Formatted version available at https://rinpharma.github.io/rinpharma-summit-2026/
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.
- In 2025, we hosted a summit at posit::conf(2025) in Atlanta.
- We're thrilled to bring this to Basel in 2026 at the Novartis Pavillion! 🎉
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 2023–2025 roundtable summaries here:
rinpharma.github.io/roundtables
You can contribute to the discussion about the final agenda!
Join the GitHub discussions here:
👉 rinpharma-summit-2026 Discussions
Novartis Pavillion
Novartis Campus
Basel, Switzerland
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| Time | Chair | Description |
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| 9:00am | Coffee break | Coffee and registration |
| 9:30–10:00am | TBC | TBC |
| 10:00–10:45am | TBC | TBC |
| 10:45–11:05am | Bio-break (TBC-no coffee booked at this time) | |
| 11:05–12:15pm | TBC | TBC — Discussion Panel |
| 12:00–1:00pm | Lunch | Lunch 🍴 Lunch & Learn sessions TBC |
| 1:30–3:00pm | TBC | Round tables Split into 2 × 1hr sessions with short break between. Attendance is flexible. |
| 3:00–3:30pm | Coffee break | |
| 4:00–4:45pm | Round table chairs | Chairs report back notes, and any planned follow up |
| 4:45–5:00pm | TBC | Wrap up |
| 6:00–8:00pm | TBC | Social event — Venue TBC |
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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
A mix of 50 people from various pharmaceutical companies, CRO and organization supporting the advancement of open source for drug development and clinical reporting.
- 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.