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3rd Annual Packaging and Labelling Congress

Addressing key issues, innovations and regulations in packaging and labelling

13th - 14th April 2010, BSG House, London, UK

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Background Info
Day 1
Day 2
Partners
Past Papers

Associate Sponsors

Media Partners

Discussion Groups

Background Info

Key Speakers
• Dr. Thomas Dries, Market Manager - Europe, Pharmaceutical, Honeywell
• Janice Kite, Traceability Director Healthcare, GS1
• Nigel Cryer, Interim Head of Global Quality, Manufacturing & Supply Chain, Norgine
• Horst Kastrup, Director Regulatory Affairs & Quality Assurance, Meda Pharma
• Stephen Jones, Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP
• Julian Harris, Analyst, International Policy Network
• Steve Carden, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting Group
• Stephen Wilkins, Chief Executive, Child Safe Packaging Group
• Bjorn Lofstedt, Managing Director, Index Braille
• Dave Taylor, Product Manager, PRISYMID
• Horst Bittermann, Head of Marketing, Mayr-Melnhof Karton
• Stephan Klein, Technical Director, Mayr-Melnhof Karton
• John Elworthy, Lead Solution Architect, EskoArtwork
• Mukesh Patel, Director, CommQP Pharmaceutical Services
• Theresa L. Mock, Director, Marketing, OpSec Security
• Stephen Jarrold, Sales & Marketing Director, Denny Bros

Designed for you to gain an insight Visiongain’s 3rd Annual Packaging and Labelling Congress will provide you with a proactive strategy to combat counterfeit drugs and benefit from the latest innovations in packaging design. It what remains an ever-exciting field, you need to ensure that you stay abreast of the latest market movements and deliver a quality product.

This two day event will provide you with practical insights into the latest strategies and scientific issues that will help you develop breakthrough business plans to improve your product launches, market position and increase patient adherence alongside unparalleled networking opportunities.

Together with key decision makers you will address the requirements of new readability guidelines due to new draft legislation, and the challenges of global label management.

Key Benefits:

• Stay up-to-date on the latest innovations in packaging and labelling
• Learn how can you turn a cost and hygiene factor into a commercial benefit?
• Examine new strategies in fighting counterfeiting
• Gain knowledge about legislation and existing models – EU, USA, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Turkey
• Find out about the supply chain security and compliance
• Seize this opportunity to network with leaders from pharma-biotech, healthcare and regulatory agencies

Who should attend?

VPs, Directors, Heads and Managers of:
• Packaging
• Labelling
• Supply Chain and Logistics
• Regulatory Affairs and Compliance
• Quality Assurance
• Product Information
• Operations
• Quality Control and Assurance
• Licensing
• Marketing and Sales
• Patient Compliance
• Purchase / Facilities
• Manufacturing Technology
• International Labelling Liaison
• Packaging Designer
• Global Labelling

Counsels, Analysts, Consultants of:
• Packaging
• Labelling
• Supply Chain
• Logistics

Day 1

Day One, Tuesday 13th April 2010

09:30 Registration and refreshments

10:00 Opening address from the chair

Stephen Wilkins
Chief Executive
Child Safe Packaging Group

10:10 Healthcare packaging that is value-based
• Key stakeholder needs & aspirations related to primary packaging (oral solids)
• Benefits of thermoformed pack designs for
- Passing stability in all climatic zones
- Speeding up development timelines
- Reducing complexity costs
- Lowering total costs of ownership over the full drug life time
- Enhancing patient loyalty
• Best practices for stability testing

Dr. Thomas Dries
Market Development Manager Healthcare and Packaging
Honeywell

10:50 The need of Braille labels
- Tooth paste or shampoo
- Close your eyes
- The braille reading community 200 person / million
• EU directive and market need
- Requirement on pharmaceutical products
- Improve your company profile
• Alternative forming methods
- Stamping and forming tool
- Adding ink/plastic
- Embosser forming
• Embossed braille labels
- Braille format
- Braille labels as in Word
- Information from database
- Embossing on demand

