PAT Frontiers Forum

A focused forum for biopharma leaders navigating the future of manufacturing, analytics, and process control.

Process Analytical Technology (PAT) is being rewritten on three conventional fronts at once: autonomous manufacturing, AI-driven process decisions, and emerging modalities that don't fit the monoclonal antibody playbook. 

Waters is bringing senior leaders from across biopharma, CDMOs, and biosimilar organizations together for a day built around exactly these shifts: what's coming next and how leading organizations are preparing for it.

Why It's Worth Your Day

  • Hear candid lessons from organizations redefining what PAT can deliver.
  • Leave with a clearer view of where lights-out manufacturing, AI-driven process control, and PAT for new modalities are realistically headed over the next two to three years.
  • Build relationships with the leaders shaping PAT strategy across the industry, and cultivate connections for potential future collaboration.

What We're Digging Into

  • Lights-Out Manufacturing and Labs: what it takes to reduce human intervention, and where today's technology still falls short.
  • Data, Digital and AI Integration: separating real AI/ML impact on process control from the hype.
  • PAT for New Modalities: practical approaches for peptides, ADCs, liposomes, and viral vectors.
  • PAT for Synthetic Biology: where cell therapy and synthetic biology are pushing PAT into new territory.

Agenda Coming Soon

When?

October 7, 2026

Where?

Immerse Cambridge,

301 Binney St Suite 102
Cambridge, MA 02142
USA

For more information, please contact:
Jen Halsey Jennifer_halsey@waters.com or Ranjeet Patil ranjeet_patil@waters.com