Speakers

Ines Dahne-Steuber
Senior Vice President, Operational Excellence
Fresenius Medical Care
Day One
Tuesday April 27, 2021
12:00 pm | Action: How Will You Now Rethink the Role of Operations in the Value Chain?
9:40 am | Develop: Striking a Balance Between Supply Chain Resiliency & Diversity During & After Covid-19
9:00 am | Discover: How Excellence in Planning & Execution Enabled Fresenius to Roll Out Tests & Now Vaccines Quickly & at Scale

Kristi Sanford
Head of Operational Excellence & Strategic Planning
UCB
Day Two
Wednesday April 28, 2021
8:40 am | Develop: Building the Business Case for Operational Excellence Across a Life Sciences Business
8:00 am | Discover: Building the Business Case for Operational Excellence & Engaging Leadership

Theresa Friend
Head of Global Quality Operational Excellence
Roche/Genentech
Day Two
Wednesday April 28, 2021
8:40 am | Develop: Building the Business Case for Operational Excellence Across a Life Sciences Business
8:20 am | Discover: Making it Stick: Rethinking Change Management to Delivery Sustainable Cultural Transformation

Vatsala Sadasivan
Operational Excellence Lead, R&D North America
Sanofi
Focus Day: A Roadmap for Operational Excellence in Life Sciences
Monday, April 26 2021
2:30 pm | Develop: Engaging All Levels of the Organization in the Operational Excellence Value Added
1:30 pm | Discover: Empowering Excellence in R&D Life Science

Ashu Chohan
Head of Supply Chain Operations
Verily
Day One
Tuesday April 27, 2021
9:40 am | Develop: Striking a Balance Between Supply Chain Resiliency & Diversity During & After Covid-19
9:20 am | Discover: How Verily is Operationalizing Community Covid-19 Testing & Pivoting its Entire Organization & Supply Chain Today

Thomas Decker
Global Leader, Strategic Integration & Innovation
CSL Behring
Day Two
Wednesday April 28, 2021
10:40 am | Develop: How Can Operations Further Help Drive a Metric-Led Culture Outside of Operations?
10:00 am | Discover: If You Measure Everything, You Manage Nothing: Process Intelligence in a Modern Digital Biotech

Sanjay Choubey
Vice President, Head of IT, Digital & Process Excellence, North America
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories
Day One
Tuesday April 27, 2021
11:40 am | Develop: What is the Role of Operations in Driving Bottom-Line Value to the Customer & Patient?
11:00 am | Discover: The 360 Degrees: Transforming Commercial Operations Around Rapidly Evolving Customer Behaviors & Requirements

Anahita Guarino
Executive Director, Operational Excellence, Global Medical Affairs Oncology
Daiichi Sankyo
Day Two
Wednesday April 28, 2021
12:10 pm | Action: Up To Eleven: Enabling an Enterprise-Wide Culture of Continuous Improvement
Focus Day: A Roadmap for Operational Excellence in Life Sciences
Monday, April 26 2021
9:30 am | Discover: Synergizing Operational Excellence to Set the Standard for Strategic Life Sciences Medical Excellence
9:50 am | Develop: Scaling Processes, Services & Process Excellence through Growth

Jyothi Ahmed
Vice President, Head of Global Procurement Strategy, Process & Operations
Bristol Myers Squibb
Day One
Tuesday April 27, 2021
11:40 am | Develop: What is the Role of Operations in Driving Bottom-Line Value to the Customer & Patient?
11:20 am | Discover: Procurement Operations as a Strategic Partner & Enabler of Innovation

Aaron Roe
Global Business Process Owner
Roche
Focus Day: A Roadmap for Operational Excellence in Life Sciences
Monday, April 26 2021
11:40 am | Discover: Enabling Customer Operational Readiness & Speed of Adoption to Deliver Better Value to the Patient

