Speakers

KHAUDEJA B

Roche – Genentech

MARIETTE B S

Bristol-Myers Squibb

MILIND S

Novo Nordisk

NINA KOLA

Bristol Myers Squibb

DANYTZA W

Jazz Pharmaceuticals

CARMIT S

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

E ALTON S

AstraZeneca

JESSICA C J

Jazz Pharmaceuticals

KARTHIK M

Bristol-Myers Squibb

SHARON R

Pfizer

KSHITIJA B

Jazz Pharmaceuticals

VIKALP KHARE

Otsuka Pharmaceutical

RAM VEMPATI

BioNTech SE

BEENA WOOD

CSL Behring

MATT D

CSL Behring

REEM YASIN

Kawkab Group

SIVA K B

Indegene

JASON BRYANT

ArisGlobal

HEATHER M

HMGlobal

YILONG JIA

Sumitomo Pharma America

MEERA NAGARIA

Johnson & Johnson

KAPIL BHUTADA

Asklepios BioPharmaceutical

HEATHER L F

AI MINDSystems Foundation

BEN LOCWIN

Black Diamond Networks

“Ensuring safer drugs to market. Latest developments in PV”

Conference Schedule

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08:50 - Chairperson opening remarks

BEN LOCWIN, VP, Project Solutions, Black Diamond Networks

09:00 – Pharmacovigilance Quality Assurance (QA)/Quality Control (QC) Synergy Identification and Simplification

ABBEY GOW, QA & Deviation Management Expert, Sanofi

COMBINATION PRODUCTS

09:30 – PV Ecosystem is continuously evolving- Combination Products and now Diagnostics and Digital

•   How do we as an industry partner with the Regulatory bodies and agencies to share our voice
•   People / Processes and Technology – as enablers to maintain the patient-centric approach
•   How do we truly ensure that safety is our priority – regardless of its source – Drug, Device, Diagnostic or Digital therapeutics

KHAUDEJA BANO, VP - Global Head of Device Quality, Roche - Genentech

PATIENT SAFETY

10:00 – Keynote Panel Discussion: Next generation pharmacovigilance for enhanced patient safety

•   Driving patient centricity into your PV plans
•   Patient Support Program in Pharmacovigilance
•   A review of general issues and the specific challenges with patients
•   Improving your organization’s patient-facing communications and its importance
•   A practical approach to reshaping patient safety
•   Educating stakeholders via patient stories

Moderator
MARIETTE BOERSTOEL-STREEFLAND, SVP, Worldwide Patient Safety Officer, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Panellists
KHAUDEJA BANO, VP - Global Head of Device Quality, Roche – Genentech
KARTHIK MUTHUSAMI, Head of Expedited Safety Reporting, Bristol-Myers Squibb
KARTHIK BABU, CHC Global PV Operations Head, Sanofi

10:40 – Morning Networking Coffee/Tea & Discussion

11:10 – Topic TBC

Speaker TBC, Cencora

COMPLIANCE

11:40 - Pharmacovigilance Compliance for future – Moving forward positively

•   Future horizons and efficiencies in PV Compliance
•   Managing quality risks
•   Fostering culture of inspection readiness preparing for, inspections
•   Future-proofing organizations
•   Boldly Shaping the Future

JESSICA CHINAULT-JALBOOT, Exec Dir, Regulatory and PV Compliance, Jazz Pharmaceuticals
KSHITIJA BAPAT, Dir, Compliance Operations, Jazz Pharmaceuticals

12:10 – Harnessing GenAI to Advance Pharmacovigilance

•   Explore the expansive potential of GenAI in transforming pharmacovigilance, including ArisGlobal's approach to future capabilities and uncertainty.
•   Discover the in-market extraction and generation capabilities of LifeSphere NavaX and learn how these capabilities are being developed to enhance performance.
•   Get insights into the dawn of Agentic AI and its potential as the next positive disruptor for automation.
•   Learn about ArisGlobal's commitment to responsible AI practices, addressing the challenge of AI hallucinations and the imperative for collaborative regulatory engagement.

