25th Annual Clinical Trial Supply Europe 2024

2024 will see the return of the Clinical Trial Supply Europe conference to Barcelona where pharma, large and small, alongside biotechs will have the opportunity to discuss, debate and consider new technologies and processes to streamline supply chain operations.

6 - 7

March

2024
  • Hyatt Regency Barcelona Towers, Barcelona, Spain
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WHAT TO EXPECT FOR 2024?

Clinical Trial Supply Europe is the meeting place for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology community to discover how to excel in clinical supply strategy as well as form key connections for long-term success.

500+

Attendees

55+

Exhibitors

30+

Speakers

500+

Attendees

55+

Exhibitors

30+

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Agenda

  • 6 Mar 2024
  • 7 Mar 2024
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Streams

Stream one

Clinical Supply Logistics and Operations

Stream two

Clinical Supply Technology and Innovation

11 AM

Increasing diversity: supply chain considerations for clinical trials in Africa

  • Navigating benefits and challenges: a deep dive into the diverse landscapes of African clinical trials, highlighting the unique opportunities and overcoming prevalent obstacles
  • Optimizing supply logistics: strategies for efficient and compliant shipment of trial supplies from Europe into Africa, with a focus on navigating the entry requirements and logistics networks
  • Regulatory navigation and compliance: an exploration of the regulatory environment across Africa's varied jurisdictions, ensuring trial supply compliance with local and international standards
  • Cultural competence in trial supply management: addressing the need for sensitive and appropriate packaging and labeling, including translations and adaptations, for clinical trials across different African cultures and languages

Speakers

11:30 AM

Reserved for Suvoda

12 PM

Clinical supply chain performance ecosystem synergies

  • Tools
  • E2E supply
  • R&D goals

Speakers

12:30 PM

Reserved for 4G Clinical

1 PM

Lunch and networking

2 PM

Case Study: Seizing the benefits of e-labelling in conjunction with user apps

  • Scanning barcodes or QR codes on e-labelling: benefits and challenges
  • Tracking patient data and GDPR considerations
  • Implementing and using e-labelling with patient apps

2:30 PM

Reserved for IQVIA

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3 PM

Understanding how a strategic partnership is essential to adapt to Gene Therapy paradigm shift of the entire supply chain

  • Reviewing strategic partnering model for gene therapy
  • Considering supply chain requirements specific to cell and gene therapy
  • Analysing how the partnership was key for successful implementation

Speakers

3:30 PM

Afternoon refreshments, networking and prize draw

4 PM

Evolving use of automation, AI and machine learning in clinical trial supply chain to reduce costs and streamline processes

  • Identifying where and how data-driven technologies can be incorporated to streamline processes within clinical supply chains
  • Reviewing cost savings through use of AI and big data
  • Evaluating benefits of using blockchain technologies to enhance conduction and management of trials
  • Highlighting successes of implementing AI and machine learning tools through case study examples

4:30 PM

Reserved for TSS

5 PM

Panel Discussion: Leveraging technology to assist with increasingly complex supply chains

  • Simplifying processes via use of technology to reduce complexity challenges
  • Reviewing available technology and processes to assist with monitoring supply chain
  • Driving end to end supply chain digitalisation to improve visibility and data exchange
  • Leveraging digitalization in conjunction with quality requirements for complex supply chains – what we can learn from commercial supply

Speakers

7:30 AM

Registration and refreshments

8:15 AM

Chairperson’s opening remarks

Speakers

8:30 AM

Keynote: Focusing on sustainability in supply chain to improve ESG responsibilities and comply with upcoming regulations

  • Preparing for EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
  • Understanding how to measure carbon footprint
  • Considering quick wins to do now and focuses for future

Speakers

9 AM

Reserved for Medidata

9:30 AM

Securing your global supply chain through designing an agile and resilient end to end supply chain that maximises adaptability

  • Designing an adaptable supply chain to remain agile in the face of disruptions
  • Improving quality processes to shorten supply chain lead times and drive agility
  • Leveraging technologies to improve your visibility and end to end supply chain

 

Speakers

10 AM

Reserved for N-Side

10:30 AM

Morning refreshments and networking

11 AM

Fireside Chat: Effectively forecasting and organising pool supply to reduce wastage and increase sustainability

  • Working together to harness benefits and overcome challenges of pool supply
  • Using just in time labelling to increase flexibility of drug use
  • Reducing waste and improving sustainability

Speakers

11:30 AM

Reserved for Berlinger

12 PM

Global shortages on a rise – urgent actions for sustainable CTS procurement needed

  • Highlighting challenges and impacts of global supply shortages
  • Realising urgent need to increase sustainability and life cycle of drug products to avoid limiting innovation due to shortages
  • Overcoming shortages to keep your trial on track

