Agenda

Time Session
09:30 am - 10:30 am Registration & Networking Tea
10:30 am - 10:45 am Welcome Address from Express Pharma + Lamplighting
10:45 am - 11:00 am Positioning Goa in the global CDMO map
Dr Praveen Khullar, Executive Director, VerGo Pharma Research Laboratories
11:00 am - 11:15 am Advancements in hot melt extrusion technology – Instrumentation considerations and methodologies
Mr Manoj Bansal, Head - Business Development, Thermo Fisher Scientific India
11:15 am - 11:30 am Drug release modulation through DRUGCOAT RSPO/RLPO
Mr Krutik Prajapati, Manager (Techno Commercial), Vikram Thermo (India)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm PANEL DISCUSSION
PPILT meets the patent cliff — Can Goa’s pricing model handle a biologics wave?
Dr Subrata Chakraborty, Founder, INOPHAR Consulting & Training (MODERATOR)
Mr Nilesh Hegu, Site Head – Goa II, Cipla
Dr Pankaj Kumar, VP/Head R&D & Director, Wallace Pharmaceuticals
Mr Uttam Kadam, Sterile Head, Zydus Lifesciences, Goa
Dr Prabhat Dessai, Associate Professor & Assistant Director, Placement & Corporate Relations Cell, Parul University, Goa
Prof (Dr) G Shaber Ali, Professor Of Law, Former Principal, V M Salgaocar College of Law
12:30 pm - 02:00 pm Networking Lunch
02:00 pm - 02:20 pm Lucky Draw
02:20 pm - 03:20 pm PANEL DISCUSSION
Beyond America — Finding India’s next export growth engines
Mr Mahesh Gurnasinghani, Executive Member GPMA and Visiting Faculty - Goa College of Pharmacy (MODERATOR)
Mr Maneesh Madhukar Narkar, VP - Formulations, Centaur Pharmaceuticals
Mr Pramod Poojari, Site Head – Warehouse – Manufacturing, Cipla
Mr Hruday Jadhav, Associate VP - Analytical R&D, Micro Labs
Mr Sandeep Kulkarni, Associate Director APAC Sourcing Global Procurement Category, Teva Pharmaceuticals
Mr Niket Talauliker, Head of Site Quality, Sanofi India
Mr Himank Narvekar, DGM – BD & Strategy, VerGo Pharma Research Laboratories
03:20 pm - 03:40 pm Lucky Draw
03:40 pm - 04:00 pm Unconference
04:00 pm - 04:30 pm Networking Hi-Tea
04:30 pm - 04:45 pm Lucky Draw
04:45 pm - 05:45 pm PANEL DISCUSSION
From Panjim to the World — Goa’s export playbook
Dr Manoj Kumar Kashyap, Professor and Director, Research & Development, Parul University, Goa (MODERATOR)
Dr Pradeep Kumar Vishwakarma, Associate Director - COE Manufacturing Science and Technology Respiratory, Cipla
Dr Bhaskar Chauhan, Head R&D and Quality Management, Puniska Injectables
Mr Sartaj Hanfi, Sr GM - Plant Head, Indoco Remedies
Mr Vishwas J Desai, GM - Quality Assurance, Blue Cross Laboratories
Mr Abhinay Ajgaonkar, DGM - Head of QA, Centaur Pharmaceuticals
Ms Urmila Deepak Naik, AGM, FDC Limited Goa (Unit III)
05:45 pm - 06:00 pm Vote of thanks
06:00 pm onwards Cocktails & Appetizers

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