
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.

Everything you always wanted to know about Scientific Digital Data Management
The Paperless Lab Academy® is the ideal learning platform for all companies that own a laboratory, involved in running, consolidating, integrating or simplifying laboratory data management processes. Once again, we are setting the stage for discussions on strategies and implementation of 21st-century technologies in your laboratory. We work on an agile combination of future horizon views, already running in some industries, and tangible real cases on how to solve today’s concerns.
WHY COMING TO #PLA CONGRESS EDITIONS
- A unique occasion to liaise with the major providers of LIMS, ELN, LES & SDMS systems
- A unique showcase opportunity of innovative solutions
- Multiple sponsored workshops
- Outstanding opportunities for networking, interacting and learning
- Senior managers of international companies sharing experiences and strategies
- Free registration for attendees from companies that own a laboratory
- See how PLA2022India went 🙂
Sponsors of all editions
Speakers of all Indian Editions
Sreedhara Rao Abburu
Senior Deputy General Manager QC
Abburu Sreedhar Rao is a prolific quality control enthusiast with over 25 years of experience in quality control operations. He holds a Master of Science degree in Applied Chemistry and achieved a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry. With substantial knowledge of the regulatory guidelines and industry exposure, Sreedhar has successfully handled many regulatory inspections from different authorities around the globe. He plays a vital role in enhancing staff performance, developing/implementing new processes, and leading high-performing teams.
Sreedhar has vast experience on instrument calibration, software troubleshooting, LIMS implementation, and application software implementation. He is a versatile contributor to all quality control activities and release of API products. Having sound experience in gap analysis of computerized systems, he has also worked on CSV with consultants from global organizations.
Sreedhar worked for 25 years with Divi’s Laboratories Limited and had a key role in Analytical Method Development Support and Quality Control Operations. Now, he is all set to lead the Quality Control operations in Divi’s.
Rajesh Thempadiyil
Head Quality Digital Transformation
Rajesh T has over 20 years experience working in pharmaceutical industry. He has handled roles in his career namely, Quality Management Systems, Regulatory Compliance, Validation & Qualifications and Computerized System Validation with different organizations. In the current role he is responsible for Digital Transformation in Manufacturing and Quality Operations at Dr. Reddy’s and he is part of Digital & Process Excellence team. He is a core team member in the ISPE GAMP Good Practice Guide on “Data Integrity – Manufacturing Records” guide. He has authored chapters in the subjects of aseptic processing and Manufacturing Execution Systems. He is part of ISPE and acted as Co-Chair for GAMP India CoP. In ISPE he is working with SIG on Data Integrity, SIG on Pharma 4.0, SIG on Manufacturing Execution System and GAMP Awareness.
Pradeep Nagisetty
Sr. Director, India Vault Quality
Pradeep has over 18+ years of global experience in Healthcare-IT, Pharma-IT, Big-Data, Cloud, Analytics, Bioinformatics and Genomics Software & Technologies. He was fortunate to work and travel over 15+ countries and acquired a very diversified knowledge in working with leading and emerging Pharma, Biotech, F&B, Clinical and CRO’s companies.
Pradeep has a perfect blend of Science, Technology and Business education qualifications in Masters in Biotechnology, PG Diploma in Bioinformatics, MBA in International Business Management and Executive leadership program from National University of Singapore.
Pradeep is currently on a new mission in bringing the Veeva – World largest Cloud Life Science Platform to India. He is assisting Indian Life Science companies to adopt and be successful in their Digital Quality Transformation initiatives. Prior to joining Veeva, Pradeep was the Country Manager for Abbott Informatics – STARLIMS business unit in India and South APAC and helped more than 25+ customers in choosing and adopting the right Quality & Lab automation solutions.
Pradeep is happy to share his experience in Lab-automation and Unified Quality and Cloud adoption concepts in the PLA, India edition
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.
Basha Kodidela
BIOVIA Senior Manager, Technical Sales, APAC
Mr. Basha KODIDELA is closely working with the Pharmaceutical industry understanding their needs and delivering consultative Technical Sales and Professional Services for the enterprise applications that could drive Productivity, IP protection, Quality Assurance across the divisions in a Pharmaceutical company from early Research to Development and Manufacturing.
By education, he is a Biochemist and Bio-Informatician with more than 17 years of experience in closely working with Life Sciences organizations.
