CPHI Frankfurt (previously known as CPHI Worldwide)—the world’s largest pharma event—returns to Germany in 2022 for the first time since 2019.

It remains the go-to event for global pharma and any professional wanting to stay up to date in a rapidly changing industry. With the entire pharma industry present from all across the supply chain, it is the best place to source, connect and learn.

The 2022 edition brings a raft of exciting changes—including a full schedule of onsite content and in person sessions for the first time since 2019—with event numbers expected to meet or exceed pre-pandemic levels as the pharma community turns out again en masse.

The three-day exhibition and in-person conference will be hosted at Messe Frankfurt, Germany, 1-3 November and will run in hybrid form—fusing the best elements of the traditional show with interactive online features to help attendees maximize their CPHI experience.

Extending the value delivered, CPHI will open its networking and learning platform on September 28th with the “Connect to Frankfurt” digital platform that will begin the countdown to CPHI Frankfurt. Connect to Frankfurt will feature over 40+ on demand session covering topics from all aspect of the pharma supply chain.

What’s new at CPHI Frankfurt

The first and most obvious change is that in the last few months the event has been renamed and rebranded as CPHI Frankfurt and the onsite experience evolved to help attendees better navigate the show—with collocated events replaced by descriptive zones for packaging, outsourcing, machinery and more.

Find your next business lead from these core pharma markets: Machinery & Equipment, Finished Dosage, Packaging & Drug Delivery, Contract Services, API, Excipients, Integrated Pharma, Natural Extracts, Fine Chemicals and Biopharmaceuticals.

Highlights
Who comes: Attendees come from more than 145 countries, 78% have purchasing responsibility and 47% are C-suite executives—it’s truly the heart of pharma and CPHI Frankfurt aims to deliver inspiring partnerships. To provide both attendees and exhibitors all the tools and platforms they need to make more connections and make them count.

Who exhibits: CPHI Frankfurt is the beating heart of the entire global pharma supply chain—with everything from ingredients and finished dosage drugs to machinery, outsourcing providers, packaging and BioProduction. It’s the only event in the world to bring the entire pharma industry together to meet, learn and do business.

CPHI Awards 2022: Held on November 1st in the Harmony Hall, the CPHI Awards feature a Welcome Reception and Ceremony in which we will celebrate the industry’s achievements and brightest stars.

Digital features

Connect to Frankfurt: Take the first digital step on your journey to CPHI Frankfurt. Connect to Frankfurt marks the launch of the digital platform, a companion to CPHI Frankfurt, the online meeting place to connect with the entire supply chain. The platform empowers visitors to source suppliers, browse the exhibitors list and discover the full content agenda.

Log-in to Connect to Frankfurt to discover even more industry insights and unlock endless opportunities to enhance your pharma knowledge. Connect to Frankfurt gives your company a head start on finding the right partners, nurture your business relationships and spark powerful new partnerships. After you’ve made first contact online, you’ll be able to plan your schedule for 1-3 November more efficiently.

The CPHI Frankfurt App provides both attendees and exhibitors with a timetable of each day’s activities, a full list of exhibitors and onsite navigation (including hall locations).

Content overview

Connect to Frankfurt agenda: This year the CPHI Frankfurt content experience begins online on 28th September, with Connect to Frankfurt—an online platform for expert content, to get a head start on your networking and to help plan your in-person experience. Highlights include a “trends outlook” session hosted by leading marketing intelligence companies (including IQVIA and Accenture), the CPHI Learning Labs—with insights from leading pharma companies on new products & solutions—and an overview of the German pharma market and the CPHI Award finalists.

The on-demand webinars will span more the 40 sessions and cover “Ingredients & Formulation,” “Outsourcing and Manufacturing,” “Packaging & Drug Delivery,” “Supply Chain & Finished Products,” and “Digitalization.”

A session on “Sustainability Strategies in the Life Sciences Industry” will be hosted by Accenture AG, as well as analysis from GlobalData exploring “Predictions for Future Drugs.”

Top-line summary of live content sessions: Product Innovation and Technologies, Market Insights, Growth Drivers and Trends
The conference agenda—the largest ever put together by CPHI—will span some five tracks across three days in the main Conference theater, with an additional theatre dedicated to “Product Innovation and Sustainability.”

Reflecting the hottest trends in the industry and attendees’ interests tracks cover: Ingredients and Formulation (Track 1), Future Therapies (Track 2), Digital (Track 3), Manufacturing Excellence (Track 4), and Patient Centricity (Track 5)

The opening day keynote explores the glut of recent research into Psychedelic therapies to treat an array of mental health issues from depression to anxiety and post-traumatic stress. David Erritzoe, Clinical Director and Deputy Head at the Center for Psychedelic Research presents an “Introduction of Psychedelic Therapies into Mental Health – Current Status and Future Perspective.”

Each of the five main tracks will feature a keynote address, panel discussions and presentations, with the second hall focused on exhibitor product innovations—including biologicals—and industry wide efforts to improve sustainability with best practice case studies.

Day one (Main theater): Tuesday 1st November
Day one includes tracks one and two in the morning and afternoon respectively, with a morning keynote on Psychedelic Therapy research and the afternoon’s presented by Thermo Fisher.

The Ingredients and Formulations track will see Lonza espouse the benefits of enteric softgels. Precision NanoSystems ULC discuss the use of LNP (lipid nano particles) for genomic medicines and Iain Moore, President, EXCiPACT will present the association’s latest developments—including an update on the extension of its certification program for Pharmaceutical Auxiliary Materials (PAMS).

