FlyPharma Vienna 2024’s agenda is now live on the conference website. As the global pharmaceutical landscape continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, FlyPharma remains at the forefront, set to address the critical collaboration of pharmaceuticals and air cargo.
The highly anticipated conference, which takes place on 23 to 24 October 2024 at Office Park 4, Vienna AirportCity promises to deliver unparalleled insights, discussions and solutions, spotlighting key topics that shape the current state of both industries.
Key sessions will cover:
- Research and development (R&D) logistics: how to drive efficiency for pharma logistics using operational excellence principles
- Unlocking pharma supply chain transparency: leveraging digital twins on blockchain
- Data-driven transformation: maximising pharmaceutical supply chain efficiency with S&O data
- Risk assessment in the pharmaceutical supply chain as a basic tool in GDP and backbone for the transport process validation workshop
- Navigating turbulence: synergising pharma shipment contingency plans with air freight crisis management
- Sustainability in the cold chain: what are the technologies needed for facilitation?
- Trends and challenges in pharma sourcing and procurement: relationship management and the procurement’s operational arm
- Strategic innovation workshop: from vision to action
- Ethical adoption pathways: artificial intelligence in pharma air freight logistics
- How can the certification drive to deliver integration of standards and continuous improvement of quality temperature-controlled air cargo shipments?
- Streamlining the tax processes in pharma/logistics
Over the course of two days, the conference will delve into these areas and beyond through presentations and panel discussions. Attendees will have ample opportunities to engage with speakers through live Q&A sessions and extended networking gatherings, which include an exclusive gala dinner at Palais Ferstal.
Confirmed speakers include:
FlyPharma Vienna 2024 chairperson: Céline Crahay, senior consultant and managing director of 3CeL sàrl.
- Frank Van Gelder, secretary general, Pharma.Aero
- Vatsala Sadasivan, global operational excellence lead for R&D, Sanofi
- Ruud van der Geer, assistant director, logistic solutions and EMEA product handling, MSD
- Luiz Barberini, operations manager, external manufacturing, Latin America, Bayer
- Dr sc Zvonimir Majic, former global director of supply chain quality assurance, TEVA Pharmaceuticals
- Bernhard Zoidl, independent consulter and trainer in the pharmaceutical area
- Mateusz Zawadzki, product manager, special cargo certification, IATA
- Alexandru Popa, associate director, blockchain for digital supply chain, MSD
- Mohammed Nouh, business development director, software and IoT, SkyCell AG
- Wolfgang Scheibenpflug, senior vice president, real estate and landside management, Vienna Airport
Book your place at www.flypharmaeurope.com/tickets before 31 May and save 10% with the discount code: EARLY2024.
For sponsorship opportunities, email simon@samdanltd.co.uk
For general enquiries, email elena@samdanltd.co.uk
About FlyPharma conferences:
The first FlyPharma conference was launched in September 2015 at London Heathrow, pooling Samedan’s broad readership across the pharmaceutical and logistics/cargo industries. One title in particular complements the conference’s theme well and provides the basis of the FlyPharma concept: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packing Sourcer (PMPS).
PMPS offers extensive pharmaceutical experience from a manufacturing, packaging and logistics perspective, and particularly relevant are its cargo-related readers: forwarders, handlers, airports and carriers. Other supporting titles from the Samedan and PMGroup portfolios include Pharmafocus, PharmaTimes and PME, all of which offer an audience of pharma industry professionals with a diverse range of backgrounds and provide both thought-led features and news-driven energy. Together, these publications support FlyPharma as media partners and provide a strong base for opening up communication between two sectors (pharma and cargo) that depend on each other for success.
In 2018, FlyPharma expanded to three regional events: Asia, Europe and the US. Each conference was a success and was met with extremely positive feedback from the industry. FlyPharma Europe took place again in 2019 in Copenhagen, in its largest event to date. After a break in response to the challenges of COVID-19, FlyPharma Europe returned in 2022 and took place in Leipzig, Germany on 20 to 21 September, followed by FlyPharma Europe 2023 in Vienna, Austria on 10 to 11 October. All events cover global pharma supply chain challenges and collaborative opportunities, but each focuses on how that particular region’s unique characteristics both impact and fit within a worldwide marketplace.
About the headline sponsor, Vienna AirportCity:
The Vienna AirportCity is a business accumulation at Vienna International Airport consisting of 250 companies active in a variety of industries, such as cargo and logistics, aviation, startup communities, consultants, smart city services and more. All have grown heavily in importance during the last ten years.
Within Vienna AirportCity there is a large cargo community (Vienna AirportCity Cargo World) handling any sort of air freight with outstanding quality. There are cooled areas, protected areas, warehousing and a brand new 1,600m2 pharma handling centre with landside and airside access.
Due to the extensive scope of destinations reachable from Vienna, the Vienna AirportCity has also become an important conference and meeting location. The conference centre, called ‘Vienna AirportCity Space’, was built to be a melting pot for innovation and exchange in Vienna AirportCity. As demand has grown, the venue is now a place to be for companies from all over the region. The reason is the feel of curiosity vibrating through the entire area.
