Igor is a 35+ year veteran executive of global key development and deployment projects. A dedicated technology solutions practice leader, he is an expert in managing on- and offshore value-based development, B2C, B2B and integration.
In 2004 Igor formed CoreValue together with his partners to leverage the technology and business knowledge he had gained during the years in IT. The firm grew from 10 people to a global software and technology services company cooperating with mid-sized enterprises and Fortune 50 through 500 companies.
Today, Igor Kruglyak is an advisor, a featured speaker at the international technical conferences, a contributor to Kobb Publications, focused on growth delivery.
Estelle has joined Kayentis, a global eCOA solutions provider, in 2019, to consolidate the scientific expertise of the company and drive patient and site centric developments.
Estelle has more than 20 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, in both pre-clinical and clinical research. She joined Pfizer in early 2012 after having worked for both other big pharmas’ and biotech companies. She led projects from phase 1 through 4 in multiple therapeutic areas and has also solid expertise in the Non-Interventional space as well as in Clinical Pharmacology.
Mark has over twenty-five years of experience in design and construction coordination for all phases of project design and delivery, from programming and pre-design through construction contract administration. Mark’s experience includes numerous project types, including higher education, K-12 education, corporate, commercial, civil, healthcare, science and technology and sports and recreation. As Global Director of Technical Design Mark has a focus on developing a culture that delivers the highest quality of technical excellence while embracing innovative construction and delivery techniques and seeking to improve efficiency across the Firm. In this capacity, he also co-chairs the Firm Wide Technical Design Community and participates in the Firm’s Project Delivery Board. In his complementary role as Technical Director of Perkins and Will’s Chicago office, Mark oversees the technical design, quality assurance/quality control and project delivery of all architectural and interior design projects delivered by that office. Finally, Mark is a co-founder of the Perkins and Will Innovation Incubator and has been an active member of the selection and oversight committee since the program’s inception in 2007.
With more than 12 years of experience in architecture and interiors, Joerg has worked on a variety of project types both in China and in the Europe, ranging in size, scale and complexity. Joerg is ambitous and curious in finding new solutions which fit to the client’s identity and objective. Joerg is a passionate teamleader and remains actively involved in all phases from Concept through Construction Administration. Prior to joining Gensler in 2018 he has worked for renown practices, including positions at Coop Himmelb(l)au in Vienna, Austria, as Associate Architect at UNStudio Amsterdam and Shanghai, as General Manager for Ippolito Fleitz Group, Shanghai.
Cees has a long history in the real estate and building industry and is currently working for EDGE (an OVG Real Estate company), a leading real estate tech company from The Netherlands and rapidly growing in Europe and United States. After a long career abroad when working for corporate companies in the international construction industry (Italy, The Netherlands, Scandinavia), he became an expert in design, architecture and sustainability.
Cees joined OVG Real Estate 13 years ago to be the head of the Sustainability Center. His first project was the first LEED Platinum TNT HQ and the first sustainable lab/office/factory, the Danone Innovation Center, both initiated by his team. The well-known office building The Edge in Amsterdam was the best example of smart and sustainable development and become a blueprint of the future of working and according to BREEAM, the most sustainable office building in the world.
Today Cees is one of the initiators of the new company EDGE Technologies, a tech scale-up of OVG. With (future) EDGE buildings in Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, London and Boston, this seems to be the answer to disrupt the global real estate market, focused on EDGE’s main pillar: sustainability, well-being and technology.
Cees is member of Dutch Architecture Circle, founder of the Archiprix International, member of Corenet Global, Dutch Green Building Council (DGBC) and co-chair of the Technology in Real Estate Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Moreover, Cees is active in the Future of Construction group of World Economic Forum (WEF). He gave lectures at the Technical University in Delft, University of London, University of Brussels, NOAH, European Committee and many other platforms and lately he moderated the Future of Work webinars for EDGE with thought leaders like Bjarke Ingels (BIG), Joseph Allen (Harvard), Carlo Ratti (MIT) and Rick Fedrizzi (IWBI).
