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BASF, Colgate-Palmolive, Estée Lauder, and Unilever Among Keynote Speakers at 2020 Veeva Quality & Regulatory Global Summit

World’s top consumer goods, chemical, and cosmetics companies to discuss strategies and best
practices for improved transparency, efficiency, and compliance across the product lifecycle

BARCELONA, SPAIN — 30 July, 2020Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) today announced the featured keynote speakers at 2020 Veeva Quality & Regulatory Global Summit. Leaders from the world’s top consumer goods, chemical, and cosmetics companies, including BASF, Colgate-Palmolive, Estée Lauder, L’Oréal, Pierre Fabre, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser, and Unilever will showcase how they’re modernizing quality management processes and transforming regulatory operations.

The virtual event will take place from October 19-22 and include 20 presentations and panel discussions with more than 30 quality, regulatory, legal, and IT experts from North America and Europe. Visionaries from regulated industries will share strategies and tactics to improve quality, regulatory, and marketing processes across the product lifecycle, including:

  • Estée Lauder, Procter & Gamble, and SEQENS discussing strategies they implemented across IT, quality, and regulatory operations to achieve greater resilience and maintain compliance.
  • BASF and L’Oréal sharing how they respond to changing market conditions while remaining competitive and compliant across quality, regulatory, and product and process management.
  • IFF, L’Occitane, and Procter & Gamble highlighting how consumer demand for safe, sustainable products has brought industries and supply chains closer together to offer better management of advertising claims, compliance, traceability, and circular economies.

“We look forward to hosting a diverse group of industry thought leaders sharing their expertise with their peers across the consumer goods, chemical, and cosmetics industries,” said Frank Defesche, general manager and senior vice president at Veeva. “Attendees will gain new insights to align business and IT priorities and modernize quality management processes, transform regulatory operations, and streamline global management of advertising claims.”

In addition to keynote sessions, participants can choose from 14 sessions in concurrent, customer-led tracks for quality, regulatory, advertising claims management, and IT. Tracks will cover topics such as supporting business continuity, repositioning quality as a strategic growth engine, and implementing strategies to improve supplier collaboration.

The event is complimentary for Veeva customers and quality, regulatory, legal and IT professionals. Learn more, register, and view the full Summit agenda at industries.veeva.com/Summit.

About Veeva for Cosmetics, Consumer Goods, and Chemical Industries
Founded in 2007, Veeva Systems is a global provider of cloud-based software solutions. We help quality, regulatory and commercial teams in the cosmetics, consumer goods, and chemical industries unify disconnected processes, documents and data. In doing so, we help our customers eliminate inefficiencies so they can bring innovative, high-quality products to market faster without compromising compliance. Veeva is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Learn more at industries.veeva.com.

For more information about Veeva’s solutions for the global life sciences industry and the more than 875 customers it serves, ranging from the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs, visit veeva.com/eu.

Additional Information
Learn more about Veeva solutions for consumer goods, chemical, and cosmetics industries: www.industries.veeva.com
Connect with Veeva on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/qualityone/

Forward-looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements, including the market demand for and acceptance of Veeva’s products and services, the results from use of Veeva’s products and services, and general business conditions. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based upon Veeva’s historical performance and its current plans, estimates, and expectations, and are not a representation that such plans, estimates, or expectations will be achieved. These forward-looking statements represent Veeva’s expectations as of the date of this press announcement. Subsequent events may cause these expectations to change, and Veeva disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking statements in the future. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. Additional risks and uncertainties that could affect Veeva’s financial results are included under the captions, “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” in the company’s filing on Form 10-Q for the period ended April 30, 2020. This is available on the company’s website at veeva.com under the Investors section and on the SEC’s website at sec.gov. Further information on potential risks that could affect actual results will be included in other filings Veeva makes with the SEC from time to time.

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