Speakers

12:30 PM

Reserved for TecEx Medical

1 PM

Lunch and networking

2 PM

Transforming comparator sourcing models to improve supply optimization

  • Sharing contacts within clinical trial sales and comparator sourcing widely to enable easy access and direct negotiations
  • Outlining advantages for sponsors, manufacturers and wholesale suppliers
  • Uncovering case study examples and successes of new sourcing model

Speakers

2:30 PM

Reserved for Abacus Medicine

3 PM

Working hand in hand with quality team to ensure compliance and reduce delays

  • Aligning early phase vs late phase quality assurance considerations with supply chain protocols to minimize disruptions and backlogs in supply chain
  • Understanding importance of role and responsibility of a Qualified Person and timelines required for QP release
  • Uncovering common QA compliance oversights and how to avoid them

3:30 PM

Afternoon refreshments, networking and prize draw

4 PM

State of the biopharma industry: the outlook for drugs, trials, and manufacturing

  • What’s coming in the pharma pipeline?
  • Drug manufacturing for clinical trials
  • Emerging trends: gene therapy, mRNA, and AI
  • Opportunities for contract development and manufacturing organisations (CDMOs)

Speakers

4:30 PM

Reserved for Almac

5 PM

Panel Discussion: Selecting clinical trial supply vendors wisely and maintaining oversight to keep your trial on track

  • Vetting supply vendors, considering size and scale to ensure best fit
  • Considering how to maintain oversight of multiple vendors within one clinical trial study
  • Deciding how much oversight is right for each different vendor
  • Setting clear objectives and communicating effectively between sponsor and vendors to ensure the most efficient collaboration

Speakers

5:30 PM

Chairperson’s closing remarks

Speakers

Streams

Stream one

Clinical Supply Logistics and Operations

Stream two

Clinical Supply Technology and Innovation

9 AM

Creating a successful direct to patient supply distribution strategy

  • Creating and implementing suitable strategies per study
  • Complying with regulatory frameworks
  • Optimising supply chain flexibility within direct to patient trials
  • Overcoming common challenges and pitfalls in direct to patient supply

Speakers

9:30 AM

Reserved for Thermo Fisher Scientific

10 AM

Clinical supply chain responsibilities for study close out, end of trial and returns

  • Clinical Trial Master File and Data Base Lock
  • IRT compliance – expected reports, accountability logs, what auditors are looking for
  • How to prepare for closeout at study design to ensure reporting is maintained throughout
  • Pre-planning for supply destroys and returns to ensure compliance destroying onsite or nearby

10:30 AM

Reserved for event sponsor

11 AM

Morning refreshments and networking

8 AM

Registration and Refreshments

8:55 AM

Chairperson’s opening remarks

Speakers

9 AM

Panel discussion: Preparing for and mitigating against risk in clinical supply chain to avoid delays

  • Creating a risk management plan for clinical supply chain
  • Considerations for security risk management
  • Preparing for unexpected and natural disasters
  • Monitoring temperature control risk management

Speakers

9:30 AM

Reserved for Biocair

Speakers

10 AM

Working closely with clinical departments to reduce supply impacts further down the line

  • Communicating early regarding patient recruitment; sites and countries for supply team logistics
  • Considering the size of the trial; amount of supply required to forecast and distribute
  • Understanding import, packaging and labelling regulations for multiple countries

10:30 AM

Reserved for event sponsor

11 AM

Morning refreshments and networking

11:30 AM

Navigating multiple regulatory agencies to help expedite supply chain times

  • Understanding the requirement and options for declaring biological materials to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
  • Review of key U.S. regulatory agency authorities, such as CDC, FDA, USDA, and CBP
  • Discovering the latest non-compliant shipment issues for biological materials and pharma products and tips to avoid them
  • Learning about valuable resources and contacts for assistance

Speakers

12 PM

Reserved for event sponsor

12:30 PM

Fireside Chat: Working with Uber Health transportation in clinical trials to improve equity and increase participant retention

  • Increasing socio demographic diversity in clinical trials by supplying to patients who can’t attend sites without assistance
  • Improving adherence to clinical trial participation by providing transportation for repeat appointments
  • Sharing case study examples and results

Speakers

1 PM

Lunch, networking and prize draw

2 PM

PROBLEM-SOLVING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

During the roundtable discussion session, the conference hall will be divided into two ‘zones’. Delegates can choose which zone they would like to join. Each zone will be led by a table moderator and will focus on a different challenge within clinical trial supply. After 45 minutes, delegates will have the opportunity to swap and choose a different table, and each roundtable will run twice.

