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Floriane Eshak > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Floriane ESHAK, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher - Université Paris Cité
Floriane Eshak > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Floriane ESHAK, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher - Université Paris Cité

Floriane ESHAK graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from the German University in Cairo, Egypt in 2018. She then completed her Master’s degree in In Silico Drug Design atthe University of Paris, France in 2020. In 2021, she started her Ph.D. at the University Paris Cité, working on analyzing and developing nanobodies binding to metabotropic glutamate receptors using in silico tools under the supervision of Dr. Anne GOUPIL (Biovia, Dassault Systèmes), and Dr. Francine ACHER (University Paris Cité), and was funded by the National research agency. She obtained her PhD in 2023. Floriane then continued her research career as a postdoctoral researcher at the University Paris Cité and has recently joined Dassault Systèmes. 

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Alexandre Cabaye > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Alexandre CABAYÉ, Ph. D
Industry Solution Consultant, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes
Alexandre Cabaye > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Alexandre CABAYÉ, Ph. D
Industry Solution Consultant, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes

Expertise: Drug Discovery, Molecular Modelling, Simulations

Bio: Dr Alexandre Cabayé is working as solution consultant for the last 5 years and has an extensive experience in research on small molecules and protein modelling. He holds his Ph.D in Molecular Modelling from the University of Paris Cité.

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Anne Goupil Lamy > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Anne GOUPIL-LAMY, Ph.D
Science Council Fellow - Dassault Systèmes, BIOVIA
Anne Goupil Lamy > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Anne GOUPIL-LAMY, Ph.D
Science Council Fellow - Dassault Systèmes, BIOVIA

Anne GOUPIL-LAMY, Ph.D., principal field application scientist and Science Council Fellow at BIOVIA, obtained her doctorate in molecular biophysics from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI, France). She studied protein dynamics and denaturation using molecular dynamic simulations and neutron scattering experiments under the supervision of Professor Jeremy C. Smith. Goupil-Lamy joined MSI (now BIOVIA) in 1998 as a support scientist and gained expertise in the many modelling areas supported by BIOVIA' life science modelling tools. While managing BIOVIA' contract research group for many years in Europe and worldwide, she performed feasibility studies, developed proposals and was involved in the delivery of structure-based design and ligand-based design projects with one contract resulting in a patent. As a pre-sales scientist, she has performed several validation studies in fragment-based design and protein-protein interactions that were presented at conferences and to customers. She is also involved in biotherapeutics projects focusing on antibody design.

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Frank SCHAFFER > Speaker > Dassault Systèmes®
Frank SCHAFFER, Ph.D
Director Tech Sales - Dassault Systèmes, BIOVIA
Frank SCHAFFER > Speaker > Dassault Systèmes®
Frank SCHAFFER, Ph.D
Director Tech Sales - Dassault Systèmes, BIOVIA

Managing the European Tech Sales Team covering the BIOVIA solutions working closely with customers in Consumer Package Goods, Oil and Gas, Chemical, Automotive, Aerospace and Defense and other industries. Part of Dassault Systèmes since 2014 with nearly 30 years of experience in cheminformatics (Accelrys, Symyx, Elsevier, MDL). PhD in organic Chemistry from the University in Freiburg.

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Frederic Barberis > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Frederic BARBERIS, Ph.D
Solution Consultant, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes
Frederic Barberis > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Frederic BARBERIS, Ph.D
Solution Consultant, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes

Expertise: Digital transformation, Lab informatics and workflows, Scientific information and data 

Bio: Frederic BARBERIS has been working for 24 years at Dassault Systèmes LifeScience, in direct relation with customer’s end-users to help addressing their daily challenges at the desk and in the laboratory.

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Gene Tetreault > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Gene TETREAULT
Senior Director - Dassault Systèmes, BIOVIA
Gene Tetreault > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Gene TETREAULT
Senior Director - Dassault Systèmes, BIOVIA

Expertise: Lab Informatics, ELN, LES, LIMS, Instrumentation and Data Acquisition, Data Analytics

Bio: At BIOVIA Gene is providing the vision, strategy and management of the Laboratory Management product portfolio that includes the Electronic Laboratory Notebook, Laboratory Information Management System and the Laboratory Execution system.

