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CESPE Conference 2026 sessions

28/09 AM: CESPE Industry-Focused Session

Theme:
PAT in Practice: Implementation Challenges, Measurable Impact and Real Outcomes

09:00 – 09:10 Talk by Willem Dhooge
Platform Manager at CESPE

Welcome and conference opening

09:10 – 09:35 Talk by Jakob Christensen
Principal Consultant and PAT Implementation Lead at Novo Nordisk Engineering

Title: ‘PAT in Full Scale Biomanufacturing:
Implementation Experience and Challenges’

09:35 – 10:00 Talk by Yannick Borguet
Manufacturing Sciences Laboratory Lead at Takeda

Title: ‘PAT Is a Tool, Not a Goal:
Lessons from Translating Raman Spectroscopy into Manufacturing’

10:00 – 10:25 Talk by Melanie Dumarey
Product and Process Design Engineer at AstraZeneca

Title: ‘A leading role for PAT in continuous manufacturing’

10:25 – 10:50 Talk by Laurent Strodiot 
Director in R&D – Drug Product at GSK

Title: ‘PAT strategy to master continuous process –
example for on-line vaccine formulation’

11:20 – 11:45 Talk by Shana Van de Steene 
Application Specialist for Continuous Manufacturing at Fette Compacting

Title: ‘Turning Data into Decisions:
The Road to an Integrated Control Strategy in Continuous Direct Compression’

11:45 – 12:10 Talk by Olivier van der Ha 
Research Project Manager at Ajinomoto OmniChem

Title: ‘Beyond Method Replacement:
Using PAT to Understand, Support and Improve Pharmaceutical Processes’

11:45 – 12:10 Talk by Jeroen Hofenk 
Research Project Manager at SwiftPharma

Title: ‘From Leaf to Product:
Implementing PAT for Robust Downstream Processing
in Plant-Based Biomanufacturing’

Other team members

Other research groups