Speakers

Katalin Karikó, PhD

Senior Vice President RNA Protein Replacement Therapy

BioNTech

John Maraganore, PhD, Remote - Live with Q & A

Chief Executive Officer

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc

Charles Sardonini, PhD

Head, Drug Substance Manufacturing for Biologics – Upstream Processing

Sanofi

Chris Gemmiti, Ph.D.

Executive Director of Technical Operations; Head of Early Stage CMC and Product Launch Programs

CRISPR Therapeutics

Xiaotong Fu, PhD, Remote - Live with Q & A

Sr. Engineer

Biogen

Roy Sorek, Remote - Live with Q&A

Director, Quality Assurance

bluebird bio

Hanne Bak, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President, Pre-clinical Manufacturing & Process Development

Regeneron Pharmaceutical, Inc.

Shenjiang (Shawn) Liu, Remote - Live with Q&A

President & CEO

Avirmax Inc.

Sharif Ahmed, Remote - Live with Q&A

Senior Product Supply Product Lead for rFVIII Products

Bayer Pharmaceuticals, USA

Udayanath Aich, Ph.D.

Associate Director

Bristol Myers Squibb

Aaron Almeida

Manager, Manufacturing Process Optimization

Catalent Biologics

Sarah Auclair

Scientist

Sanofi

Blaž Bakalar

Product manager

BIA Separations a Sartorius company

Jeffrey C. Baker, Ph.D

Former Deputy Director, Office of Biotechnology Products

CDER, FDA

Lili Belcastro

Principal Scientist, Technical Center of Excellence (TCoE) for Cell Therapy Raw Materials

BMS

Jean Bender

Vice President, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology Visterra, Inc.

Visterra

Oren Beske, Ph.D.

Amalgamator of Business and Biology

ATUM

Travis Block

Chief Technology Officer

Cell X Technologies, USA

Shanta Boddapati, Remote - Live with Q & A

Senior Scientist

Seagen

Thomas Bollenbach

Chief Technology Officer

Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute

Jose Bonfiglio, Remote - Live with Q & A

Research Fellow

Roche

Ehsan Borujeni

Principal Scientist, Global BioProcess Development, Downstream

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Breanna Borys

PhD Candidate

PBS Biotech, Inc., USA

Dan Bracewell, Ph.D., Remote - Live with Q & A

Professor of Bioprocess Analysis

University College London

Brendan Bradley

Business Development Manager

Aseptic Filling at Cytiva

Alexander Brix, Ph.D., Remote - Live with Q & A

Head of Laboratory ATMP II

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG

Robert Brooks, Ph.D., Remote - Live with Q & A

Supply Partner Phorum Leader and Operations Team Member

Biophorum

Brian Buesing

Associate Scientist

Asahi Kasei Bioprocess America, Inc

Luke Cach

Head of Scientific Solutions

Synthace

Christine Callahan

VP of Supply Chain

Thermo Fisher

Jessica Carmen, PhD

US Business Development Adviser

Oxford Biomedica, USA

Trent Carrier, Remote - Live with Q&A

Chief Operating Officer

L7 Informatics, Inc., USA

Jeff Carter, Ph.D.

Consumables Product Strategy Leader

Cytiva

Steven Cates

Chief Technology Officer

Repligen

Lina Chakrabarti

Senior Manager, R & D

Astrazeneca

Leo Chan

Head of Advanced Technology Research and Development

Nexcelom

Rajeshwar Chinnawar

Senior R&D Engineer

Pall Corporation, USA

Maria Cho

VP Business Development & Corporate Strategy

Dendreon, USA

Veronique Chotteau, PhD, Remote - Live with Q & A

Director

AdBIOPRO - Competence Centre for Advanced Bioproduction by Continuous Process, Sweden

Brandon Christensen

Director

Visterra Inc.

Wen Ning Chu

Postdoctoral Scholar

North Carolina State University

Carter Cliff

Founder & CEO

Vascugen Inc., USA

Bernardo Cordovez

Chief Science Officer and Founder

Halo Labs, USA

Susan Dana Jones, Ph.D.

