Schedule

Session Topics

Attendees will hear from leading validation and quality professionals, as well as Kneat and industry experts to expand their understanding of the technologies and best practices to accelerate their digital maturity. The 2026 conference theme and agenda will be shared later this year.

"I love the experience. I've watched it grow over the last couple years, and it's amazing...the company has done a great job with promoting the system, the VALIDATE conference, and what Kneat can do to help promote greater productivity.”

Cindy White, Iovance Biotherapeutics

Tuesday

April 28

Wednesday

April 29

Thursday

April 30

5:00 pm

Reception

Customer and Partner Networking Reception

8:30 am

REGISTRATION

Customer Morning Registration

8:45 am

Welcome

Customer Conference Welcome

Colum McNamara

Senior Vice President of Global Operations

Kneat

The Marker Suite

9:00 am

Customer Session 1

Customer Only: Product Vision and Roadmap

Donal O’Sullivan

Chief Product Officer

Kneat

The Marker Suite

10:10 am

Break

10:25 am

Customer Session 2

Customer Only: Cleaning Validation

Jamie O’Donnell

Senior Product Manager

Kneat

The Marker Suite

11:10 am

Customer Session 3

Customer Only: AI Vision and Roadmap

Ruairi McGarry

Product Manager

Kneat

Gillian McMahon

Senior Product Owner

Kneat

The Marker Suite

11:45 am

Lunch

Lunch

Forbes Street by Gareth Mullins

12:30 pm

Registration

General Conference Registration

12:45 pm

Welcome

Conference Welcome

Eddie Ryan

CEO & Co-Founder

Kneat

The Marker Suite

1:00 pm

Keynote

Conference Keynote

Benjamin Bargetzi

Keynote Speaker

CEO Project MindGuard

The Marker Suite

1:50 pm

Accelerating Digital Maturity

Session 1.1

How Digital Validation was a key enabler to MSD ONECQV (Combining C&Q - CSV)

Dave O’Connor

C&Q Digital Transformation Manager

No deviation

Yvonne Owens

Associate Director, EMEA CQV Lead

MSD

The Marker Suite

Digital Validation Best Practices

Session 1.2

Kneat Product Session - eLogbooks

Lorna Whelan

Senior Product Manager

Kneat

The Shannon

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

Digital Validation Best Practices

Session 2.1

Transforming Pharma Manufacturing: Sanofi's Journey Towards Digital Excellence in the Pharma 4.0 Era

Aine Fleming

VP, Head of Engineering Speciality Care

Sanofi

The Marker Suite

Digital Validation Best Practices

Session 2.2

Customer Only: Entities & CSV

Lorna Whelan

Senior Product Manager

Kneat

Daniel Tobin

Product Owner

Kneat

The Shannon

3:30 pm

Session 3

Kneat Innovative Customer Award Sessions

Andy Clarke

Director, Customer Success

Kneat

Cesar Tavarez

Sr. Engineer II - Validation

Alcon

Warren Ware

Validation Engineer

Colgate-Palmolive

Carly Cox

Senior Process Informatics Manager

Pfizer

The Marker Suite

5:00 pm

Closing Remarks

Day 1 Conference Closing Remarks

The Marker Suite

Reception

Drinks Reception

6:00 pm

Reception

Offsite Evening Reception

Croke Park

8:30 am

Welcome

Day 2 Conference Welcome and Partner Awards Presentation

Carey Ziegler

Manager of Partner Succes

Kneat

The Marker Suite

8:45 am

Accelerating Digital Maturity

Session 4.1

Practical use of Kneat to standardize and simplify validation across global MODA-ES deployments at Lonza

Fokke Zijlstra

Managing Director

Holoceen Projects B.V.

