2026 Speakers

Nima Akhavein, PhD, MBA

Head, Drug Product and Device Strategy

ViiV Healthcare

Shaukat Ali, PhD, FAAPS

Senior Director, Scientific Affairs and Technical Marketing

Ascendia Pharmaceutical Solutions

Christine Allen, PhD

CEO & Co-Founder

Intrepid Labs

Jonathan Amaya-Hodges

Vice President, Technical Operations

Suttons Creek

Mohammad Ali Amini, PhD

CEO

QurCan Therapeutics

Heydy Andolz

Senior Advisor Human Factors Engineering

Eli Lilly and Company

Matt Angel, PhD

CEO

Tempest Therapeutics

Patrick Anquetil, PhD, MBA

Founder/CEO

Portal Instruments

Beo Arana de Martinez

Marketing & Communication

E3D Elcam Drug Delivery Devices

Jack Auld

Co-CEO & Co-Founder

Picocyl & Altaviz

Stacey Backlund, RAC

Director, RA Medical Devices

Novartis

Annette Bak, PhD, MBA

Head of New Modality Product Discovery & Development

AstraZeneca

Quanying Bao, PhD

Principal Scientist

Alexion

Sean Barrett, M:IPD

Human Factors Engineer

Design Science

Clare Beddoes, PhD

Head of Drug Delivery

Cambridge Design Partnership

Sean Bedingfield, PhD

Director

Eli Lilly and Company

Deep Bhattacharya, PhD

Associate Director

Merck

Sherri Biondi, PhD

Executive Director, Device Development

AstraZeneca

Yelena Bisharyan, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO

Trillion Bio

Beate Bittner, PhD

Head Product Optimization

Roche

Dustan Bonnin, MBA

Founder & CEO

Paretor

Mayumi Bowen, MEng

Senior Principal Engineer

Genentech

Kirk Bray

Senior Manager West Coast Biotech

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Ulrich Bruggemann

Lead Advanced Drug Delivery Technical Development

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Stephen Buckley, PhD

Scientific Vice President, Advanced Drug Delivery

Novo Nordisk

Mark Burchnall, PE

Engineering Director

PSN Labs

John Burke

Managing Consultant – Drug Delivery

Team Consulting

Sam Butler

Director, Commercial Development

BD

Kristine Bäck, BSc Pharm

Director, Project Management

Nanexa AB

Ana Cadete Pires, PharmD, PhD

CMC Project Leader, mRNA Vaccines, Early Programs

Sanofi

Ester Caffarel-Salvador, PhD

Director, Strategic Innovation, Global Rare Diseases

Chiesi USA

Umberto Capasso Palmiero, PhD

Senior Scientist II - Nucleic Acid Delivery & RNAi Formulation

Novo Nordisk

Tim Carroll, MS, MBA

Delivery Strategy & Surgeon Engagement

Genentech

Meredith Clark, PhD

Associate Professor & Senior Director of Operations

CONRAD, Old Dominion University

Scott Compel, PhD

CEO

AEMS Corp

Eunice Costa

R&D Program Director

Hovione

Brian Costello

Founder & Principal Designer

Brian Costello Design

Anthony Coston, PhD, MBA, PMP

Technical Lead, Device Design & Process Development

Biogen

Michael Cucolo

Executive Director, Business Development Transactions

BMS

Douglas Cusato

Senior Director, Product Management, Integrated Systems

West Pharmaceutical Services

Liz Daglish

Global Regulatory Strategy Lead

Gates Medical Research Institute

Joe DePalo

Commercial Director

Bespak

Mark DeStefano

Senior Director, Global Technology Innovation, Combination Products and Device R&D

Teva Pharmaceuticals

Alexis Dechelette, PhD

Senior Director, Design & Innovation

Kymanox

Victor R De la Rosa, PhD

Commercial Product Manager

Curapath

Ketaki Deshmukh, PhD

Senior Scientist, Non-Viral Delivery

Novo Nordisk

Nick DiFranco, MEM

Senior Marketing Manager, Pharmaceutical Division

Gattefossé USA

Elena Diez Cecilia, PhD, MBA

Senior Director External Innovation DPDS

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Bryan Dillon

External Manufacturing Lead, Devices

UCB

Elena Draganoiu, PhD

Director, Global Technical Business Development

Lubrizol

Rishi Dua

Senior Director, Combination Device Design & Engineering

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Jack Dunkley, MEng, CEng, MIMechE

