Meeting calendar
Members can access registration, the program, hotel information and meeting materials through the private Member Portal.
The discussion continued beyond the meeting through the Spring 2026 PRISME Forum Field Notes.
The conversation you cannot get at a conference
Conferences can provide keynotes and workshops. The Member Forum draws its value from the experience, candor and participation around the table.
Structured peer roundtables give each participant dedicated space to raise an issue, share operating experience, test an assumption or ask how peers are approaching a challenge within their own organization.
Small groups identify the questions that generate the strongest discussion and select priority topics for deeper exploration. Members then regroup around those priorities, compare perspectives and bring the resulting observations back to the full membership.
These discussions help shape future Forum activity, including targeted inquiries, working discussions and themes taken forward into subsequent Technical Meetings. The agenda is not simply delivered to members. It is generated by them.
One R&D technology question, examined from multiple angles
Each PRISME Forum Technical Meeting devotes a full day to one theme selected for its relevance to the member community.
Practitioners from member companies, invited experts and specialists examine the question through presentations, panels, posters and discussion, bringing strategic, technical and operational perspectives into the same room.
Additional company colleagues whose responsibilities are relevant to the theme may also participate, as space permits and with advance coordination through the PRISME Forum Secretariat.
What the meetings generate
PRISME Forum meetings are designed to produce more than discussion. Selected, non-attributed signals from member questions and exchanges inform Field Notes, targeted inquiries, benchmarking activities, working groups and future meeting priorities.
The conversation continues as members test ideas within their own organizations and return with new experience, evidence and questions.
How the cycle works
Member Forum roundtables bring forward the questions, challenges and emerging priorities members are confronting.
Members identify the issues that warrant deeper collective attention.
Technical Meetings bring focused expertise, presentations, panels and discussion to selected questions.
PRISME Forum Field Notes and other member outputs capture selected signals, questions and emerging practices.
Members return to the conversation with new experience, new evidence and new questions.
The result is not a sequence of events. It is a continuing cycle of peer intelligence.
R&D technology through the PRISME Forum lens
The technologies have changed. The need to understand what they mean for R&D has not.
PRISME Forum Technical Meeting themes since 2011
| Year | Season | Theme | Hosted by | City / Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Spring | AI Adoption: Hype vs. Reality | UCB | Brussels, Belgium | → |
| 2025 | Fall | Software-Defined Laboratories and Closed-Loop Research: The Future of the Wet Lab | Genentech | South San Francisco, CA, USA | → |
| 2025 | Spring | Future of Data | Roche | Basel, Switzerland | → |
| 2024 | Fall | New Therapeutic Modalities in BioPharma R&D: Challenges and Opportunities for Technology, Digital and Data | BMS | Cambridge, MA, USA | → |
| 2024 | Spring | AI Strategies in Pharma R&D | Servier | Saclay, France | → |
| 2023 | Spring | AI in Pharma R&D: from Concept to Value | AstraZeneca | Gothenburg, Sweden | → |
| 2022 | Fall | Modernization of the Modern Lab Ecosystem | Ionis | Carlsbad, CA, USA | → |
| 2022 | Spring | Building a Connected Pharma Data Ecosystem | Online | Online | → |
| 2021 | Fall | R&D in the Cloud | Online | Online | → |
| 2021 | Spring | Machine-ready Data in Support of Data Science | Online | Online | → |
| 2020 | Fall | Digital-enabled Change in R&D and Healthcare as Triggered by COVID-19 | Online | Online | → |
| 2020 | Spring | How Does Data and Analytics Transform R&D? | Online | Online | → |
| 2019 | Fall | Where Technology Creates Value for Pharma R&D | Alexion | Boston, MA, USA | → |
| 2019 | Spring | What Does Digital Mean for Biopharma R&D? | Novartis | Basel, Switzerland | → |
| 2018 | Fall | Data-readiness in a World of AI | Takeda | Deerfield, IL, USA | → |
| 2018 | Spring | Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Part II: The Practical Application – A European Perspective | Sanofi | Chilly-Mazarin, France | → |
| 2017 | Fall | The Potential of AI in Healthcare | Pfizer | Cambridge, MA, USA | → |
| 2017 | Spring | If Data Is the Currency of R&D, How Do We Recognize its Value? | Bayer | Berlin, Germany | → |
| 2016 | Fall | New Ways of Generating Insights in Biopharmaceutical R&D | Celgene | San Diego, CA, USA | → |
| 2016 | Spring | Understanding Disease through Mining Clinical Trial Data | MSD | Prague, Czech Republic | → |
| 2015 | Fall | Opportunities for Translational Science in Biopharma R&D | BMS | Plainsboro, NJ, USA | → |
| 2015 | Spring | Disrupting IT for Biopharma R&D | Roche | Kaiseraugst, Switzerland | → |
| 2014 | Fall | Collaboration | Amgen | Thousand Oaks, CA, USA | → |
| 2014 | Spring | Visualizing the Value in big data | GSK | North Mymms, UK | → |
| 2013 | Fall | Implications of Real World Evidence for Pharmaceutical R&D IT | PRISME Forum | Boston, MA, USA | → |
| 2013 | Spring | How Is Pharma R&D Exploiting Big Data? | Sanofi | Chilly-Mazarin, France | → |
| 2012 | Fall | Delivering Innovation through Collaborative, Networked R&D | Merck | Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA | → |
| 2012 | Spring | Patient-Centred Approaches to R&D | AstraZeneca | Alderley Park, Cheshire, UK | → |
| 2011 | Fall | The Virtualization of R&D | Biogen Idec | Cambridge, MA, USA | → |
| 2011 | Spring | Modelling Human Biology, Disease & Intervention | Wellcome Trust Conference Centre | Hinxton, Cambridge, UK | → |
The complete Technical Meeting archive, including programs, presentations and selected meeting outputs, is available to members through the private Member Portal.
