Good Morning and Welcome to PDA Week 2024 Day Two of the Annual Meeting.
Yesterday was a great start to our annual gathering. By all accounts, everyone was enthusiastic and engaged in the content, connections, and challenges facing the industry.
We hope you got to interact with expert speakers, reconnect with your peers and explore and immerse in topics of interest.
We have a special webpage available to on-site attendees that includes dozens of photos from the PDA Award Ceremony, a Video interview with Rick Horgan, Monday's plenary speaker diving further into his journey, and so much more. Take a few moments to visit and return across the week as more and more content is added.
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Monday Highlights
Here’s what happened and highlights of what we heard from fellow PDA Week attendees.
- The career development roundtable was a collegial conversation among students, early and mid-career professionals who traded insights, challenges, and anecdotal experiences about forging a career path.
- The other three morning roundtable discussions on training and innovation were high level investigations into the challenges facing the industry with a shared conversational thread about best practices, industry standards, and the need for standardized training with agreed-upon outcomes.
- PDA CEO Glenn Wright and Anil Sawant, PDA Board Chair, opened the plenary session with a positive update on PDA’s accomplishments across 2023. Then two presentations focused on keeping patient care as the north star for the profession dramatized by the images of babies and young children stricken with rare diseases. Rich Horgan, CEO of Cure Rare Disease, and Pat Gavit, Head of Manufacturing Sciences at Takeda, held the audience spellbound with their compelling stories about navigating through the manufacturing and regulatory systems as innovators to save young lives.
- The afternoon concurrent sessions did deep dives into subject matter expertise on the brass tacks of keeping the industry relevant, targeted, and anticipating the future.
- The gatherings in the Exhibit Hall and Opening Reception hit high notes all around with good times for everyone!
Today's Highlights
AI and Big Data are the hot topics today in our plenary meeting. Join us in the Grand Ballroom to hear from Dr. Sara Cook and Dr. Ravi Starzl about how technology is game changing the industry.
The Poster Walk starts promptly at 10:00 in the Exhibit Hall. Don't forget to bring your headphones and phone so you can tune in on the conversation.
Our four concurrent sessions dig into designing processes and products for the future, cutting-edge technology and intelligent plant maturity assessment for the design and digitization of cGMP facilities. More on the latest developments in AI/ML models for improving product quality/supply chain resilience and a panorama of Accelerating Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.
Lunch, Tech Talks and More
Take lunch in the Exhibit Hall! to network with your peers and Exhibitors. While you’re there, check out the Exhibitor Tech Talks and Poster Presenters.
Immerse in Your Interests
Get ready for Rounds 1 and 2 of our Special Interest Group discussions and the Lightning Presentations, kicking off at 13:30. Round 2 starts promptly at 14:30!
If you aren't aware, PDA is holding the inaugural meeting of its new 503B Compounding Interest Group at 13:30 in Room 101. All are welcome to join today's discussion and continue virtually starting in April.
Come Visit PDA
Visit PDA Booth #515 to explore everything PDA offers, including member benefits, education, and our Training and Research Institute! Don't forget to take a stroll through our history tour. Share a passion for embracing the future? Stop by PDA Booth #515 to donate to the Jette Christensen Early Career Professional Grant and the general PDA Foundation, which supports PDA student programs.
Make New Connections
Don’t miss the Tuesday Night Tours. There's still time to explore Long Beach and make new connections. Stop by the PDA Registration Desk for available tickets.
Don't forget to install the PDA Annual Meeting App to plan and manage your agenda. All those registered for the PDA Annual Meeting were sent an email with download instructions and an access code.
We look forward to capturing noteworthy learnings and sharing with you via this daily email. Look out for it in your inbox tomorrow morning (Wednesday). And don't forget to visit the on-site webpage to download pictures, watch videos captured here in Long Beach and more.
It’s another full day and full moon in Long Beach! Enjoy your journey!