Engineering Director

Haughton Design

Anselm Ebert, PhD

Global Business Development Director

H&T Presspart

Oliver Eden, MEng (Hons), PhD

Senior Business Unit Director

Jabil

Lance Einfeld

Senior Engineer

Congruence Medical Solutions LLC

Nicolas Eon, PhD

Global Product Manager, Injection & Infusion Devices

Terumo Pharmaceutical Solutions Division

Tarek Fadel, PhD

Director, Strategic Alliances & Partnerships

MIT

Reto Falk, MBA

Head of Business Development Americas

Ypsomed

Marco Ferroni, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO

MgShell

Alex Fong, MBA

Head of Insight

Owen Mumford

Tom Foran, BSc (Hons)

Head of Finished Product

Alvotech

Zandy Forbes, PhD

President & CEO

MeiraGTx

Seth Forster, PhD

Associate Principal Scientist

Merck Research Laboratories

Stephen Fournier

Head Global Drug Delivery Systems

CSL Behring

Morgan Fox, MSE

Senior Manager, Sales

Corbion Biomaterials

Peter-Paul Fransen, PhD

Chief Technology Officer

UPyTher

Okke Franssen, PhD

Senior Vice President Long Acting Injectables & Head of Nanomi BV

Nanomi, a Lupin group Company

Florian Föger, PhD

CEO

Cyprumed

Reenal Gandhi

Global Business Development Director

Aptar Pharma

Sudhakar Garad, PhD

Global Head of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Profiling

Novartis

Sabrena Gates

Patient Advocate

Driven by family, purpose and science

Indrajit Ghosh, PhD, MBA

Associate Scientific Director

BMS

Ludovic Gil, PhD

R&D Engineer

BD BioPharmaceutical Systems

Laleh Golshahi, PhD

Founder and CEO

3DInhale

Anu Gore, PhD

Vice President, Formulation Sciences and Product Development

Bausch + Lomb

Bradley Gould, MEng

Director, Combination Product Development

AbbVie

Steve Gowers

Head of Pharma

TTP plc

Robert Gresham, PhD

Senior Engineer, Drug Delivery

Gilead Sciences

Hunter Grol, MBA

Project Engineer

Sharp Services

E Guan, PhD

Head of Injection Systems

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Tomaso Guidi, MSc

Head of Formulation and Process Development

Chiesi Group

Manish Gupta, PhD

VP, Portfolio and Technology Delivery

GSK

Austin Hackett, MD

President

Nortiva Bio

Brent Hahn, MBA

CEO

Gram Medical

Jeff Haley, PhD

Global Technology Manager: VitalDose® and Ateva® Polymers

Celanese

Laxman Halleppanavar, PhD

Head of Portfolio Strategy & Management

Credence MedSystems

Maureen Halligan

Senior Vice President, Digital Product Innovation

Cambridge Consultants

Matthew Hancock, PhD

Principal

Veryst Engineering

Jeremy Harris, PhD

Senior Director of Research

Secant Group

Charlie Hitscherich, PhD

Director of External Operations

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Niall Hodgins

CEO

SeraNovo BV

Jack Hornsby, PhD

Director, Surgical Robotics

Cambridge Design Partnership

Chris Hurlstone

Director of Drug Delivery

Team Consulting

Iker Ibisate

Product Development Engineer

RPK Medical

Shirish Ingawale, PhD

Director, Device and Combination Product Development

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Yasuyuki Izumi, MBA

President

FUJIFILM Pharmaceuticals USA

Thomas James

Customer Solutions Manager

SHL Medical

Roshan James, PhD

Senior Principal Scientist

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Courtney Jarrahian, PhD

Global Program Leader, Medical Devices and Health Technologies

PATH

Russell Johnson, PhD

Independent Delivery Expert

For Generic Medicine

David Kang

Director, Drug Delivery and Innovation

Halozyme Therapeutics

Hans Keirstead, PhD

Chairman

Immunis, Inc.

