08.00 Registration And Coffee

09.00 Welcome Remarks Pharma IQ

09.05 Opening Remarks Chairperson

09.10 Exploring Opportunities For Consolidation Of Shipments To Improve Asset Utilisation And Decrease Transportation Cost

• Balancing cost with quality: Quality as a determining factor for deciding which transportation mode, lane and partner to use
• Assessing LTL and LCL opportunities
• Results of an FMEA analysis on LCL
• Use of combi-trucks (2-8C + 15-25C)
• Understanding the effect of loading CRT products in cool trucks

David A Ulrich
QA Director - Distribution, Global Pharmaceutical Operations, Strategic Quality Initiative, Distribution QA
Abbott Laboratories

09.45 Air Cargo Capacity: The Future Of Transporting Vaccines To Developing Countries

This presentation will give an evaluation of the airline industry’s ability and challenges in meeting the future transport demands of the World Health Organisation (WHO), including:

• Key drivers for increased cubic volume of vaccines, pharmaceutical and biologics
• An overview of the state of the airline / air cargo industry
• Current and future survival scenarios
• Understanding fleet, routes and consolidation factors
• Analysing the regions/airports that are of most concern
• The domino effect
• Effective approaches to overcoming the challenges

Umit Kartoglu
Technical Officer and Scientist
World Health Organisation

10.20 Ensuring That Airport Facilities And Infrastructure Maintain Required Temperatures

• The airport authority’s role in ensuring product quality, working with airlines and having an influence on the cold chain process
• Examining the infrastructure challenges at some large international airports
• Quality measures and accountable action plans that airlines have in place with airports to ensure temperature control
• Establishing a collaborative approach between the shipper, freight forwarder, airline and airport authority

Bart Pouwels
Director Business Development
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

10.50 Morning Networking Break In Exhibition Arena

Join your peers to browse the 2011 Solution Hall. Open across the 2 days this is where you’ll be able to find all the latest packaging/container, transportation, logistics, temperature monitoring and data management solutions. The ideal place to meet existing and new partners!

11.20 Air Freight Options For 15-25C Requirements

In the Pharmaceutical Industry a growing demand for a 15-25C product can be notified. Airlines are preparing themselves to see how to meet this demand although different directions for solutions exist.

Topics to be addressed during the panel discussion are:

• Current solutions: What are they and what are critical points?
• When to move from an open to a closed solution and vice versa?
• Future developments: Which direction to follow?

Martin Blok
Director Pharma
Air France – KLM Cargo

11.55 Thermal Blanket Technology For CRT (Controlled Ambient) Shipments

• The science of thermal protection
• Assessing blanket thermal performance for CRT cargo
• Measuring return on investment
• Case study using thermal blankets protecting CRT cargo

Peter Lockett
Global Thermal Product Manager
AmSafe

12.25 Novel Technologies Shaping The Future Of Vaccine Transport, Storage And Logistics

Project Optimize, a collaboration of WHO and PATH, has been given a unique mandate to identify, develop and test solutions to help supply chains keep up with rapidly advancing vaccine and delivery device technologies needed to safely and effectively deliver needed vaccines to middle and low income countries. This presentation will examine in-progress collaborative demonstration projects to assess the impact of technology innovations on the efficiency and sustainability of supply chain and logistics systems and the availability and quality of products that move through the system. Points include:

• Thermos table vaccines stored out of the traditional cold chain yet in a “controlled temperature chain”
• Longer term passive storage containers
• Solar “battery free” vaccine refrigerators
• “Zero energy” cold chain including electric vehicles
• Further examples from demonstration projects in Albania, Guatemala, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia and Vietnam

Steve McCarney
Cold Chain Technologies Specialist - Project Optimize
PATH

13.00 Discussing The Need For 24/7 Cold Chain Monitoring To Ensure Patient Safety

Due the presence of multiple uncontrolled variables in the distribution process, developing an appropriate temperature program is essential to protect is essential to protect the quality of environmentally sensitive pharmaceuticals and to protect patient safety.

This discussion covers:

• The need for cold chain monitoring to ensure patient safety today
• Assessing the advantages of 24/7, live Cold Chain information
• Looking to the near future: Discussing the possibilities to improve efficiency, sustainability and safety by live data.

Mark Roemers
CEO
Dyzle | The Live Company

13.15 Panel Discussion: Temperature Monitoring Methodologies For Different Stages Of The Drug Supply Chain

This panel will review the risk-based decision process and criteria that led to different monitoring methodologies employed for different stages of the drug supply chain – while ensuring the goal of product quality and patient safety. An explanation of when full time/temperature data loggers are used, as well as, when temperature indicators are employed for later stage (direct-to-site) shipments will be given. Points for discussion include:

• Regulatory pressures and requirements to monitor to the patient
• The impact of mail order and home delivery care distribution methods
• Temperature monitoring and deviation training methods
• Product release/quarantine processes
• Reduction in excursion trends
• Workload and QA staffing required
• Utilisation of stability data

Moderator:

Henry Ames
Director, Strategic Marketing
Sensitech

13.50 Networking Lunch

Discuss the morning’s presentations and current concerns with like-minded colleagues by joining the networking lunch with peers in QA, logistics, technology development or packaging.

18.25 Closing Remarks

19.30 Cool Chain Europe Gala Dinner And Excellence Awards 2011

Join your industry colleagues onboard a luxury ship for an evening of drinks, food, networking and an educational tour of the Port of Rotterdam - the largest port in Europe. You will learn about the history, day to day commerce and operational infrastructure of the port. Plus - to top it all off - the Excellence Awards Ceremony will be another feature of the evening and winners will be announced for the 2011 Award Categories:

• Best Temperature Control Logistics Project
• Best Quality, Qualification or Risk Management Project

Nominate your colleague or partner on the Cool Chain Excellence Awards page