SVP, Product Development

Harpoon Therapeutics Inc.

Amlan Das, Remote - Live with Q & A

CMC Biologics

Teva Pharmaceuticals

Anthony Davies, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO

Dark Horse Consulting

Mark Davis

Founder & Principal

NegotiumBio, LLC, USA

Ray Davis

Consultant

RuffLife Consulting

Marianne De Backer, MBA, PhD, Remote - Live with Q&A

EVP, Head of Strategy, BD&L

Bayer AG

Chathuranga De Silva, PhD

Director, Business Development

BioCentriq, USA

Daniela Decina

Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Nandu Deorkar

Vice President

Avantor

Alan Dickson, Ph.D.

Professor of Biotechnology, Director, Centre of Excellence in Biopharmaceuticals

University of Manchester

Ralf Dieckhoff

VP North America

DPL-US (d.b.a. Dr. Paul Lohmann, Inc.)

Vasell Dillard

Director of Supply Chain

Macrogenics

Julia Ding, PhD, Remote - Live with Q & A

Head, Global Process Analytics

Bristol Myers Squibb

Mandar Dixit

Head of Value Chain Services

Sartorius Stedium Biotech

David Dobnik

Scientific Associate

National Institute of Biology, Slovenia

Al Doig

Manager

BioProcess Technology Group, BDO

Michele Duggan

Senior Manager, North America Regulatory Affairs

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Mark Emalfarb

Chief Executive Officer

Dyadic International Inc

Andrew Falconbridge, Remote - Live with Q & A

Vice President of Process Technology and Innovation

Alvotech

Lianchun Fan, Ph D., Remote - Live with Q & A

Director of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Bioprocess Development

Abbvie Bioresearch Center

Sharyn Farnsworth

Principal Scientist and Upstream Process Development-Cell Culture Group Leader

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies

Miguel Forte

Chief Executive Officer

Bone Therapeutics

Anna French

Partner

Qiming Venture Partners USA

Lynne Frick

Co-Head, Biologics Franchise, Resilience and Co-Executive Director

The BioInnovation Group

David Fritsch

Head of Technology and PMO

Resilience

Shinichiro (Shin) Fuse, Ph.D.

Managing Director

MPM Capital

Shaan Gandhi

Director

Northpond Ventures

René Gantier

Senior Director R&D, Advanced Bioprocess Applications

Repligen

James Geiger

Field Application Scientist

PerkinElmer, USA

Fabian Gerlinghaus

Co-Founder & CEO

Cellares

Henning Gerschewski, Remote - Live with Q & A

VP Manufacturing Science & Technology

Rentschler Biopharma SE

Fred Ghanem

North America Life Science Manager

Purolite

Divya Goel

Technology and Business Development

Celltheon

Ruti Goldberg, Remote - Live with Q&A

Compliance and Methods Validations Manager

Pluristem

Brian Goodman, PhD

Principal

MPM

Francisca Gouveia, Ph.D, Remote - Live with Q & A

Senior Process Expert, MS&T

Novartis

Mike Graffeo

CEO & Co-Founder

FluidForm, USA

Jayanthi Grebin

Sr. Business Development Manager CGT

CPC - Colder Products Company

Kerin Gregory

REBEL Product Manager

908 Devices

Christina Grigoriadou, Remote - Live with Q&A

Senior Scientist

AstraZeneca

Paul Gulde, PhD

Staff Scientist

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Priyanka Gupta

Head of Market Entry Strategy

Sartorius

Sadik H. Kassim

Chief Technology Officer

Vor Biopharma

Elliot Haimes

Field Applications Specialist for Chromatography

Sartorius

Elie Hanania, Remote - Live with Q&A

Director of Upstream Process Development

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies

Andrew Hanneman

Scientific Advisor, Biologics Testing

Charles River Massachusetts, Biologics Division, USA

Jack Haronian

Sales Engineer

Fluid Air

James Hathcock, Ph.D.

Senior Director, Regulatory and Validation Strategy, Pall Biotech

Pall Life Sciences

Darren Head

Chief Executive Officer

Bionova Scientific

Charles Heise, Ph.D.

