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The PLA® Conference offers a program that provide insights into data management, digital laboratory transformation in addition to sharing real-world stories.
The PLA always draws attention to the key success factors for the realisation of DX initiatives:
- Embrace the potential of technologies
- Drive innovation by shifting people mindset from application-orientated to digital
- Enable connectivity and automation for seamless access to data
- Navigate the products that the lab informatics industry offers today
- Build on a vision of collaboration and partnerships with vendors
- Registrations for visitors at reduced price
Speakers and Panellists of PLA2024 India Chapter
Mahendra Patel
Ass. General Manager Bioanalytical Research
Mr. Mahendra serves as a Bioanalytical Scientist at Veeda Clinical Research Ltd. In his role, he acts as the QC/QA Scientific and Technical Lead for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies. His responsibilities include establishing
QC/QA processes for the bioanalytical assays, ensuring adherence to both scientific and regulatory standards. Seasoned Expert with over 18 years of experience in regulated bioanalysis.
Currently, leading various range of Lab Automation Projects with a focus on integrating and optimizing systems such as analytical software, LIMS, SDMS, ELN, and LES.
Khushbu Gupta
Senior IT product Manager
Ms Gupta is heading up LABs DD & IT @ GBS, accountable for all global IT Systems/Solutions used in Labs across Novo Nordisk. She has been working with Novo Nordisk since 2016 . She has led and established diverse teams in QMS and Digitalization. Her education is in Pharma and Business Management from Narsee Monji Institute of Management Studies, Pune. Ms Gupta lives in Bangalore, India with her husband and daughter, originally from Northern part of India.
Reza Peyghami
Senior IT Systems Architect Digital & Data
Over the 25 years of his career, Reza has held various positions in the IT sector, including roles in IT administration, project management, service management, systems & compliance management and solution Architect. His involvement in Pharma industry and QC laboratories has encompassed the design, implementation, and enhancement of diverse platforms and digitalization technologies at NovoNordisk. Reza obtained a BS in Computer Hardware Engineering from Azad University in Tehran, Iran, and an MS in IT Engineering with a focus on E-Commerce from Shiraz University in Iran.
J Sooriya Kumar
Associate Director AI & Informatics
Dr Sooriya Kumar believes in digital transformation and committed to bringing more value to the customers and stakeholders. He develops AI models for drug discovery with 19 years of data analytics experience in drug discovery research. He has built and deploy AI infrastructure at scale for drug discovery vertical from the flinch. He is also involved in health care AI start-up’s technology evaluation for investments and early adaptation for digital transformation.
Deepak Magoo
Head digital application development
Deepak Magoo is today Head digital application developmental at Aragen Life Sciences
Experienced in Technical architecture, design and development primarily using Microsoft platform & .NET technologies. Certified as Senior Technical Architect under Accenture Master Technology Architect program, IT Architect from IASA and Microsoft certified enterprise application developer
Worked in Pharmaceutical, Energy (upstream & midstream), Ecommerce, Banking and telecommunication industry domains.
I am a highly motivated, initiative-taking, value driven collaborative person with impactful communication and win-win leadership skills.
Burkhard Schaefer
SiLA Board Member, AnIML Task Group Lead
Burkhard Schaefer has been active in the lab informatics community for over 25 years. He is a member of the SiLA Board of Directors and leads the AnIML Task Group at ASTM, and SLAS Fellow. Burkhard earned his computer science diploma at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, and the University of New Mexico. Burkhard held various positions in data management organizations at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NIST, co-founder of BSSN Software, head of core technologies and partnering at MilliporeSigma, and now managing director of Splashlake.
Yashodhara Pawar
Global Head, Digital Technology Solutions, R&D
Yashodhara Pawar “YP” is a Chemical Engineer and has worked across Product Design for Unilever’s Beauty and Personal Care Products and now heads the development and deployment of digital technologies globally across Unilever R&D.
Debabrata Sanyal
Corporate Quality Assurance – Group Head Digital Automation
Debabrata Sanyal is Senior General Manager in Corporate Quality Assurance in MSN Laboratories. He brings 23 years of experience in the diversified field of Quality Management and Regulatory Affairs. Debabrata has previously worked for organisations like Torrent Research, Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Aurobindo Research and MSN Laboratories. Assenting with his diversified work experience for various areas, Debabrata in his current tenure ensures organisation goal on designing and navigating the transformation of long term digitisation and automation targets into processes and solutions.
