Programme
Registration and welcome coffee
Opening Plenary Session – Awareness: Policy and regulation
Opening remarks and welcome to the conference
Yehulu Denekew, Director General, Food, Medicine, Health Care Administration and Control Authority of Ethiopia (FMHACA) (confirmed)
Ulrike Kreysa, Senior Vice-President Healthcare, GS1 Global Office, Belgium (confirmed)
Tunde Odunlami, CEO, GS1 Nigeria (confirmed)
Keynote Speech
USAID facilitating track and trace using global standards
Leslie Reed, Mission Director, USAID, Ethiopia (confirmed)
UNFPA’s work to implement global standards
Bettina Maas, Representative, UNFPA, Ethiopia (confirmed)
Welcoming remark and introduction of Guest of Honour
Yehulu Denekew, Director General, Food, Medicine, Health Care Administration and Control Authority of Ethiopia (FMHACA) (confirmed)
Opening speech
Guest of Honour, Ethiopia (invited)
Photo moment with guest of honour + opening exhibition
Coffee break
WHO efforts to prevent substandard and falsified medical products entering the global market
Mick Deats, Group Lead, Substandard and Falsified Medical Products, World Health Organisation (WHO), Switzerland (confirmed)
Lisa Hedman, Technical Officer, Procurement and Supply Chain Management, World Health Organisation (WHO), Switzerland (confirmed)
The USFDA: Collaboration for Global Regulatory Strengthening
Leigh Verbois, Associate Commissioner for International Programs, USFDA, US (confirmed)
Global Family Visibility and Analytics Network
Julia White, Market Development Technical Officer, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, US (confirmed)
Introduction of afternoon sessions and the poster reception
General Networking lunch
Two parallel streams - Participants choose which stream to attend:
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Panel I – Government and regulatory body Think Tank-Learning from other countries and regions
Open to international government healthcare organisations – discussions will be held under the Chatham House Rule
- Cyndi Poetker, Director of Enterprise Standards and Traceability, Abbott, US (confirmed)
- Géraldine Lissalde-Bonnet, Public Policy Director, GS1 Global Office, Belgium (confirmed)
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Panel II – Traceability: how to get started? Learnings from the APEC toolkit
- Ulrike Kreysa, Senior Vice-President Healthcare, GS1, Belgium (confirmed)
- Françoise Hirth, Serialisation Coordinator for Europe and EEMEA, Roche, Switzerland (confirmed)
- Dirk Van den Wouwer, Serialisation and End-to-end traceability leader EMEA, J&J, Belgium (confirmed)
Coffee break
Two parallel streams - Participants choose which stream to attend:
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Panel I – Government and regulatory body Think Tank, continued - Learning from donor agencies on procurement and the support of local regulation
Open to international government healthcare organisations – discussions will be held under the Chatham House Rule
- Cyndi Poetker, Director of Enterprise Standards and Traceability, Abbott, US (confirmed)
- Géraldine Lissalde-Bonnet, Public Policy Director, GS1 Global Office, Belgium (confirmed)
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Panel II – Traceability: how choose a traceability model – Learnings from the APEC tool kit
- Ulrike Kreysa, Senior Vice-President Healthcare, GS1, Belgium (confirmed)
- Françoise Hirth, Serialisation Coordinator for Europe and EEMEA, Roche, Switzerland (confirmed)
- Dirk Van den Wouwer, Serialisation and End-to-end traceability leader EMEA, J&J, Belgium (confirmed)
Poster reception
Plenary session – Traceability implementation
Welcome coffee
Achieving End to End Supply Chain Data Visibility through global standards
Dr. Ramy Guirguis, Senior Information Technology Advisor, USAID, US (confirmed)
Thinlay Wangchuk, IT Specialist, UNFPA, Denmark (confirmed)
Medicines traceability for patient safety in Turkey
Dr. Hakkı Gürsöz, Head of Turkish Medicines And Medical Devices Agency (TMMDA), Turkey (invited)
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 (confirmed)
Ethiopia – the detailed journey
TBC, Food, Medicine, Health Care Administration and Control Authority of Ethiopia (FMHACA) (confirmed)
Traceability and verification of anti-malarial commodities in the Ethiopian supply chain
Al Shiferaw, Deputy Country Director, JSI, Ethiopia (confirmed)
Teddy Berihun, Senior Health Information Systems Adviser USAID, Ethiopia (confirmed)
Coffee break
OpenLMIS implementation and support for global standards
Tenly Elizabeth Snow, MS, Community Manager, OpenLMIS (confirmed)
Vaccines traceability in Tanzania
Brian Taliesin, Director of Project Management & Knowledge Management, PATH, US (confirmed)
How serialisation will change our supply chains
