SMi Group's 13th annual Pharmaceutical Cold Chain Distribution 2018 conference takes place in London this December

1. www.coldchain-distribution.com
Register online or fax your registration to +44 (0) 870 9090 712 or call +44 (0) 870 9090 711
CHAIRS FOR 2018:
• Bob Hayes, Director, SeerPharma (UK)
• Tony Wright, CEO, Exelsius
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
• Muhammad Azmat Khan, Sr. Manager Logistics & Export,
Getz Pharma Pvt Ltd.
• Didier Basseras, Vice President, Clinical Supply Chain
Operations Head, Sanofi-Aventis
• Francisco Rizzuto, Cargo Specialist, Manager for Europe,
IATA
• Henk Mulder, Head, Digital Cargo, IATA
• Marco Gaudesi, Pharmacist - GDP and Cold Chain
Referent, MSF
• Sue Lee, Director, Hexagon Supply Chain
• Dr Stephen Mitchell, Quality Lead Logistics Partnerships, GSK
• Gianne Olaes-Dénis, Supply Chain Quality Manager, Sanofi
Genzyme Europe
• Stefan Braun, Managing Director, SmartCAE
• Gianpiero Lorusso, Director, Supply Operations, Healthcare
Business of Merck
HIGHLIGHTS IN 2018:
• Evaluate the current GDP guidelines, with reference to
the recently published PQG/ECA guide and discover the
implications for everyday practise
• Explore the overwhelming digitalisation of the supply
chain and identify the subsequent security issues
involved
• Discover the temperature controlled logistic solutions to
best optimize your supply chain
• Discuss the technical agreements within the supply
chain and find out what questions you should be asking
• Identify the challenges for the supply chain within
emerging markets and discover the best solutions for
optimization of your process
10TH - 11TH
DEC
2018
COPTHORNE TARA HOTEL, LONDON, UK
Exploring the use of technologies to provide a highly
connected temperature-controlled logistics process,
whilst remaining GDP compliant
SMi Presents the 13th Annual Industry Leading Conference...
Cold Chain
Distribution
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2. Cold Chain Distribution
Day One | Monday 10th December 2018 www.coldchain-distribution.com
8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Tony Wright, CEO, Exelsius
OPENING ADDRESS / KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
9.10 Clinical supply chain: a new recognized R&D dimension
tackling R&D challenges and serving the patients
• How digital and data analytics are transforming our operating
models
• Track and trace challenges
• Differentiated service on a patient based approach
Didier Basseras, Vice President, Clinical Supply Chain Operations
Head, Sanofi-Aventis
REMAINING GDP COMPLIANT
SPOTLIGHT SESSION:
9.50 Exploring the recent PQG / ECA guide
to GDP
• Addressing the key points in the newly published guide
• What messages should you be taking home
• Investing and improving
Dr Stephen Mitchell, Quality & Compliance Manager, Global
Logistics, GSK
10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00 How can virtual cold chain management assist lane risk
assessments
• Concept of the virtual cold chain
• Some notes about temperature profiles
• Thermal simulation of passive and active containers and thermal
covers
• Case studies for virtual lane risk
Stefan Braun, Managing Director, SmartCAE
PANEL DISCUSSION:
11.40 What are the main challenges surrounding the regulatory
compliance of Cold Chain and where should pharma
companies be looking to invest?
• How updates to GDP guidelines look to effect everyday practise
throughout the supply chain
• How to ensure quality and validation throughout the supply chain
• Logistics coordination: engaging with 3PL providers to improve
visibility and efficiency throughout the supply chain whilst
remaining compliant to regulations
Moderator: Tony Wright, CEO, Exelsius
Panellists: Bob Hayes, Director, SeerPharma
Dr Stephen Mitchell, Quality Lead Logistics Partnerships, GSK
Francisco Rizzuto, Cargo Specialist, Manager for Europe, IATA
Sue Lee, Director, Hexagon Supply Chain
12.20 Networking Lunch
EXPLORING YOUR FREIGHT OPTIONS
SPOTLIGHT SESSION:
13.30 POSEIDON – A partnership approach to pharma ocean logistics
• Introducing the POSEIDON integrated supply chain model - the
structure and principles behind a world-class pharma cold chain
• Exploring Poseidon: re-engineering the pharma cold-chain
to create the first fully-integrated cold-chain in the arena of
pharma-logistics
• Exploring Poseidon: Re-writing the rules around pharma sea-
freight with the object of significantly improving the quality and
reliability of pharma freight by sea
• Exploring Poseidon: Pharma-manufacturer-driven and built on a
foundation of win-win team-work, supply-chain discipline, shared
risk, mutual strategic targets, focused effort, transparency and
continuous improvement
• Finding out the results: Poseidon recently conducted the largest-
ever pharma ocean-freight pilot exercise testing out different
protection systems, monitoring devices and container types
Alan Kennedy, Founder and Executive Director, Pharma TeamUp
14.10 How the air cargo industry is improving the handling of
pharmaceutical shipments
• Update on IATA’s pharma handling certification program CEIV
• A global industry standard and a concerted effort to
improve the level of competency, operational and technical
preparedness for temperature-sensitive air freight shipments
• Find out more about the IATA CEIV pharma certification
program, including how to approach the issue of pharma cargo
community collaboration and the present global status, plus
what the organization does, how it does it and why it does it
Francisco Rizzuto, Cargo Specialist, Manager for Europe, IATA
14.50 Afternoon Tea
15.20 A true comparison and assessment of each mode transport Air /
Sea / Road for Pharmaceuticals
• Current perception of the key modes of transport
• Comparison of each mode relating to security / temperature
control / monitoring
• Criteria selection for modal decision making
• Combining forecasting with long term planning and urgent
response methodology for optimal results
Sue Lee, Director, Hexagon Supply Chain
16.00 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
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SPONSORSHIP AND EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES
SMi offer sponsorship, exhibition, advertising and branding packages, uniquely tailored to complement your company’s marketing strategy. Prime
