Conference Day One
Tuesday, June 11

7:00 am Registration & Coffee Room Networking

Accelerating the Future of the Allogeneic Field with Novel Innovation, Strategy & Clinical Data

8:00 am Opening Remarks

8:10 am Industry Leaders Fireside Chat: Highlights & Hurdles from the Past Year to Inform Your 2024 Strategy

9:00 am Poseida Therapeutics: Clinical Data Presentation

  • Kristin Yarema Chief Executive Officer & President, Poseida Therapeutics

9:30 am Caribou Biosciences: Pre-Clinical & Clinical Data Presentation

  • Enrique Zudaire Senior Vice President - Translational Sciences & Therapeutics Discovery, Caribou Biosciences New!

10:00 am Allo Batch Potentials Unlocked! Half a Trillion Cells In 20 days

10:30 am Morning Refreshment Break & Speed Networking

Synopsis

As the allogeneic community is reunited, this session will ensure you can reconnect with your peers in the room to make new and lasting connections. Also, don’t forget to enjoy some refreshments before we split off into the 3 different tracks: Pre-Clinical, Clinical and Manufacturing & Process Development

PRE-CLINICAL TRACK

Improving Pre-Clinical Models to Better Prepare Allogeneic Therapies for the Clinic

11:30 am Innovative Model Strategies for Enhanced Translatability & Predictivity vs. Traditional Approaches in Pre-Clinical Research

12:00 pm NGS Product Suite for Cell Therapy Clinical Development

12:30 pm Exploring the Applications of B-Cells in Novel Off-theShelf Therapies

CLINICAL TRACK

Implementing Effective Allogeneic Donor Selection & Management

11:30 am Insights from INB-100 Trial Expansion Cohort: Unveiling Progress & Challenges

12:00 pm Expanding a Clinically Informed Pipeline in Autoimmune Diseases & Oncology

  • Blake Aftab Chief Scientific Officer, Adicet Bio Inc.

12:30 pm Dose Escalation for Allogeneic CAR-T Cell Therapies, Clinical & Translational Updates

  • Katie Newhall Vice President - Translational Clinical Development, Cellectis Stem Cells

MANUFACTURING & PROCESS DEVELOPMENT TRACK

Upscaling Manufacturing for Allogeneic Cell Therapies to Meet Rising Demands

11:30 am What are the Opportunities for Using Automation in Upscaling Allogeneic Manufacturing?

  • Dr Uday Kumar Vice President - Technical Operations, Stempeutics Research

12:00 pm Using automation to upscale microbiological quality control of autologous manufacturing processes

  • David Jones Director Industry Affairs, Rapid Micro Biosystems

12:30 pm Using Agile Process Development to De-Risk the Upscaling of Your Manufacturing Process

  • Rui tostões Vice President - Chemistry, Manufacturing & Controls, ImmuneBridge

1:00 pm Lunch Refreshment

2:00 pm Applications for Allogeneic Cell Therapies for Rare & Orphan Diseases

  • Lauren Bor Process Development Manager, TCBiopharm New!

Revolutionary Novel Modifications to Enhance the Potency of Off-the-Shelf Therapies

2:30 pm Evolving Cell Constructs Beyond CAR to Make Truly Off-the-Shelf Cell Therapies

  • Raphaël Ognar President & Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder, NKILT Therapeutics New!

3:00 pm Innovative Strategies for Improving Potency of Allogeneic Gamma Delta Cell Therapies

3:30 pm Durable Multiplex Epigenetic Editing to Enhance Allogeneic CAR-T Therapies

  • Jamie Schafer Director of Ex Vivo Program Sciences, Chroma Medicine New!

2:00 pm Clinical Safety & Immunogenicity Monitoring Strategies for Edited CAR-T Cell Therapy

  • Priya Chockalingam Vice President, Head of Clinical Bioanalytics & Translational Sciences, Beam Therapeutics New!

Spotlighting Recent Allogeneic Clinical Successes

2:30 pm Virtual Reporting Clinical Data from a First-in-Class Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Line Vaccine in Patients with Metastatic NSCLC

3:00 pm Combatting Infectious Disease with Allogeneic Invariant Natural Killer T Cell Therapies

  • Nils Rudqvist Director, Scientific Strategic Program Manager, Agenus

3:30 pm Panel Discussion: Is the Future for Allogeneic Therapies as Mono-Therapy or Combination?

  • Bryan Kobel Chief Executive Officer & Board Director, TCBiopharm New!
  • Evren Alici Co-Director - Next Generation NK Cell Competence Center & Research Group Leader, Karolinska Institutet

2:00 pm Preparing Your Supply Chain for Growing Demand for Allogeneic Products

Sourcing & Selecting Optimal Starting Material for Allogeneic Engineering

2:30 pm Scaling Tissue Therapeutics: Unlocking the Full Potential of Solid Organ Cells as Medicines

  • Tom Lowery President & Chief Technology Officer, Satellite Bio

3:00 pm Unveiling the Role of iPSCs in the Advancement of Allogeneic Cell Therapies

  • Allen Feng Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, HebeCell

3:30 pm Human Trophoblast Stem Cells – A Novel Allogeneic Source

  • Sicco Popma Chief Scientific Officer, Accelerated Biosciences

3:40 pm Panel Discussion: What Criteria Make the Ideal Starting Material for Allogeneic Products?

  • Colleen Delaney Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, EVP of Research and Development, Deverra Therapeutics
  • Yu Qian Director, Takeda

4:00 pm Afternoon Break & Tech Slam

4:10 pm Cellistic – Off-the-shelf Cell Therapy Platforms to Accelerate Allogeneic Cell Therapy

  • Stefan Braam President & Chief Technology Officer, Ncardia

5:00 pm Sanofi: Clinical Data Presentation

  • Robert Igarashi Head Of Discovery & Pre- Clinical Development, NK Cell Therapy, Kiadis Pharma New!

5:30 pm Overcoming Hurdles in Allogeneic Cell Therapy Development Using Pooled Donor Cord Blood CD34+ Cells as the Starting Material

  • Colleen Delaney Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, EVP of Research and Development, Deverra Therapeutics

6:00 pm Closing Remarks & End of Day One

6:15 pm Drinks Reception

Synopsis

Reunite with old friends and meet new industry peers after a busy day of innovation.