Japan Chapter meetings
Since 2019, PRISME Forum members in Japan have held their own chapter meetings between the main Spring and Fall gatherings.
The PRISM Meetings (1998–2011)
Before today’s Member Forum/Technical Meeting structure, the forum met as the PRISM Meetings. The programs below predate this website; where the original agenda, minutes or presentations survive, they’re linked here.
View the 23 PRISM Meetings archive
| Year | Season | Theme | Hosted by | City / Location | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Spring | Modelling Human Biology, Disease & Intervention | Wellcome Trust Conference Centre | Hinxton, Cambridge, UK | Available to members |
| 2010 | Fall | Clinical Informatics – Mining Patient-centric Data | Johnson & Johnson | San Diego, CA, USA | Available to members |
| 2010 | Spring | Cloud Computing in Pharma: Hype or Opportunity? | Biovitrum | Stockholm, Sweden | Available to members |
| 2009 | Spring | The Semantic Webs | Roche | Lucerne, Switzerland | Available to members |
| 2008 | Fall | Open Innovation | Daiichi Sankyo | Weehawken, NJ, USA | Available to members |
| 2008 | Spring | Open Innovation, Microfluidics, et al | GSK | North Mymms, UK | Available to members |
| 2007 | Fall | Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise | Merck | Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA | Available to members |
| 2007 | Spring | Information Security | Novartis | Basel, Switzerland | Available to members |
| 2006 | Fall | Biomarkers | Schering Plough | Kenilworth, NJ, USA | — |
| 2004 | Fall | Text Mining | Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR) | Boston, MA, USA | Available to members |
| 2004 | Summer | PharmaGRID Retreat | PRISM Forum | Diessenhofen, Switzerland | Available to members |
| 2003 | Fall | — | Bristol-Myers Squibb | Lawrenceville, NJ, USA | Available to members |
| 2003 | Summer | PharmaGRID Retreat | PRISM Forum | Welwyn, UK | Available to members |
| 2002 | Fall | — | GlaxoSmithKline | Verona, Italy | Available to members |
| 2002 | Spring | Collaborative Computing | AstraZeneca | Montreal, Canada | Available to members |
| 2001 | Fall | — | Beaufour – Ipsen | Boston, MA, USA | — |
| 2001 | Spring | Lifecycle Management of Alliances and Partnerships within R&D | Novartis | Huesseren les Château, France | Available to members |
| 2000 | Fall | Data/Application and Information Architecture required for the Target Validation through Lead Optimization Process | Eli Lilly and Co. | Indianapolis, IN, USA | Available to members |
| 2000 | Spring | — | Pharmacia | Krusenberg Herrgård, Uppsala, Sweden | Available to members |
| 1999 | Fall | — | Wyeth Ayerst Research | Princeton, NJ | Available to members |
| 1999 | Spring | — | CERN | Geneva, Switzerland | Available to members |
| 1998 | Summer | — | Eli Lilly and Co. | London, UK | Available to members |
| 1998 | Spring | — | Wellcome Trust | Hinxton, Cambridge, UK | Available to members |
Members: view the full PRISM Meetings archive, including documents →
Experience the conversation
Membership is selective and eligibility-based. Eligible prospective members may be invited to attend a PRISME Forum meeting as a guest, providing a direct view of the community and its conversations before any membership decision is made.