Alice Chang
Vice President, CMC Product Life Cycle Management
Kite Pharma
Focus Day: A Roadmap for Operational Excellence in Life Sciences
Monday, April 26 2021
9:50 am | Develop: Scaling Processes, Services & Process Excellence through Growth
9:10 am | Discover: Good Governance to Enable Scaling Operational Excellence

Paul Nelson
Vice President, Global Supply Chain
Athenex
Day One
Tuesday April 27, 2021
7:50 am | Action: Operations & Value Chain Strategy in a Post-Covid World

Rui Coelho
Associate Director, Global Regulatory Operations & Compliance
Takeda
Focus Day: A Roadmap for Operational Excellence in Life Sciences
Monday, April 26 2021
12:00 pm | Action: What Will You Now Change to Build the Internal Case for Process Excellence?
12:00 pm | Develop: Nurturing a Business-Wide Mindset of Continuous Improvement
11:20 am | Discover: Introducing Excellence in Life Sciences: Enabling a Culture of Excellence in R&D

Reynaldo Ramirez
Head of Global Quality Services, Lean & Agile Transformation
Roche
Day Two
Wednesday April 28, 2021
8:40 am | Develop: Building the Business Case for Operational Excellence Across a Life Sciences Business
8:20 am | Discover: Making it Stick: Rethinking Change Management to Delivery Sustainable Cultural Transformation

Mark Metzger
Operational Excellence Lead
Xellia
Focus Day: A Roadmap for Operational Excellence in Life Sciences
Monday, April 26 2021
12:00 pm | Develop: Nurturing a Business-Wide Mindset of Continuous Improvement
11:00 am | Discover: Hoshin Kanri, Done Global: Aligning Global Strategy to Action with a Global Feedback Loop of Operational Excellence

Erik Haussmann
Senior Technical Lead, Operational Excellence
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Focus Day: A Roadmap for Operational Excellence in Life Sciences
Monday, April 26 2021
2:30 pm | Develop: Engaging All Levels of the Organization in the Operational Excellence Value Added
1:50 pm | Discover: Smarter, Not Harder: Securing Stakeholder Buy-In in Operational Excellence, from Science to Shopfloor

Lydia Lee
Operational Excellence & Innovation Lead
Janssen
Focus Day: A Roadmap for Operational Excellence in Life Sciences
Monday, April 26 2021
2:30 pm | Develop: Engaging All Levels of the Organization in the Operational Excellence Value Added
2:10 pm | Discover: Delivering Proactive R&D Operational Excellence in Life Sciences Organizations

Brenda Boyle
Director, Clinical Operations Business Excellence
Agios Pharmaceuticals
Day Two
Wednesday April 28, 2021
10:20 am | Discover: Reducing the Burden: How Operations Plays a Pivotal Role in Enabling Scientific Discovery
11:40 am | Action: What Will You Now Do Differently to Instil a Culture of Metrics & Benchmarking?
10:40 am | Develop: How Can Operations Further Help Drive a Metric-Led Culture Outside of Operations?

Maya Desai
Director, Commercial & Operational Excellence Lead
Guidehouse
"Operationalizing next-gen data collection practices and machine leaning (ML) systems to gain deeper stakeholder insights"
Day One
Tuesday April 27, 2021
1:50 pm | Develop: How Will You Now Think Differently About Leveraging Operational Excellence as a Competitive Advantage?
1:30 pm | Discover: Operationalizing Agile Data Management Practices to Drive Successful Decision-Making

Bill Woywod
Associate Director, Healthcare Advanced Solutions
Guidehouse
"Operationalizing next-gen data collection practices and machine leaning (ML) systems to gain deeper stakeholder insights"
Day One
Tuesday April 27, 2021
1:50 pm | Develop: How Will You Now Think Differently About Leveraging Operational Excellence as a Competitive Advantage?
1:30 pm | Discover: Operationalizing Agile Data Management Practices to Drive Successful Decision-Making

Blake Beber
Commercial & Operational Excellence Specialist
Guidehouse
"Operationalizing next-gen data collection practices and machine leaning (ML) systems to gain deeper stakeholder insights"
Day One
Tuesday April 27, 2021