Kaisa Kallio

You’ve selected a partner. You’ve shaped how you expect the collaboration will work. But now you need to make that happen. In this next keynote, we delve down into the fundamentals of good partnership working. How can we ensure that innovation and collaboration are one of the same thing?

Core focus areas to include:

• Combined Skills Deliver Greater Value: Be clear on what is needed from both sides and develop a practical plan for how you will continuously evolve the relationship moving forward
• Take Ownership as a Team: Move away from an internal/external mindset, incorporating your partners objectives and aligning them with into a shared mission
• Delivering Greater Transparency: What are the practical approaches for achieving greater transparency – not only in the way you communicate, but in the way you share data? How can technology enable this?
• Collaboration is Innovation: How has a more effective way of working impacted the future way of working? What are the implications for business improvement and product quality?

How is rising operational complexity & uncertainty impacting our long-term decision-making in pharma contract manufacturing? In this concluding session, we ask how the macro-economic environment and geo-political situation are impacting not only our ability to achieve our goals but also our decisions and where and who to partner with.

Core focus areas to include:

• The Future Outlook: How are we to incorporate geo-politics in our decision-making, weighing up the pros and cons of partnering with particular regions of the world?
• Risk Mitigation Strategies: We explore what ‘cost-effective risk-mitigation’ means in-practice. How can you make the argument for investing more to offset risk?
• The Evolution of Risk: Discover how evolving regulatory factors, such as environmental impact mitigation, are changing the way in which we need to define operational risk
• Implications for Partner Localities: Is there now a greater emphasis on the locality of a potential partner due to operational complexity and uncertainty on a global scale?