Gene has over 30 years of experience in the Life Science industry developing and delivering Laboratory informatics solutions for the research, development and quality control labs.  

Prior to joining BIOVIA, Gene led product development efforts for Zymark Corporation and REMP USA.

Gene obtained is BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 1991.
 

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Jeroen Coppieters > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Jeroen COPPIETERS
Senior Solution Architect, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes
Jeroen Coppieters > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Jeroen COPPIETERS
Senior Solution Architect, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes

Expertise: Enterprise Architecture , Information Architecture, Systems Integration, Drug Discovery

Bio: Jeroen is a Solution Architect in the BIOVIA Professional Services organization. He has nearly 40 years of experience as an Enterprise Architect in organizations ranging from academic bioinformatics to large pharmaceutical R&D. He holds two degrees from the University of Ghent, Belgium, in Molecular Biology  and Informatics. His current focus is offering expertise in design and optimization of multi-vendor solutions for R&D in Lifesciences and CPG industries.

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Jao Ines > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
João INÊS
Life Science Solution Consultant, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes
Jao Ines > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
João INÊS
Life Science Solution Consultant, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes

Expertise: Data Science, AI/ML, Drug Discovery, Cheminformatics, Scientific Informatics, Laboratory Informatics

Bio: Joao Ines serves as a Life Science Solution Consultant at BIOVIA-Dassault Systèmes in the EMEA region, bringing over a year and a half of expertise to his role. With a diverse educational background encompassing chemical engineering and computational chemistry, Joao's career has been marked by a transition from cheminformatics research to the dynamic fields of Life Science and Biopharma.

Today, Joao's primary focus lies in identifying and implementing cheminformatics solutions tailored to the specific needs of the life science industry. 
 

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Johan Carlsson > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Johan CARLSSON, Ph.D.
Senior Industry Process Scientist - Dassault Systèmes, BIOVIA
Johan Carlsson > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Johan CARLSSON, Ph.D.
Senior Industry Process Scientist - Dassault Systèmes, BIOVIA

Expertise: Atomistic simulations, Lab informatics and Data Science.Materials Science and Battery Materials 

Bio: Dr. Johan M. CARLSSON is a Senior Industry Process Scientist and Fellow of the Science Council at the BIOVIA brand of Dassault Systèmes. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

He subsequently headed the Nanoporous Carbon group in the Theory department of Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin for six years. In 2008, Dr. CARLSSON joined the Contract Research group at BIOVIA and moved to the Technical sales Department in 2011.

In his role as Senior Industry Process Scientist, he helps customers to solve their scientific problems virtually by modeling and simulation techniques and practically by lab informatics using the BIOVIA Software Solutions. As a Fellow of the Science Council, he gives advice for the scientific strategy of the BIOVIA brand.

The research interests focus on computational materials science and cover metals, carbon, and battery materials and he has published 20 articles in scientific journals, which have received over 10000 citations in total.
 

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Kevin O'Leary > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Kevin O'LEARY
Vice President, Quality & Regulatory - Dassault Systèmes
Kevin O'Leary > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Kevin O'LEARY
Vice President, Quality & Regulatory - Dassault Systèmes

Expertise: Quality, Regulatory and Product Lifecycle in Biopharma and Med Device

Bio: Kevin is the VP of R&D for Quality & Regulatory solutions in DASSAULT SYSTEMES. As founder and former CEO of QUMAS Kevin has deep industry expertise across the Quality and Regulatory domains.

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Kristen Gesenberg > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Kirsten GESENBERG
Portfolio Director, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes
Kristen Gesenberg > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Kirsten GESENBERG
Portfolio Director, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes

Expertise: Lab Informatics, ELN, LIMS, Digitalization

Bio: Kirsten GESENBERG is portfolio director for BIOVIA ONE Lab products. She began her career as a small molecule process chemist in the pharmaceutical industry. Since joining BIOVIA more than 15 years ago, she has been involved in the successful implementation of BIOVIA ONE Lab and Workbook across the Life Sciences industry.


