Agenda: MAGI 2026

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Sunday, April 12, 2026
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Light Breakfast
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM	Good Clinical Practice (GCP)	Quality/Regulatory
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Billing Compliance: Part 1	Billing Compliance
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Quality/Regulatory	Quality/Regulatory
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Clinical Trial Agreement (CTA): Intellectual Property, Data Ownership & Confidentiality	Contracts
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Leveraging AI for Operational Efficiency and Quality Control	Clinical Operations
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Study Budget Part 1: One Time & Recurring Administrative Fees	Budgets
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Networking Break	Networking
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Clinical Trial Agreement (CTA): Indemnification, Limitation of Liability, Subject Injury & Insurance	Contracts
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Intermediate	Clinical Operations
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Quality/Regulatory	Quality/Regulatory
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Study Budget Part 2: Getting to YES (Negotiation Techniques)	Budgets
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Billing Compliance: Part 2	Billing Compliance
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Boxed Lunch
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Sponsors' Perspectives: Budgets, Negotiations, and Efficient Startups	Budgets
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Quality/Regulatory	Quality/Regulatory
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Game Night! (Billing Compliance Style)	Billing Compliance
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	CTA Workshop: Poor Practices That Cost Us Time, and How to Fix Them	Contracts
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Organizational Leadership & People Centered Communication	Clinical Operations
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Opening Reception	Networking
Monday, April 13, 2026
7:15 AM - 7:45 AM	Yoga
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM	Welcome Remarks	Plenary
9:15 AM - 11:00 AM	Innovation Challenge	Plenary
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM	Networking Break
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Research Compliance Meets Billing Ethics: What Does it Take to Achiever Informed Consent Regarding Patient Care Costs?	Billing Compliance
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Site Innovation for Study Start Up	Budgets
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Quality/Regulatory	Quality/Regulatory
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	AI, Digital Tools, and Data-Sharing Clauses in Contracts	Contracts
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Monitoring Oversight: Turning Sponsor Accountability into Actionable Quality	Clinical Operations
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch - Birds of a Feather
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Dessert
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Operationalizing Your Research Billing Compliance Program	Billing Compliance
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Quality/Regulatory	Quality/Regulatory
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Securing (More) Studies: Building and Maintaining Your Site's BD Pipeline	Budgets
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Before the First Redline: Setting Contract Negotiations Up for Success	Contracts
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Beyond Stipends: Ethical, Equitable, and Standardized Participant Support in Modern Clinical Trials	Clinical Operations
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Networking Break
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	State of the Industry/Keynote	Plenary
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Social Hour
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
7:15 AM - 7:45 AM	Yoga
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Plenary	Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Applied Innovation: When Technology Works FOR You! (Case Studies)	Budgets
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Navigating the Current Landscape of Data Privacy in Research Contracts	Contracts
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Quality/Regulatory	Quality/Regulatory
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Advanced Billing Compliance (CAR-T & Cell Therapies)	Billing Compliance
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Accelerating Study Start Up: Transformative Models for Trial Initiation	Clinical Operations
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch - Regions
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM	Dessert
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Stump the Experts - RBC	Billing Compliance
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Panel Discussion: Contracts & Regulatory Strategy to Achieve Faster Activation	Contracts
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	NPs & PAs: Lessons from ICH GCP R3 and FDA Inspections	Clinical Operations
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	You Put ANOTHER Amendment in it? Streamlining Protocol Amendments from Start-Up and Beyond	Budgets
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Quality/Regulatory	Quality/Regulatory
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Moving the Needle: Contracts	Contracts
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Moving the Needle: Billing Compliance	Billing Compliance
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Moving the Needle: Quality/Regulatory	Quality/Regulatory
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Moving the Needle: Budgets	Budgets
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Moving the Needle: Clinical Operations	Clinical Operations
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Moving the Needle Readouts and Voting
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Light Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Professional Development	Professional Development
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Professional Development	Professional Development
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Professional Development	Professional Development
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	Networking Break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Professional Development	Professional Development
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Professional Development	Professional Development
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Professional Development	Professional Development

Schedule of Events

Exhibit Hall Hours

Quiet Room

Mother's Room

AI, Digital Tools, and Data-Sharing Clauses in Contracts
Accelerating Study Start Up: Transformative Models for Trial Initiation
Advanced Billing Compliance (CAR-T & Cell Therapies)
Applied Innovation: When Technology Works FOR You! (Case Studies)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Intermediate
Before the First Redline: Setting Contract Negotiations Up for Success
Beyond Stipends: Ethical, Equitable, and Standardized Participant Support in Modern Clinical Trials
Billing Compliance: Part 1
Billing Compliance: Part 2
Boxed Lunch
Breakfast
CTA Workshop: Poor Practices That Cost Us Time, and How to Fix Them
Clinical Trial Agreement (CTA): Indemnification, Limitation of Liability, Subject Injury & Insurance
Clinical Trial Agreement (CTA): Intellectual Property, Data Ownership & Confidentiality
Dessert
Game Night! (Billing Compliance Style)
Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
Innovation Challenge
Leveraging AI for Operational Efficiency and Quality Control
Light Breakfast
Lunch - Birds of a Feather
Lunch - Regions
Monitoring Oversight: Turning Sponsor Accountability into Actionable Quality
Moving the Needle Readouts and Voting
Moving the Needle: Billing Compliance
Moving the Needle: Budgets
Moving the Needle: Clinical Operations
Moving the Needle: Contracts
Moving the Needle: Quality/Regulatory
NPs & PAs: Lessons from ICH GCP R3 and FDA Inspections
Navigating the Current Landscape of Data Privacy in Research Contracts
Networking Break
Opening Reception
Operationalizing Your Research Billing Compliance Program
Organizational Leadership & People Centered Communication
Panel Discussion: Contracts & Regulatory Strategy to Achieve Faster Activation
Plenary
Professional Development
Quality/Regulatory
Research Compliance Meets Billing Ethics: What Does it Take to Achiever Informed Consent Regarding Patient Care Costs?
Securing (More) Studies: Building and Maintaining Your Site's BD Pipeline
Site Innovation for Study Start Up
Social Hour
Sponsors' Perspectives: Budgets, Negotiations, and Efficient Startups
State of the Industry/Keynote
Study Budget Part 1: One Time & Recurring Administrative Fees
Study Budget Part 2: Getting to YES (Negotiation Techniques)
Stump the Experts - RBC
Welcome Remarks
Yoga
You Put ANOTHER Amendment in it? Streamlining Protocol Amendments from Start-Up and Beyond

