Digital Bioprocessing

From Innovation to Impact

DataHow Symposium 2025

June 25th - 26th, 2025

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Symposium 2025 Agenda

Thursday 26th June

@ETH, Zurich - Hönggerberg  Campus

HCI Building - Floor J - Room J7

Registration & Welcome Coffee in Fusion (floor F)


  • 09:00 – 09:05 │Welcome by DataHow

  • 09:05 – 09:35 │Lonza - Dr. Vish Maralingannavar - Associate Principal Scientist

    Application of a miniaturised sub-ML cell-culture system to mimic culture performance in lab-scale bioreactor

  • 09:35 – 10:05 │KBI BioPharma – Alix Lecomte – Upstream Process Development Scientist

    Leveraging Bioprocess Development: Transforming Data into Business Success

  • 10:05 – 10:20  │Sponsor Pitches: Eppendorf - Beckman Coulter - Securecell

  • Networking Coffee Break

  • 11:00 – 11:30 │Sanofi – Dr. Amos Lu – Senior Data Scientist

    In-silico comparison of classical response surface and hybrid pareto optimization for feed optimization on a ground-truth dynamic metabolic model

  • 11:30 – 12:00 │Novartis - Dr. Tanja Hernandez - Senior Expert - DSD Modeling and Simulation Lead

    Towards model-informed drug substance process development – The role of prior knowledge and decision-making under uncertainties

  • 12:00 – 12:30 │Roche – Dr. Hadj Latreche – Head Digital, Operation Excellence and Innovation

    AI-Driven Biomanufacturing: From Predictive Model to Adaptive Shop Floor Ecosystem

  • Networking Lunch

  • 14:00 - 14:00 │BMS – Dr. Eric Hodgman – Scientific Director, Process Development
                            │DataHow – Jakub Polak –  Machine Learning Engineer 

    Predictive Power: Accelerating Bioreactor Process Development with Hybrid Models​

  • 14:30 – 15:00 │Imperial College London - Prof. Antonio del Rio Chanona - Associate Professor

    From human-in-the-loop to LLM-in-the-loop Bayesian optimisation

  • 15:00 – 15:30 │GSK – Dr. Ben Stevens – Director CMC Policy and Advocacy

    Regulatory Considerations for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Process Models

  • Networking Coffee Break
  • 16:30 – 17:00 │DataHow – Dr. Alessandro Butté – CEO DataHow

    Streamlining Bioprocess Development: A Novel Perspective on the Role of Hybrid Models and Risk-Based Optimal Experimental Design

  • 17:00 – 17:30 │Curevac – Dr. Dietmar Lang – Senior Director Platform Development Program Management
    Living the digital transformation in a small biotech company

  • 17:30 – 18:00 │J&J - Konstantinos Alexias - Scientist, API Process Development 

    Hybrid-modeling in mRNA manufacturing process development: An industrial case study

  • 18:00 – 18:10 │Closing words from Conference host

 

Digital Bioprocessing

From Innovation to Impact