He is working with Dassault Systemes, BIOVIA as Senior Manager – Technical Sales APAC, adept at the workflows in the Pharmaceutical labs. He enjoys exercising customer-facing & communication skills while closely working with international teams, leveraging global industry best practices for the benefit of his customers.

Rajasekhar Gollapinni
Head-Global Delivery
Rajasekhar is a seasoned lab informatics leader with 20 years of extensive work in various functions at world-class companies in pharma, petroleum, refining, and life sciences domain. He is well experienced with the quality control procedures and processes of regulated companies. He currently heads Product Excellence for the Lab portfolio of Caliber’s products. His expertise in lab operations, quality systems, and processes help him in developing and continuously improving Caliber’s offerings in the lab domain. His interests include team building through fun-based activities like acting and sports.
Dinesh Bellur Srinivasa
Director- Solution Engineering
Dinesh has over 25 years of experience in the Life Science industry with extensive experience in Life Science practice management, Solution consulting, System Integration and Implementation, System validation, Data migration, Data Analytics, Quality management, Change management, Program budget and Risk Management, Program management, Sales enablement, GAMP Guidelines, 21 CFR Part 11 Rules, Quality 4.0, Safety Guidelines and Regulations.
Dinesh has expertise in implementing solutions for Life science, Pharmacovigilance and Healthcare vertical on both on-premise and cloud. Helped Pharma, Medical Devices, CRO and Healthcare customers to achieve their vision on creating business value via transforming and transitioning of the internal systems and processes. Has led several enterprise quality management initiatives.
At Sparta Systems, helping customers to implement the enterprise quality management system. Before joining Sparta Dinesh had worked at Oracle India, ArisGlobal Software Pvt. Ltd., IIs Infotech, MICO (Robert Bosch) and National Aeronautics Laboratory
Sanjay Nandavadekar
Director IT
Passionate Information Technology executive with more than 20 years of experience in the Manufacturing – Pharmaceutical industry. Strategic leadership and certified skills in managing IT strategy, business process optimization, and cross-functional team. His experience in SDLC have helped organizations achieve greater automation, efficiency improvements, and technology leadership using technology as a catalyst. Sanjay has a proven track of leadership expertise in managing large enterprise projects targeted for process improvement, compliance, and greater ROI. His business relations with the vendor ecosystem and peer CIO network are helping him to stay abreast of technology trends. Sanjay is leading a portfolio of implementing cutting-edge technologies like Industry 4.0 AI, IoT, RPA, Chatbot, NLP, BI, and Cloud
Karthic Sreenivasan
Product Delivery Manager
Karthic Sreenivasan, Product Delivery Manager with the Lonza Informatics Team.
He holds a master’s degree in Microbiology and has 14 years of experience in the industry.
He is currently with Lonza Informatics supporting biopharma organizations to implement their digital strategies with the MODA® Platform. As a product delivery manager for the MODA® Platform, he has supported organizations in India to implement and manage MODA® Solutions successfully.
Karthic is based out of Hyderabad, India.
Sekhar Surabhi
President and CEO
Sekhar Surabhi is the Founder of Caliber Technologies, one of the leading IT solution providers for regulated industries. Sekhar’s passion is to create simple solutions for complex problems. This has been his driving force behind envisioning a path–defining Integrated Quality Management model with Caliber’s product suite.
Prior to founding Caliber, Sekhar worked extensively in analytical instrumentation and pharmaceutical core testing in senior leadership roles. He specializes in managing the integrity of critical applications in highly regulated environments.
Sergio Nasi
Head of Global Laboratory Execution
Sergio has been in the laboratory informatics business since year 2000 and worked predominantly in the Laboratory Information Management Systems domain ever since, in several companies and under various roles: developer, consultant, business analyst, project manager and team lead. Having a passion for cats and technology, Sergio thinks that an innovation-driven pharmaceutical corporation and top player in the Animal Health business just seems the right place to be.
Raj Nandhan
Director, Quality & Compliance
Quality Assurance specialist with around 20 years of experience in the software, manufacturing (Medical Devices) and Life Sciences (Pharmaceutical) industries – background includes both technical & management roles.
Direct involvement in defining, managing and validating AI/ML based software in GxP / regulated space.
Expertise in Computer System Validation activities under GxP guidelines, leading large validation teams.
Expertise and skills in rolling out / performing process improvements, automation, test management and cloud infrastructure validation
Extensive experience in defining, implementing, improving and managing processes based on the GAMP5, CMMI model, HITRUST CSF, ISO standards (ISO 9001, ISO 13485 &
ISO 14971) and 21 CFR (part 11 & 820) for multinational organizations.