Senior Staff Scientist

FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies

Charles Hill

Field Applications Scientist

Repligen

Juliette Hilliard, Remote - Live with Q&A

Director, TA

Novartis GT

Nathaniel Hogrebe

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Jeffrey Millman Laboratory, Washington University School of Medicine, USA

Zachary Houle

Senior Development Specialist, Upstream Process Development

Takeda

Yue Hu, Ph.D.,

Scientist, Material Sciences

Janssen

Effie Huang

Senior application specialist

Univercells Technologies

Daniel Hui

Associate Director – Product Characterization/Clinical Assay Development

Tmunity Therapeutics

Cheryl Huie

Co-Executive Director

BioInnovation Group

Gabrielle Humphrey, Remote - Live with Q&A

CMC Consultant

VECTAPLUS (formerly Adaptimmune)

Jeffrey Hung

Chief Commercial Officer

Vigene Biosciences, Inc., USA

Edward Hunter

Technical Sales Support Cell Nutrition

FrieslandCampina Ingredients

Ramesh Iyer, Ph.D., Remote - Live with Q & A

Principal Research Scientist II, Global Protein Sciences

AbbVie Inc.

Katrina Janiszewski

Development Specialist II

Takeda

Nithya Jesuraj

Product Manager, CGT

Bio-Techne, USA

Hans Johansson, Ph.D.

Global Applications Director

Purolite

Jeff Johnson

President

Biotech Design, LLC

Sunghoon Jung PhD

Senior Director of Bioprocess Research & Development

, PBS Biotech, Inc., USA

David Kahn, Ph.D.

Vice President of Biopharmaceutical Development

Macrogenics

Silky Kamdar, Remote - Live with Q&A

Manager

BMS

Aleks Katane

Liver Program Manager

Miromatrix, USA

Georgios Katsikis

Postdoctoral Associate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Yasser Kehail

Single Use & Enterprise Business Development Leader

Cytiva, USA

S. Jordan Kerns, PhD

Director of Applied Biosciences

Emulate, Inc., USA

Santoshkumar Khatwani, Remote - Live with Q&A

Associate Director, Analytical Development

Sangamo Therapeutics

Paratsoo Khoshakhlagh, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

GC Therapeutics, USA

Grace Kim

Vice President Business Development North America

Rentschler Biopharma SE

Cleo Kontoravdi, Remote - Live with Q & A

Professor of Biological Systems Engineering

Imperial College London

Leisha Kopp

Applications Scientist

Mirus Bio LLC

Walter Kowtonuik

Venture Partner

Third Rock

Denny Kraichely, Ph.D

Department Head, Analytical Project Leadership, Vaccines Research & Development, Merck

Merck

Guido Kremer-van der Kamp

Senior Consultant, Global BioPharm Center of Excellence

Merck KGaA

Ratish Krishnan

Associate Director - Cell & Gene Therapy BioProcessing

MilliporeSigma

Chris Kwiatkowski, Remote - Live with Q & A

Engineer, Biopharmaceutical Development

Biogen Idec

Janet Lambert

Chief Executive Officer

Alliance for Regenerative Medicine

Steven Lang, PhD

Vice President, Biologics

Aragen Bioscience

Ho-Tak Lau, Remote - Live with Q&A

Senior Scientist

Bristol-Myers Squib

Julia Leach

Senior Scientist, Analytical

Centre for Process Innovation Limited

Jane Lebkowski, Remote - Live with Q&A

President

Regenerative Patch Technologies Inc.

Derek Lenz, Ph.D., Remote - Live with Q & A

Field Marketing Manager

Beckman Coulter

Claire Leurent, Ph.D., MBA

Principal, Venture Investments

J&J

Howard Levine, PhD

National Leader

BioProcess Technology Group

Wenyan Liao

ASQ Certified Quality Auditor, Sr. QA Disposition, External Biologics (Global Quality)

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

Brent Lieffers

Senior Director or Operations

Singota Solutions

Duncan Low

Executive Consultant

Claymore Biopharm

Raymond Luke

Associate Director, MS&T

Adaptimmune, USA

Robert Luo, Remote - Live with Q & A

Scientific Director, BioPharm Process Development

GSK

Randy Maddux

Chief Operating Officer

iBio, Inc.