• Megan Albaugh - Assistant General Counsel - ICE Global Con...
• Candida Barlow - Director of Clinical Research - Oklahoma
• Brigid Boggan - Senior Coverage Analyst - Houston Methodis...
• Phil Boyce - CEO - Boyce Life Sciences, LLC
• Jennifer Cano - Director, Contracting - Zentalis Pharmaceu...
• Avudaiappan Chokkalingam - Manager, Research Administratio...
• Trevor Cole - Director - WCG
• Linda Coleman - Director, Human Research Protection Progra...
• Natasha Cotton - Clinical Research Manager - Sentara
• Raid Faddah - Research Operation Manager - Henry Ford heal...
• Allison Falwell - Clinical Research Operations Manager - S...
• Istvan Fekete - Principal - Attain Partners
• Kelly FitzGerald - IRB Executive Chair - WCG
• Shanna Ford - Senior Consultant - Attain Partners
• Joe Fugitt - Sr Dir, Research Administration, Development,...
• Jennifer Germain - Director, Clinical Research Network - B...
• Ray Goodridge - Director, Clinical Trials Financial Manage...
• Gary Grabow - Attorney at Law - Law Office of Gary Grabow
• Collin Gruener - Operations Manager, WCG Site Network - WC...
• Laura Hanson - Director - Research Operations - Mayo Clini...
• Mitchell Hilbe - Director Clinical Operations, Expanded Ac...
• LaToya Hinton-Howery - CEO/Research Director - Next Innova...
• Janet Holwell - Clinical Research Consultant/Trainer - Hol...
• Ellie Houston - Associate Director of Monitoring Oversight...
• Nicole Huete - Pre-Award Supervisor for the Office of Rese...
• Derek Johnson - Coverage Analysis Quality Manager - WCG
• Jill Johnston - Chief Innovation Officer - WCG
• Jelger Kalmijn - Research Admin 3 - University of Californ...
• Melody Keel - Clinical Operations Consultant - The Researc...
• Soun Khountham - Senior Director, New Development - UPMC E...
• Wendy Landow - Research Strategy Consultant - Empower Grow...
• Lisa Landsberg - Dir, Clinical Research Ops and Regulatory...
• Theresa Latham - Associate General Counsel - Life Sciences...
• Tanisha LaVeck - Clinical Research Financial Analyst - Hol...
• Katherine Leibowitz - Co-Founder and Managing Member - Lei...
• Jeri Lichtenwalner - Associate Project Lead - PPD Internat...
• Avril Liu - Associate Director of Sponsored Programs - Uni...
• Erik Martin - Shareholder - Polsinelli
• Michelle McDonnell - Business Manager, Clinical Trials Off...
• Kristen McKenna - Senior Manager, Investigator Contracts L...
• Patricia Mendoza - Senior Quality Assurance Auditor - Medp...
• Lilith Mist - Exec. Clinical Research Director - Merck
• Karen (Kaye) Mottola - Senior Program Manager - Boston Med...
• Lyra Myers - Head, R&D Contracts - Genentech
• Sahar Naureen - Clinical Site Relationship Program, Senior...
• Lovie Negrin - CEO - Randomize Now Research Centers
• Ellen Neylon - Clinical Operations Manager - Palm Research...
• Michael Nichols - Assistant General Counsel II - H. Lee Mo...
• Caroline O'Hair - Partner - Lovell Law Group, PC
• Katherine Peacock - Director of Research Operations - Sout...
• Sara Player - Senior Director, Clinical, Regulatory and Pr...
• Nishat Premani - Manager - Huron Consulting Group
• Jessica Propps - Manager of Research Operations - Texas On...
• Denise Quint - Principal Consultant - Denise Quint, LLC
• Eve Sakran - Executive Director of Research - Holy Cross H...
• Dan Schell - Chief Editor - Clinical Leader
• Geoffrey Schick - Director, Strategic Site Partnerships -
• Erin Stanley - Senior Director - Huron Consulting Group
• Deborah Suarez - Director, Research Administration - Bapti...
• Peter Sullivan - Principal - Sullivan Group
• Michael Swartz - Executive Director, Deputy Chief Privacy
• Jessica Thurmond - Program Director - WCG
• Jim Wagner - Co-founder and CEO - The Contract Network
• Maggie Wallendal
• Melissa Waver - Research Policy Manager - University of Ca...
• LaTisha Weaver - Consultant - LDM Clinical Research Source...
• Sarah Weissman - Associate Director, Clinical and Corporat...
• Kelly Willenberg - Manager, CEO - Kelly Willenberg & Assoc...