.Speaker Group: Future Labs Automation and Technology Europe 2023 Speakers

Anna Pickersgill

Passionate about driving towards the lab of the future, by using technology to improve and enhance laboratories. I started my career in the labs; after achieving a BSc in Biochemistry from Leeds, I worked in laboratories across multiple industries. I moved into IT over 15 years ago and have since worked very closely with laboratory… Read more »

Rosario Hughes-Kielty PhD

Rosario Hughes-Kielty, CAI

Rosario has over 20 years’ experience in Pharmaceutical and Medical Device, as well as 12 years leadership in Manufacturing and Quality. She has a Ph. D Pharmaceutical Chemistry and is Six Sigma qualified. Rosario embodies diverse functional experience in Production, Operations, Technical Transfers, Quality and Continuous Improvement units. She has maintained significant leadership experience in… Read more »

Vanessa Jully

Vanessa Jully, GSK

Vanessa has an educational background in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and earned her Ph.D. in 2016, specializing in aluminum-containing adjuvants at GSK Vaccines. She began her career at GSK in 2015 as a Scientist, quickly advancing to lead the HT platform for preformulation development in the Drug Product Department. Transitioning to… Read more »

Ketan Pyne

Ketan Pyne Thales

Ketan joined Thales DIS in 2021, he has a background in PKI, Network technologies and Systems and CyberSecurity, He works in the Pre Sales team for UK&I.

Gary Ritchie

Gary’s career highlights include: -Former Director of Operations and Regulatory Affairs Analyst for Dynalabs, LLC located in St. Louis, MO. -Internationally recognized expert in multivariate spectroscopic analysis, pharmaceutical analysis, regulatory compliance, laboratory management, design quality, and process analytical technology using spectroscopic methods including near-infrared, Raman and multivariate analysis. -Nineteen years of industry experience with increasing… Read more »

Samantha Pearman-Kanza P.h.D.

Samantha Kanza University of Southampton

Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza is a Senior Enterprise Fellow at the University of Southampton. She is a Pathfinder Lead on Process Recording for the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) Initative. She coordinates the AI 4 Scientific Discovery Network (AI4SD – www.ai4science.network) run out of Southampton, and the Future Blood Testing Network (www.futurebloodtesting.org) run out of Reading…. Read more »

Pritesh Makwana

Pritesh is a Digital Transformation IT Leader with 15 years’ experience working in the life sciences and consumer goods industry.   In his current role he drives digital transformation within the Regulatory Affairs business and manages cross functional teams to mature systems, processes, and data quality through sustainable and scalable technology platforms. Pritesh is passionate… Read more »