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14th Annual Pharma Anti-Counterfeiting, Serialization & Supply Chain Security 2024

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WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

This conference brings together pharma and healthcare supply chain leaders to learn more about upcoming DSCSA implementation milestones. Innovative approaches and lessons learned as distributors, manufacturers and dispensers implement serialization and traceability technologies to further preserve the safety and security of the pharma and healthcare supply chain. This event also overviews and integrates the business and technical problems that pharmaceutical companies should be aware of in order to fight the major global problem of counterfeit medicines. In addition to discussion of the problems, this conference addresses Supply chain security, serialization, track and trace analytical techniques scientists use to detect counterfeits and identifying solutions to the threat of counterfeit medical products.

Speakers

SCOTT HUFFMAN

Bristol-Myers Squibb

JIM MARSHALL

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

AMANDA S

Amici Pharmaceuticals

RAM BALANI

eSTARHelper (USA)

SEBASTIEN M

Ferring Pharmaceuticals

CEM AYDIN

MorphoSys

RAHUL SAIKIA

Rising Pharmaceuticals

ASMITA K

Cambridge Pharma

SHABBIR I S

Partnership for Safe Medicines

VENELIN D

SoftGroup

MARK KARHOFF

Ten Count Consulting

LYNN MEHLER

Hogan Lovells

NATE KREVOR

Sidley Austin

Sample Attendees

Conference Schedule

Meet and to network with your conference colleagues.

08:00 – Coffee and registration

09:00 – Morning Chair’s opening remarks

RAM BALANI, CEO / Founder, eSTARHelper (USA)

MARKET ANALYSIS & CURRENT OVIERVIEW

09:10 – Advanced Analytical Technologies for the Authentication of Suspected Counterfeit Drug Products

•   As the first line of defense, supply chain security must be established and maintained. However, if it is breeched, a well-equipped and staffed analytical laboratory will be required to confirm the authenticity of drug products.
•   Advanced analytical technologies can not only confirm the authenticity of a drug product, they can be used to determine the chemical makeup of those that are found to be true counterfeits.
•   The chemical components found in a counterfeit may offer clues to the identity and location of the counterfeiters, and provide linkages to other incidents and cases.
•   This information may then be used to strengthen the legal case against a counterfeiter.

SCOTT HUFFMAN, Associate Director, Forensics & Innovative Technologies, Bristol-Myers Squibb

SERIALIZATION, TRACK & TRACE

09:50 – Serialization in the Pharma – Points to remember

•   Tackling Counterfeit Medicines
•   The Serialization Solution
•   To consider – Cost, Resources, Right partner, Automation, Data Management & Exchange
•   Understand better how to approach and prepare for a successful Track & Trace program
•   Key for successful serialization of pharmaceuticals: data is the cornerstone
•   How to ensure easy and secured data exchange with authorities and affiliates
•   Adapting to the changing regulatory environment

JOSE CAMARA SANTIAGO, CEO, Camara Validation & Consulting Services

10:20 – Solution Provider Presentation

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10:50 – Morning Coffee & Networking

CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES

11:20 – Keynote Panel Discussion: Tackling Counterfeit Drugs: The Challenges & Possibilities

•   Counterfeit Drugs: Challenges and steps taken to eliminate them
•   As a company, where should you start to handle the situation better?
•   Combating the rise in online counterfeit medicines
•   Role of Pharmacist’s in to stop counterfeit drugs
•   Importance in educating patients - Helping your patients to avoid counterfeit drugs
•   Lessons to learn from RoW

Moderator
MARK KARHOFF, Principal Consultant, SCM, Life Sciences, Serialization, Ten Count Consulting


Panellists

SHABBIR IMBER SAFDAR, Executive Director, Partnership for Safe Medicines
RAHUL SAIKIA, Head of M&A, Chief Strategy Officer, Rising Pharmaceuticals
NATE KREVOR, Managing Associate, Sidley Austin

12:10 – “New innovations of drug counterfeiters: online pharmacy marketplaces, fraudulent T3’s, alternative funding programs, and compounded APIs for sale on etsy”

