17-18 June, 2026 | Düsseldorf, Germany
The Generis European Pharma Outsourcing Summit sets the standard on how the industry should connect and exchange ideas.
The executive pharma conference is tailored to provide executives from pharmaceutical companies with the latest innovations, strategic insights, and best practices.
Key focus areas include pharma outsourcing trends, contract manufacturing, pharmaceutical outsourcing, pharma supply chain optimization, pharma automation, pharma compliance, and regulatory in the pharmaceutical industry.
Attendees will also gain insights into pharmaceutical risk management, digital transformation in pharma, and operational strategies employed by leading pharmaceutical companies, ensuring a competitive edge in the dynamic pharma industry.
This pharma leadership event brings together manufacturing and pharma operations leaders engaged in pharmaceutical manufacturing and outsourcing.
Join over 120 industry professionals in the pharma outsourcing conference as we explore strategies to enhance efficiency, streamline pharmaceutical outsourcing and contract manufacturing, and ensure pharma compliance in an ever-evolving landscape.
Key themes
EXTERNAL MANUFACTURING
- Strengthening CDMO partnerships to increase agility, capacity flexibility, and long-term manufacturing resilience
- Advancing contract manufacturing strategies to balance cost efficiency, scalability, and risk mitigation
- Optimizing drug substance manufacturing through strategic outsourcing models and performance-driven partnerships
- Enhancing API manufacturing reliability via closer collaboration, transparency, and process harmonization
- Improving tech transfer execution to accelerate scale-up, reduce delays, and ensure knowledge continuity
- Driving process optimization across outsourced manufacturing to improve yield, consistency, and operational efficiency
- Building robust third-party network management frameworks to coordinate multi-CDMO manufacturing ecosystems
- Aligning supplier management strategies with capacity planning, quality expectations, and long-term growth goals
- Integrating contract packaging partners earlier to improve speed-to-market and supply chain responsiveness
- Embedding sustainability principles into external manufacturing decisions to reduce environmental and operational risks
EXTERNAL QUALITY
- Strengthening quality oversight models across CDMO networks to ensure consistent regulatory compliance
- Enhancing supplier management systems to improve qualification, monitoring, and ongoing quality performance
- Advancing third-party network management to ensure standardized quality processes across external partners
- Improving tech transfer quality governance to minimize compliance gaps during scale-up and site changes
- Optimizing API manufacturing quality through tighter controls, documentation alignment, and risk-based oversight
- Implementing process optimization initiatives to improve deviation management and right-first-time execution
- Strengthening external audit strategies to ensure CDMO compliance with evolving regulatory expectations
- Leveraging digital quality tools to improve data integrity across contract manufacturing partners
- Aligning contract packaging quality standards with global regulatory and serialization requirements
- Integrating sustainability metrics into external quality programs to support compliant and responsible manufacturing.
