Yuri de Lugt is an accomplished Business and Sales professional with a passion for driving growth and innovation in international organizations. With extensive experience across various industries and roles, Yuri excels in identifying solutions that foster business success and customer satisfaction.
In his role as Global Field Marketing Director at Sapio Sciences,  collaborates closely with the Sapio team to expand the customer portfolio and ensure exceptional customer experiences.

Inés is now IT Delivery Manager for Operations and Scientific Applications in Esteve since 2022, where she has gained 18 years of experience in combining IT and business process knowledge, from IT Manager Scientific Software, IT Knowledge Management & Business Intelligence Manager to It Business Partner Chemistry.

Devendra is Head of Strategy, Product Management, Marketing & Partnerships for the Digital Solutions division of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Shaun is an experienced pharmaceutical research scientist specialising in Data Science & Process Analytical Technology. now working at Zontal as resales data scientist. Previously as senior scientist, process analytical technologies at Pfizer.

He is has a Master degree in biotechnology and bioengineering from the university of Kent, UK.

Graduated in Chemistry from the University of Pavia in 2016. After several years of experience as a Quality Control Laboratory Analyst in the pharmaceutical field, at the third-party laboratory LabAnalysis starting in
2016, and then at Lusochimica Lodi, a company of the Menarini Group. From 2020 she focused particularly on laboratory activities supporting the execution of analyses: instrumental and software qualifications, procedural writing, and method validation. Since May 2024, she has been Quality Control Delivery Specialist in the Corporate Menarini team.

Francesca hold the position of Head of Corporate Quality Control at the Menarini Group . Previously, she assumed the role of Chemical Lab Quality Control Manager in Italfarmaco, Milano plant. In the following years her career in the field of quality control advanced, first as QC Analytical Validation Manager and then as QC Manager for various companies, such as Roche Segrate, Farmila-Thea Settimo Milanese, Teva Nerviano.

Francesca graduated in Chemistry in Milano and obtained a doctorate in Organic Chemistry at the ETH in Zurich.

Frank is nowadays the Global R&D Program Lead Digitalisation at Roche Diagnostics. Previously Director Chemistry R&D Process Technologies with focus on process development and mid to large scale synthesis.

Previously project lead of eLN implementation.

Jean-Michel is a chemical and agricultural engineer who began his career in 1994 at the Walloon Agricultural Research Centre, working on problems combining microbiology and chromatography (detection of antibiotics in milk). He then went on to set up an analytical platform combining a number of techniques to serve his colleagues in agronomy and livestock farming, before joining the Valorization of agricultural products, biomass and wood Unit) as a senior scientist. Today’s research activities focus on cannabis

Since the lates 90´s, he is involved in the implementation and management of quality systems (ISO17025, GLP, ISO17043, …) within the various units.  Jean-Michel is involved in setting up a digital platform for the overall management of CRAW´s activities, whether in the form of certified or non-certified services, research activities or the management of plant and other collections.

Daniele Fraioli is QC Manager, part of Group Industrial Operations and  Pharma Manufacturing SPC Direction at the Recordati Milan plant.

Daniehe has more 25 years experience in the pharma regulated industry as quality control responsible.

Nessa  has a background in HTE and synthetic organic chemistry from pre-hit to process chemistry, and from experimental design and automated dosing through to full analysis and visualisation for rational, mechanism-driven reaction optimisation. She aims to inspire collaboration between diverse functional teams for mutual benefits. To this end, she is working regularly with other departments including IT, discovery sciences, sourcing, and others. Creating bespoke, interactive data visualizations to effectively communicate dependent variable (multi)parameter relationships. Coding in Python and R for automation of the boring stuff to free up scientists’ time. Working with SQL and Snowflake databases. Previously responsible for multiple CapEx projects and regular equipment management and maintenance. Worked in teams for several global projects, including in-house eLN, workflows for chemistry automation, and data architecture transformation.

Samantha is a Senior Enterprise Fellow at the University of Southampton, and a Pathfinder Lead on Process Recording for the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure Initiative. She is part of the AIChemy Hub Team (run out of Imperial College London and the University of Liverpool), working on process recording and data management, and also coordinate the Future Blood Testing Network run out of the University of Reading. She also sits on the Advisory Boards for the Machines Learning Chemistry Project at the University of Nottingham, and the Knowledger Project at the University of North Florida. I am also a regular columnist for the Lab Horizons Magazine, discussing important issues around process recording and FAIR data. Her key research areas are process recording, FAIR data, data stewardship and research data management, and semantic web technologies.

Gabriele Magaro’ is a Solutions Engineer at Sapio Sciences, helping Scientists streamline their workflows. Over the last 6 years he has been using his extensive experience gained in the lab within Drug Discovery programs to support organizations in getting more value out of their data and obtain results faster. Gabriele holds a master’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and has built up more than a decade of experience in Drug Discovery programs in CNS, inflammation and infectious diseases.

Alessio´job experience started in the laboratories where he liked to execute and innovate the analytical chemistry processes. He spent more than 20 years in SGS moving from lab technician, to manager for the Environmental laboratory business in Italy, to global technical manager for the same division, adding also the responsibility of business IT manager. When SGS started one of the most important IT program for the company, named “Digital Laboratory” Alessio had the role of Global Process Owner for the about 1.000 laboratories operating many sectors.

Gunnar Zoch is today the Master Data Lead Global LIMS at  Lonza Visp and previously Innovation Manager. Focus on digitalisation projects in the QC labs with automation support, ranging from lab planning software implementations, programming apps for everyday use to worldwide prototype robotic projects.

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….