Day 1 - Tuesday 21st February

Time Topic
07:30 - 08:30 Coffee and Registration
08:30 - 08:40 Chairman's opening address - Simon Twigden, Team Leader Special Projects, Bayer
Session 1: Create transparency and maintain compliance under new regulations
08:40 - 09:20
Address compliance challenges when interacting with your KOLs
With: Julian Jenkins, Head of Global Medical Affairs, Ferring
  • Understand the impact of changing regulations on interactions between healthcare professionals and pharma
  • The future of your external stakeholder engagements: speak a common language to establish shared objectives and goals for optimal benefit
  • Learn how to deal with increasing cross-boundary relationships whilst maintaining compliance
  • Important factors to consider when determining payments to your KOLs with changing regulations differing between countries
09:20 - 10:00
The Bribery Act 2010: the most effective way to build credibility with your KOL interactions
With: Shaul Brazil, Barrister, BCL Burton Copeland solicitors
  • Fully understand the implications that your company faces under the UK's Bribery Act 2010
  • Ways to deal with the changing dynamic of relationships under new regulations and implement adequate procedures within your company
  • Understand the impact of new regulations on your KOLs and the most effective ways to ensure compliance
10:00 - 11:00
Expert panel: Follow regulations to work compliantly to your advantage
With: Heather Simmonds, Director, PMCPA
Andrew Powrie-Smith, Director, ABPI
Alexander Natz , Director General, Eucope
  • Hear directly from the regulators about how you can work with them to achieve better outcomes
  • Key examples of mutually beneficial collaborations with pharma
  • Ask the experts your questions about where the boundaries lie with your KOL and MSL interactions
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break & Exhibition
Session 2: Develop effective strategies to manage your KOLs and assess their value
11:20 - 12:00
Case study: How Pfizer matches strategy to the changing needs of a KOL
With: Dirk Vander Mijnsbrugge, Senior Director Medical Affairs, Pfizer
  • How to adapt your strategy in the changing environment: regulation and drug patent insight
  • Stakeholder expectations: understand expectations and what they are willing to implement
  • Establish cross-functional goals to create internal unity: how to engage the top KOLs and beat off external competition
12:00 - 12:40
Case Study: Communicating with today's generation of KOLs using social media
With: Dr. Bertalan Mesko, Founder and MD, Webicina.com
  • Understand how physicians want to use social media to communicate with pharma
  • Learn how e-patients lead the way to better healthcare
  • Practical methods to improve online communication with your stakeholders
12:40 - 13:20
Measure your effectiveness: Criteria for measuring your Return on Engagement (ROE)
With: Kevin Appareti, Global Director, Medical Science Liaison, Office of Medical and Health Affairs, Philips Healthcare
  • The best ways to implement KOL feedback into your company strategy and the importance of involving upper management
  • Understand the differences between KOL programme management and individual MSL success
  • How to build effective long-term relationships based on measurement of success from a MSL engagement
  • The benefits of implementing new technology to evaluate success of engagement: feedback from successful ROE measurement initiatives
13:20 - 14:20 Lunch
Session 3: Maintain and enhance relationships: build long-lasting value
14:20 - 15:00
KOL insight: Direct guidance from a KOL to develop your relationships further
With: Prof. Paul Devroey, Clinical Director, Centre for Reproductive Medicine
  • The KOL's perspective: examples of what works and what doesn't
  • Understand your KOLs interests and needs to ensure you can support them in a mutually beneficial way
  • Create long-lasting interactions by learning how to build value and develop KOL relationships further
15:00 - 15:40
How to utilise the MSL role to create new strategic alliances
With: Sunil Navani, VP Medical Affairs, Galen
  • Learn how to utilise the in-depth knowledge of an MSL: focus on the role of an MSL as a scientific peer
  • How to place MSLs within your company to aid the transition of changing relationships with payers under new regulations
  • Ways to bridge the gap between patient reported outcomes and the payers backing the drug
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00
FISHAWACK WORKSHOP: 'Key elements of a successful Stakeholder Relations Program - a 4 step approach'
With: Linda Harris, VP Stakeholder Relations & Thought Leader Strategies, Fishawack
Jo Jarvis, Director of Stakeholder Strategy, Fishawack Communications

Gain an understanding of:

  • Stakeholder Relations environmental changes and challenges
  • KOL strategies across the lifecycle
  • A stepwise approach to Stakeholder Relations Business Planning