In the afternoon, the future therapies track will see PharmaVentures explore “Transactional Strategies to Access Future Therapeutics and Technologies,” a session on “advanced genetic therapies” by Citeline, and a review of the regulatory pathway for mRNA therapies from Genome Lawyers

Day two (Main theater): Wednesday 2nd November
The second day of content begins with a keynote address from Craig Lipset, Founder, Clinical Innovation Partners & Co-Chair, Decentralized Trials and Research Alliance, with the afternoon keynote from CDMO, Pfizer CentreOne.

The digital track, held in the morning, will explore the “digital transformation and the industry’s journey toward Pharma 4.0,” McKinsey & Company discuss “Digital Health Value Pools and Digital Health Reimbursement,” and there’s a special roundtable on “What it Takes to Enable Health Data Collaboration Across Organizations and Industries.”

The afternoon’s track is dedicated to Manufacturing Excellence and will see sessions on “Accelerating Innovation and Development of Future Biomanufacturing Processes,” the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) discuss “The Paradigm Shift to Continuous Flow Processes,” and Zaphyr Pharmaceuticals on best practices for “Scale Up & Tech Transfer.”

Day three (Main theater): Wednesday 3rd November
The final morning of the show is focused on Patient Centricity and will open with a keynote address from the National Coalition of Organizations for Patients with Chronic Conditions of Romania (COPAC), & the European Patient’s Forum Board.

This will be followed by a roundtable on “Latest Trends in Consumer Health,” a session from On Demand manufacturing covering “Supply Chain Resiliency & Patient-Ready Medicine Delivery,” and closes with Deloitte Consulting analyzing the use of AI for “Advanced Digital Customer Segmentation.”

Product innovations and sustainability theater

Day one: The Product Innovation sessions will discuss “Lipid-based excipients (LBEs) as a solution to poor solubility,” a session from Samsung Biologics and the “design of new elastomer formulation for lyophilized applications” in the morning. In the afternoon there will be a review of “Taking Secondary Packaging for Vials to the Next Level,” as well as sessions from BD, on nasal biologics delivery, Primary closure systems, and an ESG Framework case study.

Day two: Is dedicated to sustainability approaches, process improvements and green manufacturing – with case studies from Indena and Aspen, an insights session from IQVIA and “a supply chain perspective on green manufacturing” from Boehringer Ingelheim in the morning.

In the afternoon, the debate switches to the implications of sustainability for excipient manufacturers and users, followed by a presentation from Bachem and then Rx-360, with the USP exploring “strategies to achieve sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing.” The sustainability track closes with a fireside chat on “sustainable access to medicines and equipment.”

BioProduction theater

Running alongside CPHI Frankfurt content will be 3-days of biologics sessions curated by the team at BioProduction. Highlights include session exploring the “Digitalization of Biomanufacturing – How to Obtain Better Data?” “Robotic Facility for Bioprocess Development,” “Digital Twin Assisted Manufacturing,” “The Use of Semi-Automation During Cell Line Development,” and “Bioreactor Automation.”

In total BioProduction will feature some 30+ talks covering all aspects of the biologics supply chain from automation and digital to downstream and upstream processing.

Day one: The first day discusses innovative technologies and latest machine trends that are driving the manufacturing of biologics. A session on how to obtain better data with digitalization is followed by a session after lunch on faster scale up by “Leveraging Wireless 3D Sensor Technology” hosted by the CEO of Freesense Aps. The day closes with a session on Digital twin assisted manufacturing from Novasign.

Day two: Under the track Upstream manufacturing the sessions focus on cell culture media improvements and bioreactor characterization. Two sessions later in the day provide detailed insights into the Digital twin assisted manufacturing of continuous mAB and for accelerating timelines.

Day three: In Downstream and Novel Modalities track there are sessions on use of semi automation for production of ruby specific antibodies and challenges during polishing chromatography for GMP manufacturing. The day ends with an interesting seminar addresses challenges in manufacture of vaccines targeting speed, scale and access.
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Awarding excellence

The 19th Annual CPHI Pharma Awards recognize the innovation and dedication of companies and individuals who are driving the pharmaceutical industry forward—across design, development, manufacturing, production and distribution of large and small molecule drug products. There are 10 categories of awards to enter for products, services and initiatives launched in the past 12 months:

• Excellence in Pharma: Innovation in Response to COVID-19
• Excellence in Pharma: API Development
• Excellence in Pharma: Finished Formulation
• Excellence in Pharma: Manufacturing Technology and Equipment
• Excellence in Pharma: Packaging & Drug Delivery
• Excellent in Pharma: Digital Innovation
• Excellence in Pharma: Supply Chain, Logistics, and Distribution
• Excellence in Pharma: Sustainability
• Excellence in Pharma: Regulatory Procedures and Compliance
• Excellence in Pharma: CEO of the Year

Winners will be announced at a ceremony to honor “Excellence in Pharma.” 

Attending CPHI Frankfurt Event Opening Hours Attendee: 10:30am until 6:30pm Attendee Early Access: 9:30am until 6:30pm Attendee VIP: 9:30am until 6:30pm To register for CPHI Frankfurt 2022, please visit: https://registration.gesevent.com/survey/01ayl90oca274?actioncode=WEB5