Assistant Director of the pharmacy department at Gregorio Marañon Hospital, a 1400-bed acute- and tertiary-care teaching institution in Madrid. Anna also serves as assistant professor at the School of Pharmacy of Complutense University, San Pablo CEU and Alcalá de Henares University. As part of the pharmacy steering committee, she has been highly involved in the transformation of this pharmacy to a fine and safe institution (Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) since 2003, Pyxis Profiled since 2003, Smart pumps since 2010) with a competitive position in the Spanish Public Health System, giving efficient, committed, sustainable and sensitive services catering to the needs of clients and patients.

In the research field, since 2009 Ana has been in charge of the innovation office at the pharmacy department where she coordinates the implementation of new technology, research plans and innovation projects. This centre is focused on six main research areas: quality, clinical services and pharmacotherapy management, drug utilisation innovation and safety, development and professional competence, pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics and genomic biomedicine and nanomedicine. Ana has presented at local, state, national, European and international meetings and has published several papers in high-impact factor journals about management, automation and patient safety.

Since 2005, she has been the associate editor for the European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (EJHP), responsible for overseeing the peer review process for safety, IT and management and making recommendation to the editor-in-chief. She has received several awards among which are worth mentioning: The Royal National Academy of Pharmacy Award (2004), Best European Pharmacist by Cardinal Health (2005), 1st Award of Innovation given by Rey Juan Carlos University (2011), Best Pharmacy Initiatives by Correo Farmacéutico (2012) and the Pharmacy Department where she works received the Award of Excellence of Public Pharmacy Services by The Madrid Council (2012).

Carmen Rodriguez, PharmD, PhD, is Specialist in Hospital Pharmacy at Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón (Madrid, Spain). She has a master's degree in Leadership and Management in Hospital Pharmacy from the IE Business School, and she works as assistant professor at the School of Pharmacy of Alcalá de Henares University.
Rodriguez has 10 years of experience in providing high-quality care for patients with infectious diseases. As part of the steering committee of the pharmacy, Dr. Rodriguez has led the design and implementation of new technologies in the outpatient pharmacy. She also made a decisive contribution towards developing clinical activities, including planning pharmaceutical care and patient education, and demonstrating the positive impact that interventions by clinical pharmacists have on patient outcomes.
She serves on several hospital committees, including the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, the Infection Control Committee and the Joint Commission Committee. Dr. Rodriguez also serves on numerous national professional committees, including the National Plan against Antibiotic Resistance of the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products and the Infectious Diseases pharmacy group of the Spanish Association of Hospital Pharmacy (SEFH). She is also Chair of the HIV pharmacy group of SEFH, representing it on the Clinical Advisory Committee of the AIDS National Plan (Ministry of Health).
Author of more than 20 publications and researcher in more than 10 projects related to new technologies and clinical pharmacy services in the last five years. She has received several awards, worth mentioning: 1st Award of Innovation given by Rey Juan Carlos University (2011), 1st Award of Clinical Research given by SEFH (2016), and 1st Award of Innovating in the fight against antimicrobial resistance given by MSD and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (2019). The Pharmacy Department where Rodriguez carries out her activities has just received the Award for Excellence in Public Management by The Ministry for Political Territorial and Public Function (2019).

Christophe joined BD in 2015, since then he has held a variety of IT roles within BD. In 2021 he transitioned to the Benelux medication management organisation as solution manager. A role with a focus on driving the adoption of automation and optimising workflows within the hospital pharmacy on one hand and on the other hand looking for local partners to realise the best possible solutions for our customers. He holds a degree both in commercial sciences and IT management. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling, wine and becoming a certified electrician.

Davide Visentin is Vice President and General Manager for Medication Management Solutions for the EMEA region at BD. He was born in Italy and studied Computer Science from 1987 to 1994 at the University of Milan. During his career, Davide has developed a strong vision of how to drive global business in the medical device industry, both in the disposable and capital equipment sectors. Since 1994, he has held different positions at leading medical device industry providers such as Johnson & Johnson, Stryker and BD. His experience includes general management, strategic planning and R&D business development initiatives across regions. In his current role, Davide is responsible for both the infusion solutions business and hospital dispensing automation solutions across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Dipak is a registered Pharmacist and is BD Medical Affairs Director where he is responsible for clinical professional relations, innovation work and evidence generation. Previously he was a Chief Pharmacist and Hospital C-Suite executive in the U.K. NHS in London, specialising in adult and neonatal intensive care and adverse drug reaction monitoring and has practiced internationally. Prior to joining BD years ago he consulted as part of the EY health performance improvement firm and then led the Medtronic managed-service offering.

