03 - 04 December, 2019 | Millennium Gloucester Hotel London Kensington, London, United Kingdom

Conference Day 1

8:30 am - 8:55 am Registration and Coffee

8:55 am - 9:00 am Pharma IQ Welcome

9:00 am - 9:10 am Chairman's Opening Remarks

Sam Onukuri, Head of 3D Printing Center of Excellence at Johnson & Johnson

Sam Onukuri

Head of 3D Printing Center of Excellence
Johnson & Johnson

9:10 am - 9:30 am Speed Networking

A highlight of IQPC events! Be ready to meet your peers and share best practices. You will have several 2 minute conversations to enable you to introduce yourself to your peers. There is a prize in it for the winner, so, get networking!
Please Share:
1. Who you are
2. The scope of your job role
3. What you plan to achieve from attending this event
4. Your #1 challenge

9:30 am - 10:10 am Making Healthcare Better With Additive Manufacturing

  • Discover how additive manufacturing allows innovation to produce FDA-cleared orthopaedic implants
  • Learn how applying porous structures to the implant creates design freedom previously impossible 
  • Discuss how additive manufacturing can be used in many situations from prototyping to product manufacturing

Eleftherios Louvis, Staff Engineer, Advanced Operations at Stryker

Eleftherios Louvis

Staff Engineer, Advanced Operations
Stryker

10:10 am - 10:40 am Automated Post-Processing for Medical Application at Industrial Scale

This presentation will cover the following areas:
  • Post-processing, automatization, industrial scale, medical surfaces, support structure removal
Selma Hansal, Head of Research and Development at Hirtenberger Engineered Surfaces

Selma Hansal

Head of Research and Development
Hirtenberger Engineered Surfaces

10:40 am - 11:10 am Networking Coffee Break

11:10 am - 11:50 am Innovation Through Development and Application of 3D Printing Technologies in a Large Medical Device Company

  • Discuss the acceleration of R&D through functional prototyping
  • Explore the creation of manufacturing tools and the use of anatomical models for procedure development and planning, and physician education
  • Review the functionalisation of 3D printed components and devices and the creation and 3Dprinting of personalised devices
  • Consider biofabrication of tissues and organs
Markus Reiterer, Senior Principal Scientist at Medtronic

Markus Reiterer

Senior Principal Scientist
Medtronic

11:50 am - 12:20 pm Mass Personalization in Healthcare Through 3D Printing

  • Learn how 3D printing can support the shift from volume-based care to value-based care
  • Discover why powerful planning software will increase predictability of patient outcomes
  • Understand how both of them will drive mass personalization in healthcare
Brigitte de Vet-Veithen, Vice President Medical at Materialise

Brigitte de Vet-Veithen

Vice President Medical
Materialise

What are the current applications of additive manufacturing?
What factors can explain the variation of additive manufacturing among the medical device industry?
How do you decide the right time to adopt additive manufacturing and what are the benefits of doing so?
Sam Onukuri, Head of 3D Printing Center of Excellence at Johnson & Johnson

Sam Onukuri

Head of 3D Printing Center of Excellence
Johnson & Johnson

Alexander Berry, Director at Sutrue

Alexander Berry

Director
Sutrue

Dr Farhan Khan, Advanced Research Engineer at Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)

Dr Farhan Khan

Advanced Research Engineer
Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)

Brigitte de Vet-Veithen, Vice President Medical at Materialise

Brigitte de Vet-Veithen

Vice President Medical
Materialise

12:50 pm - 1:40 pm Networking Lunch

1:40 pm - 2:20 pm CASE STUDY: Embedding 3D Printing Hubs in Hospitals

  • Understand how 3D printing is used to design and supply patient specific medical devices from an embedded facility within the hospital
  • Discuss areas of specialisation including complex paediatric, orthopaedic, oncological, cardiology and cranio-facial cases
  • Explore the use of modelling, design and printing of surgical simulators, anatomical models and cutting guides
  • Gain insight into Class 2 and 3 bespoke titanium cranio-facial and neurosurgical implants
Henry Pinchbeck, Founder and CEO at 3D LifePrints

Henry Pinchbeck

Founder and CEO
3D LifePrints

2:20 pm - 3:00 pm Additive Manufacturing for the Production of Polymer Medical Devices

  • Discuss the current state of the art of systems and materials for volume production of polymer medical devices
  • Explore process validation and verification of an Additive Manufacturing polymer production line
  • Hear about the journey to implementing a new manufacturing production line for medical devices
Alejandro Muñoz Espiago, Director of Technology at SteriPack

Alejandro Muñoz Espiago

Director of Technology
SteriPack

3:00 pm - 3:40 pm Regulatory Considerations for Additive Manufactured Medical Devices

Ashley Stratton-Powell, Senior Medical Device Specialist Orthopaedics at MHRA

Ashley Stratton-Powell

Senior Medical Device Specialist Orthopaedics
MHRA

3:40 pm - 4:10 pm Networking Coffee Break

4:10 pm - 4:50 pm Creating a 3D Printing Ecosystem to Transform Health for Humanity

  • Discover how the Johnson & Johnson 3D Printing Center of Excellence (CoE) is an innovation hub and how it leverages the company’s breadth and scale to evolve the way Johnson & Johnson creates and delivers healthcare solutions
  • Discuss the CoE application areas including surgical tooling, metal and polymer custom implants, personalised medicines, printed electronics and sensors, bioprinting and tissue regenerative technologies
  • Dive into Point-of-Care Solutions: an entirely new business model incorporating personalised solutions and services to provide real-time, on-demand connectivity at key patient touch points
  • Explore the scope of global collaborations of CoE with technology companies, academic institutions, hospitals and government bodies to leverage expertise and advance its product platforms

Sam Onukuri, Head of 3D Printing Center of Excellence at Johnson & Johnson

Sam Onukuri

Head of 3D Printing Center of Excellence
Johnson & Johnson

4:50 pm - 5:30 pm Regulation: Appropriate and Proportionate?

  • Review the current and future regulatory platforms in Europe for additive manufacturing
  • Discuss quality considerations and controlling uniqueness as a result of ‘custom made’ requirements
  • Explore whether the Medical Device Regulation goes far enough, or even too far, in trying to add controls to these new critical technologies



Phil Brown, Director, Technical and Regulatory at Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI)

Phil Brown

Director, Technical and Regulatory
Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI)

5:30 pm - 6:10 pm Case Study: Additive Manufacturing of Prostheses – Opportunities and Challenges

  • Compare the laborious steps and long fabrication time of traditional prosthesis manufacturing
  • Look into why AM is being used more widely in medical device manufacturing and the opportunities offered by AM to prosthesis manufacturing 
  • Consider the limitations and challenges in the uptake of the AM technology

Dr Farhan Khan, Advanced Research Engineer at Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)

Dr Farhan Khan

Advanced Research Engineer
Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)

6:10 pm - 6:15 pm Chairman's Summary of Day One

Sam Onukuri, Head of 3D Printing Center of Excellence at Johnson & Johnson

Sam Onukuri

Head of 3D Printing Center of Excellence
Johnson & Johnson

6:15 pm - 6:15 pm Networking Drinks Reception