Bjarne Sørensen is a director of front-end innovation at Phillips-Medisize, based in the company’s development centre in Denmark. With more than 35 years of experience within product, strategy, and business development, Bjarne has a very visible track record within different business areas. At Phillips-Medisize, he participates in customer projects, typically involving electronic injectors and connected health systems. He is also deeply involved in new electronic platform programs, especially on conceptual, technical, and sustainability aspects.

Tiffany McIntire has been working as a human factors engineer for five years, developing delivery systems and labelling strategies in the pharmaceutical industry. After her studies in industrial/organisational psychology, she started her career at Lilly, where she worked on a range of combination products, including dial-and-dose injectors for insulin, autoinjectors, pre-filled syringes, digital products and an emergency inhalation device. After working at Lilly, she jumped across the pond to Germany, joining a recently established device group within Boehringer Ingelheim. While there, she worked to deepen the team's knowledge of HF and improve their quality management system and vendor management. At the beginning of August, she joined the Roche HF team in Basel, Switzerland, to work with the team there, generating external, scientific publications as well as guiding the team towards best practices in HF.

Ram Halthore has a BS in engineering from the University of Mysore in India and a MS in polymer engineering from the University of Akron, USA.  Ram has over 23 years of experience in the development and commercialisation of medical devices, pharmaceuticals, biologics, and combination products, including contact lenses, ophthalmic devices, pre-filled syringes, inhalation devices, implants, autoinjectors, and on-body injectors. In his current role, Ram is responsible for the lifecycle management of marketed combination products and the commercialisation of new combination products. Before joining Merck, Ram held progressive positions at 3M, Johnson & Johnson, Amgen, and Teva.