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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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.

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….