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Everything you always wanted to know about Scientific Digital Data Management
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 Indian Chapter
Deepak Magoo
Head digital application development
Deepak Mango 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 has 22+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs and Compliance predominantly in API. Hands on experience in developing and leading functions for Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs and Digital Automation.
His Keywords are: Quality Systems; Regulatory Audits; Qualification and Validations, Failure Investigations, Expansions, Drug Master File Submission in Europe, US, Canada, Japan, ROW, Life Cycle and Change Management-Product/ Process/Documents, Team Management.
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.
Dinu Abraham
Head Tech Apps Pharma R&D and Quality
Dinu offers over 17 years of thought leadership expertise in effectively partnering with the business, stakeholders, and product development team to manage large-scale Global IT Transformation / Digitization Programs in Highly Regulated Environments– Implementation of GxP Applications, IT Business Applications (cGMP / GxP Software, SOX & other commercials applications) Portfolio Management, CSV Lifecycle / Program Quality Management, Business Process Re-engineering, QC Lab & Mfg. Shop floor Automation, Setting up of CoE, Product Development/Enhancement. Dinu has also successfully led some of the Strategic GxP Automation & IT Programs
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….
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.
Registrations now open soon.
Take advantage of the super early bird discount
WHY COMING TO THE #PLA CONFERENCE
- A 2-day conference on transformation strategies, data master plan, data management, data lifecycle, data and always data!
- A 2-day conference where you can learn from industry leaders and executives from international companies who share their experiences and strategies
- A content-rich, non-commercial plenary session
- Several interactive, sponsored workshops
- Excellent opportunities to network, interact and learn
- A unique opportunity to connect with key software and service solution providers
- A unique opportunity to showcase innovative solutions
- See how PLA® Conference India went 🙂
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On-site parking available
WHEN:
PLA2024INDIA starts on October 15 2024, 09:00 am to October 16 2024, 17:30 pm.
Event Checkin desk opens from 08:30 on October 15, 224
Welcome Reception is planned right after the event on October 15, 2024
EVENT BADGE IS REQUIRED AT ALL SESSIONS