Neeru Bakshi
Founder
Regulatory and technical software is nothing without a team of data and science experts at its core. Neeru is one of those ultra-valuable veteran data experts that digs into the nitty gritty of regulations, guidelines, and systems and makes sure the organization is up to date and on track with any new technical developments in QA, validation or any other industry standards.
Neeru Bakshi has more than with 20 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical and Life Sciences domain. She worked as Validation/QA Lead, Project Manager/Lead, and as Business Analyst for various cloud solutions and systems such as Oracle Life Sciences Applications for Clinical Trails, SAP, GLP systems, Electronic Submissions, Pharmacovigilance Systems…
Manish Kumar
Head of Enterprise Architecture
Mannish is a Life Science and Healthcare Technology leader with wide experience in transforming the IT and aligning the technology elements to the business roadmap. worked with fortune 100 tech companies, and start-up business.
Manish has experiences in handling complex technology transformational programs with effective strategies in the area of Enterprise Architecture, Product Engineering, Technology modernisation, and Enterprise data strategy. Has differentiated himself by building Product. Platform and Solutions strategies around customer-first, feature-driven rollouts, and data agnostic tech stack.
Sachin Bhandari
Corporate Quality IT Head
Sachin is a Seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in Pharmaceutical and healthcare compliance
domain with wide experience in GXP, 21 CFR part 11, Annex -11, GAMP 5 compliance (Validation and Quality). He has
primarily worked in in Validation activities related to Quality systems, Lab Systems Validation, IT Infrastructure
Validation, and Supply chain Validation, Quality systems and service desk compliance. He currently leads a Pharma
Generics Major where is driving paperless initiatives, implementation of technological innovations to improve the
quality and compliance.
Sachin is Chairman of ISPE GAMP steering committee India Chapter and is prominent speaker at various forums and seminars.
Louis Hendriks
Founder and CEO
Louis Hendriks is Founder and CEO of Global Value Web (GVW). His mantra for GVW and for his clients is ‘Executing for Today. Organizing for Tomorrow’. Through his 30+ years of experience in global Business Process Services, Louis brings to GVW a deep understanding of partnering in global networks, delivering competitive value to clients. Louis has in-depth experience in the Health / Life Sciences industry, as well as the Energy Industry.
Through GVW, Louis continually looks to improve the quality of various value chain data areas, including the Laboratory domain, for its global clients thus helping multinationals to operate Global Value Chains, in compliance with regulations, effectively, efficiently and resilient for the best value outcome possible.
Prior to starting Global Value Web in 2006, Louis has driven many value chain improvement and integrations for various global companies. Louis has successfully designed, sold and implemented remote managed services (BPO) for Capgemini’s customers such as Dow Corning, Zurich Financial Services, Laurastar, Eneco, etc.
Gunnar Danielson
Head of Global Software Solutions
Gunnar Danielson is Head of Global Software Solutions and LabX Consulting at Mettler-Toledo GmbH.
Data Governance and Data Integrity is the focus for him and the global software solutions team that he leads. Integrating benchtop instruments into the lab ecosystem has been his focus and removing paper along the way, the goal. He and his team focus on solutions for Data Integrity, workflow guidance and efficiencies. His team provides consulting,
Rik Pepermans
IT Innovation Lead, R&D IT Evangelist
Bridging the worlds of R&D and IT for global programmes that transform the way science is done in Unilever R&D, like enabling eScience.
Key topics were introducing the use of an ELN to capture exploratory research, creating a repository of scientific data for modelling, and computer simulations of products. Now consultant and founder of Rik Pepermans Consulting
Mark Gonzalez
Technical Director
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…
Mark Newton
Principal
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 …
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….
Andreas Steinle
Manager Digital Solution
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…
Nicolas Argento
ELN/LIMS services manager
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…
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Hyderabad, Telangana
WHERE:
The Westin Hyderabad Mindspace
Raheja It Park Hitec City, Madhapur, Hyderabad, Telangana 500081, India
WHEN:
PLA2023 India will begin at 09:00 on 10 October 2023 until 16:30 on 11 October 2023.
The check-in desk for the event will be open from 16:00 to 20:00 on 09 October and from 08:00 am on 10 October .
EVENT BADGE IS REQUIRED AT ALL SESSIONS