Matt Kempton, MBA, PMP

Director, Combination Product & Device Development

Biogen

Filippos Kesisoglou, PhD

Scientific Associate Vice President, Pharmaceutical Sciences

Merck & Co

Asmita Khanolkar

Senior Director

SMC Ltd

Gwanyoung Kim, PhD

Executive Director

Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Ingyu Kim, PhD

Director

G2GBIO Inc

Sungwon Kim, PhD

Vice President, Center Head

Peptron

Amy King, PhD

Head of Insights & Strategy

Cambridge Design Partnership

Tomáš Kment

Site Manager, Haselmeier Czech Republic

Haselmeier, A medmix Brand

Shaun Knights, MSc

VP of Business Development and Operations

Calla Lily Clinical Care

Venkata Krishna Kowthavarapu, PhD

Senior Scientist

Sanofi

Patricia Krainski

Vice President of Business Development for the Development & Manufacturing Segment

PCI Pharma Services

Shiv Krishnan, PhD

VP, Global Search & Evaluation – Early Stage, Global Business Development,

Daiichi Sankyo

Vinu Krishnan, PhD

Principal Research Scientist, Advanced Drug Delivery

AbbVie

Vijay Kudchadkar

Director of Plastic and Sales Engineering - Isometric

Nissha Medical Technologies - Isometric

André LaFreniere

Vice President, Medical Device Solutions

Battelle

Jose Lagaron, PhD

CSO

Bionanopharma

Paul Lambert

Founder & CEO

EMED Technologies

Jakob Lange, PhD

VP, Head of Marketing & Sales

Ypsomed

Robert Langer, ScD

David H Koch Institute Professor

MIT

Greg Langley

CTO

Aktiv Medical Systems

Pauline Lau, PhD

CEO

Suntec Medical

Karthik Lavakumar, MS

Senior Director, Combination Product Development & Manufacturing

Upstream BIo

Cameron Lee, PhD

Associate Director

Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research

Slgrim Lee, PhD

Principal Researcher

Inventage Lab

Andy Lewis, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer

Quotient Sciences

Huanhuan Li, PhD

CEO

VisiPatch

Junwei Li, PhD

Innovation Manager

Novo Nordisk

Xiaoling Li, PhD, FAAPS, FAIMBE

Co-founder & CSO

Triastek

Patrick Lim Soo, PhD

Associate Research Fellow, Pharmaceutical R&D

Pfizer

Karsten Lindhardt, MSc, PhD, DBE

CEO & Founder

Biograil

Jake Lombardo

CEO & Co-Founder

Anodyne Nanotech

Suman Luthra, PhD

Senior Director, Analytical Research and Development

Merck Research Laboratories

Alex Lyness, PhD

Head of Applied Research & Innovation Strategy

SHL Medical

Manfred Maeder, PhD

VP Global Device and Packaging Development in TRD

Novartis

Steve Mager

Director, Combination Product Development

Vera Therapeutics

Aaron Mann

CEO

Windgap Medical

Diane McCormick

Technical Customer Support Engineer

NIPRO PharmaPackaging

Ryan McGowan

Senior Director, Devices and Digital Therapeutics, CMC Regulatory Affairs

AstraZeneca

Jeffrey McNeill, PhD

Senior Manager, Business Development

Lipoid

Gabe Meister, PhD

Senior Research Leader

Battelle

Adam Mendelsohn, PhD

CEO & Co-Founder

Vivani Medical

John Merhige

Co-CEO

Credence MedSystems

Victor Mishin, MS

Senior Scientist, Translational Product Development

Secant Group

John Morrison, PhD

Director, Formulation Sciences

Blueprint Medicines

Javier Munoz, PhD, MBA

Technology Evaluation Lead

Roche

Ýrr Mørch, PhD

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer

NaDeNo Nanoscience

Wouter Müllers, PhD, MSc

Scientific Director, Oral Peptide Formulation Technologies

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Wendy Naimark, PhD

Co-Founder & CTO

Ripple Therapeutics

Yoshiyuki Nakagawa, PhD

Manager

Asahi Kasei Corporation

Tomoya Nakatani

Assistant Manager

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, inc.

