Conference Day One
Tuesday, June 11

7:15 am Registration & Coffee Room Networking

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

8:15 am Opening Remarks

8:30 am Industry Leaders Fireside Chat: Highlights & Hurdles from the Past Year to Inform Your 2024 Strategy

  • Cokey Nguyen Chief Scientific & Technical Officer, Atara Biotherapeutics Inc.
  • Blake Aftab Chief Scientific Officer, Adicet Bio Inc.
  • Devon Shedlock Chief Scientific Officer, Poseida Therapeutics New!
  • Kate Rochlin Chief Operating Officer, IN8Bio

9:00 am Full Landscape Overview of the Allogeneic Cell Therapy Space

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 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 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 Dose Escalation for Allogeneic CAR-T Cell Therapies, Clinical & Translational Updates

  • Katie Newhall Vice President - Translational Clinical Development, Cellectis New!

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?

12:00 pm Using Agile Process Development to De-Risk the Upscaling of Your Manufacturing Process

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

12:30 pm Lunch Refreshment

2:00 pm Leveraging In Vitro Models to Streamline Transition to the Clinic

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 and 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 Reporting Clinical Data from a First-in-Class Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Line Vaccine in Patients with Metastatic NSCLC

  • Eric Halioua President & Chief Executive Officer, PDC*line Pharma

3:00 pm Expanding a Clinically Informed Pipeline in Autoimmune Diseases & Oncology

  • Blake Aftab Chief Scientific Officer, Adicet Bio Inc.

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 of next generation NK cell competence center Research group leader, Karolinska Institutet
  • Omid Veiseh Associate Professor, CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research, Rice University
  • Adil Doganay Duru Director - Business Development, Glycosystem New!

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

Sourcing & Selecting Optimal Starting Material for Allogeneic Engineering

2:30 pm Unveiling the Role of iPSCs in the Advancement of Allogeneic Cell Therapies

3:00 pm Characterizing Starting Material for Safety & Efficacy

  • Rajneesh Jha Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca New!

3:30 pm Panel Discussion: What Criteria Make the Ideal Starting Material for Allogeneic Products?

  • Amish Patel Senior Vice President - Technical Operations, Calidi Biotherapeutics Inc.
  • Colleen Delaney Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Executive Vice President - Research & Development, Deverra Therapeutics
  • Yu Qian Director - Chemistry, Manufacturing, Controls & Cell Therapies, Takeda

4:00 pm Afternoon Break & Tech Slam

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 & Chief Scientific Officer, Executive Vice President - Research & 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.

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