With our free networking sessions, you can air common challenges of working in our sector and learn from others’ experiences. You are welcome to attend!
What we offer
- Highly interactive sessions, in a safe environment to share issues, challenges and learning
- Peer to peer advice
- Tools and tips from expert facilitator(s)
Who should attend?
- Project leaders / managers in life science organisations aiming for project success and avoidance of pitfalls and exploit shortcuts
- Looking for deeper insights in knowledge management with a focus on advanced risk management.
- Product start-up/development teams
- Project/strategy review
- Anyone in a life science organisation looking for deeper insights in knowledge management with a focus on advanced risk management.
- This can be for team members and team leaders in local or remote teams whether they be direct line managed teams or multi-functional matrix teams.
- IT experts for digital project management tools including Clinical Management Systems
- Pharmaceutical industry, biotech, med tech, life science industry
Benefits
- Share their own challenges with like-minded people
- Pick up some successful approaches from others
- Hear some tips from expert moderators
- Elect to attend further sessions
Logistics and Costs
- 1-hour virtual session
- Free of charge (booking required)
- 8 – 16 participants
It’s all about knowing what you don’t know. Can you improve the chances of project success by interrogating facts and characterising knowledge?
11-Sep2025 4-5.30pm (UK time) – online meeting
In a pharmaceutical company, pieces of critical information may exist within the organization (or elsewhere) but are either unrecognized or underutilized. Unlocking knowledge forms the basis for project success and provides new insights into risks and opportunities.
In the networking session four categories of knowledge will be explored and by that we propose to discover critical knowledge gaps.
The audience will be invited to contribute examples of perceived knowledge gaps in complex projects from within the BioPharma industry as appropriate. Potential solutions shall be proposed thereafter by applying proven principles in a defined, creative, challenging manner which can help increase the likelihood of project success.
Moderators
Dr Mike Florence, PhD MBA
Mike has over 20 years’ experience in Pharmaceutical and Chemical industries delivering step change improvements and projects across manufacturing, supply chain, Research and Development and marketing companies. Mike is a winner of the European strategic risk award for building risk and lean into portfolio management and a sustainable business cycle. Previous roles include Global Project Manager accountable for leading cross functional teams to deliver large and complex portfolio of projects to decision points on time and budget. He is a full member of the Association of Project Management and the Institute of Risk Management. Mike gained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, MBA from the Open University and is a registered practitioner of Prince2 and Management of Successful Programmes.
Dr Volker Möckel, PhD, MSc
is a Clinical Research Expert, Clinical Project Leader and Senior Innovation Manager in Pharma Business. He held, over a 25+year period, positions in top tier pharmaceutical companies in Development and Global Medical Affairs in different therapeutic areas and contributed to development of innovative digital solutions. In addition, he extended his expert knowledge in project management, information management and collaborative leadership skills by learning and applying innovation management methodologies within pharma and the drug development cycle. Consequently, he can offer both in-depth specialist knowledge on clinical and digital activities as well as applied innovation management by internal consulting from experience gained within a world-class global pharma company.
Dr Stephen Bingham CEng, FIChemE
Stephen has worked in the food, FMCG and OTC Healthcare sectors, leading projects ranging from fundamental up-stream technical research through process development to plant design/build and running production departments on 2 factory sites. By applying science and a fundamental understanding of engineering principles, he has enabled step changes to manufactured product quality and manufacturing efficiency; making products better, faster and cheaper than before. He has wide experience as a technical coach and mentor, and particular skills in systematic analysis/optimization to step-change process efficiencies and solve complicated production/QA/compliance issues involving formulation, engineering, process and pack design. Having worked with many organisations across the world he is sensitive to cultural and organisational differences and how to get things done across continents by influencing even when there is no direct reporting relationship.