Richard Denk has studied mechanical engineering and did an examination on experts of GMP, qualification and validation, pharmaceutical auditing, phar­maceutical engineering, quality control at the University of Applied Sciences in Albstadt/Sigmaringen Germany. Richard works at SKAN AG, headquartered in Allschwil, as the head of sales containment. He founded the expert Con­tainment Group of the ISPE DACH eight years ago. The Containment Group published the Containment Manual in September 2015. Richard has spent nearly 20 years working with highly active/highly hazardous substances and has developed the containment pyramid.

Teresa Minero is the founder and CEO of LifeBee, a business consulting and digi­tal company dedicated to life sciences since 2004. She has more than 30 years of experience in managing international consulting and digital innovation projects for production, logistics, quality, regulatory and R&D and in managing startups and business divisions for international consulting groups. More than 25 years have been spent within life sciences. She is currently also the chair of the ISPE Italian affiliate, part of the ISPE European leadership team and part of the ISPE steering committee for Pharma 4.0 Global Special Interest Group. She has been a lecturer and chairman at many conferences and an author of many articles on digitalising life sciences and Pharma 4.0.

Christian has long experience in the creation of transparency for automation infrastructure and architecture through As-Is workshop, incl. Analysis of current manufacturing processes and defining improvement actions for Automation as well as defining roadmaps. Over the past years, he established an enterprise architecture-based strategy for various international customers.

30+ years experience as Global Operations Executive in pharmaceutical and chemical industry – turn arounds, profit improvement, reliability and supply chain optimization – North America, South America, Europe. Grunenthal: General Man­ager & Board Member, EVP Global Product Supply (product launch, cost reduc­tion, cash flow & risk optimization, operational excellence, supply chain optimiza­tion, good manufacturing practice, strategy development & execution) Celanese: Site Director, Global On-Stream Reliability Champion Hoechst: Production Leader, VP R&D Organic Chemicals & Quality, Business Unit Leadership Team.

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