February 25-26 / Barcelona, Spain

European Drug Safety & PV Outsourcing Summit Barcelona

BARCELONA | 2025

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

What to expect

Welcome to the World Drug Safety Summit, a culminating conference of our World tour of Pharmacovigilance in heart of European pharma industry, beautiful Barcelona! After last annual event we are thrilled to gather our vibrant community of safety professionals to explore the future of pharmacovigilance. In this conference we will focus on the true meaning of patient centricity in pharmacovigilance including real-world use cases along with game-changing impact of Artificial intelligence in PV,  we will discuss possibilities of low-end digital disruption,  strategic roles in PV, risk management, automation, leadership, and clinical safety. Learn how to integrate disruptive technologies, manage budgets, and build effective teams.

Our event features inspiring keynotes, practical case studies, and engaging panel discussions, offering insights from passionate industry experts. Plus, enjoy numerous networking opportunities to build crucial business relationships.

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

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Event Speakers

Gurpreet Singh

Vice President, Managing Director Integrated Safety

IQVIA

Annette Humes

Global Head of Safety Resource & Alliance Management and Chief of Staff (Safety)

Roche

Offiong Ani

Associate Director, Third Party Strategy & Oversight, Worldwide Patient Safety

Bristol Myers Squibb

Mark Cawley

Associate Director, Research Procurement (Reg Affairs, PV & Med Affairs)

Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Franziska Rathjens

Director Global Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety, Deputy QPPV

B Braun Gruppe

Ivanna Mikhailovna Rosendal

Vice President of Business Digitalization

Ascendis Pharma

Roger Mutter

Medical Safety Director

Alfasigma

Darko Krnic

Head of Pharmacovigilance

Pharma&

Mabel Abad Ramos

Patient Access Lead for Access to Medicines, Growth & Emerging Markets (GEM)

Stefanie Amend-Mall

Director Patient Safety HUB Europe

Sandoz

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Testimonials

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
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
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
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
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
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

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Ticket | February 25-26, 2025
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  • Access to All Conference Sessions of the European Drug Safety & PV Outsourcing Summit Barcelona 
  • Access to Post Conference Networking
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  • Includes Coffee Breaks, Snacks and Refreshments, Seated Lunch

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Event partners

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

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.

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