25th Strategic Project & Portfolio Management for Pharma

3-day CONFERENCE

International in-person conference filled with leading industry speakers.

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OUR STORY TO TELL THE WORLD

OUR CONFERENCE PROGRAM

This is not just another PPM conference. This is a conference which tells you a STORY. One story, followed by another, stories of exceptional people who happen to choose Project and Portfolio Management as their way to bring needed medicines to improve the health of millions of people on our planet. Our conference will feature numerous assisted networking sessions which will help you create those critical business friendships needed for fruitful cooperation with professionals from the industry for many years to come. We believe, that our thoughtfully planned conference will fill in any missing pieces in your
plans on the mission to deliver your projects faster, more efficiently and with ease and satisfaction.

Main Takeaways

Testimonials

Rated 5 out of 5
It's a nice place to to meet people, to learn from people, from organization where they start with. In the PMO organization, it's also a nice place where you can hear about a lot about presentations, problems of things they are doing in other organizations, so you can learn of it.
Ronald Aalders
Rated 5 out of 5
You know there are a lots of other places that you can go to do talk about project management and portfolio management which I really love, you know a large global meetings like DIA, NF BIO, but there’s nothing like the intimacy that Why summits provides to us and being able to network with the small group of people.
Ailsa Mendez
Executive Director Biotech Portfolio Lead, PPD
Rated 5 out of 5
This conference has really surprised us, how kind everyone was. I feel like everyone was so open to connecting. It was like we were already all a big group of friends coming together.
Stephen McKay Clark
Global Solution Lead, Proggio 
Rated 5 out of 5
High-quality speakers and attendees, a great mix between healthcare providers, life science companies, providers of digital health & AI solutions, and investors.
John Mulcahy
CEO, HealthGenuity

Event Speakers

Ahmed Seddik

Senior Manager, Global Health Economics and Outcomes Research & Real World Evidence
Daiichi Sankyo Europe

Belen Rueda De Lecea

Global Head of Planning and PMO Head
Centrient Pharmaceuticals

Patrick Oster

Global Head of Strategy
Merck

Finn Tram

PMO Director
Terumo Europe

Ramzan Tabasum

Senior Director - Head of Biologics Quality Control
Lonza

Marcel Hoogenraad

Project Manager R&D
Grünenthal Group

Stephan Aufhammer

Senior Manager Global Project Management
Stada

Christian Lerche

Global Head of Project and Portfolio Management, Sanofi Global Research
Sanofi

Marcus Chambers

Global Head Healthcare and Wellness Portfolio
Vectura Fertin Pharma

Jens Als

Head of Supply Chain
2Care4 Group

Raul Mora

Senior Development Excellence Lead
Roche

Belen Moran

Global Healthcare Affairs Senior Manager
Boehringer Ingelheim

Jörn Schröder

Senior Director Global Project Management & Market Entry
Stada

Dimitris Zampatis

Global Program Safety Lead-TA Oncology and Immunology
Sandoz

Marcelo Costa

Business Excellence, Industrial Engineering and Portfolio/Program Management
Takeda

Gilles Brackman

Vice President, Research & Development, Clinical, Quality & Regulatory Affairs
Flen Health

Heike Gielen-Haertwig

Head Portfolio, Project & Resource Management
Bayer Pharmaceuticals

Reinhold Roessler

Global Project Management
Sanofi

Shah Kalandar

Albert Sanchez

Global Head of R&D Digital Data and Computational Sciences Programs
Sanofi
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Conference

Ticket | January 17-19, 2024
2399
  • Access to All Conference Sessions
  • Access to Post Conference Networking
  • Conference Materials
  • Includes Coffee Breaks, Snacks and Refreshments, Seated Lunch

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