Saravanan Ilangovan
Associate Director Global Lab Informatics
Saravanan has 19 years of experience in pharmaceutical digitalization, at the forefront of driving digital innovation and transformation within the industry. Saravanan’s journey began with a strong foundation in technology and a deep understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities within the pharmaceutical landscape.
Saravanan has successfully led and implemented a wide range of large-scale digital initiatives across the pharmaceutical industry in India and EMEA, which includes Scientific Data Mining, Electronic Laboratory Notebook (GXP / cGMP), Compound Management, Inventory Management, Instrument Management, SDMS, and Legacy Data Migration with the adoption to latest technologies trending in the Industries. Saravanan’s expertise extends to areas such as process mining, supply chain digitalization, and regulatory compliance.
Chandra Sai Dusanapudi
Head- Information Technology & OpEx
Chandra Sai D has 18 years of experience in the GxP domain. and has worked in IT operations, Digitalization, IT Compliance, CSV and Quality.
He has also published different articles on Digital transformation, GxP cloud services and other related topics. He is currently working as Head- Information Technology & OpEx at Flamingo Pharmaceutical Ltd.
Raj Kumar Patra
Group Product Head – Quality & EHS/Supply
Raj comes with close to 2 decades of industry& technology experience across Lifesciencesand CPG industries spanning R&D and Labs.He has led several large and complexbusiness digital transformations spanningCloud, Data and SaaS adoption. Currently he leads the product groups across Quality andSupply at Reckitt and is helping drive multiple value based initiatives.
Antima Gupta
Application Scientist
Antima Gupta is an Application Scientist in the Customer Engagement team at Collaborative Drug Discovery based in the UK.
Before joining CDD, she worked as a Biological Scientist for a hit-to-lead drug discovery project and used CDD Vault at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/Salvensis, UK. She received her PhD in Molecular Microbiology and further contributed in science through her research as a UNESCO-L’Oréal International Young Women Scientist. During her 10 years research career, she focused on multiple drug discovery projects related to neglected tropical diseases.
Bob McDowall
Director
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….
Also, do not miss the Workshops included in the Program
Reasons to attend
- A 2-day conference about digital lab transformation strategies and enhancing your company digital mindset
- A 2-day conference about listening, learning, interacting with industry leaders and executives from international companies who share their strategies, experiences and best practices
- A content-rich, non-commercial plenary session
- Multiple interactive workshops and panel discussions
- Excellent opportunities to network, interact and learn
- A unique opportunity to connect with key software and service solution providers
- Low entry price registrations for visitors
Reasons to sponsor
- Solid international reputation
- Showcase for Laboratory Informatics solutions and services providers
- 90% of attendees involved in a digitalisation project
- 80% of attendees with budget allocated
- 75% of attendees actively looking for new solutions
- Multiple Open Networking Sessions
- Possibilities to own and lead your one-hour workshop with your own format: product intro session, round table discussion...
- Active promotions of our partners activities through the WW PLA community
- Collaboration for additional marketing activities along the year
- See how PLA® Conference India went 🙂

Plenary session of rich-content
The plenary session is composed of presentations from digital transformation project leaders, final users, though leaders of the industry, matter experts keynote speakers from the industry sharing their experience and project status. We actively work to avoid commercial content in this session. We are articulating an agenda to ease active and interactive discussions.

Product Deep Dive Workshops
Several breakdown sessions are organised for our sponsors, where they present their latest industry news in a one-hour open session. As subject matter experts, they will bring their latest solutions (products and/or services) and share with you their experience and knowledge to support your specific needs.

Networking with the Experts
The Paperless Lab Academy® brings together several solution providers in the exhibition hall and offers you a good overview of current and future trends. An excellent combination of well-known international suppliers in the laboratory informatics industry and new companies coming up with new innovative proposals. A true showcase space with quality networking opportunities to gather deeper information with peers, colleagues, presenters and vendors.

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Welcome Reception is planned right after the event on October 15, 2024
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