ROUNDTABLE 1: Importing and exporting biological materials to or from the U.S

Adam Pitt, Biological Threat Exclusion Coordinator, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
George Amerson, Biological Threat Exclusion Coordinator, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

ROUNDTABLE 2: Discussing impacts of CTIS on clinical supply teams

ROUNDTABLE 3: Overcoming Import of record challenges in clinical supplies

 

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3:30 PM

Chairperson’s closing remarks

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Niklas Mattsson
Director, Comparator Management, MSD

At MSD from 2012 and before worked with comparator sourcing since 2004 at a few wholesalers and a CMO. Started career in product management of medical devices and OTC products. M.Sc. in Engineering in 1995 and proficient in English, German, Italian and Swedish.

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Transforming comparator sourcing models to improve supply optimization

2024-03-06, 2:00 PM

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Giuseppe Coppola
Head of Global Clinical Supply Operations, Novartis

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Panel Discussion: Selecting clinical trial supply vendors wisely and maintaining oversight to keep your trial on track

2024-03-06, 5:00 PM

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Arnaud Dourlens
Head of Clinical Trial Supply, Sanofi

Arnaud Dourlens is an Arts et Métiers engineer, he began his industrial career in the FMCG sector where he held growing responsibilities. Then he joined the LVMH group where he reorganized new product launches and industrial investments in the Make-up segment in order to adapt to the need for innovation and time to market, thus providing a competitive advantage. He then managed the entire portfolio of industrial launches and investments in Perfumes, Skincare and Make-up for Parfums Christian Dior Group. During his career Arnaud held a wide variety of industrial roles. He joined Sanofi in 2017 as Production Director of a major solid oral form production site (>2.5 billion € turnover). He has been a key player in the development of the continuous improvement mindset and in the transformation of the site through IT projects, investments and activity growth following the acquisition of Boehringer Ingelheim consumer healthcare portfolio. Since the beginning of 2020, he’s been the global head of Sanofi Clinical Supply Chain Operations, managing worldwide clinical supply teams involved in more than 300 clinical studies.

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Securing your global supply chain through designing an agile and resilient end to end supply chain that maximises adaptability

2024-03-06, 9:30 AM

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Dr Kamal Amin
Head Of Clinical Supplies Management, Galderma

Kamal is a trained Chemist who decided to pursue a career in supply chain management and quality. In this role, he was tasked to supervise commercial and clinical trial products. Kamal has worked in the pharmaceutical and device industries for over 15 years in different size organisations ranging from large multinational to small virtual companies. He is currently leading a global team at Galderma to develop an integrated clinical supply chain organisation within the company.

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Panel discussion: Preparing for and mitigating against risk in clinical supply chain to avoid delays

2024-03-07, 9:00 AM

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Brendan Krause
Head of International, Uber Health

Brendan has over 20 years of policy, strategy and business development experience in health
care. He began his career at the National Governors Association in Washington, DC, working
on health reform between the US Federal Government and states. Following NGA, Brendan
attended the London School of Economics as a Fulbright Scholar, where he studied the impact
of the Blair Government's choice and competition reforms in the NHS and earned an MSc in
International Health Policy and Economics. He then spent 12 years working for Optum in the
UK in a number of UK and global strategy roles, with a focus on use of data to improve
population health. Recently, Brendan joined Uber as Head of International for Health, where he
is building a global strategy to remove transportation and logistics as a barrier to care.

Session Details:

Fireside Chat: Working with Uber Health transportation in clinical trials to improve equity and increase participant retention

2024-03-07, 12:30 PM

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Luiz Barberini
Head of External Manufacturing, Latin America, Bayer

Session Details:

Panel discussion: Preparing for and mitigating against risk in clinical supply chain to avoid delays

2024-03-07, 9:00 AM

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Thomas Thoma
Head Managed Access Programs, CTS/GHT/SR, Teva Pharmaceuticals

Three University degrees at the University of Augsburg 5 years of Supply Chain Management responsibilities in automotive electronics industry 12 years of Management responsibilities in multiple roles (SCM, IT, Sales) in the pharma industry Since 2014 Head of Clinical Trial Supply (Sales) of Teva Europe. Offering Teva widest pipeline of pharmaceuticals, placebos and manufacturing for clinical trial purposes. Since 2017 Head of Global Health Tendering of Teva Global. Offering Teva widest pipeline to NGOs, GOs and UN related organizations. Married and father of three beautiful kids

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Global shortages on a rise – urgent actions for sustainable CTS procurement needed

2024-03-06, 12:00 PM

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Mattia Scarafoni
Senior Manager Global Clinical Supply Chain, Incyte

Session Details:

Fireside Chat: Effectively forecasting and organising pool supply to reduce wastage and increase sustainability

2024-03-06, 11:00 AM

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Jürgen Wieland
Development Environmental Sustainability Lead, Novartis

Session Details:

Keynote: Focusing on sustainability in supply chain to improve ESG responsibilities and comply with upcoming regulations

2024-03-06, 8:30 AM

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Landry Giardina
Global Head of Clinical Supply Chain Operations Innovation and Technology, Sanofi

20y experience within pharmaceutical industry and specially within clinical supply chain & digital development.