 

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Lalitha Subramanian > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Lalitha SUBRAMANIAN, Ph.D
Contract Research Program Senior Director - Dassault Systèmes
Lalitha Subramanian > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Lalitha SUBRAMANIAN, Ph.D
Contract Research Program Senior Director - Dassault Systèmes

Dr. Lalitha SUBRAMANIAN is a Senior Director of Global Contract Research. With a Ph. D. in Chemistry from the IIT, Madras, India and postdoc at Cornell University, New York, USA with Prof. Roald Hoffmann (Nobel Laureate), Lalitha leads a team of scientists and engineers to provide sustainable solutions to industry customers.  With several publications, book, book chapters, and patents, she has been invited to present at various scientific conferences.

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Larry Fiegland > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Larry FIEGLAND, Ph.D
Discoverant Product Manager, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes
Larry Fiegland > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Larry FIEGLAND, Ph.D
Discoverant Product Manager, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes

Bio: As Discoverant’s Product Manager, Larry is part of the Product management organization within BIOVIA and is responsible for product development for the BIOVIA Discoverant solution. Larry obtained his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech under the direction of Professor John R. Morris, working on ultrahigh vacuum studies of the reaction mechanisms of ozone with saturated and unsaturated self-assembled monolayers.  Prior to graduate school, Larry’s industrial experience includes four years as a New Process and Development Chemist working on scale up of chemical processes from pilot plant to full scale manufacturing.

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Margaux Soules > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Margaux SOULÈS
Senior Science Consultant, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes
Margaux Soules > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Margaux SOULÈS
Senior Science Consultant, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes

Expertise: Lab Informatics, Lab Data Analytics, Structured Document Authoring/CMC Authoring, Process Development, Quality Control

Bio: Margaux has experience in both pharmaceutical R&D and Manufacturing. She first worked as a Data Specialist in Manufacturing at UCB BioPharma to help QA and QC teams to ensure process control and compliance through data monitoring. She then joined Pierre Fabre as a project manager to digitalize Research and Pharmaceutical Development laboratories using BIOVIA solutions. She is now part of BIOVIA Pre-Sales as Solution Consultant, specializing in Solutions for QC and manufacturing labs.

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Marie Laure Chesne-Seck > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Marie-Laure CHESNE-SECK, Ph.D.
Industry Process Consultant Senior, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes
Marie Laure Chesne-Seck > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Marie-Laure CHESNE-SECK, Ph.D.
Industry Process Consultant Senior, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes

Expertise: Materials Science and Formulation, Lab Informatics, Digital Transformation

Bio: Dr. Marie-Laure Chesne-Seck has over 15 years of expertise in the field of information management in the scientific innovation context. Dr. Chesne-Seck holds a Ph. D. in Structural Physics from the University of Grenoble and a certification in Business Analysis.

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Niamh Finn  > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Niamh FINN
Life Sciences Solution Consultant, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes
Stephanie Vellay > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Stéphane VELLAY, Ph.D
Senior Solution Scientist, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes
Stephanie Vellay > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Stéphane VELLAY, Ph.D
Senior Solution Scientist, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes

Expertise: Scientific Informatics, Machine Learning, Structured Content, Digital Transformation

Bio: Stéphane joined the BIOVIA team 16 years ago to advise scientists and engineers, from the lab bench, the plant, hospitals, and the executive team, in their innovation endeavour. As a pharmacist coming from the industry, and with my scientific informatics experience, I could help you understand how to effectively use your data and improve your processes with BIOVIA Discoverant and BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot.

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Tania Taheri > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Tania TAHERI
Industry Process Consultant, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes
Walid Darghouth > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Walid DARGHOUTH
CPG-Retail Industry Solution Experience Director, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes
Walid Darghouth > Speaker>  Dassault Systèmes
Walid DARGHOUTH
CPG-Retail Industry Solution Experience Director, BIOVIA - Dassault Systèmes

Bio: Walid DARGHOUTH joined Dassault Systèmes in 2006. Walid holds a Master degree in informatics from Toulouse university in France and an MBA from Bologna university in Italy. Walid’s has more than 20 years of consulting experience in Consumer Goods industry, with expertise in customer engagement for transformation and deploying innovation projects. Over the last 4 years, Walid is leading the Home & Lifestyle and CPG & Retail Industry Solution with focus on defining the industry solution portfolio to address specific industry challenges around packaging, product and formula development & optimization, Lab digitalization, manufacturing scheduling & execution and solving inbound and outbound supply Chain puzzles.

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