Bjorn Lofstedt
Managing Director
Index Braille

11:10 Morning refreshments

11:30 Medicine packaging for an ageing population with rapidly reducing dexterity
• As we grow older our dexterity, particularly the forces we are able to apply reduce dramatically
• A 75 year old can on average exert half as much force as was possible at 65
• In packaging, effectiveness may be summed up by the mantra; “ Obvious how and easy to do”

Stephen Wilkins
Chief Executive
Child Safe Packaging Group

12:20 Prepress technology at work to ensure legislative compliancy in label and packaging production
• By separating content from design, Brand Owners and their packaging suppliers will establish a process which greatly reduces the risk for errors.
- Understand the value of this workflow.
- What is required to implement?
- Discover and learn from use case implementations.
- Live technology demonstration

John Elworthy
Lead Solution Architect
EskoArtwork

12:40 Networking lunch

13:50 Application of GMP to pharmaceutical print origination
• Explain the importance of getting the artwork origination process right and identify risks in this process
• Highlight recent artwork errors which have resulted in product recalls
• Explain how GMP can be applied to help minimise errors in this area

Mukesh Patel
Director
CommQP Pharmaceutical Services

14:30 Unlocking the value - Innovating Packaging & Labeling management
Understand how leading pharmaceutical companies have improved their global packaging and labeling processes and realized significant benefits through:
• Detailed insight in global product portfolio
• Improved efficiency of pack & label management
• Real-time insight and control over the processes
• Reduced risk of errors and compliance exposure

Marc Sluijs
EMEA Business Development Director Life Sciences
Oracle

14:50 Afternoon refreshments

15:10 Combating the threat of counterfeit medicines
• What is a counterfeit?
• Counterfeits in the supply chain and on the Internet
• Effective IP enforcement against counterfeits?
• Criminal sanctions and customs notices
• Trade marks; parallel imports and other supply routes

Stephen Jones
Partner
Baker & McKenzie LLP

15:50 Formulating a proactive strategy to combat counterfeit drugs
• Counterfeit drugs in the pharmaceutical supply chain
• Proactive measures to combat counterfeiting
• Leveraging an integrated brand protection strategy

Theresa Mock
Marketing Director and Julie Tomlinson, Sales Director
OpSec Security

16:30 Closing remarks from the chair

16:40 Networking drinks
Take your discussions further and build new relationships in a relaxed and informal setting

Day 2

Day Two, Wednesday 14th April 2010

09:30 Registration and refreshments

10:00 Opening address from the chair

Brian Thornley
Chief Operating Officer
Aegate

10:10 Identity preservation: technologies and legislation
• Emerging technologies – the market’s latest responses to counterfeiting
• Legislation and existing models – EU, USA, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Turkey
• Options for emerging economies.

Julian Harris
Analyst
International Policy Network

10:50 Management and control of labelling
• Analysing the challenges of global label management across the world
• Examining the strategies for optimising content and layout
• Novel technologies to improve label production

Dave Taylor
Product Manager
PRISYMID

11:10 Morning refreshments

11:30 Aspects important to patients
• Whom to complaint?
• Specific list of contacts
• Improving patient information systems

Nigel Cryer
Interim Head of Global Quality,Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Norgine

12:10 GS1 standards in healthcare: raising the bar on patient safety
• The need for global harmonisation and the global GS1 healthcare user group
• Regulatory requirements across the globe
• Why do we need standards
• Automatic identification & data capture: from standards development to implementation
• How to meet traceability requirements worldwide

Janice Kite
Traceability Director Healthcare
GS1

12:50 Networking lunch

14:00 Supply chain security and compliance: How can you turn a cost and hygiene factor into a commercial benefit?
• Regulations on maintaining supply chain security are strict and only going to get stricter
• Many companies only see the cost of compliance with regulations and put the minimum effort into meeting regulations as a license to operate
• However, supply chain security can provide extraordinary benefits to virtually all stakeholders in the supply chain
• Accelerating supply chain security will release those benefits early

