25 November 2025 | Biotech Training Facility, Leiden

How do you deliver on time, stay compliant, and manage rising complexity when your systems are already stretched thin?

For biopharma and biotech manufacturers, this is the daily reality. Manual processes and fragmented data make it harder for leaders to run plants efficiently and meet regulatory expectations.

This half-day event is built around four issues keeping manufacturing leaders awake at night. Each session takes a real challenge from the plant floor and shows how peers have addressed it, through modern practices, digital tools, and management approaches that actually work in a regulated environment.

Through expert presentations and peer exchange, you will see how senior leaders are putting these ideas into practice and take away lessons you can apply in your own operations.

Attendance is free, but seats are limited.

• Discover how automation and digital transformation deliver measurable impact in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Discover how peers are accelerating batch release and cutting downtime with real-time scheduling.
• Explore how process knowledge management (PKM) helps with managing recipes which strengthens compliance and operational efficiency.
• Take away practical strategies you can implement, whether you are digitizing your first process or optimizing a fully integrated system.

12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch & Networking
13:00 – 13:15 | Welcome: Emerson’s Boundless Automation Vision
13:15 – 13:45 | DeltaV RTS – Real-Time Scheduling & Production Optimization
13:45 – 14:15 | Process Knowledge Management Overview
14:15 – 14:30 | Coffee Break
14:30 – 15:00 | Guest Speaker: Kees Mensch (NecstGen / ISPE)
15:00 – 15:30 | Guest Speaker: Thomas Brinkmann (Director Engineering FlowID)
15:30 – 15:45 | Closing Remarks and Q&A
15:45 – 17:00 | Networking, Drinks, optional tour of the Biotech Training Facility

This event is built for professionals driving operational excellence in:

Manufacturing and Operations | Process Development | Quality and Compliance | Pharma IT

By the end of this half-day event, you will see how leading manufacturers are cutting downtime, releasing batches faster, and accelerating time to market while staying compliant. You will learn how to make better decisions with data that supports your operations and discover how to simplify complex workflows. Most importantly, you will walk away with clear, actionable steps you can put into practice in your facility.

Where: | Biotech Training Facility, Leiden
When:  | 25 November 2025, 12:00 – 17:00 CET

Seats are limited. Do not miss this opportunity to learn how digital transformation can reduce risk, simplify operations, and strengthen compliance in your plant.

Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and industrial software, providing innovative solutions that help life sciences manufacturers optimize operations, enhance efficiency, and ensure regulatory compliance. With a focus on digital transformation, Emerson enables smarter, data-driven decision-making to drive productivity, quality, and sustainable growth in highly regulated industries.