The 2023 ISTO Annual Member Meeting

Join us for a virtual meeting where you can learn from and connect with other ISTO Member Programs.

This year’s meeting features presentations from various Member Programs, with a focus on sharing success stories, insight, and best practices. We hope you will join us and take advantage of this opportunity to learn about ways to ensure continued success in your Program.

We look forward to an engaging, interactive session!

Agenda

13 September 2023 | Time:  11:00AM – 12:30PM
11:00AM – Welcome and Introduction, Adam Newman, ISTO President and CEO, and Michelle Hunt, Director, Alliance Management Operations
11:10AM – Review of 2022 ISTO Financials, Janet Malasig, ISTO Controller
 11:15AM – Member Program Presentations:

  • Laser Scanning for Augmented Reality (LaSAR) Alliance: The Decision to Rebrand – Agility in Alliances and Consortia – Bharath Rajagopalan, LaSAR Alliance Chair
  • Intercompany Quality Analytics (IMPALA) Consortium: Advanced Analytics for Quality Assurance – Lorraine Fay and Ronojit Adyanthaya, IMPALA Consortium Work Product Leads and Steering Committee Members
  • Printer Working Group (PWG): Printer Working Group State of the Union – Jeremy Leber, PWG Chair and Smith Kennedy, PWG Vice-Chair
12:15PM – Q & A and Conclusion

Speakers

IMPALA Consortium

Lorraine Fay

Lorraine Fay is the Head of Clinical Development and Operations Quality, within the Research and Development Quality team at BMS. Lorraine has over 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry, starting her career as a medicinal chemist before moving into the Clinical Quality Assurance space as an auditor within Pfizer. Prior to BMS, she was Genentech/Roche where she was the Global Head of Molecule Strategy within the Quality department. Lorraine and her team have supported programs and vendors across all therapeutic areas which led to many successful approvals of medicines, ensuring a patient first attitude.

IMPALA Consortium

Ronojit Adyanthaya

Ronojit Adyanthaya is a Senior Director of Analytics & Insights at Merck & Co., (Merck Sharp & Dohme outside of US) with 20 years of experience across GxPs within clinical research and manufacturing. He is currently responsible for oversight of the analytics and data science pipeline for QA organization within Merck Research Labs (MRL). Prior to joining Merck, he worked for various pharmaceutical and medical device companies within Quality Assurance & Quality Engineering.

LaSAR Alliance

Bharath Rajagopalan

Bharath Rajagopalan is Director of Strategic Marketing at STMicroelectronics, responsible for developing the company’s strategy in emerging markets leveraging ST’s broad technology and product portfolio. Bharath is a veteran of the electronics industry, having served in technical, managerial, and executive roles in research and development, manufacturing, product development, and marketing.  Bharath is also serving as the Chair of the LaSAR Alliance. Prior to ST, he has held a number of leadership positions including roles at MicroVision, Dolby Laboratories, Texas Instruments and IBM in semiconductor technology development and manufacturing, display technology development and imaging systems.  Bharath holds MS, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and an MBA.

Printer Working Group

Jeremy Leber

Jeremy is a senior firmware engineer at Lexmark International and the current Chair of the Printer Working Group.  Jeremy began his career at Lexmark in 1996 as a test engineer focused on parallel, serial, and USB ports, and later joined the engineering team that would deliver Lexmark’s first multi-function printers.  Currently, Jeremy owns Lexmark’s connectivity mission, including implementation and certification of numerous industry standard protocols, and has represented Lexmark in the PWG since 2012, formerly serving as PWG Vice-Chair.  Jeremy has also been a member of the technical and certification working groups with the Mopria Alliance.

Printer Working Group

Smith Kennedy

Smith has worked at HP Inc. (and Hewlett-Packard Company) since 1999, leading or contributing to many different software initiatives related to printer or peripheral software, protocol standards, and working with industry partners. Smith served as PWG Chair from 2015-2021 and is the current PWG Vice-Chair.  He has represented HP Inc. in the PWG since 2011 and has also participated in standards development in the Bluetooth SIG, NFC Forum, USB Implementor’s Forum, and Wi-Fi Alliance. Smith was the co-author of the USB-IF’s IPP USB standard and the NFC Forum’s Device Information RTD, Verb RTD, and Connection Handover v1.4 specifications. He has edited and contributed to many recent PWG specifications and white papers.