Catalyst calendar
The biotech year, as a hit-list.
Every investor conference and medical congress from ASCO 2026 onward, where BigBio is in the room. Each readout is a dated diligence opportunity — read against the published record before the print, not after. Where BigBio runs a hub, it is linked.
2026
- May 29-2
The single most important oncology catalyst event globally; Phase 3 readouts across every tumor type.
Chicago, IL · organizer
- May 31-5Gordon Research Conferencesother
The original off-the-record frontier-science meetings (since 1931); pre-publication mechanisms surface here 12-24 months before they are investable.
Multiple venues · organizer
- Jun 2-4Jefferies Global Healthcare Conferenceinvestor
300+ public-company presentations bridging ASCO week with mid-year BD.
New York, NY · organizer
- Jun 5-8ADA Scientific Sessionscardiometabolic
World's largest diabetes meeting; GLP-1/GIP/amylin readouts move the whole obesity sector.
New Orleans, LA · organizer
- Jun 8-12Apple WWDC — Apple Healthtech platform
Primary ship moment for Apple Health/HealthKit/ResearchKit; watchOS health sensors and Apple Intelligence in health.
Cupertino, CA · organizer
- Jun 11-14
Europe’s premier hematology congress; AML, myeloma, lymphoma data, often previewing ASH.
Stockholm, Sweden · organizer
- Jun 13-16ENDO — Endocrine Society Annual Meetingcardiometabolic
Largest endocrinology meeting; rare-endocrine, CAH and metabolic readouts here move billion-dollar names.
Chicago, IL · organizer
- Jun 14-18DIA Global Annual Meetingregulatory
Regulator-industry nexus; AI-in-submissions and RWE policy here set FDA/EMA precedent that reprices development-timeline risk.
Philadelphia, PA · organizer
- Jun 22-25BIO International Conventioninvestor
Largest global biotech partnering event; 60,000+ one-on-one BD meetings.
San Diego, CA · organizer
- Jul 12-15AAIC — Alzheimer's Association International Conferenceneuro
Largest dementia science conference; amyloid, tau, prevention trial readouts.
London, UK · organizer
- Jul 22Samsung Galaxy Unpacked — Summer (Watch/Ring)tech platform
Galaxy Watch + Ring sensor refresh and Samsung Health AI; date is a cadence estimate pending official invite.
London, UK · organizer
- Aug 11-13Ai4 Healthcareai health
Applied-AI-in-healthcare (providers, life sciences, payors); enterprise AI-adoption velocity is a key digital-health comps input.
Las Vegas, NV · organizer
- Aug 12-14Machine Learning for Healthcareai health
Academic frontier of clinical ML (EHR, imaging, genomics); papers here typically precede commercial spinouts by 12-24 months.
Baltimore, MD · organizer
- Aug 28-31ESC Congress (European Society of Cardiology)cardiometabolic
World's largest cardiovascular meeting; its Hot Line late-breakers are among the most reliable single-day repricing events in biopharma.
Munich, Germany · organizer
- Sep 8-10Wells Fargo Healthcare Conferenceinvestor
Late-Q3 management guidance ahead of the Q4 congress season.
Boston, MA · organizer
- Sep 12-15IASLC World Conference on Lung Canceroncology
Largest thoracic-oncology meeting; first-line NSCLC bispecific, EGFR and TROP2-ADC readouts that redraw the >$50B PD-(L)1 market.
Seoul, South Korea · organizer
- Sep 14-16H.C. Wainwright Global Investment Conferenceinvestor
Marquee micro/small-cap biotech investor conference, run by a top placement agent for emerging public biotechs.
New York, NY · organizer
- Sep 22-23World Medical Innovation Forumdigital health
Mass General Brigham's 'Top 10 medical innovations' reveal; academically-credible AI/digital and device venture signaling.
Boston, MA · organizer
- Sep 22-23RESI Boston (Life Science Nation)investor
Early-stage capital-formation event with the highest density of pre-IPO investors; anchors Biotech Week Boston.
Boston, MA · organizer
- Sep 23-26International Myeloma Society Annual Meetinghematology
The defining myeloma-specific meeting; BCMA/GPRC5D CAR-T, bispecific and CELMoD data mature here ahead of ASH.
Glasgow, Scotland · organizer
- Oct 5-7Cell & Gene Meeting on the Mesagene cell therapy
North America's leading business-focused CGT meeting; commercial and financing signals.
Phoenix, AZ · organizer
- Oct 7-8Sachs Biotech in Europe Forum (BEF)investor
Transactional Basel forum pairing pre-IPO and public biotechs with European VCs, family offices and pharma BD.
Basel, Switzerland · organizer
- Oct 10-12AAO Annual Meetingophthalmology
World's largest ophthalmology congress; AMD, diabetic retinopathy, retinal gene therapy.
New Orleans, LA · organizer
- Oct 12-15World ADC San Diegooncology
Largest antibody-drug-conjugate congress; the white-hot oncology modality where big pharma buys platforms, not just assets.
