The aim of our 2016 annual conference is to explore how medicines and devices can be developed speedily but safely for patient benefit on a sound evidence base within the current and changing regulatory European frameworks. The European Forum for Good Clinical Practice has a long and successful history, acting as a forum to bring patients, researchers, sponsors, competent authorities and ethics committees together to debate current topics. It is one of the most important European fora for multi stakeholder debate and this meeting is designed to help pharmaceuticals and devices research learn from each other’s histories, hear patient voices and understand this changing regulations.The tangible outcomes will be an EFGCP report and recommendations that will be provided to those involved in the legislative process.