7th Annual Pharma Packaging, Labelling, Serialization & Supply Chain 2025

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08:30 – Coffee and registration – An opportunity to meet and to network with your conference colleagues.

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09:20 – Welcome address and opening remarks

PACKAGING

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09:30 – Driving Packaging Excellence in Pharma: A Strategic Shift from Function to Future

•   Leveraging smart and connected packaging to enhance patient-centric outcomes
•   Balancing sustainability with functionality: Navigating regulatory and material challenges
•   Role of automation and AI in optimizing packaging workflows and compliance
•   Global packaging harmonization – a roadmap to operational efficiency and speed to market

SHRINIWAS SINGH, HOD Packaging Development, Themis Medicare

SERIALIZATION, TRACK & TRACE

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10:00 – DISCUSSION WITH EXPERTS: Pharma Serialization and Track & Trace: Ensuring Supply Chain Integrity and Patient Safety

•   Track-and-trace in improving visibility and accountability across the pharmaceutical supplychain
•   Recent updates over serialization safeguarding against counterfeit medicines to enhance patient safety
•   Challenges and opportunities in aligning serialization standards across different regions
•   Key hurdles in implementing serialization and track-and-trace solutions and how to overcome them
•   Importance of accurate data capture, management and sharing for effective serialization systems
•   Harnessing generative AI, block chain and SCOR frameworks to tackle modern challenges
•   Integrating anti-tampering and serialization technologies to ensure product authenticity and patient safety.

Moderator
CHAKRAVARTHI AVPS, Global Ambassador, World Packaging Organisation

Panellists
R. M. BAJAJ, Assistant Commissioner, FDA
LOKESH PATEL, Founder Director, URL Aseptic Automation
JOSE CAMARA SANTIAGO, Chief Executive Officer, Camara Validation & Consulting Services
VAIBHAV SALVI, Director & Head - Clinical Study Unit, India & South East Asia, Sanofi
RAJENDRA KUMAR KASI, VP & Global Head – PV, Glenmark
BIJOY PETER, General Manager - Technical Services, GS1

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10:50 – Morning Tea/Coffee & Networking

PACKAGING, LABELLING

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11:20 – DISCUSSION WITH EXPERTS: Panel discussion with experts: Driving innovation and sustainability in pharma packaging: Trends, challenges and opportunities

•   Exploring advancements in smart packaging, connected solutions and patient-centric designs.
•   Impacts of outsourcing to manufactures, consumers and other stakeholders.
•   Will outsourcing packaging to contract packaging industries paves way for core companies to stay focus in R&D.
•   Addressing eco-friendly materials, circular economy strategies and reducing packaging waste.
•   Advance labeling technologies: Ensuring accuracy, compliance and readability
•   Leveraging AI, automation and new technologies to redefine the packaging landscape.
•   Designing packaging that improves adherence, accessibility and overall user experience

Moderator
OMPRAKASH S. SADWANI, Former Joint Commissioner & Controlling Authority, FDA (Maharashtra State)

Panellists
AMIT KALE, Associate Vice President, Reliance Retail
B. G. BARVE, Joint Managing Director, Blue Cross Laboratories
PRAFULL V. DESHPANDE, Team Lead- R&D Pkg. Development, Lupin
BHUPESH MITTAL, Technical Packaging Program Lead, Bayer
ASHOK KUMAR BHATTACHARYA, Former Executive Director, Takeda

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12:10 – Barcoding Technology - Game changer in consumer behaviour

LOKESH PATEL, Founder Director, URL Aseptic Automation

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12:40 - Networking luncheon

SUPPLY CHAIN

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13:40 – DISCUSSION WITH EXPERTS: Building agile and secure pharma supply chains: Adapting to global challenges and future opportunities

•   Transforming pharma supply chains: Driving efficiency, resilience and patient-centric solutions
•   Building agile and robust supply chains to mitigate disruptions and ensure continuity
•   Adapting supply chain strategies to meet evolving patient needs and expectations
•   Innovations and best practices for maintaining the integrity of temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals
•   Identifying vulnerabilities and implementing proactive measures to address potential risks
•   Fostering partnerships across stakeholders to optimize supply chain operations
•   Insights into emerging trends such as AI, block chain and predictive analytics shaping the pharma supply chain

Moderator
PRASAD SHIDHAYE, Ex-Director, India, Deliver Asia Pacific, Supply Chain, Johnson & Johnson

Panellists
ASHU GUPTA, Vice President, Supply Chain, Koye Pharmaceuticals
SUDIPTO BASU, VP - Head of SCM, Procurement & Packaging, Virbac
TEJAS MEHTA, Assistant VP Head Logistics & MSS, Reliance Life Sciences
GRESH KUMAR, Global Operations Excellence Director, Novartis
GIRIJESH SRIVASTAVA, Global Supply Chain Manager, Sun Pharma

LABELLING

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14:30 – Future of pharmaceutical labelling: enhancing patient safety and engagement through digital innovation and regulatory compliance

•   Overview of product information on labelling enables patient safety.
•   Describe the effective utilization of digital patient labelling.
•   Will QR codes eliminate the need of physical inserts.
•   Is Health Literacy only a public concern.
•   How language service providers enable penetration of product information on labelling.
•   How AR and QR enables dynamic instruction via smartphone.
•   Intricacies of regulatory compliance in clinical trial labelling.
•   Looking ahead, the integration of AI and ML in smart label system.

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15:00 – Afternoon Tea/Coffee

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15:30 – Serialization as a pillar of pharmaceutical safety: Combating counterfeiting and ensuring product quality

•   How GS1 organisation plays a role in serialisation.
•   Serialization are pivotal thing to prevent the entry of fake drugs and counterfeiting
•   Its ability to produce tailored information about product quality helps in withdrawing defective drugs
•   Impact of serialization in supply chain management
•   Serialization in the prevention of unauthorized drugs into the market and safeguarding public health.
•   Planning for 2028: How can the suppliers be prepared for authenticity on delivered products?

SOMNATH BASU, Team Leader of Reviewers of Drugs, National Regulatory Authority for Drugs

REGULATORY

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16:00 – DISCUSSION WITH EXPERTS: Navigating the Pharma Regulatory Maze: Compliance Strategies for Packaging, Labeling, Serialization and Track & Trace

•   An overview of packaging, labeling, serialization and track-and-trace regulations across key markets
•   Addressing common hurdles in meeting diverse and evolving regulatory requirements
•   Insights into GS1 standards and their application for global compliance.
•   Adapting to region-specific track-and-trace guidelines such as DSCSA (US) and EU FMD
•   Navigating the complexities of regulatory reporting and audit readiness
•   Adapting to regulatory evolution: Balancing operational efficiency and stakeholder collaboration
•   Managing compliance across international borders and harmonizing operations

Moderator
VISHWAS SOVANI, Director, Pharma Wisdom

Panellists
TRIPTI NAKHARE, Associate VP Regulatory Affairs & Packaging Development, FDC Limited
VENKATESH KATGERI, Vice President, Site Head, Srikem Laboratories
MINOO BIJU, Head-Regulatory Affairs, Piramal Pharma Solutions
HARSHAD KOTHAWADE, Former Head of Regulatory Management & Trade Compliance, Merck Group
SONIKA SHARMA SHAH, General Manager Regulatory Affairs, GSK

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16:50 - Closing remarks and end of conference