Marinna Madrid

Co-Founder

Cellino

Joe Makowiecki

Director of Business Development, Enterprise Solutions

Cytiva

Muthiah (Mano) Manoharan, PhD

Senior Vice President of Drug Discovery

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Arkadi Manukyan

Scientist, Analytical Development

Sanofi, USA

Bruno Marques, Remote - Live with Q&A

Head of Process & Product Development

Century Therapeutics

Jim Marshall

Associate Director, Devens Supply Chain

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Carrie Mason

Senior Research Development Manager

Lonza

Krishanu Mathur, Remote - Live with Q&A

CMC, Early & Late Stage Gene Therapy

Voyager Therapeutics, USA

Kyle McHugh

Scientist

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Tiffany McLamarrah

Scientist

Sanofi

Suman McLinden

Senior Scientist

Avantor

Sunil Mehta

Chief Executive Officer

AthemBio

Stefano Menegatti

Associate Professor

North Carolina State University, USA

José Menezes, Ph.D., Remote - Live with Q & A

Chairman

4Tune Engineering

Alex Meola

Scientist II, Downstream Process Development

Homology Medicines

Michael Mietzner

Vice President of Engineering

bioX LLC

Sheila Mikhail, Remote - Live with Q&A

CEO & Co-Founder

AskBio

David Moccia

Business Development

Univercells Technologies

Ali Mohamed

Vice President, CMC

Immatics, USA

Nick Morse

Scientist, Upstream Process Development

Alexion

Steve M. Muller

Senior Manager, IT for GPS – Global Quality

Bristol Myers Squibb

Shashi Murthy, PhD

Founder & CTO

Flaskworks

Masayoshi Nagaya

Global Head of Marketing

JSR Life Sciences

William Napoli

Scientist

Sanofi

Tam Nguyen

PhD Candidate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Vinit Nijhawan

Managing Director, MassVentures

Lecturer, Boston University, USA

Knut Niss

Chief Technology Officer

Mustang Bio

Courtney O'Dell, MS

Senior Scientist

Avantor

Troy Ostreng

Senior Product Manager

CPC- Colder Products Company

Roland Pach, Remote - Live with Q&A

Project Leader

F.Hoffmann-La Roche, Switzerland

Xiao Pan, PhD

Director of Bioprocessing

GenScript ProBio

Eleni Papanikolaou

Manager Hemapoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy and Graft Engineering

Miltenyi Biotec, Germany

Deborah Pascoe

Vice President of Operations

Culture Biosciences

David Peritt

Founder and CSO

Lupagen, USA

A'Drian Pineda

Senior Business Development Manager, BioPharma, dPCR, NA

QIAGEN

Jean Qiu

Chief Technical Officer, Founder

Nexcelom

Kate Quigley

Product Marketing Lead

Benchling

Tom Ransohoff

Co-Head Biologicals Franchise

Resilience

Kareem Reda

CBO

Elevate Bio

Kelvin Rembert

Scientist

Sanofi

Jian Ren, Ph.D., Remote with Live Q & A

Senior Scientist

AbbVie

Lyndi Rice

Head of QC Viral Vector Analytical

BioMarin

Andrew Rigoglioso

Associate Director, TA, Cell Therapy Development & Ops

BMS

Nadine Ritter

President and Analytical Advisor

Global Biotech Experts, LLC.

Mark Rothenberg, PhD

Associate Director Scientific Applications

Advanced Instruments LLC

Jon A. Rowley, Ph.D., Remote - Live with Q&A

Founder & Chief Product Officer

RoosterBio Inc.

Eva Rubio-Marrero, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Bristol Myers Squibb

Joanna Rucker Pezzini

President and Founder

PAK Biosolutions

Ravi Samavedam

President & COO of Azzur Cleanrooms on Demand™

Azzur Group, USA

Jorge Santiago-Ortiz, Ph.D.

