Presentations - Day 2 - Wednesday

Session - Traceability implementation

• Achieving End to End Supply Chain Data Visibility through global standards - Dr. Ramy Guirguis, Senior Information Technology Advisor, USAID, US
• Achieving End to End Supply Chain Data Visibility through global standards - Thinlay Wangchuk, IT Specialist, UNFPA, Denmark
• Medicines traceability for patient safety in Kenya - Frederick Wanyonyi, CEO, KEMSA
• Pharmaceutical serialisation and traceability system in South Korea - Hye-Kyoung Kim, Deputy Director, Korea Pharmaceuticals Information Service (KPIS) of Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA), South Korea
• Strengthening the pharmaceutical supply chain to deliver quality medicines in Ethiopia and across Africa - Heran Gerba, Deputy Director General, Ethiopian Food, Medicine, Health Care Administration and Control Authority of Ethiopia (EFMHACA)
• Traceability and verification of anti-malarial commodities in the Ethiopian supply chain - Al Shiferaw, Deputy Country Director, JSI, Ethiopia; Teddy Berihun, Senior Health Information Systems Adviser USAID, Ethiopia
• OpenLMIS implementation and support for global standards - Josh Zamor, Architect, OpenLMIS Community, US
• Vaccines traceability in Tanzania - Brian Taliesin, Director of Project Management & Knowledge Management, PATH, US
• How serialisation will change our supply chains - Clinton De Souza, Director, Public Health, Imperial Health Sciences, US

Panel sessions

• The basics of identification and barcoding for traceability - Chuck Biss, Senior Director AIDC Healthcare, GS1 Global Office, US; Pascal Aulagnet, Market Customer Engagement, Pfizer, Europe; Ulf Suerig, Head Global Business Processes, Abbott, Germany
• The basics of global data standards and data sharing for traceability - Peter Alvarez, Senior Director, Identification and Data Strategy, Healthcare, GS1 Global Office, US; Craig Alan Repec, Senior Manager, Supply Chain Visibility, EPCIS & RFID, GS1 Global Office, Belgium; Ulf Suerig, Head Global Business Processes, Abbott, Germany; Dirk Van den Wouwer, Serialisation and End-to-end traceability leader EMEA, Johnson & Johnson, Belgium
• Panel I – Government and regulatory body Think Tank – Discussing the possibility of regulatory alignment across Africa - Cyndi Poetker, Director of Enterprise Standards and Traceability, Abbott, US; Géraldine Lissalde-Bonnet, Public Policy Director, GS1 Global Office, Belgium