10th Global Pharmacovigilance & RWE FORUM

World’s greatest minds in drug safety, pharmacovigilance, data analysis, reporting, government policy, and innovative technology united under the Why Summits Future of Pharmacovigilance World Tour

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About the event

Welcome to the 10th Pharmacovigilance & RWE Forum, a culminating conference of our World tour of Pharmacovigilance in heart of European pharma industry, London! After our last annual event we are thrilled to gather our vibrant community of safety professionals to explore the future of pharmacovigilance. 

Our event features inspiring keynotes, practical case studies, and engaging panel discussions, offering insights from passionate industry experts. Join our numerous networking opportunities to build crucial business relationships and keep up to date with industry developments.  

Let’s come together in London to advance our mission of delivering safer, faster, and more sustainable medicines to patients.

OUR FLAGSHIP EUROPEAN PV EVENT, HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT 

  •  PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING: We specialize in providing peer-2-peer level networking experience for pharma & biotech professionals.  
  •  TOP-MANAGEMENT EXPERTISE: Bringing together the industry leaders in the field to share strategic perspectives and insights that are shaping the industry.  
  • IN-DEPTH & INTERACTIVE: In contrast to loud, large-scale exhibitions, our events are setup to be discussion-driven for our participants to have meaningful conversations in a relaxed networking environment. 

KEY TOPICS

Target audience

Event Speakers

Dr Adrian Rabe

Head of the RWE CoE

Boehringer Ingelheim & Visiting Professor, Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London

Fabio De Gregorio

Vice President & Head of Drug Safety

Shionogi Europe

Sanket Mahajan

Safety Scientist, Pharmacovigilance

Shionogi Europe

Rishi Chopra

Executive Director, Head of International Pharmacovigilance (IPV) & Global PV Operations

CSL Behring

Michael von Forstner

Head Of Safety Science

Sobi

Tasi (Anastasia) Lampropoulou

Director, Global Integrated Evidence Planning

Novartis

Vijay Kara

Safety and Quantitative Innovation Director

GSK

Amer Alghabban 

R&D Quality Regulatory Authority Inspection Management

Bristol Myers Squibb

Muhammad Memon

Chief Medical Officer

Complement Therapeutics

Andrea De Iacovo

Global Head of Pharmacovigilance

Besins Healthcare

event partners

Silver Partner

Pharmora was established in 2010 and remains a family managed business, offering the highest standards of delivery and customer care.  We have grown to become an international business, with operations in the UK and the EU, providing global medical review services for the clinical development and safety surveillance of medical products.  Pharmora has extensive safety expertise and has supported clients in managing reviews and documentation across the whole spectrum of safety data. We provide support from the first clinical trials to ongoing commercialisation and have a highly capable team of medics and scientists available to provide flexible and dedicated assured services, at your convenience.

Silver Partner

Accelerating Patient Safety: Leading with Evidence, AI and Scientific Expertise. 

Biologit MLM-AI is a state-of-the-art platform for monitoring scientific literature to identify adverse events and emerging risks throughout a product’s lifecycle, from clinical development to post-marketing. Designed for teams of all sizes, it combines a flexible workflow with a unified global and local scientific database, enhanced by unique AI-driven screening and productivity tools. These features enable fast, accurate, and fully traceable results for all safety surveillance needs. 

Biologit Database is a robust, continuously updated repository of scientific literature, optimised for compliant regulatory searches. It integrates global and regional sources into an intuitive interface, delivering high-quality results for monitoring adverse events and potential risks. With over 65 million entries and 40,000 new articles added daily from 120,000 journals across 170+ countries, it ensures comprehensive coverage aligned with FDA, EMA GVP and global standards. 

Silver Partner

Quark empowers the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to automate the production of their highly regulated or complex documentation, so they can approve and publish it faster, and stay compliant. It enables them to accelerate regulatory approvals, release the bottlenecks around content collaboration, and get their drugs to market in record time.

Quark Publishing Platform (QPP) NextGen, the cloud-based, AI-powered component content management system (CCMS) with native XML-based structured authoring using Microsoft Word, helps pharmacovigilance teams centralize and simplify the processes involved in co-authoring and approving the PV system’s critical drug safety documentation. This starts with the master file (PSMF) and traverses through all aggregated and regulatory affairs reports, including development safety update reports (DSURs), periodic adverse drug experience reports (PADERs), periodic safety update reports (PSURs), periodic benefit-risk evaluation reports (PBRERs) and risk management plans (RMPs).

Powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI and connected with wider content and business software ecosystems such as Veeva and ArisGlobal, QPP NextGen manages every stage of the authoring and review lifecycle from end to end. PV teams increase productivity and save time by easily writing, importing, formatting and publishing complex types of variable global content to omnichannel submission outputs using structured, XML component-based authoring workflows, stringently tracking workflows in real time, driving risk reduction and safeguarding compliance.

Silver Partner

Founded in 2008, NostraPharma is a premier boutique consultancy with ISO 9001:2015 certification, specializing in pharmacovigilance (PV), quality and training. With over 900 years of combined expertise, we provide tailored, high-quality solutions designed to support our clients throughout the quality and PV lifecycle. Our commitment to quality ensures a personalized service, helping businesses navigate regulatory requirements with confidence and efficiency.

At NostraPharma, we provide dedicated, tailored support that ensures regulatory compliance to enable patient safety. Our experts have conducted over 200 audits on average and have extensive knowledge of health authority inspections including those by the FDA, EMA, HPRA, MHRA, Health Canada, as well as regulatory authorities in France, Spain, Croatia, Turkey and Hungary. We excel in managing complex inspection responses, challenging resources and products or database situations, helping our clients navigate regulatory challenges with confidence and efficiency.

Core service areas:

  • Strategic PV/Quality Consultancy
  • AI/Algorithm & GxP Auditing
  • PV and Quality Training
  • QPPV support
  • PSMF
  • PV system set up/improvements

Associated Partner

At Alwis Group, we’re pioneering AI-driven solutions for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. Our innovative tools are transforming pharmacovigilance, enhancing drug safety monitoring, and streamlining regulatory compliance. Our suite of products includes: 

  • ReTrans Enterprise: AI-powered literature surveillance 
  • ReTrans Extension: Browser plugin for real-time safety data analysis 
  • ScoMed: Intelligent medical literature scoring * ZiNex: Advanced medical document processing 
  • ZiQuel: AI-driven quality complaint management 
  • ZiTrack: Smart inbound receipt management 

We’re committed to improving patient safety and operational efficiency through cutting-edge technology. Our solutions reduce costs, minimize errors, and accelerate processes, allowing healthcare professionals to focus on what matters most – patient care. 

Testimonials

5/5
My highlights were hearing from the industry PV & Safety leaders, including: 📚 the brilliant panel with IPSEN's Pav Rishiraj, Sanofi's John Solomon MD and CSL's Rishi C. who spoke about the importance of PV leaders to educate their colleagues and leadership on the "What" they do, and "Why" they do it, so the role of patient safety is appreciated beyond simply the "Police" of Pharma.
Souhail Debaghi
Director of Sales at TriNetX
5/5
I had the pleasure of attending an insightful panel discussion featuring Pav Rishiraj, Gurpreet Singh, John Solomon MD, and Rishi C.! The pragmatic discussions truly reflected ground realities, and the practical tips provided were invaluable. Kudos to the organiser Tomas Rendek Why Summits for the excellent choice of topics and for bringing together the experts to address the real-world challenges in utilizing real-world evidence for patient safety.
Sanjeev Srivastav
Signal Management Lead at BioNTech
5/5
What an excellent 2-day event connecting with friends and industry colleagues, old and new. There was plenty to digest, lots of learnings and take home messages whilst we shared best practices. Looking forward to the next one!
Nick Nikberg
Senior Safety Specialist, AstraZeneca
5/5
Finishing off Day 2 with my IQVIA colleague Gurpreet Singh taking part in an open plenary discussion about "collaborations with HCP's and utilising digital tools". I have thoroughly enjoyed the past 2 days of networking with my colleagues and industry professionals. Thank you to Why Summits & Tomas Rendek for wonderful organisation and to Erika Barbarosie for chairing the event! I look forward to Basel later in the year!
Lewis Atkinson
Director of Business Development for PV Drug Safety Technology at IQVIA
5/5
Thanks to the 9th Global Pharmacovigilance & RWE Forum speakers, particularly Michael von Forstner, Alexandru Barbarosie, MD, Arun Ravindran, MD, and Karen Cheng, for sharing their knowledge and experience. It was a great first Pharmacovigilance conference and a good chance to meet more like-minded people in the industry.
Cláudia Meneses
Senior Pharmacovigilance Officer at Sanofi
5/5
Absolutely a blast, thank you Tomas, Zuzana and Why Summits! There are a vast variety of topics, interesting and exicting conversations, insightful presentations about hashtag#patientsafety, hashtag#compliance, hashtag#signalmanagement and more. I’m humbled that I can be a part of this - unmatching educational experience.
Erika Barbarosie
Associate Director PV Compliance at Gilead Sciences

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Ticket | April 9-10, 2025
£ 2349
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