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Colin is the Regional Sales Director for EMEA at ALICE, a hospitality technology platform. He has more than 20 years of experience in the European hotel, travel, and technology markets. Prior to joining ALICE, Colin was at a start-up pioneering high-speed internet access for travellers. Today, Colin leads ALICE’s European team with the goal of improving hospitality by managing staff work and guest communication across hotel departments.

Clinical Trial supply Manager
CTS systems and innovation, Clinical Trial Supply
Global R&D
Merck Healthcare KGaA

Fan has worked in pharma in the clinical trial supply area for 10
years, focusing on systems and innovation topics, e.g. IRT and
simulation for 3 years at Merck in Darmstadt, Germany. She is
currently leading a specialist team on IRT standardization and
supply strategy optimization and collaborates with service
partners to investigate innovative ways to support clinical trial
supply strategy and implementation

Ladislav Works as a Senior Team Head, External Operations Management for Global Clinical Supply
at Novartis Pharma AG in Basel. Born in Prague, Czechia, he moved to the UK in his early
twenties to study International Business and pursue rugby career.
After 2.5 years in pharma commercial segment as a Service Delivery Manager at Alliance
Sante UK, he moved to clinical supply business and arrived via Fisher Clinical Services sites
in the UK and Switzerland at Novartis Pharma AG in Basel in 2012. Before taking up his
current role, he was responsible for the overall Novartis internal and external clinical trial
distribution.
He enjoys looking into new options and technologies that can enable the improvement of
patients’ experiences with clinical trials.

Peter Parker, Director of Asset Management and Assurance for Rolling Stock, Siemens Mobility Limited currently leads the engineer function of c. 90 colleagues across the UK.
A Chartered Manager with over 20 years’ experience in the rail industry in international environments focusing on Engineering Management, Business Winning, Business Development and Solutions Architecture.
Pete has worked internationally including Australia (his home country), Hong Kong, China, UK, Spain, Germany and Scandinavia. His primary background is Signalling and Control Systems and has recently diversified into Rolling Stock.

Lynda Partner is a self-professed data addict and experiences the power of data every day as Pythian’s Vice President of Marketing and Analytics-as-a-Service.  The author of Pythian’s Love Your Data mantra, Lynda understands very well how data can transform companies into competitive winners.

Lynda’s love affair with data started 20 years ago when she founded a highly successful SaaS company and took advantage of data to increase product usage and generate more revenue. Lynda is still making data-informed decisions every day to achieve faster and better results with measurable outcomes.  She so believes in the power of data that she was the driving force in adding an analytics practice to Pythian’s database focus. Heading up Pythian’s Analytics-as-a-Service, Lynda works with companies around the world and across industries to turn data into insights, predictions and products.

She is the co-author of Designing Cloud Data Platforms and was named to the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada list in 2014 by the Executive Women’s Network. Lynda holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Ottawa and loves to be always active. From coaching girls’ hockey to cycling the 25 kilometers to and from work each day, she’s always in motion.  Her downtime is her island cottage, where she kayaks while plotting new ways to use data. Only for good, of course.

Innovative, dynamic and energetic professional leader with +20 year experience in sales, business development and marketing of industrial products. Joined IMI Critical Engineering in 2011, leading strategic marketing and business development for European region.

Esther has been part of PureCircle’s technical team for 2 and a half years working closely with global and regional accounts across EMEA. With a degree in Food and Nutrition, and a 12-month placement with a flavour house, Esther has experience in a range of product applications.