Upcoming meetings, the monthly KOL Lecture Series, and an archive of past talks.
Events & KOL Lectures
Upcoming Events
Sep 16, 2026
2026 DahShu-IDSWG Annual Meeting
You are warmly invited to the 2026 DahShu-IDSWG Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with the ASA BioPharma Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop (RISW).
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Time: 5:30–7:15 p.m.
Location: Bethesda North Marriott, Bethesda, MD
Specific meeting room details will be shared closer to the date.
Invited Speaker: James Travis, Ph.D. (U.S. FDA)
The annual meeting provides an opportunity for members of the IDSWG community to reconnect, hear updates on ongoing initiatives and sub-team activities, and discuss priorities and opportunities for the year ahead.
Agenda
Optional Networking Dinner
An informal networking dinner is planned for 8:00 p.m. following the meeting. Additional details will be confirmed and shared closer to the date.
2026 DahShu-IDSWG Annual Meeting
You are warmly invited to the 2026 DahShu-IDSWG Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with the ASA BioPharma Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop (RISW).
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Time: 5:30–7:15 p.m.
Location: Bethesda North Marriott, Bethesda, MD
Specific meeting room details will be shared closer to the date.
Invited Speaker: James Travis, Ph.D. (U.S. FDA)
The annual meeting provides an opportunity for members of the IDSWG community to reconnect, hear updates on ongoing initiatives and sub-team activities, and discuss priorities and opportunities for the year ahead.
Agenda
- Welcome and introduction
- Updates and highlights from IDSWG sub-teams
- Invited presentation by James Travis, Ph.D. (U.S. FDA)
- Synthesis and forward-looking discussion
- Closing remarks
Optional Networking Dinner
An informal networking dinner is planned for 8:00 p.m. following the meeting. Additional details will be confirmed and shared closer to the date.
Ongoing 2026
KOL Lecture Series
Monthly webinars, Fridays 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST. Zoom link
The 2026 speaker schedule is being confirmed. Contact the KOL committee to present or nominate a speaker.
KOL Lecture Series
Monthly webinars, Fridays 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST. Zoom link
The 2026 speaker schedule is being confirmed. Contact the KOL committee to present or nominate a speaker.
KOL Lecture Series
The IDSWG KOL Lecture Series has been running since 2015. Each month the series invites key opinion leaders from academia, industry, and regulatory agencies to share insights on the methodology, application, and practical considerations of innovative clinical trial design.
Format: Monthly webinars, Fridays 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
Attendance: 100 to 200 participants per session, open to all.
Join the meeting: Zoom link
Chairs (2025): Heng Zhou (Merck), Yi Pan (Bristol Myers Squibb)
Members: John Loewy (Data ForeThought), Xiaofei Bai (Moderna)
To present or nominate a speaker for 2026, contact any committee member.
Annual Meeting
IDSWG holds an annual face-to-face meeting for members and collaborators, held in conjunction with the ASA BioPharma Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop (RISW). The 2026 Annual Meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at the Bethesda North Marriott in Bethesda, MD, featuring invited speaker James Travis, Ph.D. (U.S. FDA). See Upcoming Events above for the full agenda.
The most recent meeting took place on September 24, 2025, and included introductory presentations on the IDSWG, DahShu, and BSWG collaboration opportunities, and the StatBridge Future Leaders Program, followed by sub-team reports from across the group’s working groups.
DahShu Data Science Symposium
The 2025 DahShu Data Science Symposium focused on Innovative Frontiers: AI and Data-Driven Advances in Drug Development, Precision Medicine, and Healthcare.
Short courses offered on October 18, 2025:
- Causal Generalist Medical AI (Full Day)
- Precision Medicine and Companion Diagnostics: Statistical and Design Considerations (Half Day)
- Bayesian Clinical Trial Designs and Their Implementation (Half Day)
- Highly Adaptive Lasso and Targeted Learning (Full Day)
More information about DahShu events is available at dahshu.wildapricot.org.
KOL Archive
The KOL Lecture Series has featured 100+ speakers from academia, industry, and regulatory agencies since 2015. A full searchable archive of past lectures is being compiled and will be posted here.
Recordings of past lectures are shared with registered IDSWG members. To request access to a specific past lecture or the full archive, contact the KOL Series committee.
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