EuPAT13 & CESPE Conference 2026 Programme

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

Talk title to be announced

09:10 – 09:35 Talk by Jakob Christensen
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
MSAT Laboratory Lead at Takeda

Talk title to be announced

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 at R&D and DP Department at GSK

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

10:50 – 11:20 Coffee Break

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

Talk title to be announced

11:45 – 12:10 Talk by Olivier Van Der Ha
Research Project Manager for Continuous Improvement at Ajinomoto OmniChem

Talk title to be announced

12:10 – 12:35 Talk by Jeroen Hofenk
Founder & CSO at SwiftPharma

Talk title to be announced

12:35 – 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 – 16:30 EuPAT/CESPE Hands-on Workshops (more details to be announced soon!)

16:30 – 18:30 Afternoon Reception

Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Axel Zeitler from University of Cambridge, UK

Title: ‘Terahertz Porosity Sensing for Disintegration Prediction’

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Tom Van den Kerkhof from Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, BE

Title: ‘Control Strategies and Real-Time Release for Continuous Manufacturing: Case Studies’

Keynote Lecture by Jan-Sebastiaan Uyttersprot from Union Chimique Belge, BE

Title: ‘From PAT Signals to Process Decisions: Designing Closed-Loop Controls for Drug Substance Biopharma Manufacturing’

Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Ossi Korhonen from University of Eastern Finland, FI

Title: ‘Continuous Direct Compression in Development of Dispersible Combination Tablet for HIV-positive Pediatric Patients’

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Jérôme Mantanus & Dr. Efty Hadjittofis from Union Chimique Belge, BE

Title: ‘Particle Engineering as an Enabler for Continuous Flow Processing’

Keynote lecture by Dr. Silvia Vogl from European Medicines Agency, Quality Innovation Group

Title: ‘The EU Quality Innovation Group Perspective on Modelling and AI in Pharmaceutical Process Development and Manufacturing’

Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Daniel Markl from University of Strathclyde, GB

Title: ‘From Material, Process, and Product Knowledge to the AI Formulator’

Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Kārlis Bērziņš from University of Copenhagen, DK

Title: ‘Predictive Pharmaceutical Development and Process Intelligence through Low-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy’