This week LogiPharma marks 20 years as an annual meeting place for senior pharma, biotech, and medtech supply chain leaders worldwide.
     Designed for major players on both the manufacturing and provider sides, this is a most interesting gathering, where the industry’s truly pressing challenges get the once over for a few days in Boston.
     The Sheridan Boston USA LogiPharma has outlined an aggressive agenda that includes 134 speakers including blue-chip pharma companies and their supply chain experts.
     Alas only a few airlines listed, although Swiss WorldCargo and FedEx are sponsors alongside a plethora of logistics outfits and forwarders specializing in life sciences shipping.
     The speaker sessions in terms of timing offer at best a cameo for each, although there are some events spotlighting deeper dish individual offerings.
     “Laying Future Foundation” was the opening day theme Monday am with “Navigating Logistics Success: Stakeholder Centric Strategies for Supply Chain Excellence,” featuring Athanasios Fourtounas - Associate Professor and Sr. Trainer of Human Assets who lead the charge as he attempted to “Bridge the gap between theory and practice with different tools and mindset approaches”.
     Monday afternoon Victoria Willmore of Johnson & Johnson spoke on “The Critical Role of Aviation In Pharma Logistics”.
     This dynamic lady with 18 years at J&J is currently serving on Pharma.Aero's Advisory Board (87 Members, 6 Continents) “working on fostering growth, innovation, and positive change for pharma logistics.”
     “Of course, I love to talk about planes which is one of my favorite things to do,”—Victoria, we learned, is working her way to obtaining her pilot’s license.
Currently at J&J she leads a global team focused on serialization and change management with external manufacturers and pharmaceutical suppliers.
     Lots of private invitation-only events, including breakfast on Tuesday sponsored in the invite-only fashion by FedEx.
     Everyone else is invited to breakfast in “The LogiLounge” on Tuesday and Wednesday and lunch there each day as well.
     Opening Night LogiLounge hosted Oktoberfest Kick Off and on Tuesday, LogiPharma hosted an offsite Reception @ Rochambeau a French watering hole located just a short walk from the hotel.
     There doesn’t seem to be a party mounted to celebrate “20 Years” of this event, although that significant achievement is ballyhooed upfront in the events 2025 literature.
     Perhaps more airlines in pharma customer-country might build their business and trade ideas with LogiPharma on how to party?
     Victoria, as pathfinder, is invited to show the way.
     Too often dozens of earnest, hard-working event speakers get little to no follow up to share their efforts to advance the industry post conference. We really like the LogiPharma after-event reports.