Quality Management Specialist at Institut Pasteur & Research Assistant Professor at Algiers University

Dr Meriem HEDIBEL, 35 years old, assistant professor at the University of Algiers. After completing her post-graduation studies in 2012, she began her career in the Ministry of Health at the Pharmaceuticals’s Directorate where she was in charge of investment projects, managing pharmacovigilance activity, and drafting regulatory framework related to pharmaceuticals. In 2015, she started teaching pharmaceutical technology at the pharmacy department at the university, she, then joined Pasteur Institute of algeria where she held the feeling-packaging department head position. In 2017 she returned to the Ministry of Health, where she served as the deputy director of hospital pharmacy. 

Talk title: Pricing Dilemma

Compliance section Head at Agon Academy

With over +12 years of experience in cGMP, improving quality management systems, and providing large-scale on-site support to meet the recent standards and global trends, Ayat Alkhatib is capable of solving problems using various engineering and analytical criteria which all together make her an essential strong member at Agon. Eng. Ayat AlKhatib is an experienced project manager with an established history of working in the pharmaceutical industry. During her career, she has honed her skills in Quality management systems, Quality Auditing, Validation, and project management professional. SQA associate as senior lead auditor. 

Talk title: Business Continuity Plan – A practical Approach for the upcoming crisis

Visionary Tech-Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Qualifyze

Florian Hildebrand is a visionary Tech-Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Qualifyze, an online platform for supplier audits. During the COVID pandemic, he helped to double the company to over 35 employees, made seven-digit annual revenue, and created a global customer base. Especially during the pandemic, with their global approach, Qualifyze was able to help pharmaceutical companies to keep their critical drug supply intact to deliver medicine to patients globally.

Talk title: Leadership lessons shifting mindset and rebounding from adversity in a crisis

Operations Director Europe & CIS Region – PQE Group

Roberto Bertini has more than 20 years’ experience long career in Computerised Systems Validation and Data Integrity assurance. He graduated in Physics at the University of “La Sapienza” in Rome, and he joined PQE in 2000. He is currently Operations Director at PQE for Europe and CIS Regions, where he is leading the service delivery related to the Business Lines for Data Integrity Assurance. He has managed the validation process of most common Computerised Systems used in the Life Science environment (e.g. ERP, MES, LIMS, WMS, Lab Systems, PCS, Serialization domain) and he has supported the implementation of Quality Management Systems for the IT governance. 

Talk title: Data Integrity Roadmap

Talk title: EU Accreditation (challenges, needs, and benefits)

Head of PV Centre at Jordan Food & Drug administration

Dr Bawaresh currently is the Head of Rational Drug Use and Pharmacovigilance Department at Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA). Dr Bawaresh worked in both the private and governmental sectors as a private pharmacist and hospital pharmacist, respectively. She started to work within the JFDA Pharmacovigilance Department in 2001. Dr Bawaresh has been working actively to promote the concept of pharmacovigilance within industrial companies and to motivate reporting of adverse drug reactions among healthcare providers (HCP) in Jordan.

Talk title: Pharmacovigilance and drug safety/Fraudulent activity.

Professor at the Viennese Academy of Occupational Medicine and Prevention

Andreas Flückiger is an Occupational Toxicology and Containment for the Pharmaceutical Industry consultant & Professor at the Viennese Academy of Occupational Medicine and Prevention. He was previously the Chief Occupational Health Officer, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd at Basel, responsible for occupational health and health promotion at the global level: risk assessments at the workplaces, occupational toxicology, setting health-based limit values for the workplace, and GMP cleaning, occupational medicine, occupational hygiene, radiation protection, biological safety, ergonomics, health promotion, etc.

Talk title: Manufacturing of Hazardous Products

Managing Director at Taman & Associates

Following her study at Westfaelische Wilhelms University in Germany, Fatma Taman has completed her Pharmacy study at Istanbul University. She has 28 years of experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing and management. Last one year as Chief Technical Officer of a Jordanian company MS Pharma for 4 plants in 3 countries in the MENA region, beforehand 6 years as General Manager of PharmaVision in Istanbul, Turkey. She also served as Site Director in total 10 years, at IE - Menarini Turkey, Eczacıbası -Zentiva, and Abdi İbrahim. 

