Development Leader, AbbVie
  • Introducing rationale for targeting c-Met and breaking down Teliso-V design and development, including tandem companion diagnostic development against c-Met
  • Diving into Phase II LUMINOSITY safety and efficacy readouts on clinical outcomes in NSCLC patients that lead to FDA accelerated approval
  • Highlighting lessons learned from development journey in an indication without an approved ADC therapy, and understanding what this means for other ADC programmes

6:30 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

6:30 pm Drinks Reception

7:30 pm End of Scientific Programme Day One