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Erin has over 20 years of clinical trial and pharmaceutical software technology experience . She has been with Calyx for 17 years as a key strategic leader, with a specific focus on IRT solutions.

Having started my IT career in 1997, I have worked in most sectors of the industry at some point and have always put the focus on technical excellence and best practice. Whilst I am now in a technology managerial position, I still consider myself a technician at heart and I have a true hands on involvement in every technical deployment I oversee.
I have learned to blur the boundaries between the technical, the executive and the financial aspects of long-term enterprise international IT strategies; that every project, every change and every IT strategic decision is in line with the business at the highest levels and still technically excellent at the nuts-and-bolts end, as well as being aligned with overall business financial strategy.

Anything to do with business IT strategy, service delivery and project execution are all my interest areas with technical focus on Microsoft products, Citrix, VMware, Cisco/HP switching, IP security and firewalling or pretty much anything else with an IP address!

Jan Alfrink is the Regional Director of Sales in Europe for Sabre Hospitality. With over 20+ years in hospitality distribution and eCommerce, Jan has helped numerous new hotel partners strengthen their online presence and results via a consultative approach. Prior to joining Sabre, Jan obtained a Master’s degree in Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Hotel Management. He worked for various hotel chains on property in operations where the challenges of task fulfillment were paramount to the guest experience.

Senior Data Analyst💻 Master degree in Analytics & Comercial Management📊 Sales&Marketing Hotel tech specialist. I love challenges and new technologies📳. Passionate about travel and the world of tourism. Nothing is born or arises by itself, but everything is a consequence of our actions and projects.

Dr. Parapiteva is an experienced regulatory professional with over 24 years in the pharmaceutical industry/clinical research organizations. She has extensive experience in managing complex projects, with a strong focus on building and maintaining relationships at both company and industry level from an operational role within the organization.  She has actively participated in departmental preparation for the EU CTR implementation and is one of ICON’s SMEs on this topic.

Lidya Domínguez’s working years have always been related to clinical research. She graduated in nutrition and human dietic and master’s coursed in project management and several expert courses in Clinical Trials and Regulatory Procedures. She is the Head of the Clinical Research Department at Sermes CRO, an International Contract Research Organization with headquarters in Madrid, Spain. Oncology and cellular and advanced therapies are amongst her main therapeutic experience, but during her large experience in pharma, she has worked with several TAs, such as endocrinology, vaccines, infectious diseases, etc. She is an expert in European Clinical Trial Regulation. She has been involved in the CTIS project from the right beginning, as part of EMA’s 15-people working group since 2017 for the development of this new European clinical trials portal. She has been certified by the EMA as CTIS Master Trainer. Lidya’s team at Sermes CRO achieved the first submission of a clinical trial through CTIS in Spain, in March 2022. Since then, they have never stopped submitting and transitioning clinical trials via CTIS.