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

2025 Program Schedule
DAY
01 - Sunday December 07, 2025
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06:00 - 07:30
REGISTRATION
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19:00 - 20:00
RECEPTION
DAY
02 - Monday December 08, 2025
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07:00 - 08:00
REGISTRATION
Registration & Breakfast
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08:00 - 09:00SESSION 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 - 10:00SESSION 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 - 12:00SESSION 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 - 17:00SESSION 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 - 17:00SESSION 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
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07:00 - 08:00
REGISTRATION
Registration & Breakfast
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08:00 - 09:00SESSION 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 - 12:00SESSION E
TITLE: Advances in Interpretation of Patient-Reported Outcomes
INSTRUCTOR: Joseph C. Cappelleri, Pfizer
MODERATOR:Wenjin Wang -
09:00 - 12:00SESSION 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 - 17:00SESSION 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 - 17:00SESSION 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
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07:00 - 08:00
BREAKFAST
Registration & Breakfast
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08:00 - 09:00SESSION 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 - 12:00SESSION 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 - 12:00SESSION 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 - 17:00SESSION K
TITLE: Dose optimization
SPEAKERS: TBA
MODERATOR: Kaylan Ghosh -
14:00 - 17:00SESSION 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
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08:00 - 17:00SHORT 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 - 17:00SHORT 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
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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