Steve Carden
Managing Consultant
PA Consulting Group

14:40 Cartonboard - for sure the packaging solution of the future
• Packaging market and trends
• Requirements for pharma packaging materials
• Risk management optimisation for packaging
• Cartonboard - the sustainable answer to environmental topics

Horst Bittermann
Head of Marketing
Mayr-Melnhof Karton

Stephan Klein
Technical Director
Mayr-Melnhof Karton

15:00 Afternoon refreshments

15:20 Challenges for pharmaceutical packaging due to draft new legislation/ administrative processes at the authorities – the industry perspective
• The EU-Pharma-Package: Pharmacovigilance regulation/ directive
• The new readability guideline requirements
• The product information management process (PIM) between agencies and marketing authorisation holders

Horst Kastrup
Director Regulatory Affairs & Quality Assurance
MEDA Pharma

16:00 A cure for labelling headaches
• The role of multi-page labels
• Information that works…and doesn’t!
• An evolving solution

Stephen Jarrold
Sales & Marketing Director
Denny Bros

16:20 Chair’s closing remarks

16:40 End of Conference

Partners

Associate Sponsors:

PRISYM ID
PRISYM ID design and deliver high quality RFID, labelling and barcode solutions for organisations that need complete product auto-identification and lifecycle traceability. With over 25 years experience and product development in a wide range of sectors including life sciences, chemical and manufacturing, the company boasts a comprehensive range of industry specific label management software and consumables. Our elite client list includes Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Allergan and Cardinal Health.
Headquartered in the United Kingdom, PRISYMID has offices in the USA and Europe as well as a strategic network of partners to meet our customers' needs on a global scale. For further information, please visit www.prisymid.com

Index Braille
Index Braille develops, produces and sells braille embossers - printers for the blind. Since the 1980s the company has focused solely on this product, developing professional and user friendly braille embossers. Today Index braille is the worlds' leading braille embosser producer and the company grows with an annual rate of 20 percent. When you see braille on your hotel information brochure or restaurant menu it has a good chance of coming from an Index Braille embosser. For further information, please visit www.indexbraille.com

Mayr-Melnhof Karton Sustainable Board Solutions
Mayr-Melnhof Karton is the world leader in the production of coated recycled cartonboard and the largest folding cartonboard manufacturer in Europe. The company is a symbol for quality and reliability, value for money and a high level of application safety.
At MM Karton we produce a wide range of high-quality recycled fibre based cartonboard grades at eight European production sites with an annual production capacity of around 1.7 million tones. We also offer a range of attractive virgin fibre cartonboard grades, supplying a large number of markets with a set of different requirements. For further information, please visit www.mm-karton.com

Denny Bros Ltd
Denny Bros Ltd is a leading independent specialist print company and the originators of Fix-a-Form multi-page labels, the ideal cure for labelling headaches.
Our multi-page labels are used extensively in the pharmaceutical and clinical trial markets, the single largest sectors we deal with. They relay vital product descriptions, dosage and user guidelines, and safety messages to your customers, directly and accurately.
As a pharmaceutically accredited company, we are committed to supplying fault free solutions on time, every time. Our processes and people are monitored and assessed continually, to ensure we develop effective, dependable products and give you exceptional customer care. For further information, please visit www.dennybros.com

Oracle
Oracle is the leading provider of software solutions to the Life Sciences industry, with a portfolio of solutions enabling key business processes across the entire value chain. Some of the world's leading Life Sciences companies rely on Oracle PLM solutions to manage product packaging and labeling worldwide, as well as portfolio management, ideation, new product development, quality management and market launch planning and execution. Our clients manage these processes whilst simultaneously increasing efficiency, reducing time to market and cost of compliance. For further information please visit: www.oracle.com

