The Eightieth (80th) Annual Deming Conference on Applied Statistics will be held on December 8-12, 2025.
Below is the 2025 program.

DAY

01 - Sunday December 07, 2025

  • 06:00 - 07:30

    REGISTRATION

  • 19:00 - 20:00

    RECEPTION

DAY

02 - Monday December 08, 2025

  • 07:00 - 08:00

    REGISTRATION

    Registration & Breakfast

  • 08:00 - 09:00
    SESSION KEYNOTE

    KEYNOTE 1: Shaping the Future: Advancing the Value and Protecting the Integrity of Clinical Trials
    SPEAKERS: Prof. Scott Evans and Prof. Toshimitsu Hamasaki
    MODERATOR: Alfred H. Balch

  • 09:00 - 10:00
    SESSION A

    TITLE: Selected Topics of Statistics in Clinical Drug Development: A Statistical and Regulatory Perspective
    SPEAKER: Dacheng Liu, Boehringer Ingelheim
    Moderator: Naitee Ting

  • 09:00 - 12:00
    SESSION B

    TITLE: The DOOR is Open: Patient-centric, Pragmatic Benefit-Risk Evaluation in Clinical Trials
    SPEAKER: Scott Evans and Toshimitsu Hamasaki, George Washington University
    Moderator: Alfred H. Balch

  • 14:00 - 17:00
    SESSION C

    TITLE: Analysis of Recurrent Events Data in Medicine, Engineering, Marketing, and Other Fields
    SPEAKERS: Shihua Wen, Novartis, Patricia Anderson, ICON
    MODERATOR: Ivan S. F. Chan

  • 14:00 - 17:00
    SESSION D

    TITLE: Introduction to Quantitative Decision Making in Drug Development
    SPEAKERS: Jerry Weaver, Teva and Joe Ibrahim, UNC
    MODERATOR: Naitee Ting

  • 19:00 -

    Speaker’s and Awards Dinner (Optional Added FeeEvent)

    Speaker’s and Awards Dinner (Optional Added Fee Event)

DAY

03 - Tuesday December 09, 2025

  • 07:00 - 08:00

    REGISTRATION

    Registration & Breakfast

  • 08:00 - 09:00
    SESSION KEYNOTE

    KEYNOTE 2 : DIA Survey Results on AI Adoption in Drug Development, Prof. Mary Jo Lamberti
    SPEAKER: Prof. Bin Yu, UC Berkeley
    MODERATOR: Alfred H. Balch

  • 09:00 - 12:00
    SESSION E

    TITLE: Advances in Interpretation of Patient-Reported Outcomes
    INSTRUCTOR: Joseph C. Cappelleri, Pfizer
    MODERATOR:Wenjin Wang

  • 09:00 - 12:00
    SESSION F

    TITLE: Targeted Machine Learning For Reliable Evidence Generation From Clinical Studies
    SPEAKER: Prof. Menggang Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    MODERATOR: William Wang

  • 14:00 - 17:00
    SESSION G

    TITLE: Unleashing the Power of Machine Learning and Deep Learning to Accelerate Clinical Development
    INSTRUCTOR: Li Wang, Yunzhao Xing, and Sheng Zhong, AbbVie
    MODERATOR:Jingjing Ye

  • 14:00 - 17:00
    SESSION H

    TITLE: Recent Developments and Innovations in Health Technology Assessment
    SPEAKERS: Weili He, AbbVIe and Xiang Zhang, CSL Behring
    MODERATOR: Bill Wang

DAY

04 - Wednesday December 10, 2025

  • 07:00 - 08:00

    BREAKFAST

    Registration & Breakfast

  • 08:00 - 09:00
    SESSION KEYNOTE

    KEYNOTE 3: Optimising Group Sequential and Adaptive Designs: Where Frequentist meets Bayes
    SPEAKERS: Prof. Christopher Jennison and Bruce Turnbull
    MODERATOR:Ivan F Chan

  • 09:00 - 12:00
    SESSION I

    TITLE: Implications and Implementations of the ICH Harmonised Guideline: Adaptive Designs For Clinical Trials (E20)
    SPEAKER: Christopher Jennison, University of Bath and Bruce W.Turnbull, Cornell University
    MODERATOR: Bill Wang

  • 09:00 - 12:00
    SESSION J

    TITLE: Application of Data Borrowing in Clinical Trials
    SPEAKERS: Jerry Li, Inna Perevozskaya and Ivan F Chan, BMS
    MODERATOR:Alfred H Balch

  • 14:00 - 17:00
    SESSION K

    TITLE: Dose optimization
    SPEAKERS: TBA
    MODERATOR: Kaylan Ghosh

  • 14:00 - 17:00
    SESSION L

    TITLE: Critical Thinking and Creative Analogies in Statistics, Science, and Technology: Essential Skills for the AI Era
    SPEAKERS: Mark Chang, Boston University
    MODERATOR: Ivan F. Chan

DAY

05 - Thursday December 11, 2025

  • 08:00 - 17:00
    SHORT COURSE 1 (Dec 11 -Dec 12)

    Title: Regression Tree Analysis of Messy Data 
    Instructors: Wei-Yin Loh, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Moderator: Din Chen

  • 08:00 - 17:00
    SHORT COURSE 2 (Dec 11-Dec 12)

    TITLE: Group Sequential and Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials
    INSTRUCTOR: Christopher Jennison, University of Bath and Bruce Turnbull, Cornell University
    MODERATOR: Bill Wang

DAY

06 - Friday December 12, 2025

  • 08:00 - 13:10

    SHORT COURSE 1 ( continued )

    Title: Regression Tree Analysis of Messy Data
    Instructors: Wei-Yin Loh, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Moderator: Din Chen

  • 08:00 - 13:10

    SHORT COURSE 2 ( continued )

    TITLE: Group Sequential and Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials
    INSTRUCTOR: Christopher Jennison, University of Bath and Bruce Turnbull, Cornell University
    MODERATOR: Bill Wang

All tutorial and short course titles, presenters and moderators from 1970 onward are on www.demingconference.org

Session is based on a recently published text that is available for a discounted price. All times in the schedule refer to US EST Time *Conference information with links to participate will be sent to registrants on Nov 2025