Thierry Nivaggioli, PhD

CEO

Synakis

Zoran Novakovic, MS, ME

Director, Combination Product Development

AbbVie

Terence O'Hagan, MBA

Vice President, Commercial DDS & IVD

Stevanato Group

Tom Oakley

VP, Strategic Partnerships

Sanner

David Opie, PhD

Chief Technology Officer

Noxilizer

Sabine Ott, PhD

CCO and CBO

SmartCella

Roger Pak

Research Fellow in BioTherapeutics R&D

Pfizer

Hayley Park, PharmD, MBA

Senior Vice President & Chief Pharmacy Officer

Blue Shield of California

Matthew Parker

Device Innovation Lead

TTP plc

Akhil Patel, PhD

Senior Manager

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Duncan Paterson, CEng, MBA

Senior Director of Device Development

AstraZeneca

Darren Patti, PharmD

Group COO

Telix Pharmaceuticals

Ben Peacock, PhD

Commercial Director

SPARTA Biodiscovery

David Phasey, MEng

Innovation Director

3P Innovation

Charles Potter, PhD

Project Leader

Chiesi USA

David Powell, MBA

VP of Business Development

Grand River Aseptic Manufacturing

Liz Proos

Vice President, Product Development

Daré Bioscience

Sanyogitta Puri, PhD

Senior Director, RNA & Gene Therapies - Non-Viral Delivery

Novo Nordisk

Tim Quigg

Development Director

Crux Product Design

Michael Quinn

VP, Design & Development North America

Ensera Design

Karthik Raman, PhD

CEO

Persist AI

Lisa Ray, MS

Executive Director; Portfolio and Operations | Delivery, Device & Connected Solutions

Eli Lilly and Company

Stephanie Reed

Director, Early Stage Formulation, Biopharmaceutical Development

AstraZeneca

Christopher Rhodes, PhD

Founder and CEO

Propel Biologics

Suzette Roan

Head of Regulatory Affairs Device, Global R&D

Sanofi

Andy Rogers

VP & Board Member

Key Tech

Patrick H Ruane, PhD

Chief Operating Officer

Re-Vana Therapeutics

Simon Rufer, PhD

CEO

CoFlo Medical Inc

Karla Sanchez, PhD, CEng

Head of CNS Technology

Cambridge Design Partnership

Manuel Sanchez-Felix, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer

Pendant Biosciences

Ajay Saxena, PhD

Scientific Director

BMS

Theresa Scheuble

Head, Enterprise Design & Innovation

Johnson & Johnson

Eric Schiller, MBA

Chief Technology Officer

KORU Medical Systems

Justin Schroeder

VP Global Technical Services

PCI Pharma Services

Amin Sedighiamiri, PhD

Senior Director, Device Development & Technology

Merck Research Laboratories

Kurt Sedo

Executive Editor

PharmaCircle

Paul Shaffer, PhD

SVP, R&D

Telix Pharmaceuticals

Harshal Shah, MBA

VP, Global Head of Device Strategy & Innovation

Sanofi

Kinsuk Shah, MSc, MBA

Senior Associate Director, Combination Product Steward

Boehringer Ingelheim

Lipa Shah, PhD

Director Science and Technology, Drug Development/ Pharmaceutical Development

Novartis

Ruchi Shah, PhD

Director

GSK

Whitney Shatz-Binder, PhD

Senior Principal Scientist

Genentech

Michael Sherman, MD, MBA, MS

Principal

Sherman Healthcare Solutions, LLC

Sakiko Shimizu

Associate Director, R&D

Terumo Corporation

Mark Simon, MBA

Senior Advisor

Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries, Ltd.

