Bernd Roser, Hygiene Program Manager, Habasit

Niels Vindsmark, Sales and Brand Owner Program Manager, NGI

What do you hope attendees will gain at your webinar?

Bernd

My aim is to show food processors how belting experts can help them meet their hygiene and food safety challenges. I can’t promise a single solution to cover absolutely everything, but I’ll be sharing some key concepts and tools that will make a significant and important difference.

Niels

I’m looking forward to giving our attendees ideas on how to achieve concrete and pragmatic solutions, especially regarding hygienic design. My goal is for them to finish the webinar and look at their production equipment with new eyes, seeing details they were previously unaware of.

What discussions are you looking forward to having with the attendees?

Bernd

Any know-how exchange about experiences with food processing belting will help me better understand our attendees’ challenges. We can only improve by working together as an industry. Everyone is involved: manufacturers as well as equipment and component suppliers.

Niels

Sharing knowledge and discussing individual issues and solutions is fundamental if we want to have a useful discussion on hygienically optimized solutions. I want to hear about local difficulties and daily challenges in the workplace and contribute my experience and advice.

What do you enjoy most about your role?

Bernd

The huge variety of processes, food products and applications keep me constantly on my toes and energized to find fresh solutions. Preset answers might make life easier, but they are rarely optimal, and it’s much more interesting and rewarding to find out-of-the-box ideas that give excellent results.

Niels

I really enjoy being able to move the status quo and challenge statements like “hygienic design is just a theory…” Creating innovative tools and ways of doing things, and changing the entire mindset on how to approach hygienic design all along the supply chain,  gives me huge satisfaction.

How did you get into the conveyor belting industry?

Bernd

I started out in marketing and sales controlling and realized very quickly that deeply understanding products and customers’ needs were the only way to succeed. I went into product management and learned how to work with customers to meet their needs and understand industry trends and opportunities.

Niels

I’ve been in belting since 1997, and it has been privileged to live in different countries, which gave me the opportunity to see the industry from various angles and perspectives. What I’ve learned over the years and from different experiences helps me help my customers optimize their businesses.

Where is your favorite place in the world and why?

Bernd

Somewhere in rural France. There are many great places, but perhaps the best is the Vezere Valley. You can find culture, history, landscape, sports and great food there. It’s a combination I really enjoy.

Niels

I’ve been lucky enough to spend 12 years of my life in Italy, though I come from Denmark, and people often ask me where I prefer to live. For me, the external environment where you live isn’t so important. What counts is how you feel inside. If I have the most important thing in the world around me, i.e. my family, I think I could live anywhere in the world and enjoy every day.

Join Bernd Roser and Niels Vindsmark on a webinar entitled Factoring belting and conveyor components into your food safety strategy by Habasit on 15th of April at 3PM London.

 

 

 

 

 

Dr James Hinchliffe, Senior Life Sciences R&D Consultant at Capgemini

What do you hope attendees will gain at your webinar?
A broad-brush overview of what data-driven drug discovery could mean, and practical insights on how to move the initiative forward at both a strategic and tactical level.

What discussions do you look forward to having with the attendees?
I look forward to discussing how others have approached the journey to data-driven R&D and what they have learned. I’d also like to hear what problems people are still struggling to solve.

What do you enjoy most about your role?
I’m really motivated by the opportunity to contribute to problems that really make a difference to people’s lives, and you could argue nothing does that more than working in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector. Seeing data about innovative new medicines coming through systems I’ve designed or contributed to, and seeing things moving faster because of new tools I’ve helped to put in researchers’ hands, gives me a real buzz.

How did you get into the industry?
As I was finishing my PhD, which I really enjoyed, I was interested in doing something more practical with the skills and knowledge I’d gained in academia. I’ve always been interested in programming and technology, so joining Tessella (part of Capgemini now),  which is full of people with a similar background, was a natural next step. After a few projects for pharma clients, I had the opportunity to specialise more in the sector, which I took enthusiastically as I think the challenges – and potential – that life sciences IT and digital offers are some of the biggest and most interesting out there.

Where is your favourite place in the world and why?
Well, I certainly love being at home in Oxfordshire with my family, but after the last year of lockdown it would be nice to be able to travel a bit further afield. I think I’d have to choose Scandinavia for its combination of incredible landscapes and relaxed, informal cities.

Join Dr James Hinchliffe on a webinar entitled Data-Driven Drug Discovery: Lessons from R&D Leaders by Capgemini on 23rd of March at 3PM London.

 

Lucas Silva, Head of Department of Analytical Development, Nanopharm, an Aptar Pharma Company

 

 

Why did you decide to do a webinar with us?
Porque você decidiu fazer um Webinar conosco?