Léan is the Integrated Cities and Planning Leader for Europe at Arup. She has over 20 years of professional experience in the industry which includes advising a variety of clients from city and national governments to private developers, and on a variety of projects involving extensive strategy and policy work on the application of smart technologies. Recent project work includes digital strategy and policy work for the Danish and Singaporean governments, the Greater London Authority, Dublin City Council, Sydney, Canberra and major masterplanning projects in Singapore and Dubai.
Her masterplanning work includes advising on impacts and opportunities for digital technologies in smart building and regeneration projects in Madrid, Singapore, Denmark, UAE and the UK. Her most recent report on real estate and digital property is Shaping Cities: How Digital Technology is Disrupting Global Real Estate, produced for IPUT, a Dublin REIT.
Before joining Arup in 2003, Léan completed a Masters degree in urban policy and design at the London School of Economics. Her primary degree is in Mathematics from Trinity College Dublin.Outside of Arup, Léan is a Director to the Board of the Sustainable Energy Agency of Ireland (SEAI), a national government agency for promoting sustainable energy practices and policies in Ireland
Erica Figueroa began her clinical research career with Thermo Fisher Scientific, specializing in cGMP raw materials, clinical supplies, and global logistics. In 2017, Erica transitioned to work for Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) to be closer to patients, focusing on managing global clinical trials in pre-clinical to phase 4. Erica has worked on some of the most complex client engagements and thrives on building strategic partnerships with start-ups and those with an advanced pipeline of assets. She is highly involved in clinical research industry events, such as Outsourcing Clinical Trials, ACRP, JP Morgan, PDA, DIA, Women in Bio, and ASCO.
Heather helps clients answer their critical business questions and complete clinical studies by comprehensively managing their research needs. Heather is an exceptional problem-solver who, in a high-performance culture, fosters innovative and skillful solutions to ensure clients can meet their clinical research goals and objectives on time, to spec and within budget. She approaches business from a sense of partnership and is deeply committed to fostering longstanding relationships with clients. Heather serves as Vice President of Intellus Worldwide and co-chairs the award-winning and published Health Literacy Initiative. She has deep experience in pharmaceutical research, and was a 2016 recipient of the PMRG Circle of Excellence Award. Heather has a Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations and Applied Communication in Organizational Settings
Staci has 20 years of experience in the field of clinical research in both biomedical and social and behavioral sciences. She has served in various academic and industry roles, managing and implementing clinical trials throughout their entire life cycle and has extensive experience with both investigator-initiated and sponsor-initiated clinical trials, working with many of the leading industry sponsors and CROs. Staci has significant experience in device trials, focusing on Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) and Clinical Outcomes Assessments (COAs), including electronic implementation and migration. She contributes to scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals focused on clinical outcomes.
Most recently, she served as the Institutional Review Board (IRB) Administrator for the Mercy Health System, spanning four states.
Oscar Abbink is responsible for analysis of the strategic implications of new technologies in the oil and gas sector in IHS Markit and leads the Upstream Technology and Innovation advisory service. He is widely respected for his knowledge and global experience with upstream oil and gas, energy industry monitoring and trends, and oil and gas digitalization.
Dr. Abbink has more than 20 years’ experience in the international energy sector, particularly in nearly all areas of exploration and production and related domains and he has traveled extensively to most major hydrocarbon-producing regions. He has led many research and consulting projects advising organizations with their technology strategy, benchmarking, and implementation, and their digital transformation. Previously, Dr. Abbink was Industry Leader, Oil and Gas, Business Consulting, with a major system integrator, and Director Oil and Gas with a major research organization.
Dr. Abbink holds a M.Sc. and an industry-sponsored Ph.D. from Utrecht University, the Netherlands and is fluent in Dutch and English.
