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I am a passionate enterprise architect, supporting the business, OT and IT stakeholders of Takeda’s Global Manufacturing, Supply, Quality & EHS. With over 25 years of experience in IT architecture, I share my passion of all the aspects architecture. The practice is evolving, and I am pushing towards a more continuous architecture and believe thatRead more

Hernán Vilas’ career encompasses more than 18 years in Information Technology and Engineering in the Life Science Industry (Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics) with increasingly challenging positions in the organization from site related activities to global program and application management. He has a vast knowledge in different domains like Manufacturing Operations Management (MES/MOM), Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI),Read more

Angelo is Co-founder and CEO of Apprentice.io, the leading intelligent software provider for life sciences that allows manufacturing teams to get critical drugs to market faster, with higher reliability. Angelo has positioned Apprentice as the worldwide frontrunner of innovative technology, leveraging artificial intelligence, augmented reality and Pharma 4.0 principles to help organizations scale faster –Read more

CV: Michael Schneider is Senior Director, Global Head of Technical Innovation Drug Product at Roche. Before Michael Schneider was Director of Network Strategy for Roche’s Pharma Drug Product Manufacturing unit. Michael joined Roche in 2004 and held various positions of increasing responsibility in Biotech and Steriles manufacturing. He started his career in large investment projectsRead more

Prasanna Gururajan is a passionate technology Leader. Prasanna – lives in Netherlands and has 15+ years’ experience in IT and served through various Mfg. sectors like Paper, Medical devices and Pharma delivering value through digital technologies. He has worked through different domains in the supply chain like customer connectivity, ERP and MAKE.  Currently, he operatesRead more

CV Lena Fischer holds a M.A. degree in Business/Managerial Economics and is IPMA B certified Project Manager. For the past 5 years, she has been with Novo Nordisk (Denmark), working as Business Owner MES, Department manager MES execution as well as Senior Project Manager for MES projects (Europe and US). Before that, Lena was workingRead more

Domagoj is pharmaceutical professional with a history of working in solids production, currently working as business owner of global MES program where he owns global template for MES and OEE,  supports implementation of global ERP program, site rollouts and site functional expansions. Lately he is involved in shopfloor modernization with focus on EBR. Skilled inRead more

Alan Kelly is Head of Vaccines – Global Engineering at Takeda.Read more

Sathish Kumar Shanmugam has worked in the Pharma/BioTech/Software industry spanning across three different continents in North America, Europe, Asia over the last 13 years. His expertise includes deployment of various Manufacturing IT GMP/GxP systems (MES, VLMS, Cloud based systems) across the various sites around the globe. Sathish has a strong focus on the innovation activitiesRead more

Roberto is a project engineer manager overseeing worldwide automation projects dedicated to new software implementations: MES, as electronic batch record, implementation at the chemical plant, on 17th of July, 2017; DCS, as distributed control system (Foxboro, Archestra), using virtualization technology; MES-DCS interfacing by means of OPC, ODBC and and API interfacing (in future web services)Read more