networking opportunities exist to entertain, enhance and expand your client base within the context of an independent discussion specific to your
industry. Should you wish to join the increasing number of companies benefiting from sponsoring our conferences please call:
Alia Malick on +44 (0) 20 7827 6168 or email: amalick@smi-online.co.uk
SmartCAE develops software specifically for temperature controlled logistics. Our Virtual Cold Chain is used worldwide from packaging to
logistics providers and pharmaceutical companies. The software helps you by reducing the number of expensive cold chamber tests to a
minimum, delivering realistic estimates of expected lane temperature conditions and simulating the risk for thousands of realistic temperature
scenarios for any packaging design and any lane, including thermal radiation from the sun or hot tarmac surfaces. You get the thermal lane
risk in a matter of hours, compared to traditional lab and field tests, that had required weeks and months of costly test shipments with limited
statistical relevance. This improve cold chain processes, minimize time to market, limit unnecessary waste, and reduce losses in the cold chain
due to temperature excursions. www.smartcae.de
Topa Thermal is a global leading innovator and supplier of thermal systems, designed to support the safe distribution of medicines, vaccines
and other life saving healthcare products for the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical industries and third party logistics. We provide a large
selection of thermal packaging components and the most comprehensive engineering and testing services available in the industry. Our
temperature assurance solutions keep your most valuable and sensitive products within a safe temperature range during transit. In our design
and ISTA™ testing laboratory, we engineer packaging solutions that works for you, meeting your challenges in terms of specific time and
temperature requirements. www.topathermal.com
Yourway Transport is a proven global industry leader in worldwide, pharma-specialist, premium transportation. We are dedicated to
providing our clients with best-in-class services and customer care in delivering the expertise and level of attention that our customers
demand. We look forward to continued collaboration with our many clients contributing to the overall success of all clinical programs
for which we provide shipping services. Yourway Transport Biopharma Services is the division of YT that specializes in clinical supplies
service solutions designed and delivered to increase the quality and efficiency of the clinical trial process. Our solutions include GMP
temperature controlled depot storage, packaging and labelling, distribution to sites, samples to lab, global ambient cold chain
temperature controlled logistics, QP release, returns and reconciliation for destruction. www.yourwaytransport.co.uk
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3. Cold Chain Distribution
www.coldchain-distribution.com Day Two | Tuesday 11th December 2018
8.30 Registration & Coffee
9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Bob Hayes, Director, SeerPharma
OPENING ADDRESS / KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
9.10 Preparing for a regulatory inspection – your questions
answered
• Exploring the types of regulatory inspection
• Key areas to focus on in preparation for a regulatory inspection
• Questions from the audience
• Future remarks
Nigel Cryer, Head of Compliance & Inspection Readiness, Sanofi*
INCREASING VISIBILITY & INTEGRITY WITHIN THE SUPPLY CHAIN
9.50 Technical Agreements
• Technical Agreements vs. Contracts
• The regulatory requirement for Technical Agreements
• Elements of a Technical Agreement
• Practical aspects – what questions should you ask?
Bob Hayes, Director, SeerPharma (UK)
10.30 Morning Coffee
11.00 Culture eats supply chains for breakfast
• An exploration into the role of culture in delivering supply chain
excellence
• Things to consider to create the right culture to deliver your
business objectives
Mark Blanchard, Director, Ocra Partnership Ltd.
PERFECTING TEMPERATURE CONTROL
11.40 Global Analysis and Management of Temperature Excursions
• Trending analysis of temperature excursion events
• Performing Root Cause Analysis and defining mitigation
programs based on risk prioritization
• Global approach to reducing temperature excursions
Gianne Olaes-Dénis, Supply Chain Quality Manager, Sanofi
Genzyme Europe
12.20 Networking Lunch
13.30 Pharmaceutical logistic challenges in the humanitarian aid, the
experience of MSF
• An insight into the challenges of ensuring an end-to-end
temperature-controlled supply chain with limited resources
• Addressing the security challenges faced by MSF in the
temperature-controlled supply chain
• Future strategies for prevention of temperature excursion in
challenging environments
Marco Gaudesi, Pharmacist - GDP and Cold Chain Referent, MSF
14.10 South Asia - Challenges in Pharmaceutical Temperature
Controlled Logistics
• Define the specific challenges in developing countries such as
India & Pakistan
• Discover how the lessons learned operating in these regions will
advance your global strategies
• Overcome challenges such as difficult infrastructure,
challenging bureaucracies, searing-hot temperatures and
limited transportation options
Muhammad Azmat Khan, Sr. Manager Logistics & Export,
Getz Pharma Pvt Ltd.
14.50 Afternoon Tea
FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN
15.20 Creation of an end-to-end digital logistics and transport supply
chain
• Exploring the transparent exchange of data for air cargo
stakeholders, communities and data platforms
• Clarifying what blockchain developments will mean for the air
cargo supply chain
• Future directions for digital cargo at IATA
Henk Mulder, Head, Digital Cargo, IATA
16.00 Digitalisation and automation in a supply operations environment
• Automation in warehouse
• Digital roadmap
• Mindset - approach
• Our experience
Gianpiero Lorusso, Director, Supply Operations, Healthcare
Business of Merck
16.40 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
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4. COLD CHAIN DISTRIBUTION
Conference: 10th -11th December 2018, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, UK
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