Pharma Integrates 2013 builds on launch success

Published: 9-Dec-2013

Pharma Integrates is now firmly established as a must attend industry event for senior pharmaceutical executives from across Europe

Life Sciences Index was delighted with the industry response to the second Pharma Integrates event that took place recently in London.

The central theme of the event, ‘Strategically transforming pharma business relationships’, was debated by more than 60 prestigious speakers coming from complementary industry stakeholders, science and academia. More than 200 senior level pharmaceutical executives attended to benefit from the opportunity to explore, examine and debate critical industry issues in a series of interactive, engaging panel sessions including:

  • The Increasing Role of Collaboration – the Key to Success in the Pharma Industry?
  • Why aren’t we strategically transforming Pharma business relationships? An SME perspective
  • Risk sharing in pharmaceutical development
  • Do Big Pharma need to re-address their key competencies?
  • The future of the Generics Industry

The scene was impressively set by Chairman, Professor Trevor Jones CBE, Director Allergan and President of Sigma Tau Pharmaceuticals, who addressed the multitude of challenges that are affecting the industry.

Of Pharma Integrates 2013, he said: 'I was delighted to make some really important new contacts that I feel sure will be of benefit to my businesses. It was great to see so much interaction between the participants both during the sessions and in the networking events.'

An engaging moderator of several panel sessions, Professor Luigi Martini, Chair in Pharmaceutical Innovation, King’s College London, describes Pharma Integrates 2013 quite simply as 'the best networking conference I have been to all year!'.

Sharing his expertise on ‘Beyond Account Management – Leveraging Pharma supply-base capabilities to co-create value in the broader Healthcare sector’, speaker Sammy Rashed, Co-Founder of The Beyond Group, said the event was 'a great setting to explore at deeper level some of the critical issues affecting procurement and the healthcare sector, with subject matter experts and industry colleagues'.

Christopher Watt, Life Sciences Index founder and Executive Director, stated 'I am delighted that Pharma Integrates is now firmly established as a must attend industry event and that so many senior pharmaceutical executives from across Europe take time out of their busy schedules to attend. We are thankful for the industry support received by sponsors, speakers and all who attended this year.'

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