JASON BRYANT, VP Data & AI, ArisGlobal

12:40 – Networking luncheon

IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY

13:30 – Panel Discussion - Technology: Unlocking the better ways in PV for safer drugs

•   Acceleration of Digitalisation in Pharma is the key to innovation in Pharmacovigilance
•   How long can AI, process automation and improvements give a hand in PV?
•   ML in patient monitoring: How do industrial experts see this?
•   Regulatory decision – Making: In what way AI makes the path easier?
•   Modern technologies in pharmacovigilance - The way foward
•   Signal detection and safety data analysis
•   Implementation Challenges - Preparing for a smooth transition
•   Pitfall and Learnings

Moderator
HEATHER LEIGH FLANNERY, CEO & Co-Founder, AI MINDSystems Foundation

Panellists
E. ALTON SARTOR, Medical Director, Patient Safety Physician Digital & Devices, AstraZeneca
BEENA WOOD, Head of Innovation & Technology, CSL Behring
RAM VEMPATI, Medical Director, BioNTech SE
MATT DORMARUNNO,Head, Global Safety Sciences, CSL Behring
YILONG JIA, Sr. Manager Pharmacovigilance Informatics, Sumitomo Pharma America

14:20 – Topic TBC

Speaker TBC, Veeva Systems

AUDITS & INSPECTIONS

14:50 – Managing Pharmacovigilance Audits & Inspections

•   Staying ahead in the race - Current trends for and future guidelines
•   How to prepare and what to expect?
•   Remote audits and inspections - Logistical issues
•   PV Inspection readiness: Keeping on the right side of inspectors
•   Methodologies, scope and oversight
•   Boldly shaping the future
•   What has this pandemic thought us towards audits and inspections?

KAPIL BHUTADA, Head of PV Safety Operation & Compliance, Asklepios BioPharmaceutical

15:10 - Afternoon Networking Coffee/Tea & Discussion

QUALITY - SAFETY – SIGNAL DETECTION

15:30 - Quality, Safety Evaluation & Signal Detection – Important Considerations - Analise to Adapt

•   Developing a global safety intelligence process
•   Exploring patient support and marketing research programs from a safety perspective
•   Develop an aggregate safety assessment planning (ASAP) process – Its importance
•   Expectations for quality and compliance in pharmacovigilance process and systems
•   What is now essential for both good quality management and to drive continuous improvement?
•   Statistical signal detection as a routine pharmacovigilance practice

15:50 – AI in Pharmacovigilance: Streamlining Local and Global Literature Surveillance

•   The challenges of Local Literature in Pharmacovigilance
•   How AI is Transforming Literature Surveillance
•   Biologit’s AI Approach
•   Regulatory Considerations and AI Adoption

NICOLE BAKER, CEO, Biologit

CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES

16:10 – Panel Discussion: Navigating the challenges with a global PV

•   What comes next for the industry?
•   Challenges of Global PV function in a changing business environment
•   Automating pharmacovigilance: Are we ready for the up coming future?
•   How global PV impacts day to day operations?
•   Proper communication between - Sponsor – Site – CRO – Patients
•   Moving towards a better future: bigger and better
•   Best practices & lessons learnt today

Moderator
ANKA EHRHARDT, Director, Cell-Based Assays / Analytical Research &, Development, Merck

Panellists
NINA KOLA, VP, Head Medical Safety Assessment Hematology and Oncology, Bristol-Myers Squibb

MILIND SARDESA, Senior Director, Safety Surveillance, Global Patient Safety, Novo Nordisk
KSHITIJA BAPAT, Dir, Compliance Operations, Jazz Pharmaceuticals
VIKALP KHARE, Director, Otsuka Pharmaceutical

17:00 – Closing remarks by chairperson and End of day 01 conference

17:10 – 18:15 – Networking Drinks

09:00 - Chairperson opening remarks

BEN LOCWIN, VP, Project Solutions, Black Diamond Networks

PV & CMC

09:10 – Behind Every Successful Drug also Stands an Excellent CMC

ANKA EHRHARDT, Director, Cell-Based Assays / Analytical Research & Development, Merck