Iain Simpson, PhD, MBA

Director in the Global Pharma Segment Team

Phillips-Medisize

Jake Skare

Product Manager - EZ-fill Cartridges

Stevanato Group

Michael Song, PhD

Director, Drug Delivery Platform

GSK

Jatin Sood, PhD

Group Leader, Formulation R&D

ARx

Tycho Speaker, PhD

Senior Principal Research Scientist, Combination Product Development and Drug Delivery

AbbVie

Ian Speers, MPH, CPH, MedLog

CEO & Co-Founder

Pacto Medical

Colin Spencer

Technology Transfer, Project Manager

Oakwood Labs

Katrina Spencer, PhD

Director, Combination Product Development

Kindeva

Srini Sridharan, PhD

Executive Director, Drug Delivery & Product Integration

BMS

Rob Steendam, PhD

Chief Technology Officer

Innocore

Jill Steinbach-Rankins, PhD

Biopharmaceutical Innovation & External Partnerships Leader

Former Boehringer Ingelheim

Stefan Steyn, PhD

Research Fellow

Pfizer

Diana Stoycheva, PhD

Account & Business Development Manager

Ypsomed

Nenad Suknovic, PhD

Senior Research Lead for Usability Engineering

SHL Medical

Kanika Suri, PhD

Associate Director, DP, CMC

Soufflé Therapeutics

Courtney Nicholas Sutton

Head of Portfolio Strategy

SHL Medical

Shankar Swaminathan, PhD

Associate Director, Drug Product Development, Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Astellas Pharma

Ryan Swanson, PhD, ChemE

Director, Manufacturing Science & Technology

Lifecore Injectables CDMO

Monica Swinney, PhD

Industry Expert in Drug Delivery Innovation, formerly Head of Innovation & New Product Planning

Gilead Sciences

Mohammed Irfan Syed, PhD

Associate Director, Formulation & Application Services

Evonik Corporation

Sarah Tao, PhD

Search & Evaluation, Immunoglobulin (Ig) Therapeutic Area and Technologies Lead

CSL Behring

Sean Teller, PhD

Principal

Veryst Engineering

Rashmi Thakur

Director, Portfolio Strategy & Integration

BMS

Greg Thay, BEng (Hons)

Founder, Principal Human Factors Consultant

THAY Medical

Jamie Tsung, PhD

Director, Head of DP Formulation, CMC Development

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Natalia Ulyanova, PhD, MBA

Head of US Business Development and Licensing

Samyang Biopharm USA

Paul Upham

Global Head of Smart Devices

Genentech / Roche

Lambert van der Walde, MBA

SVP & Executive Director, Center for Health Care Research

United Health Group

Chuck Ventura, MS

CEO

Ventura Solutions

Pavlos Vlachos, PhD

SVP, Device Delivery & Connected Solutions

Eli Lilly and Company

Thomas Von Erlach, PhD

CEO

Vivtex

Chris Wahl, MD, MBA

Chief Scientific Officer

Halozyme

Brian Wayman, PhD

Senior Director, Combination Product Development

Kindeva

Martin Westcott

Business Development Manager

Intertek Melbourn

Christopher Worrall PhD

VP, US Business Development

Nanoform

Jenny Wu, MSc

Director, Human Factors Engineering, Device Development

AstraZeneca

Yitian Xiao, MEng

Global Biologics Product Expert

Datwyler Pharma Packaging

Ka Yip

Senior Lead, Chemical & Pharmaceutical Profiling

Novartis

Stefan Yohe, PhD

Associate Research Fellow, Pharmaceutical R&D

Pfizer

Takayuki Yoshida, PhD

Senior Director, Head of DDS

Astellas Pharma

Lilli Zakarija

Co-Founder & CEO

EdgeOne Medical

Neerja Zambare, PhD

Senior Engineer, R&D

Lonza

Nick Zampa, DEng

Director, Combination Product Development

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Peter Zeng, MBA

Head of Business Development

WisDrug AG

Liping Zhou, PhD

Senior Director, Pharmaceutical Sciences

AstraZeneca