CPHI Milan 2026 Conference Sessions
Day 1 Global Pharma Outlook Stage

10:30 - 11.00am
New Rules of Global Pharma: When Everything Changes at Once

11:05 - 11:50
From Policy to Practice: Europe's Integrated Approach to Medicine Security

11:55am - 12:20pm
Lasting Supply: Rebuilding Europe’s Antibiotic Manufacturing Resilience

12:25 - 12:50pm
Beyond Regulatory Reform: How Biosimilar Development Is Reshaping Market Access and Manufacturing Strategy

13:45 - 14:10pm
Value Added Medicines and Differentiated Generics

14:15 - 14:40pm
Canada's Biomanufacturing Advantage - Turning Innovation into Global Partnerships

14:45 - 15:10pm
From Molecule to Market: Accelerating Oral Delivery of Peptides through Integrated Global Pharma Solutions and Advanced Enteric Technologies

15:15 - 15:40pm
Global API Manufacturing: Market Shifts, Competitive Dynamics, and the Road Ahead

15:45 - 16:10pm
From Compliance to Competitive Advantage: Unlocking the Business Value of Pharmacovigilance

16:45 - 17:25pm
From Innovation to Access: Building Scalable Care Pathways for Next-Generation Therapies in Emerging Markets
Day 2 Global Pharma Outlook Stage

10:30 - 11.00am
Keynote: Shifting Geopolitical Dynamics in Pharmaceutical Innovation and Supply

11:05 - 11:50
Where Capital Goes When Everything Changes: Industry Perspectives on Investment Reality

11:55am - 12:20pm
Market Access Under Pressure: Pricing, Policy, and Global Pharmaceutical Economics

12:25 - 12:50pm
Powering Pandemic Preparedness - Voluntary Licensing & Generic Collaborations

13:45 - 14:10pm
Geopolitical Tensions and Supply Chain Fragmentation: How Site-Neutral Manufacturing Addresses the Three-Block Reality

14:15 - 14:40pm
MDR 2017/745: Where Compliance Becomes Trust in Substance-Based Medical Devices

14:45 - 15:10pm
Enabling Efficient and Scalable mRNA Manufacturing: A new Technology to Control dsRNA Formation in IVT reaction

15:15 - 15:40pm
Enabling Unbiased Container Selection: Large-Volume IV & SC Drug Delivery Solutions

15:45 - 16:10pm
China's Innovation Ascendancy: Implications for Global Licensing Dynamics

16:15 - 17:00pm
The New Pharmaceutical World Order: Winners and Losers by 2030
Day 3 Global Pharma Outlook Stage

10:30 - 11:15am
Local Scale, Global Ambition: Rewiring Pharma's Supply Chain

11:20 - 11:45am
What's Next for Life Sciences Manufacturing in Europe
Day 1 Packaging and Device Innovation Stage

11:00 - 11:30am
The Personalisation Challenge: Designing Medicines That Perform Beyond the Primary Market

11:35am - 12:20pm
Delivering the Next Generation of Biotherapies: Execution Realities and Smart Packaging Trade-offs

12:25 - 12:50pm
Packaging & Device Strategies for Biosimilars and GLP-1s: Using Co-Development to Navigate Financial Hurdles

13:45 - 14:10pm
Issue of Container Closure Integrity at Cell & Gene Therapy Products

14:15 - 14:45pm
Strategic CDMO Partnerships in Combination Drug–Device Development: Accelerating Time to Market While Mitigating Risks

14:45 - 15:10pm
Navigating Injection Device Selection: Translating Pharma Drivers into Development Decisions

15:15 - 15:40pm
Future-Ready ADCs – Advanced Vial Solutions for Superior Stability and Performance

15:45 - 16:30pm
Regional Insight: Southeast Asia and the Future of Pharma Packaging
Day 2 Packaging and Innovation Stage

11:00 - 11:30am
How GLP-1 Therapies Are Reshaping Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Drug Delivery, and Supply Chain Economics

11:35am - 12:20pm
Designing Drug Delivery for Rare Disease

12:25 - 12:50pm
Designing Great Drug Delivery Experiences supported by 3D Printing

13:45 - 14:10pm
From Infusion to Self-Injection: The New Era of Subcutaneous Drug Delivery

14:15 - 14:40pm
Patient Experience Defines the Future: The Evolution of Nasal Products in Upper Respiratory Conditions

