In-Person and Virtual Events for 2025
There is much excitement for R/Pharma in the second half of the year! Please find below the plan for our in-person Summit and Virtual gathering!
genAI Day
R/Pharma is hosting the second annual, free one-day event, highlighting the use of generative AI in the Pharma industry. Registration is available via this link.
The meeting will run from 10:00AM-3:00PM ET with talks focusing on applications of generative AI for drug development activities and on the use as a coding aid for programmers. Speakers and schedule will be announced shortly.
In-Person Summit
R/Pharma is excited to announce that we are partnering again with Posit PBC to host our in-person program at posit::conf(2025), happening at the Hyatt Regency Seattle. The Summit will be on Monday Sep 15th 2025. The Summit can be booked via the posit::conf(2025) registration page: https://posit.co/blog/register-for-r-pharma-at-posit-conf-2025/.
The Summit can be booked independently of posit::conf(2025), or bundled with a posit::conf(2025) ticket, workshop or both.
The R/Pharma Summit will highlight how open-source tools are shaping the future of drug development. Throughout the event, facilitators will guide in-person discussions with industry leaders on key topics including reproducibility, regulatory submissions, and scalability, all with an emphasis on advancing next-generation submissions through the use of open-source solutions.
Topics for roundtable summit discussions are sourced from the community. Feel free to add suggestions, comment and upvote here, even if you are unable to attend the summit.
In addition to the summit, there will be two R/Pharma workshops at posit::conf on Tuesday Sep 16th.
End-to-End Submissions in R with the Pharmaverse.
Daniel Sjoberg (Genetech) and Becca Krouse (GSK)
A hands-on introduction to using R and Pharmaverse packages for a streamlined regulatory submission process, covering data preparation, CDISC compliance, and TLG generation. Participants will learn to optimize their workflow from raw data to publication-ready outputs.
Deploying Reproducible Analytics Environments for Regulated Use Cases
James Black (Novartis), Orla Doyle (Novartis), and Doug Kelkhoff (Roche)
This workshop addresses the challenges and opportunities of deploying reproducible R analytical environments in regulated industries. Through a mix of discussions and exercises, the workshop will focus on containerization, package management, compliance, and sharing with regulators.
More information available at https://posit.co/blog/register-for-r-pharma-at-posit-conf-2025/.
R/Pharma Virtual Conference
R/Pharma Virtual Conference will run from Nov 3-7 with workshops running 3rd, 4th and 7th and presentations 5th and 6th. Call-for-talks is currently open (see https://sessionize.com/rpharma-2025). If you’d like to present a talk or workshop please use the link to submit to the program committee.
We are also planning our Asia-Pacific region (APAC) event! Use the same link to submit a talk or workshop. If you are interested in helping out with R/Pharma US/Europe/APAC use the R/Pharma contact form https://rinpharma.com/contact/.
R/Pharma Virtual Conference is a free event. Registration will open in the summer (announcement on R/Pharma website and social media).
Previous R/Pharma talks and workshop recordings are available at https://www.youtube.com/c/RinPharma.
Recurring Monthly Events
Diversity Alliance
We aspire to be an inclusive R community for developers who work in the pharma space. Our goal is to provide a welcoming, equitable and supportive space for people to upskill, share knowledge and build a community of diverse voices. The Diversity Alliance meets monthly and is currently planning a hackathon. If you would like to join the monthly meetings, please click here: https://www.addevent.com/calendar/AD808454. The next meeting is scheduled for June 20th at 9:00AM ET.
R/Pharma Hangout
The hangout is a welcoming space for anyone to come to chat about open source in Pharma. Have a question or an opinion? Come join us. The next meeting is scheduled for June 17th at 12:00PM ET. The hangout calendar is available here: https://www.addevent.com/calendar/wC797942
We hope to see you at R/Pharma events in 2025!