the Circle. · DDIF 2027 · London

From the compound.
To the patient.

Name: DDIF 2027 · Drug Discovery Innovation Forum
Start: 2027-05-12
End: 2027-05-13
Location: The Savoy

What compounds.

What translates.

Who reaches the patient.

12 and 13 May 2027 The Savoy, London By invitation · up to 150 senior leaders

Why · The Premise

Why.

Less noise. More signal.

Every drug discovery leader is asked the same question. How does a hypothesis become a candidate, with data that holds? McKinsey’s September 2026 analysis finds AI-enabled programmes reaching first-in-human milestones 15 to 80 percent faster than large pharma medians. Faster to the clinic. Not yet better in it.

The white space is the room that holds the decision differently. Closed-door. By invitation. End-user led. No expo hall. No vendor pitch. A circle for the leaders building what compounds.

the Conversation. DDIF is that room. Senior drug discovery leadership convened around the work that translates. Target identification. AI-driven design. Translational science.

Who attends. Senior faculty drawn from the leaders who own the portfolio, sign the IND and carry the decision.

Thesis · The Room

Who compounds
the science.

Drug Discovery Innovation Forum 2027

12 and 13 May 2027 The Savoy, London Invited Audience Only

For decision makers from small biotech to large pharma.

The gap.

Drug discovery moves faster than the frameworks designed to govern it. AI-driven compound design generates candidates faster than medicinal chemistry can validate. Predictive toxicity models recommend lead optimisation paths no human would have chosen. The gap between algorithmic output and scientific accountability has never been formally named.

The Conversation.

DDIF convenes the leaders building the intelligence that closes that gap · across AI-driven design, automated chemistry and translational science. The corridor where drug discovery ambition becomes clinical candidate · or breaks. The Conversation is where the leaders who carry the decision meet before the portfolio review does.

The decision.

The room holds the decision before the programme locks. For the leaders who own the portfolio, sign the IND and answer for the intelligence layer no one has formally governed.