Dott.ssa Emanuela Foglia is a Type A fixed-term researcher (RTDA) for the School of Management Engineering at LIUC – Carlo Cattaneo University Emanuela collaborates with the Centre for Research on Health Economics and Health Care Management at the LIUC Business School She is responsible for the centre’s research projects, with regard to health technology assessment and economic evaluation in the healthcare sector She coordinates both the master courses in Health Technology Assessment and several master courses in Management for healthcare professionals

Fadi Nabil has a background in pharmacy. He joined BD in 2015 and is now Marketing Manager for the BD Rowa™ Dispensing Portfolio in Hospital Automation and Dispensing Retails International.

A career that spans over 20 years within the NHS as a Pharmacy Technician. Ian has worked in NHS pharmacy departments across the country and gained invaluable experience and qualifications. Before joining BD in 2019, he worked as a senior leader within pharmacy, delivering technical services on multiple sites for both dispensary and clinical services. Kaizen qualified, he uses his knowledge and experience to apply philosophies of continuous improvement to work practices in line with the company's true north objectives. His focus is on supporting pharmacy staff on their automation journey from design to implementation and beyond.

Javier is a qualified and registered pharmacist with over 20 years experienced in community and primary care settings. Over the years, Javier had the opportunity to develop and implement clinical services in diabetes, respiratory, osteoporosis and nutrition, making emphasis in the optimization of pharmacy interventions. With special interest in evidence generation and data analysis, he is now working in the Health Economics department at BD, supporting healthcare value and outcomes based initiatives.

Jeremy Treder is a passionate Product Manager with a technical background who has worked in highly regulated markets to realise convenient products for businesses and their customers. In the last decade of realising and sustaining products he focused on customer facing products and how to improve processes to provide new services. Together with institutions, healthcare providers and their patients he has worked to introduce safe and efficient solutions to offer a new experience in healthcare.

Joachim Sicken works as Product Manager for BD Rowa and is continuously driving the future  product portfolio for logistics automation and digitalisation for retail, pharmacy hospital and wholesale business. Joachim brings multiple years of experience in medication logistic automation and is applying this to continuously improve our solution efficiency.

Mr. John Rayner is an experienced healthcare executive advisor, currently leading the European branch at HIMSS. over 40 years' experience as a consultant at hospitals on several continents. He helps them create and execute their digital roadmaps. He relentlessly aims to push the boundaries to ensure patient safety. He is a registered nurse in the United Kingdom and has had many roles of increased responsibility, both as a healthcare practitioner and manager.

Julia Asplin is the Pharmacy Logistics Lead and Purchasing Team Manager at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. Specialising in Pharmacy procurement and distribution services within an NHS Hospital pharmacy, she is currently working as the project lead for the FMD and BD.

Julie Gautier was born and raised on the island of Reunion, by French and Vietnamese parents. Her mother, a dance teacher, passed on her passion to her at a very young age, which she only practiced intermittently. Her father, an underwater hunter, introduced her to this activity at the age of eleven. She thus indirectly discovered free diving as a sport around the age of 18. In 2006, she won the French record for free diving in constant weight with a depth of −65 meters, then repeated it in 2007 with −68 meters. She stopped competing in 2009 and and since then, has pursued an artistic career. She also supports an ecological message, believing that it is urgent to protect the planet, and sees herself as a voice in the service of this cause. Under water, she feels weightless, freed from limits. This is where she achieves her goals.

Katy Verhelle is the Chief Pharmacist at AZ Groeninge in Kortrijk, Belgium. She is board member of the Flemish Society of Hospital Pharmacists (VZA) and treasurer of Belgian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (BVZA) and effective member of the advisory committee of the Pharmaceutical Inspectorate in Belgium. She carries the Laureate of Labor, where she was honored with a gold medal for the pharmacist and pharmacy assistant profession in 2021. She is a Supervisor Master after becoming a Master of Hospital Pharmacists in training and is passionate about transforming healthsystem pharmacy and medication management optimisation with a special interest in digitisation and AI.

Khalid Abdel Dayem is currently working as a Senior Manager, Pharmacy Informatics and Automation, at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD). He is one of the founding members of the department of Pharmacy at CCAD and joined the team in 2012.
Khalid is a graduate of the University of Jordan college of Pharmacy and obtained his Masters of Quality Management degree from the University of Wollongong. He served as a Senior Cerner application specialist at Al Rahba hospital for 8 years. He currently holds four EPIC certifications. Khalid was instrumental in setting up medication journey and technology workflows throughout the hospital that enabled Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi to obtain HIMSS Stage 7 in 2016.
He advises executive leadership on long-term strategic technology initiatives and serves as a pharmacy liaison both within and outside the organisation. He has presented at several local and regional conferences on topics of integrated technologies and the important role pharmacists play.