14:45 - 15:10pm
When Patients Trust, Processes Must Prove: Automating Line Clearance for Safer Medicines

15:15 - 15:40pm
Rethinking Oral Drug Delivery: From Manual Dose Measurament to Device-Guided Dosing

15:45 - 16:10pm
Direct CCI Testing of Fully Assembled Autoinjectors Using Headspace Analysis

16:15 - 17:00
Panel: Large Volume Drug Delivery Trade Off: The Patient Choice Dilemma
Day 3 Packaging and Innovation Stage

10:30 - 11:15am
Panel: Digital Integration Across Packaging, Labelling and Product Information

11:30am - 11:55am
Optimising Injectability of High-Viscosity Biologics In Next-Generation Syringe-Based Autoinjectors

12:30 - 12:55pm
Changing Paradigms in Oral Solid Dose Packaging – Bringing Sustainability, Efficiency and Barrier Performance to Scale

13:00 - 13:30pm
Platform Autoinjector Technologies for Enabling Next-Generation Combination Products
Day 1 Supply and Formulation Excellence Stage

10:30 - 11:00am
Pressures and Strategic Imperatives of Resiliency: Rethinking Pharma Supply Chains

11:05 - 11:30am
Rapid Agile Manufacturing Partnerships for Union Protection

11:35am - 12:20pm
API Security in a Fragmented World: Navigating the New Global Supply Chain Reality

12:25 - 12:50pm
Building Global API Supply Chains on Solid Foundations: The Role of the Ph. Eur. and the EDQM’s Primary Reference Standards

14:15 - 14:40pm
Targeting Skin pH: A Novel Topical Approach for Atopic Dermatitis

14:45 - 15:10pm
Medical Nutrition Beyond Hospitals - How FSMP and Disease-Specific ONS Can Support Recovery and Long-Term Care

15:15 - 15:40pm
Controlling Excipient-Derived Impurities to Minimize Particulate Formation in Injectable Formulations

15:45 - 16:30pm
Supply Chain Intelligence for Upstream Risk: Seeing the Hidden Network Before It Breaks

16:15 - 17:00pm
Panel: The Next Phase of Pharma Supply Chains
Day 2 Supply and Formulation Excellence Stage

11:00 - 11:30am
From Commodity to Critical: Reframing APIs for Complex Formulations and Resilient Supply

11:35am - 12:20pm
Panel: Are innovation and Excipients Mutually Exclusive?

12:30pm - 12:55pm
Flowing Beyond the Lab: How Green Chemistry Drives Water Stewardship

13:45 - 14:10pm
From Injection to Oral: Expanding the Possibilities for Oral Delivery of Macromolecules

14:15 - 14:40pm
Nitrosamine Risk Mitigation: From Regulatory Expectations to Practical Implementation

14:45 - 15:10pm
Building the Future of Bioconjugate Supply: Integrating Payload-Linkers, Manufacturing and Commercial Scale-Up

15:15 - 15:40pm
Overcoming QS-21 Supply Constraints: A Scalable GMP Approach for Global Vaccine Preparedness

15:45 - 16:10pm
PFAS and Pharmaceutical Resilience: Preparing for Wastewater Regulations with Innovative PFAS Destruction Technologies

16:15 - 17:00pm
Panel: From Commodity to Critical: Rethinking the Role of Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Day 3 Supply and Formulation Excellence Stage

10:00 - 10:25am
Bioactivation at Scale: From Discovery to Manufacturing Excellence in the Next Generation of Natural Products

10:30 - 11:00am
Nutraceuticals: Scaling Without Breaking Supply

12:30pm - 12:55pm
Beyond Polymorphs: Turning Solid-State Knowledge into Formulation Development Advantage
Day 1 Next Gen Bio Stage

11:00 - 11:30am
Beyond the Pipeline: Why Breakthrough Science Fails at the Point of Execution

11:35am - 12:20pm
Cell & Gene Therapy: Bridging Innovation and Commercial Reality

12:25 - 12:50pm
mRNA Beyond COVID: Scaling Platform Technologies for Oncology

13:45 - 14:10pm
Accelerating the Medicines of Tomorrow to IND: Building Next-Generation Biologics with Future Clinical Success in Mind

14:45 - 15:10pm
Every mL Counts: Maximize Yield and Minimize Hold‑Up Volume With Automated Filling

15:15 - 15:40pm
EnzeneX® - An Innovation that Became an Industry Imperative

15:45 - 16:10pm
Living Medicines: Can Manufacturing Infrastructure Keep Pace with Progress?

