Simona Vatzova

Associate Director International Freight & Compliance
Actavis

Simona is directly responsible for ensuring a fully compliant supply chain according to the EU GDP guidelines and other global regulations. Recently, Simona has pioneered a global pilot project to install real-time data loggers to monitor, control and protect Actavis products. In particular, Simona’s expertise ensure that temperature control requirements are met in difficult regions such as the Middle East and Saudi Arabia.

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Conference day one – Tuesday 19 April 2016

Tuesday, July 4th, 2017

14:40 DRILL-DOWN ROUND TABLES How to manage and meet global temperature control requirements

•What are the specific requirements for temperature monitoring
•How you cooperate with the governmental entities to design the cold chain process?
•What are the best ways to manage extreme heat or freezing conditions?
•How do you decide which temperature control solutions to invest in?
•What are the main lessons learned from experience so far?

Choose from:
Table 1: Middle East & Saudi Arabia-
Simona Vatzova, Associate Director International Freight & Compliance, Actavis
Table 2: India -
Robert-Jan van den Bos, Director Supply Chain - Global Logistics, Amgen & Richard Ettl, CEO, SkyCell

Table 3: How to meet temperature control requirements in in air cargo pharma transportation: Network, facilities, process quality & transparency -
Yoram Eshel, Global Transportation and Logistics Senior Director, Teva Pharmaceutical
Janne Tarvainen, Vice President, Head of Cargo, Finnair Oyj
Table 5: Leveraging real-time visibility tools to build continuous improvement in temperature control and security -
Olivier Simonnot, Strategic Marketing Manager Life Sciences, Sensitech

Conference day two - Wednesday 20 April 2016

Friday, August 4th, 2017

23:45 Women in supply chain: How to accelerate you career trajectory and leadership path

Corina leads a team of 150 and also oversees the regional management for all internal and external logistics activities across Europe, Middle East, India and Africa. She recently has worked closely with site, regional and headquarters cross-functional teams to implement a global distribution strategy, recognizing the evolution of Bristol Myers Squibb portfolio towards the biopharma space.

Corina has relocated to Paris after 14 years abroad, holding site, regional and global Supply Chain roles in the USA and Italy providing her with a global culture-sensitive mindset in the pharma/biopharma industry. She is viewed as a leading pioneer in developing and motivating high performing teams, therefore best placing her to discuss supply chain talent management. Corina‘s key areas of responsibility are Change and Talent Management. Recently she has pioneered an extremely successful HR Transformation in a multinational global environment – ensuring global requirements were successfully translated into local needs. Corina has a wealth of knowledge in supply chain talent development, best placing her to lead a session on nurturing rising stars.

Why are women underrepresented in the supply chain and what can be done to overcome this?
What are the main priorities for women in accelerating their career path?
What experience should be gained to move to leadership?
How can you encourage more women to become involved in supply chain careers?

Conference day three - Thursday 21 April 2016

Monday, September 4th, 2017

13:40 Cold-chain design for specialty products: What transportation and equipment decisions would you take if you could design your cold-chain for specialty products from scratch?