R/Pharma Summit

In-person event • Monday, September 15, 2025 • Atlanta, GA

Background

In 2018 and 2019, R in Pharma was in-person at Harvard University and focused on opportunities for direct interaction with speakers and guests.
These relationships and connections have grown into many exciting areas of Open Source drug development.

In 2023 we partnered with Posit, hosting an in-person session at posit::conf(2023) in Chicago.
In 2024, the session continued at posit::conf(2024) in Seattle.
We’re thrilled to bring this back at posit::conf(2025) in Atlanta! 🎉

Over the last five years we’ve seen an explosive growth in the use of R and other open source technologies across drug development, with an increasing focus on pan-company collaboration.

The R/Pharma Roundtable Summit provides an open, collaborative, and inclusive environment to:

Share learnings
Understand common themes across our industry
Establish collaboration opportunities

The focus is to foster in-person discussions about key items such as reproducibility and submissions, much like the original Harvard events.

🔗 Review the 2023–2024 roundtable summaries here:
rinpharma.github.io/roundtables

Call for Input

Note

You can contribute to the discussion about the final agenda!
Join the GitHub discussions here:
👉 rinpharma-summit-2025 Discussions

Location

Important

Hyatt Regency Atlanta
265 Peachtree St NE
Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Meeting Room: Regency VII

Agenda

Time	Chair	Description
9.15am		Intro to day
9.30–10am	James Black / Orla Doyle / Phil Bowsher	ROI on Open Source
10–10.45am	Eric Nantz / Paulo Bargo	Navigating Quality
10.45–11.05am		Bio-break
11:05–12:15pm	Devin Pastoor / Jeremy Wilfire, Joe Cheng, Eric Nantz	GenAI Discussion Panel
12:15–1:30pm		Lunch 🍴 Lunch & Learn sessions: • Postitron (Thomas Mock) • Validation (R Validation Hub, Doug Kelkhoff)
1:30–4pm	James + other chairs	Round tables Split into 2 × 1hr sessions with short break between. Attendance is flexible.
4–4:45pm	Round table chairs	Chairs report back notes, and any planned follow up
4:45–5pm	Phil Bowsher (Posit)	Wrap up
6–8pm	Social Event supported by Wu Consulting	at White Oak - Barrel Bar Room 270 Peachtree St NW Altanta, GA 30303

Roundtables

1. AI in Pharma

Chairs: Jeremy Wildfire, Sri Pavan Vemuri, Satish Murthy

Best Practices for AI-Assisted R Coding
What would an “AI-friendly” submission look like?
Reimagine open-label trial deliverables with interactive display/AI
Best Practices for AI Integration in Data Workflows
Create more tables if needed for GenAI

2. Validation in 2025

Chairs: Olga Mierzwa-Sulima, Eric Nantz, Paulo Bargo

Validating Open Source Tools with Stochastic Components
Architectures to provision validated R packages

3. Python for Clinical Study Reports and Submission

Chairs: Yilong Zhang, Jonathan Tisack

Medical Devices

4. SCEs in 2025

Chairs: David Thiriot, Phil Bowsher, James Black

Open-source infrastructure to complement openstatsware and the pharmaverse
Expanding the Pharmaverse beyond Clinical Reporting

5. Open-Source Change Management

Chairs: Ning Leng, Nate Mockler

From Hacks to Habits — Tools & Tricks That Changed the Game

6. Implementation / Perspectives of CROs

Chairs: Douglas Henry, Steven Tan

Expanding the Pharmaverse beyond Clinical Reporting

Audience

These round tables are for you if:

You are an active contributor to the adoption of data science best practices across drug development
You sponsor data science codebases
You are an informatics professional designing and implementing GxP-conforming data science platforms
You are interested in cross-pharma collaboration

Round Table Advisory Board

A mix of 50 people from various pharmaceutical companies, CRO and organization supporting the advancement of open source for drug development and clinical reporting.

Organising Committee

Phil Bowsher — Posit
James Black — Roche
Harvey Lieberman — Novartis
Katie Igartua — Tempus

This summit is run by Open Source in Pharma, a non-profit aiming to support the use of open source languages in Pharma.