Webinars are a great way to share our experience within the respiratory industry and show Nanopharm’s approach in the development of orally inhaled and nasal drug products. These virtual events help to bridge the time gap between different zones and attract the interest of several interconnected businesses.

Webinars são ferramentas excelentes para compartilhar a nossa experiência na industria respiratória e demonstar a abordagem da Nanopharm no desenvolvimento de produtos inalatórios e nasais. Estes eventos virtuais auxilíam a quebra da barreira temporal entre diferentes regiões do globo e atraem o interesse de diversas empresas. Além disso, considero um privilégio ter a oportunidade de apresentar tecnologias de ponta para a comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, fomentando a investigação e desenvolvimento nesta area.

What will the audience gain from attending your webinar?
O que o público ganhará com este Webinar?

We would like to share how Nanopharm can support the development of complex inhaled drug products, which is a synergy of the right formulation within the right device. The final product then requires to be screened by a set of analytical techniques, and our services offer ground breaking technology for this. Ultimately, we intend also to support our customers with our regulatory knowledge and safely accelerate the final submission of their new product.

Pretendemos elaborar como a Nanopharm pode ajudar no desenvolvimento de produtos complexos para a via inalatória que, em essência, são uma sinergia entre a formulação correta com o veículo de entrega apropiado. O produto final tem que então ser verificado usando uma série de técnicas analíticas que os nossos serviços trazem tecnologias de excelência. Finalmente, pretendemos dar suporte regulatório aos nossos clientes e seguramente acelerar a submissão do produto final.

How did you get into the industry and what do you most enjoy about your role?
Como entrou na indústria e o que mais gosta do seu trabalho?

After graduation, I started an intership with Nanopharm to pursue my passion in R&D and I have now moved into an analytical role. I am mostly attracted by the complex interactions with the user and the formulation in inhalation products and develop appropriate techniques to study these.

Apos a graduação, fiz um estágio com a Nanopharm de forma a continuar expandindo o meu conhecimento no mundo da investigação e desenvolvimento e até então, progredi para um papel dentro do departamento analítico. Diaramente, sou estimulado pelos desafios gerado pelos produtos de inalação e das interações complexas entre o utilizador e a formulação, em que desenvolvo técnicas apropiadas para estudá-las. Também admiro o potencial desta via de administração para facilitar o acesso de diferentes tratamentos a população.

What are you hoping to achieve in the future in your personal and professional life?
O que espera conseguir no seu futuro profissional e pessoal?

Scientific matters are generally explained using English, so to be able to showcase our work in my native language is for me a personal and professional goal. Nevertheless, it is rewarding to be able to overcome the challenges of ‘’untranslatable’’ words into Portuguese concepts.

Discussões científicas são geralmente explicadas em inglês, consequentemente sinto-me privilegiado por poder explicar as capacidades da Nanopharm na minha língua materna. Por outro lado, é

bastante recompensador ultrapassar os desafios de palavras que não são diretamente traduzíveis para conceitos portugueses que fazem sentido.

What would someone be surprised to know about you?
Conte algo sobre você que nos surpreenderia?

I was born in Brazil where I spent most of my early childhood. Later on, my family moved to Portugal where I did most of my studies. As a Portuguese speaker, I can certainly say that I have lived a battle of accents “within myself”.

Originalmente eu nasci no Brasil e passei a maior parte da minha infância no país. Alguns anos depois, a minha família se mudou para Portugal onde fiz a maior parte dos meus estudos. De um ponto de vista da lingua portuguesa, pode certamente dizer que vivo/vivi uma luta entre sotaques.

Join Lucas Silva on a webinar entitled Otimização de processos no desenvolvimento de produtos inalatórios orais e nasais by Nanopharm on 18th of March at 2PM GMT.

This webinar will be held in Portugese.

 

Rick Deans, Executive Vice President at InEight

 

 

What do you hope attendees will gain at your webinar?

In this webinar attendees will learn about different approaches to estimating and bidding work, and gain an understanding of some of the tools available that are purpose built to support the bidding process.

What discussions do you look forward to having with the attendees?

As a part of this webinar, we will discuss with attendees common business issues and current challenges facing the industry.

What do you enjoy most about your role?

Being able to interface with a broad spectrum of customers across many different construction markets.

How did you get into the industry?

I’ve been involved in construction since working part time during college on local construction projects.  Twenty-three years ago, I was interested in starting my own construction company, but instead, I became involved in working with contractors and helping them solve their business problems through automation.  I’ve had the ability to travel to over 30 countries and work with all types of contractors, owners and engineering firms designing, building and maintaining assets around the world.

Where is your favourite place in the world and why?

Other than my home base here in Arizona, I absolutely love Lebanon.  I have had the opportunity to travel there many times for business, and always found the people and the culture to be so warm and welcoming.