EskoArtwork
EskoArtwork is a global supplier and integrator of innovative solutions for packaging, commercial printing and professional publishing. Its products and services help customers raise productivity, reduce time-to-market, lower costs and expand business.
EskoArtwork is the worldwide market leader with pre-production and collaboration software for brand owners, packaging buyers, designers, pre-press companies and packaging manufacturers.
EskoArtwork employs around 1,000 people worldwide. Its global sales and support organization covers Europe, the Americas, Asia/Pacific and Japan, and is completed by a network of distribution partners in more than 40 countries.
EskoArtwork is headquartered in Gent, Belgium. For further information, please visit www.esko.com

Media Partners:

PharmiWeb.com
PharmiWeb.com is the leading industry-sponsored portal for the pharmaceutical sector. Supported by most of the leading pharmaceutical corporations, PharmiWeb.com provides dynamic real-time news, features, events listings and international jobs to industry professionals across Europe and the US. For further information please email: corporate@pharmiweb.com

BIOTECHNOLOGY EUROPE
BIOTECHNOLOGY EUROPE is owned by BIOTECHNOLOGY WORLD. It is based and located in Warsaw, Poland. Biotechnology World was founded in 2007 to provide the world’s biotech and pharma information and market to make it universally accessible and useful for scientific and business processes. Its first step to fulfilling that mission was building the BIOTECHNOLOGY EUROPE platform that will allow a quick spread of information in different channels. BIOTECHNOLOGY EUROPE offers companies completed internet public relations, publication and marketing solutions. One of the main goals of BIOTECHNOLOGY EUROPE is to integrate the Biotech and Pharma Sector in Europe to global biotechnology, pharmaceutical and life science activities. For further information please visit www.biotechnology-europe.com

Future Pharmaceuticals
Future Pharmaceuticals has forged powerful relationships with key industry leaders to provide a platform for successful brand recognition, and for senior decision-makers to have the means to procure and plan implementation strategies based on the topics covered. Positioned to be an authoritative resource within top pharma companies as well as small, specialty, and biotech, Future Pharmaceuticals magazine is geared to create a deep penetration into a highly targeted and responsive audience, bridging the gap between the industries' top issues and the solutions top-tier vendors can provide. For further information, please visit www.futurepharmaus.com

InPharm
InPharm is the online platform for exclusive pharmaceutical news, comment, contracts, services, jobs and events and is home to InPharmjobs.com, Pharmafile and Pharmafocus. For further information please visit: www.In-Pharm.com

Pharma Connections Worldwide
Pharma Connections Worldwide® is the leading professional business networking website focused in the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Life Sciences research industry. Our goal is to provide a conduit for delivery of premiere content coupled with the right clientele in order to facilitate business development opportunities among industry professionals responsible for making key decisions in a global marketplace. For further information please visit www.pharmaconnections.com

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packing Sourcer
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packing Sourcer (PMPS) is a specialist journal designed to provide worldwide coverage of a range of topics relating to the pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging sector. Web: www.samedanltd.com, Email: lee@samedanltd.com

Pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting news from SecuringPharma.com.
SecuringPharma.com is a free-to-access information service that covers the issues surrounding counterfeit medicines and supply chain security in the pharmaceutical industry. Our aim is to provide practical advice and market intelligence to help drugmakers keep up-to-date with developments in the field and define their own strategies to safeguard the supply chain, from raw materials right through to the patient. For further information, please visit www.securingpharma.com

Enquiries

If you would like more information on the range of sponsorship or exhibition possibilities for visiongain's 3rd Annual Packaging and Labelling Congress, please contact:
Avnee Gajjar, +44 (0)20 7549 9948
avnee.gajjar@visiongainglobal.com
Ronald Magali, +44 (0)20 7549 9934
ronald.magali@visiongainglobal.com

Past Papers

Speaker presentations are free to delegates. If you are unable to attend the event, the presentations are published two weeks after the event and are available to purchase.

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