Agenda

David Wild is a healthcare leader with over 16 years of experience in clinical, life sciences, and digital health technology. As BD’s Director of Digital Strategy, he improves clinical trial operations through data interoperability, risk-based decision-making, and process optimization. With expertise in medical informatics, regulatory compliance, and quality systems, he focuses on embedding risk awareness into organizational culture. Currently pursuing a master’s degree in Medical Informatics at Wake Forest University, he applies academic insights to real-world challenges, advancing quality outcomes for patients and caregivers.

Michael brings more than 24 years of experience in the medical device industry to his role as the Head of Quality for the Orthopedics franchise at Smith+Nephew. He leads a global team responsible for the full product lifecycle from product development, through realization to post market surveillance. As a biomedical engineer with a track record of creative problem solving and leading multiple core business functions in both large and small companies, he is uniquely positioned to aid organizations in connecting strategies and processes across the business to optimize outcomes by balancing customer needs, compliance, and profitability.

Janna is a quality professional with over 25 years of industry experience in quality assurance, regulatory compliance, strategic planning, and departmental operations across a variety of manufacturing organizations and industries. Her diverse background in both quality operations and manufacturing leadership has been instrumental in developing successful quality system management programs, compliance programs, proactive customer focused measurement tools, cost reduction initiatives, and enhancing product and process quality. Janna currently lives in Minnesota with her family and their many pets.

Ryan has 15+ years of experience at Alcon where he's worked in various roles across manufacturing and corporate quality. Ryan is the business system owner for Veeva Quality Cloud and Vault RIM, which includes collaborating with the Alcon business, IT, and Veeva teams to ensure continuous improvement and compliance.

With 19 years of document management and training experience, Robin leads efforts in the quality/compliance arena at GRAIL, Inc., ensuring adherence to GDP standards. Robin values fostering relationships with external stakeholders to cultivate a robust record-keeping culture, which she sees as essential to effective records management for organizations.

Peter leads a team of over 8,000 quality and regulatory affairs (Q&RA) professionals at the enterprise level and in Thermo Fisher Scientific’s many businesses and operations spanning more than 140 countries. Under Peter's leadership, the Q&RA organization introduced the company’s first enterprise-wide quality policy, launched a company-wide initiative challenging every employee to make quality personal, built a talented global team, supported the approval and launch of hundreds of new products, and improved performance across key Q&RA metrics. Prior to joining Thermo Fisher, Peter held executive quality and regulatory roles with companies in the health care and life sciences industries during the course of nearly 35 years.