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Vaccines Summit 2026

Vaccines Summit is a healthcare event bringing together professionals and speakers from research, medicine, and industry.

Boston Marriott Peabody

Dates
November 16–18, 2026
Venue
Boston Marriott Peabody
Location
Peabody, MA

TL;DR

  • The summit is scheduled for November 16–18, 2026, at Boston Marriott Peabody in Peabody, Massachusetts.
  • The organizer lists Scientia Meetings as the event organizer.
  • The published speaker list includes researchers, medical faculty, and life-sciences executives.

Source: scientiameetings.com/conferences/vaccines

About

Scientia Meetings says its Vaccines Summit series has run for more than three years and brings together participants from industry and professional communities. For 2026, the organizer describes the program as a forum for partnership-building, business discussions, and updates in the field.

Who you'll find in the room

Industry leaders

The organizer names industry leaders among the summit's intended audience.

Professionals

The organizer also identifies professionals as part of the audience.

Visionaries

Visionaries are included in the organizer's audience description.

Featured speakers

22 listed

Derek O'Hagan

Senior Advisor · GSK Vaccines R&D

Mark C Poznansky

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center; Physician, General and Transplant Infectious Diseases Medicine · Massachusetts General Hospital

Mark A. Emalfarb

Founder and Chief Executive Officer · Dyadic International, Inc.

Taylor Cohen

Global Product Lead · AstraZeneca

Thomas J. Webster

Professor · Brown University, Saveetha University, Hebei University of Technology, UFPI

Alessandro Sette

Professor and Member; Co-Director, LJI Center for Vaccine Innovation

Brandon F. Young

Senior Medical Science Liaison, Mid-Atlantic Region, Medical Affairs · CSL

Joseph M. DeSimone

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Professor of Translational Medicine and Chemical Engineering; Co-Director, Canary Center · Stanford University

Don J. Diamond

Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope

Alessio Lanna

Professore Ordinario; CEO · University College London; Sentcell ltd (UK)

Joshua McGee

CSO & Co-founder · Keylicon Biosciences, Inc.

Luciana C.C. Leite

Senior Researcher; Head of the Recombinant BCG laboratory, Vaccine Development Laboratory · Instituto Butantan

Matthew Reeves

Professor of Viral Pathogenesis; Chair of Virus Division, Microbiology Society · Institute of Immunity & Transplantation, UCL Division of Infection & Immunity, Royal Free Hospital

Parker A. Small Jr.

Professor Emeritus, Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology · University of Florida

Pascal Geldsetzer

Assistant Professor of Medicine and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health · Stanford University

Alexander (Sandy) Douglas

Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford

Thomas Fuerst

Professor, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research · University of Maryland

Laura Carreto-Binaghi

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Romulo Colindres

CEO · VitriVax

Antu K Dey

VP of Reserach & Early Development · VitriVax

Ian Johnson

Director of Life Sciences · bioforge

Anup Upadhyay

Director, Protein Sciences, Vaccines and Infectious D

Partners on record

1 listed
Scientia Meetings

Source: scientiameetings.com/conferences/vaccines/speaker-guidelines

Venue & travel

Venue

Boston Marriott Peabody

Questions people ask

5 answered

Vaccines Summit 2026 is scheduled for November 16–18, 2026.

The 2026 summit takes place at Boston Marriott Peabody in Peabody, Massachusetts.

The organizer identifies industry leaders, professionals, and visionaries as audience groups.

It is most useful for vaccine researchers and early-stage developers who want to meet peers and pitch partnerships, since the speakers span GSK, AstraZeneca and CSL alongside academics from Oxford, Stanford, Harvard Medical School and UCL, plus smaller firms such as VitriVax and Dyadic. Senior commercial or regulatory staff at large vaccine makers may find it less useful than a major national or international meeting, because this is a smaller event at a hotel venue run by an independent organizer.

Attendees at biotech and life-science summits usually wear business casual, such as slacks and a collared shirt or blouse, with some speakers and company executives in suits. A hotel conference room in Massachusetts in mid-November tends to be cool, so a layer or blazer is practical.

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