Clinton De Souza, Director, Public Health, Imperial Health Sciences, US (confirmed)
General networking lunch
Two parallel streams - Participants choose which stream to attend:
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Panel I – Government and regulatory body Think Tank – Discussing the possibility of regulatory alignment across Africa
Open to international government healthcare organisations – discussions will be held under the Chatham House Rule
- Cyndi Poetker, Director of Enterprise Standards and Traceability, Abbott, US (confirmed)
- Géraldine Lissalde-Bonnet, Public Policy Director, GS1 Global Office, Belgium (confirmed)
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Panel II – The basics of identification and barcoding for traceability
- Chuck Biss, Senior Director AIDC Healthcare, GS1, US (confirmed)
- Pascal Aulagnet, Market Customer Engagement, Pfizer, Europe (confirmed)
- • Ulf Suehrig, Head Global Business Processes, Abbott, US (invited)
Coffee break
Two parallel streams - Participants choose which stream to attend:
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Panel I – Government and regulatory body Think Tank, continued – Discussing the possibility of regulatory alignment across Africa
Open to international government healthcare organisations – discussions will be held under the Chatham House Rule
- Cyndi Poetker, Director of Enterprise Standards and Traceability, Abbott, US (confirmed)
- Géraldine Lissalde-Bonnet, Public Policy Director, GS1 Global Office, Belgium (confirmed)
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Panel II – The basics of global data standards and data sharing for traceability
- Peter Alvarez, Senior Director, Identification and Data Strategy, Healthcare, GS1, US (confirmed)
- Craig Alan Repec, Senior Manager, Supply Chain Visibility, EPCIS & RFID, GS1, Belgium (confirmed)
- Ulf Suehrig, Head Global Business Processes, Abbott, US (confirmed)
- Dirk Van den Wouwer, Serialisation and End-to-end traceability leader EMEA, J&J, Belgium (invited)
Networking event
Yod Abyssinia (TBC)
Welcome coffee
The healthcare industry stakeholder perspective
Implementing traceability for patient safety
Pascal Aulagnet, Market Customer Engagement, Pfizer, Europe (confirmed)
B Braun’s track and trace initiatives
Collins Agoro, Project Manager, Track & Trace, B. Braun, Germany (confirmed)
Enabling traceability in South African hospitals
Caroline Potgieter, E-commerce Manager, Procurement, Netcare, South Africa (invited)
The benefits of medicines traceability to the patient home
Feargal Mc Groarty, National Haemophilia System Project Manager, St. James’s Hospital, Ireland (confirmed)
Coffee break
How track and trace provides benefits to Ethiopia
Kalkidan Gebretsadik, Operations Manager, Office of Innovative Strategies and Operations, St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia (confirmed)
Inspirational speaker
TBC
Closing remarks
TBC
General networking lunch
Q&A with the Experts
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1 hour sessions with subject matter experts; 4 sessions run concurrently
- Getting started with traceability - Géraldine Lissalde-Bonnet, Director Public Policy, GS1, Belgium / Dirk Van den Wouwer, Serialisation and End-to-end traceability leader EMEA, J&J, Belgium
- Choosing a traceability model - Ulrike Kreysa, Senior Vice-President Healthcare, GS1 Global Office, Belgium / Pascal Aulagnet, Market Customers Engagement, Pfizer, Europe
- Understanding the difference between standardisation and technology - Chuck Biss, Senior Director AIDC Healthcare, GS1, US / Peter Alvarez, Senior Director, Identification and Data Strategy, Healthcare, GS1, US / Craig Alan Repec, Senior Manager, Supply Chain Visibility, EPCIS & RFID, GS1, Belgium
- Engaging Solution providers to assist – Tania Snioch, Director, Healthcare, GS1, Belgium
Q&A with the Experts
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1 hour sessions with subject matter experts; 4 sessions run concurrently
- Identification and bar coding - Chuck Biss, Senior Director AIDC Healthcare, GS1, US / SUlf Suehrig, Head Global Business Processes, Abbott, US
- Product data sharing – Peter Alvarez, Senior Director, Identification and Data Strategy, Healthcare, GS1, US / Collins Agoro, Project Manager, Track & Trace, B. Braun, Germany
- GS1 standards for sharing traceability information - Craig Alan Repec, Senior Manager, Supply Chain Visibility, EPCIS & RFID, GS1, Belgium / Dirk Van den Wouwer, Serialisation and End-to-end traceability leader EMEA, J&J, Belgium
- Traceability implementation in the hospital - Tania Snioch, Director, Healthcare, GS1, Belgium / Feargal Mc Groarty, National Haemophilia System Project Manager, St James’s Hospital, Ireland