SHABBIR IMBER SAFDAR, Executive Director, Partnership for Safe Medicines

12:40 – Networking luncheon / Exhibition Visit

13:50 – Customer Centric Supply Chain Strategy

•   Resilient Supply Chain
•   Order Promising
•   Demand Planning
•   Capacity Planning
•   Material Supply Planning
•   Detailed Scheduling & Inventory Planning

OPEYEMI ODUSAMI, Former Associate Director, Global Supply Chain Product Lead, Sanofi

14:20 – Topic TBC

CAMILLE DISS, CPO, EDGYN

14:50 – Afternoon coffee & Networking

ENHANCING SUPPLY CHAIN

15:20 – Panel Discussion with experts – Enhancing your Supply Chain - Building resilient supply chains in the evolving pharma environment

•   Steps pharma supply should take to adapt to new DSCSA laws
•   Strengthening and transforming the pharmaceutical supply chain
•   How pharmaceutical companies should develop a reliable and sustainable supply chain?
•   Anti-counterfeiting and supply chain security – Working hand in hand
•   Verification methods at different points in the supply chain to ensure the integrity of your product
•   How do counterfeit pharmaceuticals find their way into the supply chain? Solution
•   Key obstacles / Overcoming challenges / Enhancing efficiency

Moderator
MARK KARHOFF, Principal Consultant, SCM, Life Sciences, Serialization, Ten Count Consulting


Panellists

JIM MARSHALL, Director, Supply Chain, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
CHIRAG SHAH, Director of Supply Chain Security, Sanofi

ASMITA KHANOLKAR, Sr. Director, Medical Device, Cambridge Pharma
OPEYEMI ODUSAMI, Former Associate Director, Global Supply Chain Product Lead, Sanofi

LABELLING

16:10 – Challenges in LATAM Region to migrate to e-labeling

URIMARA ARGOTTI, Regional Regulatory Policy LATAM Head, Roche

16:40 – Chairperson’s closing remarks and end of conference

16:50 – 18:00 – Networking Drinks Session

08:00 – Coffee and registration

08:50 – Morning Chair’s opening remarks

RAM BALANI, CEO / Founder, eSTARHelper (USA)

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

09:00 – “Securing a Resilient Supply Chain Through Dynamic Partnerships – Introduction to the Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center”

NICOLE JOHNSON, Special Agent / National Program Manager, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
BYRON JONES, Special Agent / National Program Manager, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)

DSCSA REGULATORY PREPAREDNESS

09:30 – “Boosting DSCSA Regulatory Preparedness for FDA’s Drug Supply Chain Security Act Compliance with Microsoft Copilot Integrated Generative ChatGPT - 4 AI / ML”

•   Why DSCSA was created by US Congress, brief history, overview of FDA DSCSA pilot project final assessment reports
•   Who’s who and what’s what with DSCSA trading partner roles, some mandates apply to all drug industry stakeholders others not, l earning requisite trading partner roles challenging!
•   Discuss why many remain unprepared highlighting the search gauntlet with US FDA.Gov website hosted regulatory contents (Guidance & 21 CFRs, abysmal metadata searching) vs. the fallback alternative with Google search -there’s better ways now
•   Illustrate Microsoft Copilot & chatbot platform / technology with underlying OpenAI generative AI/MLLLM under the hood- also Microsoft Bing boosted (RAG-Retrieval Augmented Generation) emphasizing cautionary caveats on inherent AI/ML bias
•   Extending Microsoft Copilot with proprietary enterprise data including hosted on Sharepoint Online tenant sites, utilizing Microsoft Search Full-Text search (.e.g. Smart-Search+) to fact check or verify generative response accuracy by You-the-Human !