Join Rick Deans on a webinar entitled Secrets to a winning bid proposal: What every contractor needs to know by InEight on 7th of April at 2PM London/3PM CET.

 

 

 

 

Ricky Pickup – Technical Trainer at STAHL CraneSystems

What do you hope attendees will gain at your webinar?

Many industries (food industry, pharmaceutical industry, medical technology, clean room technology or cleaning technology) place special hygienic requirements on the work equipment to be used and with this also on the crane systems and chain hoists. As these hygienic requirements differ greatly, the solutions in question are generally those developed individually by STAHL CraneSystems for the respective application and environmental conditions.

For optimal design of the overall solutions, crane components are selected from modular systems and are adapted by means of special designs to the respective areas of application. A common example being, the use of heat bands where condensation could form on or in crane components, especially at temperatures below the dew point.

As the term “cleanroom” implicates keeping such hygienic areas up to industry standards involves efficient cleaning techniques, resulting in high demand on the lubrication on the cranes, that serve for a frictionless material handling.

Throughout this webinar I will use practical examples to show, where the use of heating systems can prevent the build-up of condensation in crane components, how the intended lifetime of the chain hoists and crane components can be guaranteed using the correct combination of IP protection, durable surface coatings and applying industry suitable lubrication to components potentially exposed to harsh but essential cleaning techniques.

Furthermore, it is often the case in the above mentioned industries, not only is it the hygiene requirements that place special demand on the equipment to be used but also restrictive constructional obstacles that require engineered crane solutions to adapt to very low ceilings, access to cleanrooms via bay doors and potentially explosive atmospheres.

At the end of this webinar the attendees will have gained an insight to the endless possibilities of engineered industry solutions from STAHL CraneSystems.

What discussions do you look forward to having with the attendees?

We are constantly confronted with challenges in this field, different industry specifications and customer needs require a high level of adaptability. I am always interested to hear how others have found solutions and their experience in the field and look forward to seeing how we can help with specialized solutions to meet customer’s demands.

What do you enjoy most about your role?

The opportunity to be involved in projects in all corners of the world and working with the teams to find the solutions for the customer’s needs in a continuously developing industry keeps everyday interesting.

How did you get into the industry?

After working in construction in the mining industry this was a section that really caught my attention. To start out with one of the industry leaders in the area of overhead crane systems and components was an exciting challenge that made the decision an easy one.

Where is your favourite place in the world and why?

There are so many amazing places to just pick one is almost impossible but one spot that will always stick with me was a visit to Traverse City and the surrounding areas. On the top end of lake Michigan, I found the people incredibly friendly and a picture-perfect scenery.

Join Ricky Pickup on a webinar entitled A Clean Deal: Industry-specific chain hoists by STAHL CraneSystems GmbH on 2nd of March at 10AM London.

 

Ed Nabrotzky, Director, Sales & Strategy at Panasonic

 

 

What do you hope attendees will gain at your webinar?

We want attendees to gain a vision of how Industrial IoT can enhance material flow in modern manufacturing processes. I will be highlighting the many things that are changing in the manufacturing world and will provide some solutions to help enhance and improve manufacturing inefficiencies. I will discuss many of the common material flow problems that are faced today and give solutions on how to modernize and improve.

What discussions do you look forward to having with the attendees?

I am looking forward to helping find opportunities for improvement and how our solution can help. I want to know where they think their business will grow in the next 3-5 years and help them determine what may be missing to hit their goals.

We’ve all been affected during this COVID time and I want to understand their pain points from this pandemic and what more I could do for them to help them succeed.

What I am most excited to discuss is IIoT and how you can get Smart Material implemented in your work process.

What do you enjoy most about your role?

I enjoy seeing the digital transformation of the industry and bringing it to competitiveness worldwide. I’m amazed by what we can do in manufacturing these days, from robots to AI there are many more technologies and capabilities to help with cost, productivity and quality goals.

How did you get into the industry?

I started in the health care industry and a lot of our problems stemmed from our manufacturing capabilities, which led me into the manufacturing industry with many stops along the way. I have a lot of curiosity on how to get things made and making them efficiently. I have been a plant manager in my past life. I’ve been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to have a global perspective on manufacturing with lots of different roles and have been able to build upon that experience and utilize it in this automation space.

Where is your favourite place in the world and why?

Nuremberg, Germany – and why? Because when I was in the auto industry, I would attend a tradeshow at the end of November and bring my wife. We would then celebrate our wedding anniversary together there and take in many of the local sites and food. They have the best gingerbread cookies! I would also be there for business a lot and it became a very special city for me.

Join Ed оn a webinar entitled Is your current material flow solution getting the right parts to the right place at the right time? by Panasonic IIoT Solutions on 18th of February at 3PM London/10AM New York.

