AAPS PharmSci 360 2026

What is AAPS PharmSci 360 2026?

AAPS PharmSci 360 is the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists annual meeting. The 2026 edition brings scientific programming, posters, career development, and the Solution Center together in New Orleans from October 25 through October 28. Its program follows pharmaceutical research from preclinical work through bioanalysis, manufacturing, formulation, delivery, and translational decisions.

Who is AAPS PharmSci 360 designed for?

The program is built for pharmaceutical scientists in industry, government, academia, and related research organizations. AAPS describes attendees as scientists working across drug discovery, development, manufacturing, analysis, and delivery. Exhibitors fit when their instruments, research services, materials, software, or development capabilities address a defined scientific or operational problem.

When is AAPS PharmSci 360 2026, and what are the program hours?

AAPS PharmSci 360 2026 runs Sunday, October 25 through Wednesday, October 28. The published program includes the opening plenary from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM on Sunday and the closing plenary from 4:15 PM to 5:30 PM on Wednesday. Individual symposia, posters, keynotes, and Solution Center activities have separate times in the official planner.

How does the four day PharmSci 360 schedule fit together?

Sunday establishes the meeting through Julie Gerberding's opening plenary. Monday through Wednesday carry parallel scientific tracks, poster periods, career programming, and Solution Center activity. Wednesday still includes morning symposia and afternoon keynotes before David Berry's closing plenary, so the final day remains part of the scientific program rather than only a departure window.

Where is AAPS PharmSci 360 2026 held?

The meeting is at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. AAPS places the 2026 conference there for October 25 through October 28 and lists approved hotels within walking distance. The official event planner assigns individual sessions to numbered rooms, the USP Spotlight Stage, Careers 360, and other program locations.

How should attendees navigate the New Orleans venue?

The official planner is the most specific source for room assignments. For example, several preclinical and translational sessions use room 207, while formulation and delivery sessions appear in rooms 220 through 222. Careers 360 is located in the exhibit hall. AAPS has not published a complete public accessibility and internal route guide on the reviewed event pages.

Which AAPS PharmSci 360 registration option fits each visit?

On site member full conference registration is $1,705, while the nonmember full conference rate is $2,145. The three day Exhibits and Networking Pass is $440 and covers the exhibit hall, welcome and closing receptions, posters, and career development. A one day on site pass costs $825 for members or $1,072 for nonmembers.

What cancellation, substitution, and recording rules apply?

Written cancellations received by September 25 qualified for a refund less a $100 administrative fee for members and nonmembers or $50 for students and postdoctoral fellows. AAPS gives no refunds on or after September 26, but same company substitutions may be submitted in writing. Session recording is prohibited, and Solution Center photography requires prior written approval.

Which hotels are in the official PharmSci 360 room block?

AAPS names eShow as the official housing provider and sets October 1, 2026 as the reservation cutoff. The Hilton New Orleans Riverside is the headquarters hotel at $289 per night plus tax. Five other listed hotels range from $249 to $299 per night, and AAPS states that every approved property is within walking distance of the convention center.

What travel timing protects the useful conference days?

The opening plenary begins Sunday at 5:00 PM, so arrivals intended for the complete program need to account for that start. Wednesday programming continues through the closing plenary ending at 5:30 PM. The official housing list concentrates six properties near the convention center, which reduces dependence on a daily shuttle schedule that AAPS has not published on the reviewed pages.

Which companies are exhibiting at PharmSci 360 2026?

The official directory reviewed on October 1 lists 211 distinct company names. It includes analytical instrument makers, contract laboratories, drug development organizations, excipient suppliers, publishers, software providers, and manufacturing specialists. Examples include Agilent Technologies, Altasciences, BASF, Certara, IQVIA Laboratories, Merck, SCIEX, Thermo Fisher Scientific, USP, Waters, and WuXi AppTec.

Which PharmSci 360 booths should a revenue team map first?

The directory is most useful when grouped by the scientific problem a team serves. Bioanalysis accounts include SCIEX, IQVIA Laboratories, and BioAgilytix. Formulation and material conversations include BASF, Ashland, Croda Pharma, DFE Pharma, and Roquette. Modeling and development accounts include Certara, Simulations Plus, DigiM Solution, and contract research organizations listed with booth numbers.

Which sessions and speakers anchor the 2026 program?

Julie Gerberding opens the meeting and David Berry closes it. The planner also lists Donald Mager on quantitative pharmacology, Annette Bak on nanomedicine translation, Jim Shen on the AI orchestrated bioanalysis laboratory, Ben Boyd on personalized lipid formulations, and additional speakers across symposia, panels, keynotes, rapid fire presentations, posters, and career sessions.

How can meetings fit around the PharmSci 360 program?

Monday offers a 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM symposium on AI, biomarkers, and translational modeling, while several track keynotes sit at 1:30 PM. Tuesday follows a similar pattern with morning symposia and afternoon keynotes. Wednesday retains 9:00 AM symposia, posters, and 1:30 PM keynotes before the 4:15 PM closing plenary, creating clear edges for scheduled conversations.

