Presentations - Day 1 - Tuesday

Opening Plenary Session – Awareness: Policy and regulation

• Welcome to the conference - Ulrike Kreysa, Senior Vice-President Healthcare, GS1 Global Office, Belgium
• Welcome to the conference - Tunde Odunlami, CEO, GS1 Nigeria
• Keynote Speech - USAID facilitating track and trace using global standards - Leslie Reed, Mission Director, USAID, Ethiopia
• Keynote Speech - UNFPA’s work to implement global standards - Bettina Maas, Country Director, UNFPA, Ethiopia
• WHO efforts to prevent substandard and falsified medical products entering the global market - Mick Deats, Group Lead, Substandard and Falsified Medical Products and Lisa Hedman, Technical Officer, Procurement and Supply Chain Management, World Health Organisation (WHO), Switzerland
• U.S. FDA: Collaboration for Global Regulatory Strengthening - Leigh Verbois, Associate Commissioner for International Programs, U.S. FDA, US
• Global Family Visibility and Analytics Network - Julia White, Market Development Technical Officer, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, US

Panel sessions

• Traceability: how to get started? Learnings from the APEC toolkit - Ulrike Kreysa, Senior Vice-President Healthcare, GS1 Global Office, Belgium; Françoise Hirth, Serialisation Coordinator for Europe and EEMEA, Roche, Switzerland; Dirk Van den Wouwer, Serialisation and End-to-end traceability leader EMEA, Johnson & Johnson, Belgium
• Traceability: how choose a traceability model – Learnings from the APEC toolkit - Ulrike Kreysa, Senior Vice-President Healthcare, GS1 Global Office, Belgium; Françoise Hirth, Serialisation Coordinator for Europe and EEMEA, Roche, Switzerland; Dirk Van den Wouwer, Serialisation and End-to-end traceability leader EMEA, Johnson & Johnson, Belgium
• Government and regulatory body Think Tank - Learning from donor agencies on procurement and the support of local regulation - Cyndi Poetker, Director of Enterprise Standards and Traceability, Abbott, US; Géraldine Lissalde-Bonnet, Public Policy Director, GS1 Global Office, Belgium