FREE REPORT > CDMO LIVE AMERICAS 2026
Partnerships
Under Pressure
How US biopharma outsourcing is navigating tariffs, capacity, talent, China and AI
Exclusive insights from:
Biogen | Astellas | Pfizer | Eli Lilly | BMS | Takeda | Pfizer | Gates MRI | Bayer | Vertex| BlueRock | Simon-Kucher | L.E.K. Consulting | The Brookings Institution | PBOA | Genetix + more
102
pages of insight from United States’ biopharma outsourcing leaders.
Download the full report of case studies, roundtables and panels from CDMO Live Americas.
What's inside
1. EXTERNAL MANUFACTURING STRATEGY
ariffs, the reshoring pledge, China and talent, with Simon-Kucher’s data on sponsor and CDMO expectation gaps and L.E.K.’s warning that CDMOs have three to five years before new US plants open.
2. OUTSOURCING EXCELLENCE
Takeaways from 14 peer roundtables, with three themes recurring: respond quickly, be transparent, and keep the same people on the program.
3. TECHNICAL OPERATIONS + CMC
Hands-on sessions on quality oversight, ADCs, sterile fill-finish, lyophilization, CMC funding and cell and gene therapy manufacturing.
4. AI + DIGITIZATION IN MANUFACTURING
What Pfizer, Sanofi, mAbxience and Tulanā have scaled beyond pilots, from agentic AI to electronic batch records.
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When: 26-27 May 2027
Where: Rotterdam World Trade Center, Beursplein 37, Meent 110, 3011 AA Rotterdam, Netherlands
Event Dates
25th May 2027: Day Zero + Welcome
26th May 2027: 08:00 – 18.00
27st May 2027: 08:00 – 16.00
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