The Marker Suite

Digital Validation Best Practices

Session 4.2

Kneat AI Vision and Road Map

Donal O’Sullivan

Chief Product Officer

Kneat

The Shannon

9:30 am

Accelerating Digital Maturity

Session 5.1

Pfizer Digital Validation

Gisele Fahmi

Director, Content & Risk Mgmt Solutions Lead

Pfizer

Vasilios Tsatsaias

Manager and global Solution Owner

Pfizer

The Marker Suite

Digital Validation Best Practices

Session 5.2

Kneat Integrations

Joe Azzarella

Senior Customer Success Engineer

Kneat

Denis Bartley

Senior Integration Engineer

Kneat

Fintan Coady

CQV Specialist ORP Lead

PM Group

The Shannon

10:15 am

Accelerating Digital Maturity

Session 6.1

AI in Validation & Quality: What’s Real, What’s Next

Donal O’Sullivan

Chief Product Officer

Kneat

Emily Petrelis

Head of Facilities, Engineering & Global Pharma Validation

Nestlé Health Science, Pharma

Dori Gonzalez-Acevedo

CEO & Founder

ProcellaRX, LLC

Roisin Hickey

Founder -Principal Consultant

Qualirus

Phil Jarvis

Manager, CQV and digital validation

No deviation

The Marker Suite

Digital Validation Best Practices

Session 6.2

Main Challenges Slowing Your Digital Validation (and How Top Teams Are Solving Them)

Gisele Fahmi

Director, Content & Risk Mgmt Solutions Lead

Pfizer

Darragh Boyle

Manager, Consulting

Kneat

Clare Hehir

Customer Success Manager

Kneat

Andy Clarke

Director, Customer Success

Kneat

Paul Fahy

Director, Customer Enablement

Kneat

The Shannon

10:55 am

Networking Break

Foyer

11:15 am

Accelerating Digital Maturity

Session 7.1

Driving Cost Reduction for C&Q Capital Projects with Digital Validation

Patrick Mullin

Commissioning and Qualification Lead

Sanofi

The Marker Suite

Digital Validation Best Practices

Session 7.2

How Alcon Uses Kneat as Catalyst for for Harmonization

Nathan Raschke

Head of Analytical Science & Technology

Alcon

Daniel Weingand

Head of Analytical Science and Technology

Alcon

The Shannon

12:00 pm

Accelerating Digital Maturity

Session 8.1

Digital Validation at Eli Lilly

Jeff Denault

Senior Advisor

Eli Lilly

The Marker Suite

Digital Validation Best Practices

Session 8.2

Expert Panel: Implementation and Adoption: Strategies and Tactics

Intoduction by CAI

Tim Akin

Customer Success Manager

Kneat

Aoife Hamilton

CQV Lead

GE Healthcare

Warren Ware

Validation Engineer

Colgate-Palmolive

Lindsay Settecasi ·

Director of Digital Validation

Verista

The Shannon

12:40 pm

Lunch

Lunch

Forbes Street by Gareth Mullins

1:40 pm

Accelerating Digital Maturity

Session 9.1

Audit Readiness in a Digital Environment

Patrick Mullin

Commissioning and Qualification Lead

Sanofi

Sarah Grogan

Customer Success Manager

Kneat

Denis Kelleher

Validation Engineer

Gilead Sciences

Yvonne Burazer

Associate Director, Senior Global Power User & Business Owner for paperless validation system

Takeda

The Marker Suite

Digital Validation Best Practices

Session 9.2

Data Integration Platform - implementation and validation challenges

Grzegorz Janczewski

CSV Manager

Rezon Bio

The Shannon

2:25 pm

Accelerating Digital Maturity

Session 10.1

Smart Commissioning in a Pharma 4.0 Smart Factory: A Digital CQV/CSV Ecosystem

Darren Crowe

Technical Lead – CQV & CSV

AstraZeneca

The Marker Suite

Accelerating Digital Maturity

Session 10.2

Digital Validation Mastery: Enabling Validation 4.0

Phil Jarvis

Manager, CQV and digital validation

No deviation

Dave O’Connor

C&Q Digital Transformation Manager

No deviation

Dori Gonzalez-Acevedo

CEO & Founder

ProcellaRX, LLC

The Shannon

3:10 pm

Session 11.1

The State of Validation 2026: Accelerating Digital Maturity in the Age of AI

Donncadh Nagle

Assistant Lecturer, School of Chemical & BioPharmaceutical Sciences

Technological University Dublin

Michael Sweeney

CQV Electronic Validation Lead

PM Group

Durward Sutherland

Validation and Compliance Manager IPS EMEA

IPS

Ruairi McGarry

Product Manager

Kneat

The Marker Suite

3:45 pm

Session 11.2

Resilience Is a Validation Activity: We Rebuild, We Validate, We Protect

Elba Madouar

Digital Transformation Leader

The Marker Suite

4:05 pm

Closing Remarks

Day 2 Conference Closing Remarks

The Marker Suite