2026 BPSA Single-Use Summit: Agenda

Monday, July 27

8:30am – 5:00pm	Registration
10:00am – 4:00pm	Concurrent BPSA Technical Committee Meetings (BPSA Members Only)
10:00am – 11:20am	Sustainability Committee Magali Barbaroux, Sartorius, Chair
10:00am – 11:20am	Automation Committee Hernan Parma, RENOLIT Healthcare & Stuart Tindal, Sartorius, Co-Chairs
11:30am – 1:00pm	Group on Own for Lunch
1:00pm – 2:20pm	Advanced Therapies Committee Brendan Lucey, KiviBio & Todd Pangburn, DuPont Liveo, Co-Chairs
1:00pm – 2:20pm	X-Ray Sterilization Committee James Hathcock, Cytiva & Samuel Dorey, Sartorius, Co-Chairs
2:30pm – 3:50pm	Integrity Assurance Committee Patrick Evrard, Cytiva, Chair
2:30pm – 3:50pm	Quality Test Matrices (QTM) Working Group Jim Vogel, The BioProcess Institute
4:00pm – 5:15pm	BPSA Annual Membership Meeting (BPSA Members Only)
5:30pm – 7:00pm	Welcome Reception Sponsored by Burkert Fairmont Copley Plaza (138 Saint James Ave)
7:00pm	Group on Own for Dinner

8:00am – 5:30pm	Registration
8:00am – 9:00am	Networking Breakfast
9:00am – 9:15am	Welcome & Opening Remarks Mark Petrich, Vice President, Technical Operations, Krystal Biotech, Inc., BPSA Chair
9:15am – 10:30am	Economic Outlook and Trends in Life Sciences and Biotech Eric Langer, Managing Partner, BioPlan Associates, Inc.
10:30am – 11:15am	Navigating a Shifting Global Regulatory Environment for Single-Use Bioprocessing Speakers to be announced
11:15am – 11:30am	Networking Break
11:30am – 12:15pm	Applying Quality by Design to Single-Use Systems Speakers to be announced
12:15pm – 1:30pm	Networking Luncheon
1:30pm – 2:15pm	Session to be Announced Speakers to be announced
2:15pm – 3:00pm	PFAS & Other Substances Under Attack: Industry Response and Readiness Moderated by Brian Chung, Senior Key Account Manager, Syensqo; Panelists to be announced
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Networking Break
3:30pm – 4:45pm	From Facility of the Future to Warning Letter in Five Years Cheryl Essex, Head of Industrial Excellence, M&S Specialty Care RDOI Cluster, Sanofi
5:30pm – 7:00pm	Networking Reception Revere Hotel Boston Common
7:00pm	Group on Own for Dinner

7:30am – 8:30am	Networking Breakfast
8:30am – 8:45am	Welcome & Opening Remarks Todd Kapp, CEO, Kivi Bio LLC, BPSA Vice Chair
8:45am – 9:45am	AI’s Next Revolution: Transforming Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Speakers to be announced
9:45am – 10:30am	Evaluation of Drug Product Contained in X-Ray vs Gamma-Ray Irradiation Sterilized Single-Use Vessels Kirsten Strahlendorf, Head of Unit, Sanofi, BPSA SAC Chair; Speaker from GSK to be announced
10:30am – 11:00am	Networking Break
11:00am – 11:30am	Filter Interchangeability in Bioprocessing: BPSA Case Studies and Industry Insights Monica Cardona, Global Senior Marketing Manager Single Use Programs, MilliporeSigma; Samantha Whitney, Sr. Field Applications Specialist, Meissner; Chris Rios, Global Field Applications Engineering Manager, Entegris, Inc.
11:30am – 12:15pm	Alphabet Soup: What’s New Across Industry Groups Jim Vogel, Director, The BioProcess Institute; Monica Cardona, Global Senior Marketing Manager Single Use Programs, MilliporeSigma; Ralph Daumke, Market Manager, PENDOTECH & DECHEMA Board Co-Chair; James Hathcock, Sr. Director, Regulatory and Validation Strategy, Cytiva; Milena McFeeters, President, Refined Sciences & ASME BPE Chair
12:15pm – 12:30pm	Wrap-up & Adjournment Chris Clark, Executive Director, BPSA
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Board & Sponsors Brown Bag Lunch (by invitation only)