2025 BPSA Single-Use Summit

Agenda 


Check this page for schedule details and updates. View the 2024 Summit Program for a recap and highlights from last year.

(Subject to change)

MONDAY, JULY 21

Time Event
8:00am – 5:00pm Registration 
10:00am - 4:00pm Concurrent BPSA Technical Committee Meetings (BPSA Members Only)
10:00am - 11:30am Sustainability Committee
Magali Barbaroux, Sartorius, Chair
10:00am - 11:30am Automation Committee
Hernan Parma, RENOLIT Healthcare & Stuart Tindal, Sartorius, Co-Chairs
11:30am - 1:00pm Group on Own for Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm Advanced Therapies Committee (formerly Cell & Gene Committee)
Brendan Lucey, Chair, Todd Pangburn, Dupont Liveo, Vice Chair
1:00pm - 2:30pm X-Ray Sterilization Committee
James Hathcock, Cytiva & Samuel Dorey, Sartorius, Co-Chairs
2:30pm - 4:00pm Integrity Assurance Committee
Patrick Evrard, Cytiva, Chair
2:30pm - 4:00pm Continuous Bioprocessing Committee
David Chau, Solventum & Davinder Chawla, Sanofi, Co-Chairs
4:00pm - 5:15pm BPSA Annual Membership Meeting (BPSA Members Only)
5:30pm - 7:30pm Welcome Reception at the Four Seasons Hotel
Sponsored by Burkert
  Group on Own for Dinner

TUESDAY, JULY 22

Time Event
8:00am – 5:00pm Registration 
8:00am - 9:00am Networking Breakfast
9:00am - 9:15am Welcome & Opening Remarks
Mark Petrich, BPSA Chair, Krystal Biotech, Inc.; David Radspinner; VintaBio & Danielle Arcuri, Qosina, Summit Committee Co-Chairs
9:15am – 10:15am Economic Outlook and Trends for the Single-Use Industry
Eric Langer, BioPlan Associates, Inc. & Larry West, Aspen Media
10:15am - 11:00am Key Drivers & Strategic Shifts in Life Sciences & Biotech
Shaguna Punj, Partner, Healthcare & Life Sciences Enterprise Strategy, PwC
11:00am - 11:15am Networking Break
11:15am - 12:00pm New Beginnings: End User Adoption of Bio-based Feedstocks in Single Use Systems Case Study
Evan Kamph, Sr. Manager, Packaging Technology and Industry Intelligence; Dalia Hernandez Vega, Single Use Technology SME, Pfizer
12:00pm - 1:15pm Networking Luncheon
1:15pm - 2:00pm Innovating Parenteral Drug Product Development: Insights from a CDMO
Dr. Andrea Allmendinger, Ten23 Health
2:00pm - 2:45pm Creating Solutions & Meeting Customers’ Needs
Travis Ward, Repligen; Trayce Slumsky, Vulcan Bioworks; Others TBD
2:45pm-3:15pm Networking Break
Sponsored by STERIS
3:15pm - 4:00pm Global Regulatory Update
4:00pm - 5:00pm  Keynote Session - BPSA Celebrating 20 Years of Innovation: Milestones, Impact & the Road Ahead
Panelists: Kenneth Bibbo, Wood; John Boehm, CPC; Jeff Carter, Cytiva; Todd Kapp, Kivi Bio; Jerry Martin, Jerry Martin Consulting; Mark Petrich, Krystal Biotech, Inc.; Kirsten Strahlendorf, Sanofi
5:30pm - 7:30pm Networking Reception at Daikin's Sustainability & Innovation Center (off-site location)
Sponsored by Daikin
  Group on Own for Dinner

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23

Time Event
8:00am - 8:30am Networking Breakfast
8:30am - 8:45am Welcome & Opening Remarks
Todd Kapp, BPSA Vice Chair, Kivi Bio 
8:45am - 9:30am The Modernization of Biological Reactivity Requirements for Single-Use Process Consumables
Monica Cardona, MilliporeSigma; James Hathcock, Cytiva; Jim Vogel, BioProcess Institute
9:30am - 10:15am  Accelerating Biotech Manufacturing: Automation & Continuous Bioprocessing
Ujwal PatilAstraZeneca; David Chau, Solventum; Davinder Chawla, Sanofi, Hernan Parma, Renolit Healthcare; Stuart Tindal, Sartorius
10:15am - 10:45am  Networking Break
10:45am - 11:30am  The Workforce Imperative: Meeting Talent Needs in the Single-Use Era
Gary Gilleskie, NC State BTEC
11:30am - 12:15pm Industry Snapshot/Alphabet Soup 
Monica Cardona, MilliporeSigma; Ralph Daumke, PENDOTECH; James Hathcock, Cytiva; Milena McFeeters, Refined Sciences & ASME BPE Chair; Jim Vogel, BioProcess Institute
12:15pm - 12:30pm Wrap-up & Adjournment
12:30pm - 1:30pm Board & Sponsors Brown Bag Lunch (by invitation only)

Summit Location:

Four Seasons Hotel Georgetown
2800 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20007

A Special Thanks to Our Reception Sponsors: 

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