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6 BUSINESS AIMS AUTOMA+ PARTICIPANTS HAVE

We offer different formats of participation to support your digital strategies and objectives in the pharmaceutical industry. These tailored formats provide you with the flexibility to choose the most suitable option that aligns with your current business aims and helps you make the most of your participation in our event.

SPEAKERS 2025

The Congress will focus on innovative industry-led content: digitalisation & automation trends, challenging topics, and newest technologies. AUTOMA+ business programme attracts digital experts from pharma majors, local pharma companies, contract manufacturing & research companies, APIs, associations together with pharmaceutical equipment providers and service companies whose case studies cover the ongoing, existing and planned projects devoted to the digital pharma ecosystem.

Novo Nordisk
Guillaume Carbonneau

Guillaume Carbonneau

VP Operational Data Insights

Novo Nordisk

Recordati
Michelle Bridenbaker

Michelle Bridenbaker

VP of Medical Excellence & Communications

Recordati

SCARLETRED Holding GmbH
Harald Schnidar

Harald Schnidar

CEO

SCARLETRED Holding GmbH

PharmaLedger Association
Stefan Schwarzfischer

Stefan Schwarzfischer

Executive Director

PharmaLedger Association

Zisis Kozlakidis

Zisis Kozlakidis

Head, Laboratory Services and Biobanking

IARC/WHO

CiNTL Pharma B.V.
Yolanda Cabrera-Sybesma

Yolanda Cabrera-Sybesma

CEO

CiNTL Pharma B.V.

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.KG
Joachim Bär

Joachim Bär

Director DevOps CellCulture

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.KG

ZETA GmbH
Martin Mayer

Martin Mayer

Business Line Director for Digital Solutions

ZETA GmbH

GRITEC AG
Ernst Schranz

Ernst Schranz

CEO

GRITEC AG

ten23 health
Alissa Monk

Alissa Monk

Head of Sustainability

ten23 health

Sanofi
Mario Esser

Mario Esser

Global Patient Safety & PV Governance Manager

Sanofi

LETI Pharma
Marta Rodríguez

Marta Rodríguez

Strategic Planning and Operational Excellence Manager

LETI Pharma

RidNova Pharmaceuticals
Devendra Ridhurkar

Devendra Ridhurkar

Founder and CEO

RidNova Pharmaceuticals

SCARLETRED Holding GmbH
Avani Gupta

Avani Gupta

Business Developer & Customer Support

SCARLETRED Holding GmbH

GSK
Cédric Colon

Cédric Colon

Global Supply Chain Strategy Programme Management Global Process owner

GSK

Takeda
Aliz Cser

Aliz Cser

Global Process Expert – SC Performance

Takeda

5Flow GmbH
Franz Axenbeck

Franz Axenbeck

SVP Product Management

5Flow GmbH

Kardex Holding AG
Philipp Nobel

Philipp Nobel

Regional Director Systems Sales

Kardex Holding AG

Juan Gemmato

Juan Gemmato

Omnichannel Digital Execution Lead

Eli Lilly

Jakub Knurek

Jakub Knurek

Marketing Specialist

Mabion S.A.

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
Niels Schlusser

Niels Schlusser

Scientific Application Developer

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Bachem AG
Sonja Peter

Sonja Peter

Global MES Project Manager

Bachem AG

Highlights of the programme

Programme
  • 2 DAYS BUSINESS PROGRAMME

    20+ hours of networking
    20+ hours of cases and discussion

  • DISCUSSING THE COMPLETE RANGE OF PROCESSES

    R&D → Manufacturing → Packaging → Supply chain

  • STRATEGIC OPENING & CLOSING PANELS

    The Future with AI & Smart Data: Innovation, Collaboration, Decisions

  • R&D AND LAB AUTOMATION

    Innovative Drug Development with AI-Driven Research and RWE

  • DIGITAL FACTORY

    AI & Predictive Maintenance, Green Manufacturing and Digital twins

  • SMART PACKAGING, LABELING & SUPPLY CHAIN

    Leveraging digital technologies for safety, automation, and anti-counterfeiting in pharma logistics

  • COMMERCIAL TRANSFORMATION AND DIGITAL MARKETING

    Social Media & Digital Content Channels for Pharma and Patient-Centricity Through Digital

  • DIGITAL HEALTH

    Digital Therapeutics & Smart Health Tools, Personalized Omnichannel Experiences

  • PHARMA DIGITAL COMPLIANCE

    Predictive Compliance, Automation, Reduced Violations

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Formats

All formats

To make participation in the AUTOMA+ Healthcare edition successful you should define your business goals and choose the most appropriate format. Tell us more about your projects and current business priority in pharmaceutical automation and digitalisation, and we will find you the perfect match!

AUTOMA+ DELEGATES IMPRESSIONS

Joachim Bär

Director DevOps CellCulture

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.KG

A key takeaway was the importance of breaking silos between people rather than focusing solely on data, ensuring shared understanding across scientific, regulatory and digital teams.

Luuk Seelen

Group Director Manufacturing Intelligence

Octapharma

AUTOMA+ as a highly personalised and interactive format, where curated meetings make it easier to connect with peers and technology providers facing similar challenges.

Harald Schnidar

CEO

SCARLETRED Holding GmbH

Artificial intelligence is the true game-changer — not only in manufacturing and clinical environments, but also in home-based patient care.

Bastian Baur

Global Head of Digitalization & IT

Adragos Pharma GmbH

Start early, involve people, and prioritise pragmatic solutions over perfect architectures to achieve fast results and continuous learning.

Andreas Nicklas

Founder & Managing Director

anic GmbH

It's important because we're able to connect, able to meet new customers, able to meet new people, to build up a network and therefore this is a very good opportunity to do all of that.

Alrike Aschauer

Engineer/Scientist (Plasma Innovation Lab)

Takeda

BGS networking model and personal manager support make a real difference: pre-event guidance helps speakers and delegates feel prepared, and during the congress the team actively connects the right people, making networking easier and more targeted.

Konstantin Ivanov

Commercial Excellence and Operations Head, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece

Astellas

While listening to some of the presentations, I started thinking, “What can we do in a similar way, or what can we do to achieve the same results?” So it’s really about sharing and improving together.

Akshansh Chaudhary

Executive Director & Chief Technology Officer

Venus Remedies Limited

AUTOMA+ carries a lot of importance for pharma companies, specifically for the people inside pharma companies who are dealing with digital technologies or transformation in any way.

Alex Chekel

Digital transformation and innovation advisor

Innowise

The conference itself is on the edge of pharma and IT which helps to narrow down the list of participants to those who really one way or another relates to this sector.

Rahul Prajapati

Automation Project Engineer

Terumo Pharmaceutical Solutions Division

AUTOMA+ is valuable ecosystem where technology providers and end users can connect directly, exchange challenges and discuss practical solutions for automation, AI-driven manufacturing and smart factories.

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