 

Nektaria Karavas, Business Development Director, Nasal Vaccines, Antivirals and Immunostimulants at Aptar Pharma

 

 

Why did you decide to do a webinar with us?

With the pandemic taking the world by storm, cancellations of physical events, and people being required to work from home, webinars are great way to engage with our audience all around the world. We can stay connected. We give as well as receive information, all in a relative short time frame, and in the comfort of our own homes! Or, offices.

What will the audience gain from attending your webinar?

We hope the attendees will better understand Aptar Pharma’s capabilities, how we can work together to de-risk the development process and support our customers in their drug development journey. It’s not just from the device perspective but to provide proven and complete drug delivery solutions and services, end to end, to approval and of course post launch.

What are you hoping to achieve in the future in your personal and professional life?

In this time of COVID, we all know someone who has been touched and affected by this virus, so from a professional and personal level, for Aptar Pharma to be able to be part of the delivery solution, a solution that could potentially benefit so many people around us, how gratifying would that be.

How did you get into the industry and what do you most enjoy about your role?

By chance, and after being with Aptar for over 15 years, I am still learning, exchanging ideas and excited to go to work every day.

Where is your favorite place in the world and why?

I don’t have one specific favorite place in the world, there are just too many to name and all have their own special magic. Travelling is all about learning, discovering the history, the culture and the food. Travel provides us with new perspectives on life.

Join Nektaria Karavas & Julie D. Suman, RPh, PhD on a webinar entitled Intranasal Immunization: Promises and Challenges
 by Aptar Pharma on 25th of March at 9AM London/2:30PM Mumbai/5PM Beijing & 3:30PM London/4:30PM Paris/11:30AM New York

 

 

 

 

Jamie Eddy, Vertical Lead at Xero

What do you hope attendees will gain at your webinar?

My hope is that the attendees will gain a greater understanding of how a standardised and scalable workflow solution will help them handle their landlords accounting information.  Hopefully they’ll be able to see how much more efficient this workflow solution is and allow them to free up their time to provide a greater client experience and outputs.

What discussions do you look forward to having with the attendees?

I’m looking forward to discussing how some of the cool features within Xero can be utilised for landlords.

What do you enjoy most about your role?

The thing I enjoy the most about my current role is very much in keeping with Xero’s mission and purpose. I love seeing how the cloud enables things to be seamless, simple and smarter and how harnessing those can help make the lives of small business owners and their advisors better.

How did you get into the industry?

It is a pretty dull tale of not really knowing what to do after completing my a-levels; following a chance suggestion from an accountant who used to go into the shop my mum worked in I applied to a few firms and then got my first job and never looked back. Working at various accountancy firms then led me to joining Xero almost 3 years ago as a Partner Consultant before moving into my current role officially this year.

Where is your favourite place in the world and why?

Ice Arena Wales, that’s where the Cardiff Devils ice hockey team play. My wife and I are season ticket holders and go to every game.  My youngest son Alfie even attended his first game at 6 days old. Unfortunately with COVID the EIHL had to stop in March with a few games left of the season and the 2020 – 21 season was subsequently cancelled.  I’m hoping that we can get back to watching more ice hockey late this year.

 

 

Jeff Kunkle, Global Business Development

 

 

 

 

Jon Barton, Business Development Manager – Europe

 

 

 

What do you hope attendees will gain at your webinar?  

Jeff – I hope that our attendees will come away with a complete understanding of our product lines: ground-to-air, UHF SATCOM, counter drone antennas and how we can help meet and streamline their communication needs.  

Jon – A clear understanding of Taco Antenna products & capabilities

What discussions do you look forward to having with the attendees? 

Jeff – I would like to hear what challenges and needs they are facing and how we can partner with them now and for future opportunities.

Jon – Listening to any problems & future requirements to see how Taco can support them.

What do you enjoy most about your role?  

Jeff – I enjoy working with our varied clientele and providing solutions that solve their specific communication objectives. 

Jon – Travelling and meeting people.

How did you get into the industry?  

Jeff – I’m an antenna legacy!  My father worked for TACO for many years and I had the unique opportunity to work with him before his retirement.  I am now in my 16^th year of developing the TACO brand 

Jon – After serving 12 years in the British Army (Royal Corps of Signals) I left the forces and continued working within the communications environment working for various leading manufacturers for the last 27 years.

Where is your favourite place in the world and why?  

Jeff – I’ve been fortunate to travel to many places personally and during my time with TACO.  Each city and country are so unique.  I enjoy learning about the history and experiencing each destination I visit.  I may not have been to my favorite place yet; but I would like to keep exploring!

Jon – I have many but if I had to pick one it would be Prague (Czech Rep) having such diverse historical architecture and a great atmosphere throughout the year.

Join Jeff & Jon on a webinar titled TACO Antenna Webinar live on 9th February at 3PM London/10AM New York.