PLA2021, 8^th European Edition: Master your eData Lifecycle

Steve DeCabooter is leading Gilson’s global connected products business unit. In his time at Gilson, he has been a technical leader of their automated software and instrumentation. Steve has a diverse background in wireless and connectivity solutions from past positions in cellular with Motorola and automotive telematics with Continental AG…

Barry is a Managing Director based in Dublin, Ireland and leads Accenture’s Digital Manufacturing and Quality offering for life sciences in Europe. He has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and holds a PhD in Genetics from the University of Vienna.

Haydn has over 20 years’ experience in marketing and business development within the life scientific sector, he has a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Nottingham, UK.

Ismail Ijjaali received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Henri-Poincaré University, Nancy, France. After his post-doctoral fellowship at Northwestern University Chicago and a diploma in Computational Chemistry, Ismail spent 8 years at Aureus Sciences (now part of Elsevier) where he was involved in consulting activities for their chemical/biological knowledge databases and managing several funded European projects in drug discovery. Ismail joined PerkinElmer in 2012 as part of our Regional Marketing team working on Chemistry Enterprise solutions and Analytics. Currently, Ismail holds the position as Director of the EMEAI Field Application Scientist team.

Patrick Ansems received his BS.c in Microbiology from the University of Applied Sciences, Etten–Leur, Netherlands. Following his studies , he joined Unilever R&D Vlaardingen where he worked for 7 years in the Molecular Aspects of Health Department where he was responsible for the development and screening of food related compounds in a variety of GPCR related assays…

Graham has been involved in Laboratory Informatics for more than 25 years. Sales Manager Life Sciences for LabWare Ltd, for  the UK and Ireland. After initially starting life in the Analytical Instrumentation arena, Graham joined Thermo LabSystems where he had responsible for CDS and LIMS, from there moving to LabVantage and IDBS…

Technical Director for LabWare’s European operations and also responsible for LabWare’s Nordic organisation. He has been involved in Laboratory Informatics for over 30 years. Mark moved over to the vendor side of LIMS, after a few years working as a LIMS Administrator…

Tomás holds a Ph.D. in Neurosciences with over a dozen papers published in the area of Parkinson’s disease. Having spent over seven years in the lab, he experienced the impact that a digital ecosystem has on laboratory productivity and research integrity.

Simon is a molecular biologist by training and a serial entrepreneur. After obtaining his Ph.D. from the Max-Planck-Institute of Experimental Medicine he worked as a strategy consultant, founded an e-commerce startup, and exited it in 2013. He is one of the founders of Labforward and CEO of the company…

Frederik has over 25 years of experience in lab systems, including program managing major LIMS roll-outs at various global enterprises.

When he joined Bluecrux in 2017, his expertise and business development skills significantly boosted the commercial success of Binocs.

Research Scientist at the University of Münster, specializing on analyzing big OMICS data sets with Bioinformatics and Data Science methods. After obtaining his PhD, Andreas left academia to join Abbott Informatics. Andreas has worked for Abbott Informatics in various roles, including contributions to product development…

Anahita has 8 years of experience in the Laboratory Automation industry. She holds a Masters degree in Analytical Chemistry and her first job out of university was with a large LIMS provider. Anahita has experience working as deployment consultant, software validation, senior consultant, Service Delivery Manager and as of 2018 she has worked as a LIMS/ELN product specialist

Rob was a Quality Control microbiologist for 10 years in pharma before transitioning to the laboratory informatics space. He has run and supported implementations and validations of software at numerous organizations globally and now heads the delivery team for the MODA EM solution.

Graduated in Electronic Engineer (Master) in 1985, he attended some courses about AI at MIT in Boston and also a Master in Business Administration (MBA) at Politecnico di Milano.
From 1985 to 2000, he worked as an automation and process instrumentation engineer for chemical and pharmaceutical plants in international environments.
Since 2000, he is a Computerized System Validation Engineer and partner of Adeodata.
He is an active member of GAMP Italia group and ISPE since 1992.

Scrum Master, Agile Coach, IT Consultant and since 2011 Co-Moderator of the non profit Swiss ICT event series: “Agile Breakfast Basel”. Since several years Mathias is engaged in all kinds of agile topics. Especially the reasons for success and failure of agile transitions is a major field of investigation and interest of Mathias…

Evelyne is working for more than 20 years in regulated environments and is acting since 2005 as Project Manager and Validation Lead in IT projects. Evelyne successfully implemented and validated many systems, mainly in QA/QC/Manufacturing. For many years, Evelyne is looking into optimisation of validation strategies and documentation standards…

Jenna has 10 year experience in the pharmaceutical industry as a scientist to now a quality control specialist supervisor at GSK, Philadelphia. She previously worked at PPD as scientist, project manager and then associate group leader. BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and MS in Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance…