AI & PATIENTS

09:40 – Pharmacovigilance’s Exponential Technology Upgrade: the Emerging Role of the Patient, their Personal AI Agents, and their Personal Digital Twins

•   Personal data estates, personal AI agents, and personal digital twins: understanding the fast-approaching, radically-enhanced role of the patient in PV
•   PV and beyond: newly-empowered patients’ relationships to next-generation, pre-competitive industry utilities for pan-stakeholder, privacy-preserving, decentralized data and AI
•   Verifications, attestations, and audits on-demand: multi-directional, cryptographically-provable reporting and communications from multiple provider institutions and patients directly
•   From clinical trials to post-market surveillance to label expansion: accelerating the flywheel of increasing both safety and precision through in silico research and simulations

HEATHER LEIGH FLANNERY, CEO & Co-Founder, AI MINDSystems Foundation

10:10 – Topic TBC

Speaker TBC

10:40 – Morning Networking Coffee/Tea & Discussion

RWD / RWE

11:10 – Real World Data to Real World Evidence

•   Importance of real-world data for answering regulatory questions
•   Benefits and challenges of evidence derived from real world sources
•   Real World Evidence: How Does its Use challenge quality and compliance programs?
•   Obtaining patient-centric using RWE
•   What are complications that will rise by inserting new data source? Breakup in data?
•   Identify the challenges involved in incorporating real world evidence into a structured benefit-risk assessment.

WILLIAM A. BLUMENTALS, Head of Pharmacoepidemiology, Specialty Care, Sanofi

11:40 – How to build and present a Data Story with then Analytical Ask hierarchy: NLP based PV perspective

MEERA NAGARIA, Senior Data Scientist, Johnson & Johnson

12:10 – PV Audits in the USA

•   The need for PV audits
•   Types of PV audits
•   Overview of thePV audit process
•   Audit Challenges/Opportunities
•   Common PV Audit Findings

HEATHER MURPHY, Founder and CEO, HMGlobal Pharmacovigilance Consulting

12:30 – Networking luncheon

RISK MANAGEMENT & PLANNING

13:30 – Panel Discussion - The “Next Generation” risk man agement strategies

•   Implementation and maintenance of RMP’s – Overcoming its challenges
•   Potential analyzing of safety and risk signals in PV
•   Strategies to minimize the risk measures – what are the new developments?
•   Benefit/Risk ratio: the common Denominator FDA REMA Logic Model
•   Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) – new challenges and chances
•   Stakeholders in REMS – Communications must be improved
•   Implementing a Risk-Based Monitoring Solution: Understanding the basics of a ssustainable model
•   Discussing about the strategies that support the PV from beginning to end

Moderator
DANYTZA WARD, Executive Director, Head of PV Operations & Global Risk Management, Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Panellists
CARMIT STRAUSS, Executive Director, Head of Risk Management and Organ Toxicity, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
SHARON REID, Director of Risk Management Center of Excellence, Pfizer

SIVA KUMAR BUDDHA, Director - PV (Head of Signal & Risk Management), Indegene
REEM YASIN, Quality Assurance & PV Manager, Kawkab group (Iraq)

REGULATORY UPDATE

14:20 – Panel Discussion: Key regulatory updates that can impact the PV to increase patient’s safety

•   Current and future trends in PV regulations - A Step forward
•   Balancing the critical elements of speed and safety
•   Guidelines for critical medicines
•   Future Legislation: PV Industry Vision
•   Enhancing communication between regulators, regional authorities and patients
•   Examine the global regulatory landscape for safety evaluation – Lessons to learn
•   What’s next? Ways to proceed forward.

Moderator
BEN LOCWIN, VP, Project Solutions, Black Diamond Networks

Panellists
JESSICA CHINAULT-JALBOOT, Exec Director, Regulatory and PV Compliance, Jazz Pharmaceuticals
ASHISH JAIN, Sr, Director, Clinical Safety & Pharmacovigilance, Curis

15:00 - Afternoon Networking Tea/Coffee & End of conference

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