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The Mini-APACT Conference features the exciting and beloved Exhibitors Showcase, a long-standing favorite format where vendor organizations present the highlights of their latest product developments to the entire audience in a limited time slot. This dynamic event not only offers a fantastic opportunity to showcase new products to a captivated audience but also adds an element of fun with a prize for the best performance! 

Join the excitement at the unique Exhibitor Showcase and present your latest products to an engaged audience. Contact us at admin@cpact.com to secure your spot.

 

 

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9.00 - 9.50

Registration & Tea/Coffee Sponsored by AstraZeneca

9.50 - 10.00

Welcome and Safety Briefing

10.00 - 10.35

Keynote 1

PAT is hard: Making commercial deployment business as usual – lessons learned

Theme 1

Pharma PAT

10.35 - 11.00

Pharma sustainability has a hidden quick win

11.00 - 11.25

Representative sampling of dense powder/granule streams for inline PAT prediction of blend uniformity

11.25 - 11.50

Optimising PAT for high-containment continuous direct compression using the Feed Frame Simulator

11.50 - 13.00

Lunch

13.00 - 13.35

Keynote 2

From Victorian to Victory: Building Johnson Matthey’s industrial IOT foundation

Theme 2

AI assisted PACT

13.35 - 14.00

Towards auditable AI agents for chemometrics in PAT

14.00 - 14.25

AI-Enabled Design of Flow Reactors and Multiphase Manufacturing Devices

14.25 - 15.15

Flash Poster Presentations

15.15 - 15.45

Poster session and Tea/Coffee Sponsored by AstraZeneca

15.45 - 16.10

From data to decisions: Agentic AI-enabled PAT and APC for scalable process development and manufacturing

16.10 - 16.35

Autoencoder-based process anomaly detection in continous manufacturing: An industrial case study

16.35 - 16.50

Comfort break and light snack

16.50 - 18.30

Exhibitors Showcase

18.30 - 19.30

Free time

19.30 - 20.00

Drinks Reception at Shrigley Hall Hotel and Spa

20.00

Conference Dinner and Fun Casino at Shrigley Hall Hotel and Spa

09.00 - 09.35

Keynote 3

Hybrid Modelling for Bioprocess Digital Twins: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

Theme 3

Process Optimisation and Modelling

09.35 - 10.00

Driving bioprocess optimization through connected laboratory environments and analytics

10.00 - 10.25

A semi-supervised framework for optimisation-based label inference in RUL prediction

10.25 - 11.00

Poster session and Tea/Coffee Sponsored by AstraZeneca

11.00 - 11.25

Data-driven digitalisation of batch operations through automated reconstruction and clustering of process flow diagrams

11.25 - 11.50

Hybrid modelling and digital twins: A science-driven path to process excellence

11.50 - 12.15

PAT system integration for effective smart API manufacturing

12.15 - 13.15

Lunch

13.15 - 13.50

Keynote 4

Monitoring and control of food blending processes by NIR imaging and chemometrics

Theme 4

Biopharma PACT

13.50 - 14.15

Deploying in-container Raman spectroscopy for pharmacetutical quality control: Quantitative performance and calibration transfer

14.15 - 14.40

Quality-oriented process monitoring and modelling in insulin drug product manufacturing

14.40 - 15.15

Poster session and Tea/Coffee Sponsored by AstraZeneca

15.15 - 15.40

Advancing bioprocess PAT with inline MIR spectroscopy for UF/DF monitoring

15.40 - 16.05

Flow-compatible Mid-IR PAT: From optically dense process streams to biopharmaceutical continuous manufacturing

16.05 - 16.30

Inline SR-DLS for early aggregate detection and fouling diagnostics in biopharmaceutical downstream processing

16.30 - 16.45

Award Poster Prize Sponsored by Clairet Scientific and Closing Remarks