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Executive roundtable · By invitation · Basel

The tech transfer that ran on time and the three that did not

Heads of external manufacturing and CMC leaders compare four transfers from the last eighteen months and what actually made the difference between the one that worked and the ones that slipped.

Date
Oct 22, 2026
Time
14:00 to 20:00
Location
Basel
Table size
16 seats, 6 open
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Who is at the table

The room

12 to 16 heads of external manufacturing and CMC leaders at mid-cap and late-stage biotech sponsors.

Supply chain and external manufacturingCMC and technical operations

What gets discussed

Four questions, no slides

  1. 01What did you learn in the first two weeks of your last transfer that you wish had been in the RFP?
  2. 02Where did your CMO's incentives and your timeline pull apart, and what did you do about it?
  3. 03Which decision on analytical methods have you regretted every quarter since?
  4. 04What is the one change you would make to how transfers are scoped next year?

Confirmed so far

Guests already seated

Named on arrival. Listed by role and company type until then.

  • Late-stage clinical biotechHead of external manufacturing
  • Mid-cap pharma sponsorDirector of CMC
  • Commercial-stage biotechVP technical operations
  • Clinical-stage biotechHead of supply chain

How it runs

Format and conduct

Chaired by Kestrel's head of technical operations. No vendor pitch, no product demonstration, no capability slides.

Meeting room and dinner in central Basel. Working session 14:00 to 18:00, dinner 18:30 to 20:00.

Meeting, dinner, and one night's accommodation at a nearby hotel are covered by the host.

Chatham House rule.

Anything said here can be used afterwards. Who said it cannot. Nothing is recorded, and no attendee list is circulated or sold.

Your host

About Kestrel Bio

Kestrel Bio is a contract development and manufacturing organisation serving small molecule and biologics sponsors. We host these tables to hear directly from the people who own external manufacturing.

Request a seat

Seats are confirmed by the host, not first come first served. We will come back to you within two working days either way.