PAVING THE ROAD TO DIGITAL NIRVANA – IMPROVING DATA QUALITY, ADOPTING EFFECTIVE CHANGE MANAGEMENT METHODS AND DISCOVERING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
08 - 09 April, 2025 | Le Méridien, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Agenda Day 1
8:00 am - 8:30 am
REGISTRATION & COFFEE
8:30 am - 8:35 am
OPENING REMARKS FROM IQPC
8:35 am - 8:40 am
OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIRPERSON
8:40 am - 8:45 am
LIVE POLLING
8:45 am - 9:30 am
OPENING PANEL DISCUSSION: WHAT DOES YOUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION MEAN TO YOU?
Anita Bawa -
Quality Site Head,
Allogene Therapeutics
Philip Chi - Associate Director, AstraZeneca
Caroline Holland - Head of Global Beverages Packaging R&D, PepsiCo
Geoff Parker - Co-Founder, Scimcon
9:30 am - 10:00 am
PRESENTATION: DISCOVERING TAILORED ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES FOR YOUR LABORATORY
Christof Gänzler -
Director Presales and Product Marketing,
SciY
10:05 am - 10:35 am COFFEE & NETWORKING BREAK
10:05 am - 10:35 am 1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS
10:40 am - 11:10 am THINK TANK: OVERCOMING THE SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS OF LAB STAFF, THROUGH THE DIGITIZATION OF THE LAB CHEMICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT PROCESS
Kevin Walsh - CEO, Chemishield
10:40 am - 11:10 am 1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS
11:15 am - 11:45 am COFFEE & NETWORKING BREAK
Hosted by MestreLab
11:15 am - 11:45 am 1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
PRESENTATION: ELEVATING THE BENEFITS AND APPLICATION POTENTIAL OF CLOUD-BASED LIMS SOLUTIONS
Jeff Policastro -
Director, SaaS Business Development,
LabVantage Solutions
12:20 pm - 12:50 pm
PRESENTATION: WHEN YOUR SYSTEMS DO NOT SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE – ABBVIE’S DIGITAL STRATEGY TO HARMONIZING PROCESSES IN DRUG PRODUCT FORMULATION AND PROCESS DEVELOPMENT LABS
Dana Filoti -
Associate Director, Scientific Architecture, Development Sciences Data Transformation,
AbbVie
Dana Filoti
Associate Director, Scientific Architecture, Development Sciences Data TransformationAbbVie
12:50 pm - 1:35 pm
LUNCH
1:35 pm - 2:05 pm THINK TANK: THE BARRIER BETWEEN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL – EFFICIENTLY WORKING WITH THIRD PARTIES
Hosted by Strateos
1:35 pm - 2:05 pm 1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS
2:10 pm - 2:40 pm
PRESENTATION: TRANSFORMING LIFE SCIENCES WITH DATA, GENERATIVE AI AND AUTOMATION
Julien Willard -
Partner and Life Sciences Enterprise Strategy Leader,
IBM
Andrea Dobrindt - Life Sciences Generative AI/Automation Competency Lead, IBM
2:40 pm - 3:25 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION: UNLEASHING THE POWER OF UNIFIED PLATFORMS WITH WORKFLOW ORCHESTRATION – TRANSFORMATING LAB DATA MANAGEMENT AND TRANSCENDING LIMITATIONS
Miu-Ling Lau -
Director, Informatics,
Merck
Sandip Tiwari - Head of Technical Services - Pharma Solutions, North America, BASF
Brigitte Ganter - Senior Director of Product Marketing, L7 Informatics
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm COFEE & NETWORKING BREAK
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS
4:05 pm - 4:35 pm THINK TANK: WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH R&D TO ACHIEVE LABORATORY QUALITY EXCELLENCE
Peggy Weber - Director, Laboratory Systems, Sarepta Therapeutics
4:05 pm - 4:35 pm ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS
Group 12a
4:40 pm - 5:10 pm COFFEE & NETWORKING BREAKGroup 12b
4:40 pm - 5:10 pm ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm
BREAKOUT PANEL: CHANGE MANAGEMENT STORIES
Scott Lunk -
Head of Quality Testing,
Bayer Crop Science
Robert Guenard - Executive Director Data Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, R&D, Pfizer