Director, Process Development

BioCentriq, USA

Mark Schofield

Senior Manager, Research and Development

Pall Corporation

John Scibetta

Advanced Chromatography Specialist

GoSilico, now part of Cytiva

Parviz Shamlou

Vice President & Executive Director

Thomas Jefferson University | Jefferson Institute for Bioprocessing

Armon Sharei

Chief Executive Officer & Founder

SQZ Biotechnologies, USA

Susan Sharfstein

Professor of Nanobioscience

Suny Polytechnic Institute

Muhammad Siddiqui

Cold Chain Applications Engineer

Entegris Inc

Naveenkumar Singh, Ph.D.

Scientist II, Process Development – Downstream

Ambrx

Nagendra Singh, Remote - Live with Q&A

Senior Scientist, Downstream Process Development

Catalent Cell & Gene Therapy, USA

Devyn Smith

Chief Operating Officer

Sigilon Therapeutics

Sarah Snykers

Cell Therapy Manufacturing Director

Celyad

Leon Song

Senior BD Director

GenScript ProBio

John Spohn

CEO

Agile GXP

Raja Srinivas

Founder

Asimov

Katarina Stenklo

Enterprise Solutions Commercial Activation Leader

Cytiva

Peter Strack

Scientific VP, Integrative Sciences

Bristol Myers Squibb, USA

Ales Strancar, PhD

Managing Director

BIA Separations

Ricardo Suarez-Heredia

Applications Engineer Bioprocessing R&D

MilliporeSigma

Cenk Sumen

Chief Technology Officer

Stemson Therapeutics

Ashlee Sun

Field Application Specialist

Polyplus-transfection, USA

Garima Thakur, Remote-Live with Q & A

Researcher

Indian Institute of Technology

Alayna Thompson

Sr Research Scientist II, NBE ARD

AbbVie Inc

Renee Tobias

Director CLD Product Management

Berkeley Lights

Amanda Trent

Director of Assay Development

Accellix, Inc., USA

Parth Trivedi M.S.

Team Manager

Pall Corporation, USA

Hélène Trottin, Remote - Live with Q&A

Senior Technical Specialist, Process Sciences

Pharmaron

Andrew Tustian

Director

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Pranav Vengsarkar

Sr. Research Scientist

Avantor

Stacey Veysey

Director, Talent Acquisition

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, USA

James Dean Vogel

Founder and Director

The BioProcess Institute

Tom Walls

Global Planning and Logistics Lead

Spark Therapeutics

Gang Wang, Remote - Live with Q & A

Scientist, Late Stage Process Development

Boehringer Ingelheim

Adam Washburn, Remote - Live with Q & A

Senior Research Scientist

Eli Lilly

Beth Webb

Chief Commercial Officer

Aldevron, USA

Andrew Whytock

Head of Digitalization and Innovation, Business Segment Pharma

Siemens

Stephanie Wickham, PhD

Sr. Director of Research and Development

Cytovance Biologics

Silke Wissing

CSO

CEVEC

Chris Woods

Director, Biologics Drug Substance Development

Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc

Feng Xu, Remote - Live with Q & A

Senior Scientist

Merck

Lihua Yang, Remote - Live with Q & A

Principal Scientist, Bioprocess Development

AbbVie

W. Hong Yeo

Associate Professor of George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the IEN Center for Human-Centric Interfaces and Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Linda Yi, Remote - Live with Q & A

Senior Scientist, Analytical Development

Biogen

David Yoder

Senior Manager of Product Strategy

Aldevron

Geok-Yong Yow

Scientist I

KBI Biopharma

Christopher Yu, Ph.D., Remote - Live with Q & A

Director, Protein Analytical Chemistry Quality Control

Genentech

Li Zang, PhD

Director, Protein Analytics

Abbvie

Zhe (Jill) Zhang

Staff Engineer, Viral Production Core, Preclinical Manufacturing & Process Development

Regeneron Pharmaceutical, Inc.

Sisi Zhang, Msc.

Lead Research Specialist, Analytical Chemistry

Regeneron

George Zhou, PhD, Remote - Live with Q & A

Associate Principal Scientist

Merck & Co., Inc.