RAM BALANI, CEO / Founder, eSTARHelper (USA)

10:00 – FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations - Online Pharmacies and Counterfeit Drug Investigations

•   Overview of FDA OCI
•   Overview of a Rogue Online Pharmacy Network
•   Case Examples of Online Pharmacy Network and Counterfeit Drug investigations

DEREK ROY, Resident Agent in Charge, FDA Office of Criminal Investigations

10:50 – Morning Coffee & Networking

11:20 – Transforming R&D Supply Chain and Logistics for Biopharmaceutical Industry Using an Operational Excellence Roadmap

•   Challenges in applying Operational Excellence in R&D
•   Developing an Operational Excellence roadmap for R&D
•   Case study: Transformation of R&D Supply Chain and & Logistics using principles of Operational Excellence

VATSALA SADASIVAN, Global Operational Excellence Lead, R&D, Sanofi

SERIALIZATION / DSCSA

11:50 – Panel Discussion with the experts – Serialization and track & trace - DSCSA compliance and 2024 implementation timeline

•   DSCSA compliance and 2024 implementation timeline
•   Complying With the DSCSA
•   Current operational issues associated with traceability implementation
•   The long-term data advantage of Track & Trace
•   Technology and the future of drug traceability.
•   Progress in packaging and serialization.
•   When misalignment happens, what do you do?
•   The road ahead for pharmaceutical track-and-trace.

Moderator
RAM BALANI, CEO / Founder, eSTARHelper (USA)

Panellists

NICOLE JOHNSON, Special Agent / National Program Manager, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
SEBASTIEN MAUEL, Head of Serialization & Product Security, Ferring Pharmaceuticals
AMANDA SAMOJEDNY, Vice President Operations, Amici Pharmaceuticals

JOSE CAMARA SANTIAGO, CEO, Camara Validation & Consulting Services

12:40 – SATT PLATFORM in Azure protected by Microsoft - Inside look at the development of the most secure Тrack and Тrace system

•   Global track and trace compliance – ensure a swift response to market demands;
•   Reduction of supply chain complexity – optimize the processes and procedures;
•   Seamless integration with other hardware/software vendors;
•   Data security – advanced reliability and availability directly through Azure;
•   Unparalleled scalability and flexibility – enable seamless scaling of services;
•   Cost-efficiency – improve operational effectiveness and maximize the investment;
•   Efficient resource management – ultimately enhancing productivity.

VENELIN DIMITROV, CEO, SoftGroup

13:10 – Networking luncheon / Exhibition Visit

14:00 – Assessing Serialization Readiness and Compliance in M&A situation.

•   Create awareness among the technical experts (the audience) the significance of serialization in the bigger picture; engaging in a conversation with the M&A generalist (me); opening slides from me, open up for discussion- if there is interest create a white paper out of it.
•   Pay top dollars to buy, can lose the business quickly if shipment to customers is at risk, any factors that put this at risk, last few years Serialization has been the elephant in the room
•   Two parts of the processes - Diligence pre buying / Integration post buying
•   Either situation assess, factor in Serialization – infrastructure, quality of documentation, processes, people from a seamless business continuity perspective in - Own Plants / Partner Plants
•   INTEGRATION - Switch or not to switch packaging lines
•   Serialization Workstream how it would fit into the other Integration workstreams.
•   Executing, seamless to the customer.

RAHUL SAIKIA, Head of M&A, Chief Strategy Officer, Rising Pharmaceuticals

14:30 – Topic TBC

TODD BOYETT, Chemical Investigations Section, Diversion Control Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

REGULATORY

15:00 – Panel Discussion: Regulatory Perspective-Recent DSCSA updates and Global developments

•   Organisations and agencies work together and its importance / maintaining visibility and transparency
•   Recent evolving regulatory frameworks towards counterfeit drugs
•   Most recent track and trace regulations
•   Online counterfeits – working together with the regulators to overcome this issue
•   Update – Enforcement policies and guidelines
•   Role of the Pharmaceutical Companies / Regulators
•   What’s the way forward?

Moderator
RAM BALANI, CEO / Founder, eSTARHelper (USA)

Panellists
CEM AYDIN, Associate Director - Team Lead Logistics and Warehouse, MorphoSys

URIMARA ARGOTTI, Regional Regulatory Policy LATAM Head, Roche
LYNN MEHLER, Partner, Hogan Lovells

15:50 – Chairperson’s closing remarks and end of conference

16:00 – Networking Tea / Coffee & End of 14th Annual Pharma Anti-Counterfeiting, Serialisation & Supply Chain Security 2024

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The Conference Center at Waltham Woods,
Waltham (Boston-MA)

Address:
860 Winter St, Waltham, MA 02451, USA
Contact: 781.434.7499

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