Sixth Veterinary Big Data Stakeholder Forum

EMA's annual Veterinary Big Data Stakeholder Forum returns for a sixth edition — 10 November 2026, hybrid from the Agency's Amsterdam office — and this year's session will launch the public consultation on the next phase of EMA's Veterinary Big Data Strategy.

Dates and format

• Date: 10 November 2026
• Time: 09:00–17:30 CET stated on EMA's event page; the agenda document's own session index runs from the early afternoon — confirm the final running order with EMA
• Format: hybrid — in person at EMA's Amsterdam office or online
• Venue: European Medicines Agency, Domenico Scarlattilaan 6, 1083 HS Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Organizer: European Medicines Agency

What it covers

EMA has run this forum annually since 2021 to bring regulators, industry, farm-management-system providers, academia and practitioners together on real-world uses of big data and AI in veterinary medicines regulation. The sixth edition marks a specific milestone: EMA will use the session to launch the public consultation on the next phase of its Veterinary Big Data Strategy, giving attendees a direct line into shaping where that strategy goes next. Registered participants can put questions to the panel during the session. It falls in the same autumn run as other EMA stakeholder meetings, including the EMA Methodology Working Party Meeting earlier in November.

Who should attend

Regulatory affairs and data leads at animal health companies, veterinary practitioners engaged with real-world-data initiatives, SMEs and trade associations working on veterinary data standards, and academic researchers in veterinary big data and AI. EMA's broader human-medicines data agenda runs alongside events like the HMA/EMA Multistakeholder AI and Data Forum, and the full events directory lists everything we have verified.