Archives: Speakers

Douglas Farr leads Chicago-based Farr Associates a pioneering architecture and urban design firm which designs loveable, and sustainable places and buildings. Doug is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the Congress for New Urbanism. He co-chaired the development of LEED-Neighborhood Development and authored two books: Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature (2008) and Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future (2018). In 2017 Planetizen named him one of “the 100 most influential urbanists of all time.” A native Detroiter he is an architecture graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University. In 2020 he started Carbon Free Chicago, a 30-year campaign for the timely and equitable transition to a fossil-free region.

Chris Bosse founded LAVA in 2007 with Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck. This international network of leading architects uses the latest research and technology to build efficient, sustainable beautiful structures.

Educated in Germany and Switzerland, Bosse bases his work on the computerised study of organic structures and resulting spatial conceptions.

His award-winning design projects have won Bosse an international reputation as a new generation architect who pushes the boundaries of traditional structure and architecture by digital and experimental form-finding.

Whilst Associate Architect at PTW in Sydney Bosse was a key designer of the Beijing Olympics Watercube, winner of the Atmosphere Award at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale and the AIA Jorn Utzon Award for International Architecture. The following year he received the Emerging Architect RIBA award, in 2012 Perspective’s 40 Under 40 for Asia’s rising design stars and an Australian Design Honour in 2015.

LAVA was the 2016 Laureate of the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.

Alongside his architectural practice Bosse is Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney and lectures worldwide.

Heather Haselmann has been with Canfield since 2005.  She started as Project Manager and grew to role of Associate Director of Clinical Services overseeing project teams.  This led her to current role as Director of Business Development in which she is able to speak to the team’s expertise and create solutions for their clients.  Heather is responsible for communicating the breadth and depth of clinical project management services, ensures customer service provided at the highest levels, including proposals and follow through of deliverables.  Heather has extensive knowledge of the industry which covers Dermatology, from hair growth to onychomycosis and skin conditions, Aesthetics, Body Contouring, Oncology and Rare Diseases related to skin.

Chris is an experienced consumer insights specialist who works day-to-day with global clients across the Food & Beverage, Home Care and Personal Care categories to inform their Innovation, Strategy and Marketing decisions using social data and trend prediction methodologies.

Phil has spent a career driving business impact from data & insight, having led teams, clients and business units in and across developing and developed markets. Phil has operated both agency side, and client side, including ten years at PepsiCo in a variety of insight, customer strategy and commercial roles. At Black Swan Data, Phil leads our team of insight professionals, using big data and predictive analytics to help clients drive advantaged category strategies, innovation and brand positioning.

Stacy Weil is the Senior Vice President, Clinical Data Operations, Strategic Business Optimization at Premier Research. Stacy’s focus is on translating the organization strategy into actionable data initiatives that ultimately enable internal and external customers to achieve the highest level of performance and success. Prior to her role at Premier Research, Stacy worked in the role of Vice President of Clinical Data Operations at PatientiP and held prior roles in leadership in the Process Improvement, Data Analytics, Learning Services and Project Management groups at PPD.

Stacy’s operations experience includes project management and therapeutic leadership in the areas of Endocrine/Metabolic, Immunology, Urology, Women’s Health, Neuroscience, and Respiratory. Stacy’s trial oversight includes both global and domestic trials with teams in the US, Canada, Latin America, Asia Pacific and European Union.

Kristi Miller leads the team of regulatory professionals in providing strategic and tactical guidance across therapeutic areas and disciplines (CMC, Nonclinical, Clinical, Device and Regulatory Writing). She has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in delivering both regional and international regulatory strategy for pharmaceutical and biotech drug development teams.  Her experience encompasses providing regulatory leadership and execution of strategy for products across development (pre-IND through post marketing) in multiple therapeutic areas of immunology/inflammation, ophthalmology, oncology and other rare diseases.  Her accomplishments include leading teams to successful global health authority interactions, INDs, orphan drug applications, fast track applications, pediatric strategies, and marketing applications.

Kristi received her PhD in tumor cell biology and her previous roles have included positions at Pharmacyclics, and Genentech.

Gerrit Smit (PhD) is the managing director of Yili Innovation Center Europe, which is based in The Netherlands. This centre is aiming to bridge Yili’s Innovation Centers in China with strategic collaboration parties in Europe; being academia, contract research institutes, key suppliers as well as other dairy and food companies.

Before joining Yili he worked as SVP R&D at Valio, Finland (2011-2015), where he was responsible for the R&D portfolio and in particular the long-term strategy, and open innovation with external partners. Previous to that, he worked in Unilever (2004-2011) as Director R&D covering the areas of Flavour and Consumer Research as well as leading the Open Innovation in the area of flavours. He also was a member of the global manage-ment team of the Unilever Food and Health Research Institute.

From 1993 until 2004, he worked at NIZO food research in The Netherlands, where he was a board member responsible for the departments Flavour, Nutrition and Ingredients. Moreover, he held for 12 years an en-dowed professorship at Wageningen University (NL) in Molecular Flavour Science.

Gerrit got his MSc degree in Molecular Microbiology and Biochemistry, at Utrecht University, and got his PhD degree in 1988 at Leiden University. He also worked as a post-doc for 2 years in R&D in the United States, fol-lowed by a staff position for 2 years at Leiden University.