Does the PharmSci 360 audience match a pharmaceutical science ICP?

The event matches vendors whose buyers work in pharmaceutical discovery, development, bioanalysis, manufacturing, formulation, delivery, regulatory science, or scientific workforce development. AAPS says its community spans industry, academia, and government, and the program page shows speakers from pharmaceutical companies, universities, research organizations, and standards bodies. It is a weak fit for offers without a specific scientific workflow or development use case.

How can exhibitors identify target accounts before PharmSci 360?

The live exhibitor list supplies company names and booth numbers, while the program names speakers, employers, track, format, time, and room. Combining those two official resources separates accounts with a relevant scientific theme from companies that merely share a broad industry label. AAPS does not publish a public attendee contact list, so account research remains distinct from private registration data.

What does the official PharmSci 360 planner provide?

The EventScribe planner exposes session titles, dates, times, rooms, formats, tracks, speakers, presentation details, poster records, and learning objectives. It supports program research at a level the main event page does not. The reviewed public pages do not document a current mobile app feature matrix, private attendee messaging rules, or account level networking exports.

Where does program planning stop and conversation capture begin?

EventScribe answers where and when a scientific presentation occurs. It does not establish what an exhibitor recorded during a booth conversation, whether a buyer described an active project, or who owns the next action. No current AAPS page reviewed for this draft names a contracted badge capture product or publishes its field set, export timing, device limits, and CRM behavior.

What does it cost to attend or exhibit at AAPS PharmSci 360?

AAPS publishes attendee pricing but does not expose a current public booth rate card on the pages reviewed for this draft. On site full conference registration is $1,705 for members and $2,145 for nonmembers; the three day Exhibits and Networking Pass is $440. Those verified fees remain useful inputs, but they do not establish total exhibitor spend or event return.

How should a PharmSci 360 booth be staffed?

The public program spans four calendar days, while exhibit activity is concentrated around the Solution Center and its scheduled events. Staffing therefore depends on the purchased space, published floor hours, product demonstrations, and booked meetings. AAPS has not published enough current service manual detail on the reviewed pages to calculate a defensible rep count, move in plan, or freight schedule.

Which official lead capture tool does AAPS name for 2026?

The current registration, exhibitor, program, and official directory pages reviewed on October 1 do not name a contracted lead capture product for PharmSci 360 2026. eShow is documented for registration and housing, but that role does not prove a badge scanning package. No vendor name is assigned to the comparison without a current order form or exhibitor service specification.

What can the official badge tool capture, and what remains unknown?

Because AAPS does not publish a current product specification, this draft does not attribute fields, qualifiers, notes, exports, offline behavior, device allowances, or CRM connections to an official badge tool. The exhibitor directory and EventScribe planner provide public planning data, but neither source proves the capabilities of a booth capture package.

How does B2Brain complement PharmSci 360 preparation?

B2Brain runs three motions: pre event targeting, on floor capture and booking, and post event Leads to Meeting and attribution. For PharmSci 360, the first motion can organize accounts by track, booth, and scientific problem. The floor motion records the buying process, blocker, role, and next step alongside the contact instead of treating a badge record as a complete conversation.

Should an exhibitor use B2Brain with an official scanner?

An organizer required scanner and B2Brain perform different jobs. A scanner, if AAPS later names one, governs official badge access and the package sold with the event. B2Brain can carry account preparation, conversation context, meeting commitment, and CRM attribution. The current public materials do not support a feature by feature comparison with an unnamed product.

What belongs in every PharmSci 360 conversation record?

A useful record ties the person to the scientific problem discussed. For this event that may include assay or analytical method needs, formulation constraints, manufacturing scale, delivery modality, development stage, regulatory timing, buying role, and an agreed next action. The session or poster that prompted the conversation can be recorded as context without copying private program or attendee data.

How can teams protect lead quality on a technical show floor?

Technical relevance is stronger than scan volume at PharmSci 360. A record is qualified when the named project, scientific constraint, organizational role, timing, and next action fit the exhibitor's offer. Notes that only repeat a badge title or company name do not show buying intent. Ambiguous details remain unfilled instead of being inferred after the event.

How should PharmSci 360 follow up be routed?

Routing can follow the scientific workstream used in the program: preclinical and translational science, bioanalysis, manufacturing and analytical characterization, formulation and delivery, or a cross disciplinary topic. Each qualified record needs one owner, the promised material, and a due date. The Sunday through Wednesday schedule allows daily review rather than waiting until every conversation has aged.

How should exhibitors measure PharmSci 360 pipeline and ROI?

Verified registration prices and actual exhibit invoices can remain in the cost record, but no event specific ROI is calculated without booth services, travel, staffing, qualified conversation count, meeting outcomes, conversion, and contract value. Leads to Meeting means meetings booked divided by qualified booth leads. Return decisions should use those observed inputs rather than a generic forecast.