16:15 - 17:00
Panel: ADC Manufacturing Complexity: Technical Execution Challenges
Day 2 Next Gen Bio Stage

11:00 - 11:30am
Keynote: Europe's Biotech Act II: Setting the Manufacturing Foundation

11:35am - 12:20pm
Beyond the Blueprint: Executing Europe's Bio-Manufacturing Vision

12:25 - 12:50pm
Understanding the Patenting Landscapes of Strategic Biotech Technology Areas

13:45 - 14:10pm
Building a BsAb CMC Playbook: Decision Frameworks, Risks, and Readiness

14:15 - 14:40pm
Resilience Is the New Capacity: Building Manufacturing Advantage Through Strategic CDMO Partnerships

15:15 - 15:40pm
Strategic Advice: FDA, CDMOs/CMOs and ATMPs

15:45 - 16:10pm
Closing the Digital Execution Gap - Cross-Company Data Exchange via the Pharma Open Data Space

16:15 - 17:00
Panel: From Reactive to Predictive: Manufacturing Intelligence in Biologics Production
Day 3 Next Gen Bio Stage

10:30 - 11:15am
Panel: When Innovation Outruns Infrastructure

11:30am - 11:55am
Smart Technology, Skilled Teams: Building Agile Aseptic Operations

12:00 - 12:25pm
Breaking the Batch Paradigm: Continuous Biomanufacturing at Commercial Scale
Day 1 Manufacturing Stage

10:30 - 11:00am
Scaling the Future of Medicine With AI

11:05 - 11:30am
Building Manufacturing Capabilities for Next-Generation Medicines

11:35am - 12:20pm
Panel: CDMO Consolidation: Strategic Partnerships or Dangerous Dependencies?

12:25 - 12:50pm
FDA's America First Agenda: Reshaping Global Pharma Manufacturing

13:45 - 14:10pm
Accelerating Speed-to-Market for OTC Products: Technical, Regulatory and Cost Considerations

14:15 - 14:40pm
The Future of Commercial Spray Drying: Supporting the Medicines of Tomorrow

14:45 - 15:10pm
Extractables & Leachables in Transition: Toward a Unified Risk-Based Approach

15:15 - 15:40pm
The Human Advantage: The New Rules of Successful Pharma Outsourcing. Why Human Partnership is Becoming More Important in an Age of AI, Digitalisation and Supply Chain Complexity

15:45 - 16:10pm
Tech Transfer Timelines: The Hidden Constraint on Manufacturing Flexibility

16:15 - 17:00
GLP-1 Manufacturing Evolution: Scaling Innovation for Injectable and Oral Therapies
Day 2 Manufacturing Stage

11:30am - 12:00pm
Building the Future of Manufacturing: The Leadership Behind Digital Transformation

12:05 - 12:50pm
Panel: AI Ask Us Anything: The Scale-Up Edition

13:45 - 14:10pm
Putting AI to work in drug Development: Practical applications that deliver measurable value

14:15 - 14:40pm
Slowing Down to Speed Up: The Planning Principles Behind Successful Technology Transfers

14:45 - 15:10pm
From Innovation to Commercial Excellence: Tailored Manufacturing of Peptides and Beta-Lactam APIs in Europe

15:15 - 15:40pm
Nitrosamines Beyond Compliance: Practical Strategies and Real-World Case Studies

15:45 - 16:10pm
Building the Regulatory Case: How to Use In Silico Modeling as an Accelerator in CMC Submissions Without Creating New Risk

16:15 - 17:00
Panel: Scaling Digital Manufacturing: From Pilot Success to Production Reality
Day 3 Manufacturing Stage

10:00 - 10:25am
Navigating the CDMO Landscape: Market Trends, Emerging Opportunities, and the China Impact

10:30 - 11:15am
Panel: CDMO Strategic Inflection Point: From Capacity Provider to Innovation Architect

11:30 - 11:55am
From Global to Local: Building Resilient Pharma Supply Chains Through Local-for-Local Manufacturing

12:00 - 12:25pm
Accelerate Timeline to Start PhI: Phase Appropriate Development and Integrated Drug Product Supply
12:30 - 12:55pm
CDMO Facilities: Tracking Trends in the Sector’s Expansion

13:00 - 13:30pm
Bright Light, Big Scale: Unlocking Industrial Photochemistry
