8:00 am Registration & Welcome Coffee
8:30 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
8:45 am Panel Discussion on Overcoming Barriers in the Implementation of LAFM Programs in Pharma and Biotech
Synopsis
- Implementing a LAFM program; what are the biggest barriers – infrastructure, cost, or mindset change?
- Building a business case that appeals to stakeholders, what are they looking for?
- Getting end users’ buy in: how to make it easy for scientists to help not hinder your LAFM plans?
9:15 am Successful Change Management Through Transparency
Synopsis
• Understanding your audience and aligning with department values
• Involvement of ‘customers’ and clear communication
• Implementation of new strategic initiatives takes time and may require reinforcement
10:00 am A New Solution for End-to-End Asset Management
Synopsis
- Software deployment for inventory and asset life’s tracking
- Servicing your asset and surplus equipment from OEMs and suppliers
- Monetization before it’s too late
10:30 am Speed Networking & Morning Refreshments
TRACK 1
Advancing Asset Management
TRACK 2
Progressing Facility Management
11:15 am Asset Utilization Beyond Surplus Equipment Identification
- Initial savings of asset utilization from removal of surplus equipment
- Looking beyond removal of surplus equipment, how to continue gaining ROI
- Using tracking of previous users, solvents, and processes to pinpoint reasons for equipment failures
- Redefining equipment best practices to reduce maintenance requirements and lean on peer-to-peer training
Linwood Bryant, Senior Manager, Asset Management, Regeneron
11:45 am Panel Discussion: Surplus Asset Management and
Disposition in Pharma
Nick Dove, President, Heritage Global Partners
Steven Planchon, Asset Lifecycle Manager, Pfizer
Senior Representative,Genentech
Biotech Solutions in Asset
Management.
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12:15 pm Inventory Management: How Good Data is the Basis of Any Successful Program
- Ensuring your database is kept up to date
- How many resources/time to allocate building and maintaining master data?
- Cost detriment from “moved” equipment and working with end-users to maintain a current inventory
Gregg York, Facilities Operations, Translate Bio
12:45 pm Tracking Your Assets
Diana Hage, CEO, RFID Global
11:15 am Integrated Facility Management Hybrid Model
- Retaining internal staff whilst onboarding IFM expertise
- What services to outsource and what works internally, contract management, staffscheduling etc.
- Case study one benefits brought to the business and TCO of this approach
Jedd Skibo, Director Global Category Procurement, Charles River Labs
Facility Management and Design in
Biotech.
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11:45 am Don’t Go in Blind When Selecting New Lab Space; Key Design Considerations to Ease Installation Bottle Necks
- Importance of having a clear design, size and capacity in mind prior to site selection
- Planning for company growth in a sustainable fashion when selecting space
- Finding the right vendors to work with when looking for real estate
- When is best to rent or build from shell for your company
Annie Kang, Associate Director of Research Operations, Cue BioPharma
12:15 pm Making The First Move; From Incubator to Your Own Lab
- Prioritising task to get up and running an soon as possible, minimizing company downtime
- Sourcing vendors for the first time in the move out of rented space
- Optimizing your new space, removing surplus equipment and planning maintenance
Kevin Walsh, Senior Lab Manager, Guardian Therapeutics
12:45 pm Session Reserved for PHC Corporation
1:00 pm Networking Lunch
2:00 pm How Tracking Solutions Can be Adapted for Small-Medium Biotech & in Times of Pandemic
- Ensuring your tracking system is scalable to allow for company growth
- How small biotech’s tracking needs differ from large pharma
- Translating our tracking solutions into a covid-19 response
Demet Aybar, Associate Director of Lab Operations, Scholar Rock
2:30 pm Session Reserved for Avantor
2:45 pm Round Table Discussion: Buying and Selling
- Surplus Strategies: Best approaches to sell externally
- Redeployment: Tuning your end of life strategy to maximize internal use
- When to buy new, second hand and when to lease; which equipment types of best suited for which?
2:00 pm Lab Planning from an EHS perspective
- Where to place PPE stations to minimize cross contamination and ensure easy workflow
- Planning for safe transportation and collection of Biohazardous and Chemical waste
- Design considerations in installing safety showers and other in-lab EHS equipment
Nicole Visaggio, Specialist, Laboratory Operations, BlueRock Therapeutics
2:30 am Discover multiple perspectives on the key issues: Join a roundtable discussion that has been specifically designed to enable you to leave with insights that you can immediately implement into your own facility management processes
- What are the main pitfalls in facility design you have encountered
- What approaches do you use to allocate lab space
- How do you protect intellectual property when renting space Following discussions in the open roundtable format, the table leaders will form a panel to feed back to the entire audience on the key topics that were discussed in the session.
3:15 pm Afternoon Networking Tea
3:50 pm What are Integrated Lab Solutions?
Ensuring Compliance in Quality Controlled Labs
4:20 pm Equipment Periodic Review: A Business Case Applied in a QC Lab
Synopsis
- Improve performance of site equipment periodic review
- Seek opportunities to reduce costs and comply with quality policies
- Spread and level the workload for qualification activities
- Use CMMS to control periodic review activities
4:50 pm Harnessing the Power of Asset Utilization Data
Synopsis
- Scaling asset utilization monitoring to non-PC devices
- Lessons learned
- Same data, multiple insights (utilization, health, energy management)
- Customer case study (presented by customer)
5:20 pm GxP Equipment Validation
Synopsis
- Ensuring compliance for diagnostics and clinical labs
- Verify the confidence, integrity and traceability of data which are generated
- Establishing documented evidence that provides a high degree of assurance that a specific process will consistently produce a product that meets predetermined specifications and quality