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San Francisco Bay Area Chapter In Person Event: 2nd Annual Kick Off Gala - Regulatory Compass 2026:

Join us for the 2nd Annual RAPS 2026 Kick-Off meeting in San Francisco! Network with industry leaders, discuss the latest trends, and gain valuable insights. Registration Fees & Deadlines Member $60 | Nonmember $100 | Student Member: $0 | Student Nonmember: $30 (With Promo Code) *Please reach out to a RAPS San Francisco Chapter Leader to request a Student Promo Code Agenda 5:30-6:15 pm Registration/Networking/Meet Sponsors 6:15-6:30 pm RAPS San Francisco Chapter/Sponsor Announcements 6:30-7:00pm Plenary speech Daniel Kraft, MD Founder & Chair NextMed Health 7:00-8:00 pm Panel discussion: Reflecting Rapid Regulatory Changes in 2025 and What to Expect in 2026 8:00-9:00 pm Vendor show/Networking Speakers Daniel Kraft Founder & Chair, NextMed Health Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008, and in 2011 founded NextMed Health (previously called Exponential Medicine) a program and community that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. He serves as Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance. Daniel is a member of the Inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and is member of the Kauffman Fellows Society. He is a managing partner with Continuum Health Ventures which is focused on funding early stage health tech companies enabling the democratization of health and improved healthspan for all. He is often called upon to speak to the future of health, medicine and technology and has given four TED and two TEDMED Talks and has delivered keynotes to a diverse array of organizations. He has multiple scientific publications (including in Nature and Science) and medical device, immunology, and stem cell-related patents through NIH-funded faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at the University of California San Francisco. He is heavily involved in digital health, founded Digital.Health, is on the board of Healthy.io and advises several Fortune-50 and digital health-related startups. Daniel recently founded IntelliMedicine, focused on personalized, data-driven, precision medicine. He is also the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA-approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founded RegenMed Systems, a company developing technologies to enable adult stem cell-based regenerative therapies. June-Mei Han Chief, Drug and Medical Device Compliance and Enforcement Section Food and Drug Branch California Department of Public Health Yoshiko Stowell, PhD RAC RAPS-SF Chapter Chair, Incoming Board Member Location Digital Jungle 972 Mission Street 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94103 Sponsors Annual Platinum Sponsor SGS Bronze Sponsors PrimeRA Pharma Partners MDSS MMS Cancellations and Refunds RAPS reserves the right to cancel this program at its sole discretion. RAPS will not be responsible for travel or other costs incurred due to cancellation. All cancellation requests must be submitted in writing to support@raps.org . Cancellations will receive a full refund minus a 20% administrative fee. RAPS is unable to accept cancellations by phone. Substitutions Paid registration substitutions may be accepted with written approval from RAPS for requests received before the start of the event. To transfer a registration, email support@raps.org with the event title, name of the original registrant and the contact information for the new attendee. Proof of Attendance A certificate of attendance can be downloaded from the RAPS Learning Portal following the event. Questions Contact the RAPS Support Center: Call +1 301 770 2920, ext. 200 (8:30 am–5:30 pm EST, Monday–Friday) or email support@raps.org .

RAPS Workshop: Business Writing for Regulatory Professionals–What You Need to Know

Writing effective messages to your coworkers, your manager, and your company higher-ups is different from regulatory writing. But it’s even more crucial. During this interactive workshop, you will learn strategies to craft effective and concise messages that help you get work done. You will see, with examples, how to format and organize your message to ensure your audience focuses on what you need them to know. Additionally, you will learn how to use apps and programs that help you write better regardless of your writing ability or experience. This workshop is part of the RAPS Certificate in Effective Communication. Complete all five workshops to get an education in the key elements of regulatory communication — and a certificate to prove it. Registration Fees & Deadlines Present – 12 December 2025: Early Bird Member $205| Nonmember $240 13 December 2025 – 13 January 2026: Member $240 | Nonmember $285 Learning Objectives After completing the virtual workshop, you will be able to: Create documents that will answer the readers’ questions before they ask them. Organize most documents in less than 60 seconds. Recognize when to use the active and when to use the passive voice. Format documents so they can be read easily on cell phones. Use online tools to analyze the readability of documents and format documents for eliminating extra spacing. Use a proofreading tool that will read documents aloud. Who Should Attend? Regulatory professionals who want to improve their writing skills when it comes to documents that could go under legal review. Audience Learning Level Basic: Content is introductory in nature and requires no requisite knowledge or experience to grasp concepts and related exercises. Basic educational activities are meant to establish a foundation of knowledge and/or competence that will be expanded upon in practice or in higher level activities. Speakers Nancy Singer President of Compliance-Alliance LLC Robin Crawford Education Specialist II, Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) Cancellations and Refunds RAPS reserves the right to cancel this program at its sole discretion. RAPS will not be responsible for travel or other costs incurred due to cancellation. All cancellation requests must be submitted in writing to support@raps.org . Cancellations will receive a full refund minus a 20% administrative fee. RAPS is unable to accept cancellations by phone. Substitutions Paid registration substitutions may be accepted with written approval from RAPS for requests received before the start of the event. To transfer a registration, email support@raps.org with the event title, name of the original registrant and the contact information for the new attendee. Proof of Attendance A certificate of attendance can be downloaded from the RAPS Learning Portal following the event. Questions Contact the RAPS Support Center: Call +1 301 770 2920, ext. 200 (8:30 am–5:30 pm EST, Monday–Friday) or email support@raps.org .