Maher Mominah has extremely extensive experience in the fields of healthcare informatics and automation. His passion is ensuring delivery of healthcare through rethinking workflows, and through integrating medical devices with human systems. He is an experienced healthcare consultant, oncology pharmacist, administrator, and Healthcare Information specialist. He has a Master's degree in Health Informatics and Pharmacy Informatics Certification from the American Society of Health-system Pharmacists (ASHP). He also carries certification in Project Management.

Manal M. Al Nemari is a manager of Pharmacy Informatics and Automation in King Fahad Medical City (KFMC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Since April 2020, she has become a consultant in the Central Committee of Pharmacy & Informatics in the Ministry of Health. In 2021, she has been appointed as Assistant lead of Pharmacy Informatics and Automation in Cluster 2 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During this year, Manal M. Al Nemari received two certificates as an Artificial Intelligence leader and a Digital Transformation leader. Manal M. Al Nemari is an experienced professional who has extensive knowledge and a background in drug build development, validation, testing, training and implementation of CPOE and robotics: In 2015, she successfully led the integration and implementation of the first centralised robotics in an inpatient setting in the Middle East and the second in the world in terms of capacity and complexity. In 2019, Manal M. Al Nemari successfully led the integration and implementation of the first outpatient robotics with its pharmacy management solution in KSA and the second in the world in terms of size and complexity. Up to now, she has been successfully leading the integration and implementation of all pharmacy robotics and technology with EPIC in the King Fahad Medical City (KFMC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia since 2019. Manal M. Al Nemari is the first Saudi female who has an experience of robotic technology for outpatient and inpatient settings. In addition, she is an advocate of incorporating quality tools such as Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Change Acceleration Management, Kaizen 7 QC with pharmacy informatics technology. Her other roles involve leading strategic technology projects in pharmacy services administration in KFMC as a project manager for more than 10 years.

Marigrace E. Erwin, RN, CNOR has over 30 years' experience working in the operating room environment. She has experience as a circulator and scrub nurse in a large variety of specialties. She has served as clinical educator and OR Director for several years. For the past 10 years she has worked for BD as a clinical consultant assisting customers with implementing medication and supply automated systems. She has three sons and six grandchildren and resides in Florida with her husband and two cats.

Markus Herold is Product Manager of the BD Rowa™ Plattform for Pharmacy Logistics Solutions. He has a Master of Science in Process Management and a Bachelor of Engineering. Before BD Rowa Markus worked as a consultant specialised in digital transformation with a focus on enabling corporates to deliver new disruptive digital business models. Since he started at BD Rowa™ he has constantly focused on further digitisation and interoperability of the BD Rowa™ Pharmacy Logistics Solution to enable a seamless flow from patient order to patient delivery in pharmacy retail, hospital and wholesale business.

Biomedical Engineer with a Master Degree in Management of Healthcare Systems. Michela Canobbio started working in Health Economics as an academic research fellow, moving then to industry and building a long experience in health economics, market access and pharma pricing. She has worked at BD for 6 years now. She has been leading the EMEA health economics and outcomes research (HEOR).

Mike Isles is the Executive Director of the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (www.eaasm.eu), a pan-European non-profit patient safety organisation established in 2007. The EAASM is focused on advocating for policy change across Europe to ensure the adoption of medical, pharmacy and nursing practices that aim to eradicate medication errors. It also campaigns for development of an EMA centralised regulatory framework to guarantee the safety, quality and efficacy of innovative nanomedicines and nanosimilars, whilst also campaigning for the safer use of unlicensed/off label medicines and the eradication of falsified and sub-standard medicines from the supply chain. Mike is also the Executive Director for the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy in the European Union (www.asop.eu), a non-profit Community Interest Company. With over 35,000 fake pharmacy websites targeting European citizens on any given day, this multisectoral organisation’s mission is to enable patients to buy their medicines online safely. ASOP EU collaborates strongly with ASOP Global (www.buysaferx.pharmacy) and its members and observers involve many key internet stakeholders. Its aim is to campaign for new legislation, as well as concrete voluntary actions that will make a real difference to Internet governance and ultimately benefit the health and safety of patients buying online.

