Lecture Program at the CONTACT2019

Besides the company booths, the CONTACT2019 also offers keynotes on different career paths and perspectives in the field of life sciences. Many of the exhibitioners will present their company in a 30 minutes’ talk.

A flag next to the title of the lecture indicates which language it will be held in. Lectures in German held on the ground floor will be translated simultaneously into English. For further information, please see the job fair catalogue.

Lecture programme

 

Lecture hall EG

9.45-10.30

Welcome by BioContact e.V. and Prof. Michael Boutros | DKFZ

Roche Diagnostics GmbH | Eva Lobentanz: Roche a great place to work

10.30-11.00

agap2 | Dr.-Ing. Alexander Pfriem
agap2career

11.00-11.30 PPD|  Daniel Kreeb
Careers in Clinical Research from the perspective of a Global CRO
11.30-12.00

Sanofi | Akos Szabari
Sanofi – A worldleader in healthcare

12.00-13.00 Lunch break
13.00-13.30

R-Biopharm | Dr. Katharina Arens
Einstiegs- und Karrieremöglichkeiten bei R-Biopharm AG

13.30-14.00

Bayer | Bärbel Volkmann
Passion to innovate // Power to change - Entry and career opportunities @ Bayer

14.00-14.30

Merck | Martina Kunze
Join Merck

14.30-15.00

Jobvector| Anna Krüger
Welcher Job passt zu mir? - Perspektiven für Naturwissenschaftler
in Hightech-Branchen

15.00-16.00 Panel discussion | Sanofi, Roche in Deutschland, FIVE1, Ashfield, Vetter
Career start - direct, on roundabout routes, just luck? 
16.00-16.30

McKinsey| Yannik Ehmann
Why McKinsey?

16.30-17.00

Landeskriminalamt Baden-Württemberg | Dr. Peter Zimmermann
Naturwissenschaften in Ermittlungs- und Strafverfahren

Cancelled!

 

Lecture hall 1st Floor

10.30-11.00                     

Strategy& | Alana Leslie Digby
Re-imagine the #FutureOfHealth

11.00-11.30 GHG | Marco Bleistein
Medical Evidence to Action
11.30-12.00

Vetter | Anna Lehmann
Working at Vetter - a global leader in aseptic filling

12.00-12.30 Lunch break
12.30-13.00 Novo Nordisk | Lee Milligan
Novo Nordisk - A Danish Global Pharmaceutical Company
13.00-13.30 PRA Health Sciences| Thorsten Irsch
Real World Solutions in Clinical Research
13.30-14.00

Kanzlei ULLRICH & NAUMANN | Dr. rer. nat. Daniel Schaft
Kanzlei ULLRICH & NAUMANN 
Patent attorney working at the interface of scientific innovation and commercialisation through the protection of intellectual property

14.00-15.00

Short Talks with
FIVE1 | Benjamin Seeber:
How data science drives the development of companies

Ardigen | Piotr Radkowski:
Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics in the fight against cancer

HMS | Johannes Schluchter:
Wearables as instruments of medical prevention – apps, cloud and machine learning.

PEPperPRINT | Myriam Friedel:
Business development in a peptide microarray company - Between science and business

15.00-15.30 DKFZ | Barbara Janssens
Career Paths in the Life Sciences
15.30-16.00 Spektrum der Wissenschaft Verlag |Lars Fischer and Michaela Maya-Mrschtik
From the Lab to the Newsroom
16.00-16.30

Molecular Health | Dr. rer. nat. Peter Koch
Molecular Health – Data-based solutions for precision medicine

16:30-17:00

Miltenyi | Milena Block
Make cancer history - working at Miltenyi Biotec