Embedding sustainability capabilities in medicines manufacturing operations

James is an experienced events producer, who has developed and led multiple events across the life science industry for leading events organisations, while keeping the highest standards in terms of quality and delivery. Now at Informa Markets as Senior Content Producer, James oversees the content for CPHI North America and CPHI webinar series, helping in creating cutting edge sessions and providing guidance in creating interactive and educational talks.

Cytiva Karl is the VP of Sustainability & Ecodesign at Cytiva, leading innovation in sustainable materials, green chemistry, and circular design for products in the bioprocessing industry. With expertise in engineering and business, he bridges science and strategy to drive real-world impact. Passionate about environmental sustainability, he spearheads programs that create differentiated, eco-friendly technologies and products. When he’s not advancing sustainable solutions, you’ll likely find him fishing or exploring the outdoors—drawing inspiration from nature itself.

AGC Biologics Shahida Hamid recently stepped into the role of Global Director of Sustainability at AGC Biologics, building on 20+ years of Environment, Health & Safety EHS experience, a Chemical Engineering background, and a Master’s in Sustainable Leadership (DTU, 2024). Her focus is on embedding sustainability into global operations as a strategic value driver. Since 2020, she has represented AGC Biologics in the BioPhorum Sustainability Leadership Group. Shahida brings a collaborative, science-based approach—reflecting AGC Biologics commitment to being “Your Friendly CDMO Expert”, ready to meet complex challenges with care and competence.

Nicola has been with BioPhorum since 2019. Initially focusing on raw materials, she has worked cross-phorum to connect the technical, supply chain, and regulatory experts to develop a strategy to future proof raw materials for the biologics industry. She now leads the newly launched BioPhorum Sustainability and is excited by the challenge to connect people from all disciplines across the industry around this critical topic. A change program leader with over 25 years of management and consulting experience, Nicola has supported private and public sector organizations to improve results by aligning motivation, behaviors, and processes. Her passion is creating the link between executive strategy, technical capability, and front-line delivery, and developing comprehensive change programs underpinned by behavioral science techniques. Her extensive project and change experience has been in banking, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and public services. As a result, Nicola has a wealth of insight in overcoming common change barriers, as well as deep expertize in industry specific challenges.

BioPhorum Clare supports global teams of scientists, engineers and sustainability leaders to create tools to reduce the environmental impact of biomanufacturing. She has led the creation of an environmental impact maturity model for biomanufacturing, setting out the steps required to embed circularity and decarbonize across the product lifecycle. She is leading a team of engineers to target environmental hotspots in the biomanufacturing space, seeking to optimize HVAC through the creation of assessment tools and guidance documents for dynamic airflow control. She leads on BioPhorum's product carbon footprint calculation and reduction strategy.