DThis year takes us to Raleigh, home of the Research Triangle. It’s the perfect backdrop for a theme about a different kind of triangle: patients, sites, and sponsors, all connected by the data we manage.

From September 14–17, you’ll be where those three worlds meet, and where the Festival of Opportunity comes to life.
The opportunity this year goes beyond growing your own expertise. It’s to help strengthen the connection our whole profession depends on.

For more than 25 years, the SCDM Annual Conference has been where the clinical data management community comes together, to learn from each other, reconnect, and keep growing.

In 2026, that experience has a clear focus: the data that runs between patients, sites, and sponsors. The program follows it across all three, from the questions patients help shape, to the realities sites work in, to the evidence sponsors carry forward.

Wherever your work sits in that picture, you’ll find sessions that speak to it and people from every other part of it to learn alongside.