Leave with knowledge and tools that are actionable for individual company knowledge and application

17:00 - 17:40
Develop a robust contact management programme
With: Dirk Roosen, Hospital Account Manager, Bayer
  • Create a consistent and unified system of communication within your organisation to result in a better relationship with KOLs/MSLs
  • KAM principles to help integrate and streamline KOL interactions
  • Hear key examples of successful cross-communication systems
17:40 Networking Drinks Reception
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Day 2 - Wednesday 22nd February

Time Topic
08:30 - 08:50 Coffee and Registration
08:50 - 09:00 Chairman's opening address - Neil Kendle, Kendle Healthcare
Session 4: Engage with the KOL of tomorrow and build a strong network for the future
09:00 - 09:40
Develop crucial relationships with your KOLs of tomorrow
With: Lusine Movsesyan, International Marketing Advisor, ALK-Abello
  • Understand who your new KOLs are and what they can add to your business
  • Clinical treatment guidelines: understand the landscape and cooperate with decision makers
  • Refresh your pool of KOLs: build and support relationships with a new generation of KOLs to stay ahead of the competition
  • New approaches: how do adapt your engagement plan to build a different type of relationship with future stakeholders
09:40 - 10:20
MSL perspective: Engage with the right KOLs to achieve a winning result for your product
With: Micheal Uecker, Senior Manager MSLs, ALK-Abello
  • An MSL's perspective of how to select and engage your KOLs: find the appropriate leader based on the life cycle of your product
  • How to identify the right KOL for you and achieve a winning result with your product: advantages and limitations of using software to do this
  • Engage with the "rising stars" to create strong relationships for the future
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee Break and Exhibition
11:00 - 11:40
A medical device insight: Partner with KOLs to increase health innovation
With: Simon Freedman, VP, Torax Medical
  • Hear the best ways to work with KOLs to develop new technologies and new approaches
  • Extract the right information from your KOL in order to successfully implement this back into your company strategy
  • Discover the best way to manage intellectual property to get the best out of new products on the market
Roundtable Discussions
11:40 - 12:30
Roundtable Discussions
With: Various Speakers
  1. Where does Pharma stand in leveraging influence networks? (Hervé Drevot, VP, Cross Worlds HealthCare Professionals)
  2. Transparency: where exactly do the boundaries lie? (Julian Jenkins, Head of Medical Affairs, Ferring Pharmaceuticals)
  3. Effective metrics for assessing the success and value of KOL interactions (Raymund Zinck, Director Medical Affairs, Baxter)
  4. Emerging KOLS: the best ways to manage relationships with patient groups and payers (Simon Freedman, VP, Torax Medical)
  5. Using digital channels efficiently to build a better KOL business strategy (Emma D'Arcy, Senior Consultant, Complete Digital)
12:30 - 13:30 Networking Lunch
Session 5: The value of non-clinical KOLs
13:30 - 14:15
Panel discussion: Plan your future digital strategy: understand how KOLs use digital channels
With: Emma D'Arcy, Senior Consultant, Complete Digital
Ralf Knauseder, Area Medical Affairs Manager, Wyeth
Erwin Meijer, Global Medical Affairs Knowledge Manager, Nutricia
  • Hear KOLs perspective on the use of digital channels and what reservations they have surrounding this
  • Engage in professional networks to communicate with your KOLs
  • Improve your engagement strategy by learning what apps KOLs use and ones they don't
14:15 - 14:45
The payer perspective: understand the importance of their changing role
With: TBC
  • How you can meet the needs of your key payers as they gain more influence in the reimbursement process
  • The best ways to work with external policy makers to overcome the obstacles in the reimbursement process
  • Leverage the knowledge of your field teams to maximise payer buy-in
14:45 - 15:20
Effective ways to connect with patient groups
With: Keith Allan, Head of Global Advocacy, Novartis
Susanna Palkonen, Executive Officer, European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Associations (EFA)
  • Learn how to understand the needs of patient groups and discover the best ways to support and engage these key influencers
  • Find out how to align to patient group goals to achieve better patient outcomes
  • The importance of guideline compliance to maintain integrity and transparency in order to build a highly effective partnership
15:20 - 16:00
'Who else is out there?'
With: Jo Jarvis, Director of Stakeholder Strategy, Fishawack Communications
  • Defining the Stakeholder scope
  • Evolving importance of non clinical stakeholders
  • Why it's important to get it right
16:00 End of Conference
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