Jernej Grmaš is a Project Manager at Sandoz Development Center Ljubljana, a division of Novartis group developing generic pharmaceutical products. After graduation, he joined Sandoz in 2008 as a scientist in Analytical Development, becoming involved in the development of nasal spray products, a topic on which he completed his PhD study at University of Ljubljana in 2019…

Jeff is IntelliSyn’s Founder and Director.  Over 20 years’ experience in Medicinal Chemistry at AstraZeneca at the US and in Canada.  He served as Section Head in the Lead Discovery Department and as Project Leader in the Neuroscience Department.  His teams have successfully delivered 4 drugs into clinical development, two of which are currently in Ph-3…

Mark is an independent consultant who specialises in data integrity, laboratory informatics, computer systems validation, and Quality. He has 35 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in QC Labs, computer systems validation and lab informatics at Eli Lilly. Mark co-lead Eli Lilly’s data integrity remediation program for QC Laboratories worldwide …

An analytical chemist with 50 years of experience, including working in the pharmaceutical industry for 15 years and afterward working for the industry as a consultant for 29 years. Bob has been involved with the automation of laboratories since 1980 and has over 35 years experience of validation of computerized systems and is the author of a book on the validation of chromatography data systems. His latest book is Data Integrity and Data Governance….

Lloyd F. Colegrove retired as the Director of Data Services and the Director of Fundamental Problem Solving, where top chemists and engineers work on complex, often multi-effect, plant problems. He focused his efforts working to establish the Data Services group that has developed and deployed novel analytics applications to improve data-based decision making in chemical operations. These efforts have been recognized with many industry awards. Lloyd consults on real time analytics, artificial intelligence in the chemical industry, and process improvement strategies

He was also the Analytics Platform Director for Dow’s Manufacturing and Engineering’s Industry 4.0 program. background is in Chemical Physics, B.S. and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.

Andreas Steinle is accountable for digital transformation in the analytic department of Roche Pharmaceuticals Technical Development Europa since early 2018. Andreas was head of the group “Analytical Systems” with the responsibility for support of validation of analytical systems, integration into enterprise systems and the representation to health authorities…

David  is graduated in molecular biology, biochemistry, and bioinformatics. He has over 20 years of experience in scientific IT projects in biology, chemistry, logistic, and genomics domains. David joined the R&D of Sanofi company where he has been involved in various scientific projects and co-led activities of the Research & Early Development Data Platform…

Stéphane joined DEXSTR in early 2018 and manages the company’s Consulting team composed of Solution Engineers and Solution Architects. Formerly, Stéphane served as Engagement & Project Manager at PTC for 6 years. He also held Project Management positions in pharmaceutical industries at Pierre Fabre & Sanofi for more than 9 years…

Stephen Hayward is a PhD in Chemical Engineering, with a background in laboratory informatics, chemical modeling, and environmental analysis. Originally from Toronto, Canada, he currently leads product marketing efforts for informatics solutions at Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA in San Diego…

Boris graduated in Molecular Biology with a PhD. His research focused on chromosome segregation in yeast cells. In his current position as Business Development Manager at Eppendorf AG, he is responsible for establishing new business models as well as supporting customers charting their way into the digital lab. Before joining Eppendorf, Boris worked as Sales Manager for Analytik Jena AG. In his private life Boris is a huge fan of the smart home movement and truly believes that the lab of the future will evolve into a smart ecosystem.

Ann-Claire holds a degree in Int. Business Administration and gained many years of experience in the medical industry. In her current position as Global Marketing Manager at Eppendorf AG, she is responsible for building partnerships and managing the going-to-market activities for Eppendorf Digital Lab Solutions…

Sofie works for the Dutch Data Protection Authority. In her position as senior supervision officer she focuses on privacy in the healthcare sector. Before joining the Dutch Data Protection Authority, Sofie has gained broad experience dealing with various kinds of legal issues in both profit and non-profit environments…

Roberto considers himself a modern leader able to connect and to everyone at different level of the organisation. Very determined in achieving a mature lean status where Continuous Improvement is part of site’s day life. He is promoting  the culture of continuous improvement into the site making the change sustainable and effective…

About  20 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical field, FDA regulated. 10 years in leadership roles: Quality assurance manager, Quality Compliance Manager, Quality Control Manager in the pharma services at Patheon and now at Esseco. Enthusiastic manager who is recognised leader in driving Quality Culture and motivate teams to be best in class…

Nicolas has transformed an ELN/LIMS project into a core service, serving the research laboratories and technology platforms in an academic life sciences research institute. Focused on the added value for scientists and laboratory staff, he coordinated 55 LIMS implementations in a wide variety of laboratories…

Master Science in Chemical Engineering  from Mississipi State University and MBA from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business. Vijay started his career as project manager at Boehringer Ingelheim before moving to Novartis. At Novartis, Vijay has pursue then a pathway to Director/Principal Fellow, Technical R&D, becoming Global Head of Analytical R&D…