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FutureLink Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain, 2-4 October) is TraceLink’s thought leadership and education event for leaders from across the life sciences and healthcare supply chain. More than 200 supply chain leaders will gather at the event as we explore ways to leverage track-and-trace data from global compliance standards such as EU FMD and get real-time supply chain data to fuel supply chain intelligence and drive critical end-to-end supply chain processes.
Leading the conversation at FutureLink Barcelona are the industry’s foremost supply chain innovators and visionaries. Each of these individuals has ample experience driving successful supply chain digitalization projects and plenty of best practices to share. Today, we’re excited to announce some of the insightful speakers presenting at FutureLink Barcelona!
Lora Cecere
Founder & Author
Supply Chain Insights LLC & Supply Chain Shaman
Guy Coutin
Vice President of Industry and Global Alliances
Tecsys
Shabbir Dahod
President and CEO
TraceLink
Alessandro de Luca
Group CIO and Head of IT
Merck Group
Monika Derecque-Pois
Co-Founder and Fmr. Director General
Healthcare Chain Institute and GIRP
Charles Gloor
Co-Founder and Fmr. Head
Healthcare Chain Institute (HCI) and Movianto
Pasi Kemppainen
Global Supply Chain Management, Serialization and Traceability
Santen
George Llado
Board Member Charles River Laboratories, Sierra Ventures, and TraceLink
Former CIO Alexion & Merck
These speakers will deliver deep insight and actionable best practices covering four pressing challenges facing today’s life sciences and healthcare supply chain across 50+ unique sessions. Here is a sneak peek at these themes and the specific topics that some our esteemed speakers will discuss!
Driving visibility and collaboration across the supply chain
As supply chains expand to become bigger and more sophisticated, visibility and collaboration are critical to maintaining operational efficiency. Today’s supply chain uses only 20% of its data, capitalising on that other 80% is key to taking the next step forward.
During her session on “Feeding Intelligent Decisions and AI Tools with Supply Chain Information from an Integrated Network of Networks,” Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, will demonstrate how visibility helps tame supply chain fragility and variability. She’ll showcase the practicalities of digitalising essential supply chain transactions and orchestrating processes across the end-to-end supply chain to enable enhanced collaboration across entire supply networks and real-time supply chain visibility.
Strengthening business connections for win-win relationships
Digitalising your supply chain doesn’t just benefit your organisation—it delivers tangible value to your entire supply network. By making timely, accurate, and useful transaction data available to your partners, customers, and suppliers, you empower them to work with you more efficiently.
That will be the focus of the keynote from Alessandro de Luca, Group CIO and Head of IT of Merck Group. In his session on “Senior Executive Insights for Infusing Intelligence into Your Supply Chain,” he will look at the value of trade partner interoperability and explore why building scalable digital bridges of visibility, collaboration, and orchestration is critical to activating strategic competitive advantages.
Enhancing integration for better intelligence orchestration
Feeding your ERP and other enterprise systems with essential supply chain data from across your entire network enables you to capitalise on the vital intelligence contained in your supply chain to feed your AI tools and other transformative initiatives. This allows you to drive major process improvements to supply and demand planning, resource allocation, global growth initiatives, and more.
Pasi Kemppainen, Global Supply Chain Management, Serialisation and Traceability at Santen, will give us a preview of what this looks like in action in his session “Practical Applications of AI-driven Intelligence for Track & Trace, Quality, and Beyond.” Kemppainen will demonstrate practical applications for leveraging supply chain data with AI, covering use cases for serialisation and traceability, quality management, and more.
Securing market access by staying ahead of compliance
New track-and-track compliance requirements are always emerging, and existing requirements are constantly evolving. Businesses need a scalable approach to not only adapting to new and revised requirements but also leveraging this compliance data to enrich your enterprise systems and business processes.
In his keynote session, "Intelligent Orchestration of Your End-to-End Supply Chain," TraceLink President and CEO Shabbir Dahod will look at how track-and-trace and compliance is just the first step toward a broader digitalization journey. See why intelligent orchestration of products, partners, and processes is key to transforming supply chain performance, feeding internal stakeholders and cross-company teams with new levels of visibility, collaboration, and intelligence.
More immersive sessions await at FutureLink Barcelona
These speakers and sessions are just some of the many discussions scheduled for FutureLink Barcelona this autumn, with many more being unveiled in the coming weeks!
While our insightful speakers are key to creating FutureLink’s energetic and insightful learning environment, that’s only one of many reasons to get excited. You’ll also have the opportunity to reinforce the insights gleaned from these sessions through educational TraceLink University workshops, an immersive product fair featuring the latest supply chain digitalisation solutions, and more.
Register today and get ready to share insights, inspirations, and ideas with your peers.