Minne Jorritsma is an International Business Leader for Pouch Packaging Solutions and Automated Dose dispensing at BD. For more than 20 years he has been supporting hospitals, wholesalers, care organisations and retail pharmacies to develop automated and innovative designs for medication management solutions. In 1991, he started his career as Technical Service Manager, working with one of the leading pouch packaging companies. From there, he progressed to strategic consulting and workflow design implementation across the globe. Over the last 10 years, Minne has had the chance to partner with hospital groups and distribution centres to set up best-in-class workflows including pouch packaging, IT infrastructure and other automation equipment. He lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Nick joined ARX in 2009 focused on promoting the robotic solutions to the retail pharmacy sector in the United Kingdom. In 2010 he transitioned to the hospital sales team until 2015 where he was the Sales & Marketing Manager for the United Kingdom. During the acquisition of ARX by BD, Nick moved into a solutions management role, supporting the commercial teams and customers across Northern Europe in driving the adoption of automation and optimising workflows within the hospital pharmacy. In his current role as the Senior Pharmacy Solutions Portfolio Manager, Nick is responsible for defining how BD Dispensing will innovate to better solve hospital pharmacy inventory management, workflow efficiency, and patient safety needs across global markets. Leading a team of subject-matter experts (SMEs) his primary focus is on strategy, roadmap, feature definition, and commercialisation of the BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect software suite. Nick’s team works with stakeholders across the business to integrate BD Pyxis™ Inventory Connect into a single inventory use platform along with the other products in the BD MMS portfolio, and with external stakeholders to bring the vision of holistic and integrated inventory management to reality.

Prof. Bonnabry has been the Head of Pharmacy at the at Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) since 2000. He has been teaching pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Geneva and the University of Lausanne since 2007. In addition, he is a member of the Swiss Society of Public Health Administration and Hospital Pharmacists (GSASA), of which he presided from 2011 to 2013. He is the author of more than 85 publications in peer-reviewed journals and about 55 education publications in non-peer-reviewed journals. Besides global pharmacy, his main research interests are focused on risk management and the human factor and evaluation of information technology.

Sir Dalton was appointed interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Liverpool University Hospitals Trust in September 2021, which comprises four hospitals, a turnover of £1.1bn and employs 14,500 people. He has over 25 years’ experience as a NHS Trust CEO and is well known for his work in quality improvement and patient safety. He served as CEO at Salford Royal for 18 years during which time the Trust progressed to an organisation with an international reputation for safety and quality. He led the Trust to become a fully integrated organisation, with responsibility for community services and social care across the city, and with one of the first integrated digital care records. Salford Royal was the first acute and community Trust to achieve an “outstanding” rating in the NHS and in 2016 Sir David led the creation of the Northern Care Alliance, which operates as one of the largest NHS Groups in the NHS (£1.4bn, 18,000 staff, five hospitals and community services). He was the sole Chief Executive member of the Berwick Review which advised government on patient safety improvements. He co-chaired a review of the ‘duty of candour’ to support openness in the reporting of harmful events in healthcare. In 2014 he led the Dalton Review which recommended actions to assure high quality healthcare was delivered through sustainable NHS organisations. In 2013 Sir David was knighted in the New Year Honours for his contribution to healthcare.

Dr. Sonja Mayer is a pharmacist specialising in drug information and geriatric pharmacy. She began her pharmacy studies in Regensburg, Germany in 1992 and completed her PhD in Munich in 2001. During her studies, Ms. Mayer had research stays in the United States and Mexico. Since 2012, Ms. Mayer has been head of the Clinical Pharmaceutical Service Department at Johannes Apotheke Gröbenzell, which is one of the largest clinical pharmaceutical suppliers in Germany. Since 1998, Ms. Mayer has been active in the Bavarian State Chamber of Pharmacists (BLAK), where she is currently Vice President.

Tarek is a weathered medtech professional with a versatile 18-year experience in corporate multinationals and growing responsibilities in Management & Marketing, Medical & Scientific Communication, and Endoscopic Training & Surgical Education covering Europe, Turkey, North Africa, KSA and the Middle East. Currently he is serving as the Clinical Strategy Leader for Medication Management Solutions at Beckton, Dickinson, and Company based in Dubai, UAE, and heading a 12-strong team of clinicians who ensure that BD’s Infusion and Dispensing functionalities are aptly realized by the end-customers and healthcare practitioners. Tarek dearly upholds excellence in developing ‘Customer Experience’ and ‘Patient Safety’ to concretely advance service & care standards and applies a holistic ‘Systems Approach’ to measurably optimize workflow efficiencies and minimize iatrogenic harm. Tarek is also a consistent contributor to MECOMED’s (Middle East and Africa Medical Technology Association) activities and a constant partaker in The Economist Corporate Intelligence, Fitch Solutions, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company’s networking discussions, namely those pertaining to global & regional economics, and value-based healthcare. Prior to joining the industry, he earned a Medical Doctor diploma from the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Beirut, Lebanon and a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany with theses and articles published in scientific journals and local periodicals. Tarek enjoys reading (literature, philosophy, history & geopolitics), playing music, and performing outdoor sports.