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OPTIMA Pharma Forum

Expertise meets networking

A stage for international experts and insights into the latest developments and innovations in the pharmaceutical industry combined with an optimal opportunity for networking. Over a period of two days, the Pharma Forum offers you exciting discussions about current industry trends in the field of sterile filling and process solutions as well as containment and freeze-drying technologies for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, exclusive insights into our machine solutions, and the opportunity to exchange ideas with experts.

What to expect at the Pharma Forum:
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Exciting presentations from international guest speakers

Guest lectures by international experts are a highlight at the Pharma Forum. During joint discussions, take away current industry trends around smart and reliable fill & finish solutions, containment technologies, and freeze-drying systems and exchange ideas among pharma experts.

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Live machine demonstration

Learn more about Optima as a turnkey partner during an exclusive tour of the assembly halls. As an integrated system provider, you will gain insights into developing and manufacturing innovative machine solutions and technologies during live machine demonstrations.

Guests at the Pharma Forum get-together

Get-together and networking

On the evening of the first day of the event, an exclusive location offers the perfect opportunity for a get-together. We cordially invite you to this networking opportunity as a finale to an eventful day.

The Pharma Forum 2023 took place for the eighth time. Around 250 guests from 25 countries accepted Optima's invitation to Schwäbisch Hall. The main topics of the conference in 2023 could not have been more relevant: It was about the potential of cell and gene therapy, the optimization of systems and production processes as well as the discussion of current industry trends. Experts from research and industry provided insights into solutions for reducing glove interventions or the development and use of cell and gene therapies. Flexible production solutions, the influence of regulatory requirements such as Annex 1 and virtual qualification solutions were discussed.

The Pharma Forum has been held every three years since 2001 and has been a great success.

> 1,000
Participants since 2010
35
Nations
> 50
International speaker

Since 2010, more than 50 international speakers such as Ryan Hawkins from Cook Pharmica and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Friess from Coriolis have given exciting presentations at the Pharma Forum. The topics ranged from trends in lyophilized formulation of biologics, to how the growth of Asia's ageing population is driving automation and advanced therapies.

The contribution by Dr. Annette Künkele, senior physician at the Charité hospital in Berlin, who reported on a child suffering from leukemia in which the tumor cells have now disappeared for seven years thanks to a new type of therapy (CAR T-cell therapy), was particularly moving for the participants in 2019.

Jochen Maas
Prof. Dr. Jochen Maas, Sanofi

The patient of tomorrow does not just want a medicine, but an individual solution including diagnostics. Another trend is moving towards digitalization and the individualization of certain treatments.

Prof. Dr. Jochen Maas, Sanofi
Richard Lee
Richard Lee, Lotte Biologics

The ageing of Asia's population is driving automation and advanced therapies. Biological medicines and the introduction of innovative therapies play a crucial role in meeting the changing needs of the population.

Richard Lee, Lotte Biologics
Pharma Forum 2023 in review:
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Guest of the Pharma Forum in conversation with an expert from Optima
Guests from the Pharma Forum on a guided tour
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Guests from Pharma Guided tour in front of a machine with gloved hands
Top view of the Pharma Forum evening event
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