San Diego, CA · organizer
- Oct 14Rock Health Summitdigital health
Annual digital-health venture-sentiment barometer from the most-cited digital-health data publisher.
San Francisco, CA · organizer
- Oct 18-21The MedTech Conference (AdvaMed)medtech
AdvaMed flagship; 4,000+ device/diagnostics dealmakers; AI-enabled device regulatory and reimbursement signals.
Boston, MA · organizer
- Oct 21-23ECTRIMS (Joint ACTRIMS-ECTRIMS)neuro
The defining global MS meeting; where the BTK-inhibitor class — the next major MS mechanism — lives or dies on late-breaker data.
Toronto, Canada · organizer
- Oct 22-25ASN Kidney Weekcardiometabolic
Premier nephrology congress; IgA nephropathy, CKD, FSGS readouts.
Denver, CO · organizer
- Oct 23-27ESMO Congressoncology
Europe's most important oncology meeting; Phase 3 solid-tumor readouts.
Madrid, Spain · organizer
- Nov 4-8SITC Annual Meetingimmunology
Premier cancer immunotherapy congress; checkpoint combos, CAR-T, bispecifics.
Phoenix, AZ · organizer
- Nov 5-9AASLD The Liver Meetingother
Premier global hepatology meeting; the late-breaking MASH/NASH venue that has become big pharma's next GLP-1-adjacent battleground.
Denver, CO · organizer
- Nov 6-11ACR Convergenceimmunology
Premier rheumatology congress; RA, SLE, PsA pivotal data; JAK, IL-17, IL-23.
Orlando, FL · organizer
- Nov 6-9AHA Scientific Sessionscardiometabolic
Largest cardiovascular science conference; late-breaking heart-failure and lipid trials.
Chicago, IL · organizer
- Nov 9-11BIO-Europeinvestor
Europe's largest biopharma partnering conference; the deal-engine where EU licensing and M&A conversations originate.
Cologne, Germany · organizer
- Nov 14-17ObesityWeek (The Obesity Society)cardiometabolic
Dedicated venue for the obesity/GLP-1 sector — biopharma's largest value-creation theme — where full incretin datasets are presented and published.
National Harbor, MD · organizer
- Nov 15-18HLTH USAdigital health
Largest digital-health dealmaking venue; CEO/CXO density makes it a primary channel-check on payer/provider AI adoption.
Las Vegas, NV · organizer
- Nov 16-19CTAD — Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Diseaseneuro
Dedicated Alzheimer's trial conference; anti-amyloid, tau, prevention data.
Boston, MA · organizer
- Dec 8-11San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposiumoncology
World's largest breast-cancer meeting; pivotal PI3K/AKT, ADC and immuno-oncology readouts reprice mid-cap oncology into year-end.
San Antonio, TX · organizer
- Dec 12-15ASH Annual Meetinghematology
The defining hematology event; the most stock-moving week outside ASCO for heme-onc.
New Orleans, LA · organizer
- Dec 13-16Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics USother
Major year-end antibody meeting; gathering point for the PD-1/VEGF bispecific race and next-gen antibody formats.
San Diego, CA · organizer
2027
- Jan 6-9CES — Digital Healthtech platform
60th-anniversary CES; digital-health track expected larger; CTA-confirmed dates.
Las Vegas, NV · organizer
- Jan 21-23ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposiumoncology
First major oncology readout of 2027; GI pivotal data.
San Francisco, CA · organizer
- Jan 30-3SLAS International Conference & Exhibitionrd tech
Lab-automation and AI drug-discovery; same CRO/CDO capex signal, San Diego edition.
San Diego, CA · organizer
- Feb 16-17BIO Investment & Growth Summitinvestor
BIO's flagship investor/BD event; deal-making and venture financing.
Miami Beach, FL · organizer
- Mar 14-17ViVEdigital health
Health-system AI/IT procurement signal; 2027 edition, officially dated.
Nashville, TN · organizer
- Mar 14-18NVIDIA GTCai health
AI compute trajectory; expanded healthcare/biopharma AI track; officially dated.
San Jose, CA · organizer
- Apr 5-8HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibitiondigital health
Health-IT and AI-in-EHR procurement indicator; 2027 edition moves to Chicago.
Chicago, IL · organizer
- Apr 10-12ACC Annual Scientific Session (with WCC)cardiometabolic
Joint ACC/World Cardiology Congress; cardiovascular late-breakers.
Houston, TX · organizer
- Jun 4-8ASCO Annual Meetingoncology
The single most important oncology catalyst event globally.
Chicago, IL · organizer
- Jun 7-10BIO International Conventioninvestor
Largest global biotech partnering event.
Philadelphia, PA · organizer
- Nov 5-8AHA Scientific Sessionscardiometabolic
Largest cardiovascular congress; late-breaking cardiology trials.
Boston, MA · organizer
Dates sourced 2026-06-10; confirm with each organizer. 2027 medical-congress dates are largely unannounced and will be added as they publish.
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