Talk title: The critically needed infrastructure for the pharmaceutical industry

Talk title: Shifting from local distribution strategy to export strategy 

Regional Regulatory and Intelligence Director at The Arab Drugstore Company

Rima Nsheiwat, is a pharmacist with 15 years of experience in regulatory activities in pharma industry. Through her career in the Arab Drugstore-Jordan, she successfully established and managed different operational departments such as supply chain, quality compliance, in addition to regulatory and intelligence department. Moreover, she was part of the teams responsible for revision of JFDA regulations, in addition to her active participation in many workshops and conferences. Her passion and dedication, along with her two master degrees (Public health and MBA), supported her remarkable achievements in different regulatory scopes. 

Talk title: Products registration cycle

Jr. Manager, International Sales at Kevision Systems Pvt. Ltd; India

Mr. Ayush Nag the  Jr. Manager of International Sales Kevision Systems Pvt. Ltd; India. He is a Mechanical Engineer with 4+ years of experience in the African pharmaceutical machinery sales.

Talk title: Dry Granulation in Oral Solid Dosage Processing & SERIALISATION: Prioritizing Consumer Safety & Driving Business Value

Industry Science Responsible, Azierta

Talk title: Risk-Based cleaning validation

Sr. Manager, International Sales, at Kevin Process Technologies Pvt. Ltd; India

Mr. Parth Chokshi, is the Sr. Manager of International Sales at Kevin Process Technologies Pvt. Ltd; India. Parth is an MBA graduate with over 25 years of work experience and having 11 years of experience in the internatioanl pharmaceutical machinery sales.

Talk title: Dry Granulation in Oral Solid Dosage Processing & SERIALISATION: Prioritizing Consumer Safety & Driving Business Value

CEO of Middle East Medical Portal

Mr. Nathan Nagel is a serial entrepreneur with 21 years’ global experience on the commercial side of medicine including 8 years working in MENA. In addition to being CEO of MEMP he is MD of Oncology Commercial Services and also has a portfolio of current board advisory positions in biotechnology and AI health tech companies. partner of LifeScience Ventures Ltd, a UK consulting company. Prior to leading companies, Nathan worked for Bayer Diagnostics and Takeda Pharmaceuticals, where he started his career.

Talk title: Market Access in the Covid Era

Policy Analyst, Unit for Africa, Middle East and Europe, OECD Development Centre

Elisa is a Policy Analyst for the Africa, Europe and Middle East Unit of the OECD Development Centre. She contributes to policy-oriented research and policy dialogue, notably through the flagship report Africa’s Development Dynamics of the African Union Commission and the OECD Development Centre. Elisa holds a Master’s Degree in International Economics from University Paris Nanterre. She speaks French and English.

Talk title: Development of African Value Chains and Pharmaceuticals

Biosimilars Consultant & Speaker

Dr. Fernando de Mora is a Professor of Pharmacology with a PhD in immunopharmacology from the University of Chicago MBA. He is also the Chairman of the Pharmacology Dept and the Principal Investigator in allergy projects. He holds a Postdoc at Harvard Medical School and also is an International consultant in biotech science, regulation and market for private/public organizations (e.g. MoH, United Nations, DIA) / Manager of academic spin-off biosimilars firm.

Talk title: Biotechnology and biosimilars

IAC Partners' healthcare practice leader

Jean-Baptiste is IAC Partners' healthcare practice leader. For more than 15 years, he has been leading time-to-market projects for major pharmaceutical and food-processing players in Europe and Asia.

Graduated from INSA Lyon and HEC Paris, he regularly lectures to engineering school students and supervises a thesis about Machine Learning applied to care protocols.

Talk title: Cost optimization/ time-to-market