R/Pharma Workshops

Europe/US and APAC Workshop Schedule

Free workshops at R/Pharma

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September 11, 2026

R/Pharma is thrilled to bring 25 workshops and a Pharmaverse hackathon across Europe/US and Asia Pacific timezones. Workshops will run between September 28th and October 1st. Registration is via the R/Pharma registration page.

A huge thank you to all the workshop presenters who are giving their time to put together and teach such amazing content! Be sure to register to attend.

Workshops in US/Europe

All workshop times in EDT.

Date Length Presenters Title
2026-09-28 9:00AM 2 hr Isabella Velásquez (Posit), Yilong Chang (Meta), Michael Chow (Posit) Python & Positron for Clinical Study Reports and Submissions
2026-09-28 9:00AM 2 hr Jagadish Katam (Princeps Technologies) {gtsummary} for Clinical Programmers: Demographics, Adverse Events, and Lab Summaries
2026-09-28 10:00AM 2 hr Max Kuhn (Posit) Deep Learning and Foundational Models for Tabular Data in R
2026-09-28 1:00PM 3 hr Michelle Harwood (AstraZeneca) Visualizing Clinical Data: From Publication-Quality Figures to Interactive Shiny Dashboards
2026-09-28 1:00PM 3 hr Garrett Grolemund (Posit) Human-in-the-Loop AI: Using Posit Assistant in Positron to Accelerate Analysis Without Sacrificing Control
2026-09-28 2:00PM 2 hr Daniel Sjoberg (Kardigan), Shannon Pileggi (PCCTC) Enterprise {gtsummary}: Themes, ARDs, and Custom Extensions for Pharma
2026-09-29 8:00AM 4 hr Adrian Waddell (Posit) Administering R: Installations, Libraries, and Package Management
2026-09-29 10:00AM 2 hr Rich Iannone (Posit) The pointblank for R workshop: everything you need to know to validate data effectively
2026-09-29 12:00PM 4 hr Brian Varney (Experis) Getting Started with R Clinical Programming
2026-09-30 8:30AM 1.5 hr hr Daniel Sabanés Bové (RPACT) crmPack - dose escalation trials made easy and flexible
2026-09-30 9:00AM 4 hr Matt Fidler (Novartis), Anne Keuneke (LAP&P), Mutaz M. Jaber (Gilead), Justin Wilkins (Occams) Pharmacometric modeling and simulation with nlmixr2 and rxode2
2026-09-30 1:00PM 3 hr Kevin Lee (Clinvia) Building SKILLs for AI Agents
2026-10-01 8:00AM 3 hr Marcin Dubel (Appsilon) Mediforce: Step-by-step Automation For Pharma Workflows
2026-10-01 9:00AM 3 hr Jeff Dickinson (Navitas Data Sciences), Eric Zhang (Eikon Therapeutics) Pharma Skills Workshop: Hands-On AI Skills for Clinical Programming and Biostatistics
2026-10-01 9:30AM 2.5 hr Daniel Lee (Bayesian Ops) Bayesian Modeling in Practice: A Hands-On Introduction with Stan
2026-10-01 10:00AM 3 hr Sam Hume (CDISC) Creating Define-XML Solutions Using Python and odmlib
2026-10-01 11:00AM 3 hr Bruno Rodrigues (Ministry of Research and Higher Education in Luxembourg) A Practical Introduction to Reproducible R with Nix & rix
2026-10-01 12:00AM 2 hr Arryn Panagos (Eli Lilly) What Happens When You Stop Telling AI to "Be More Careful" and Start Constraining What It Can See
2026-10-01 1:00PM 2 hr Yi Guo (Pfizer) From Idea to Shiny App: Building Practical Visual QC Tools in R

Workshops in Asia Pacific

All workshop times in IST.

Date Length Presenters Title
2026-09-28 10:30AM 1 hr Joe Zhu (Roche) Mastering Clinical Slide Automation with autoslider: From Custom Templates to AI-Powered Generation with Claude
2026-09-28 12:00PM 2 hr Joe Zhu (Roche) HACKATHON: autoslider.core Hackathon: Advancing Open-Source Clinical Slide Automation
2026-09-28 12:30PM 1 hr Edward Gillian (Cytel) risk.assessr workshop
2026-10-01 7:30AM 2 hr Kuenhung Lin (IQVIA) Hands-On Patient Profile Visualization
2026-10-01 9:30AM 2 hr Rammprasad Ganapathy (Genentech) Programming SDTM using {sdtm.oak}
2026-10-01 10:30AM 45 mins Hana Lee (College of Nursing, Daegu Catholic University, Republic of Korea) From YouTube Comments to Insights: Applying Natural Language Processing to Real-World Text Data
2026-10-01 12:30PM 2 hr Nicola Rennie (Office for National Statistics) Simple tricks to improve your 'ggplot2' data visualisations