Speakers - Validate Conference 2026

Speakers

Past VALIDATE speakers have included experts from life sciences leaders, such as:

Novartis, GSK, J&J, MSD, Azenta, ThermoFisher, Alcon, Lonza, Takeda, Sanofi & Moderna

VALIDATE 2026 Speaker Line Up!

Cesar Tavarez

Sr. Engineer II - Validation

Alcon

Lindsay Settecasi ·

Director of Digital Validation

Verista

Aoife Hamilton

CQV Lead

GE Healthcare

Jeff Denault

Senior Advisor

Eli Lilly

Benjamin Bargetzi

Keynote Speaker

CEO Project MindGuard

Roisin Hickey

Founder -Principal Consultant

Qualirus

Aine Fleming

VP, Head of Engineering Speciality Care

Sanofi

Elba Madouar

Digital Transformation Leader

Warren Ware

Validation Engineer

Colgate-Palmolive

Durward Sutherland

Validation and Compliance Manager IPS EMEA

IPS

Fintan Coady

CQV Specialist ORP Lead

PM Group

Michael Sweeney

CQV Electronic Validation Lead

PM Group

Grzegorz Janczewski

CSV Manager

Rezon Bio

Vasilios Tsatsaias

Manager and global Solution Owner

Pfizer

Dori Gonzalez-Acevedo

CEO & Founder

ProcellaRX, LLC

Emily Petrelis

Head of Facilities, Engineering & Global Pharma Validation

Nestlé Health Science, Pharma

Daniel Weingand

Head of Analytical Science and Technology

Alcon

Yvonne Owens

Associate Director, EMEA CQV Lead

MSD

Lorna Whelan

Senior Product Manager

Kneat

Gisele Fahmi

Director, Content & Risk Mgmt Solutions Lead

Pfizer

Darren Crowe

Technical Lead – CQV & CSV

AstraZeneca

Fokke Zijlstra

Managing Director

Holoceen Projects B.V.

Nathan Raschke

Head of Analytical Science & Technology

Alcon

Dave O’Connor

C&Q Digital Transformation Manager

No deviation

Donncadh Nagle

Assistant Lecturer, School of Chemical & BioPharmaceutical Sciences

Technological University Dublin

Patrick Mullin

Commissioning and Qualification Lead

Sanofi

Stay tuned for an updated roster of speakers!