Knowledge acquired via several jobs such as vaccine supply manager, unit head of alignment supply (Drug product/marketed product) and more recently as Digital supply chain leader.

Technology, innovation and data & team management are the main drivers of Landry’s career.

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Clinical supply chain performance ecosystem synergies

2024-03-06, 12:00 PM

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Claudio Semeraro
Associate Director, Cell and Gene Therapy Lead, UCB

Session Details:

Understanding how a strategic partnership is essential to adapt to Gene Therapy paradigm shift of the entire supply chain

2024-03-06, 3:00 PM

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Pierre-Gaultier Delheid
Head of Clinical Vendor Management, UCB Pharma

As Head of Clinical Vendor Management at UCB, Pierre-Gaultier Delheid leads the vendor strategy aiming to design and manage a strong external vendor network. He makes a point of honor to build sustainable and strong alliances to overcome clinical challenges in a flexibility, agile, reliable, green and cost-efficient way. In close collaboration with other UCB business units, he drives a culture of partnership to change the game to a better outcome.

Engineer by background, his experience in bio-pharma industry in CDMO as well as in Sponsor companies and his business DNA gained during an international EMBA (Hult, US/UK) led him to build strong expertise in the field of operation and business optimization as well as building strong partnerships.

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Understanding how a strategic partnership is essential to adapt to Gene Therapy paradigm shift of the entire supply chain

2024-03-06, 3:00 PM

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Ingrid Lux
Head of Quality Disposition, Director, Oncology and External Supply Small Molecule EU, Takeda

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Panel Discussion: Leveraging technology to assist with increasingly complex supply chains

2024-03-06, 5:00 PM

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Fiona Barry
Editor in Chief & Director Pharmsource, GlobalData

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Chairperson’s opening remarks

2024-03-06, 8:15 AM

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State of the biopharma industry: the outlook for drugs, trials, and manufacturing

2024-03-06, 4:00 PM

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Chairperson’s closing remarks

2024-03-07, 3:30 PM

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Chairperson’s opening remarks

2024-03-07, 8:55 AM

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Adam Pitt
Biological Threat Exclusion Coordinator (BTEC), U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Adam Pitt is a Biological Threat Exclusion Coordinator (BTEC) for CBP in the Office of Field Operations/ Agriculture Programs and Trade Liaison/ Biological Threat Exclusion. As a BTEC, Mr. Pitt is charged with supporting and developing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operational capacity and capability in preventing tools of agro/bio-terrorism from entering the U.S. Mr. Pitt has more than 18 years of public service with CBP and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and has worked in a variety of environments, including air passenger, cargo, and express consignment carrier locations.

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PROBLEM-SOLVING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

2024-03-07, 2:00 PM

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Navigating multiple regulatory agencies to help expedite supply chain times

2024-03-07, 11:30 AM

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George Amerson
Biological Threat Exclusion Coordinator, U.S. Customs And Border Protection

George Amerson is a Biological Threat Exclusion Coordinator (BTEC) for CBP in the Office of Field Operations/ Agriculture Programs and Trade Liaison/ Biological Threat Exclusion. As a BTEC, Mr. Amerson is charged with supporting and developing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operational capacity and capability in preventing tools of agro/bio-terrorism from entering the U.S. Mr. Amerson has more than 16 years of public service with CBP and has worked in a variety of environments, including air passenger, maritime, cargo and CBP Training Academy.

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PROBLEM-SOLVING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS

2024-03-07, 2:00 PM

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Navigating multiple regulatory agencies to help expedite supply chain times

2024-03-07, 11:30 AM

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Révérien Uwacu
Clinical Trial Supply Management Consultant, UCB

Originally from Rwanda but studied and living in Belgium, Reverien has an IT and Supply Chain academic background. Professionally, he is a pharma Supply Chain Consultant with 12+years’ experience. Reverien’s experience includes companies such as Johnson and Johnson, UCB, Baxter, and Thermofisher.

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Increasing diversity: supply chain considerations for clinical trials in Africa

2024-03-06, 11:00 AM

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Marcus Wajngarten
Senior Director, Home Supply, AstraZeneca

Marcus has been realizing innovative solutions and clinical science in the Pharma space for almost 20 years.

Passionate in driving operational value with technology, the science and the patient is always in focus.

As part of AstraZeneca’s Digital Health transformation, he is aiming to bring greater value to patients faster though technology.

Marcus is gearing up AstraZeneca’s capabilities to take on De-centralized trials, with patient centricity at heart.

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Creating a successful direct to patient supply distribution strategy

2024-03-07, 9:00 AM

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SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES

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Portfolio Manager

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