LogiPharma 2025

April 08 - 10, 2025

Centre de Congrès de Lyon, France

Mark Talens

EVP, Chief Strategy and Solutions Officer ParkourSC

Mark Talens is an accomplished supply chain management expert with extensive experience driving digital transformation and unlocking value through artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies. He is the Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy & Solutions Officer at ParkourSC. Before joining ParkourSC, Mark was an Associate Vice President of Global Supply Chain Operations at Organon, where he played a pivotal role as a founding member, overseeing the de-merger of Merck and Organon, including all global supply chain operations and system disentanglement across the two organizations. Previously, he held a global leadership role at Merck & Co., responsible for deploying an advanced planning system. Mark has a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering & Business Administration from Eindhoven University of Technology. He has pioneered the digitization of the supply chain, connecting technology with business outcomes to generate immediate customer value.

Day 2 | 9th April

10:25 AM PANEL DISCUSSION – Turning Off the AI Hype Machine: How to identify current workable, implementable and scalable industry use cases in pharma and med dev supply chains

  • What is the true current and near-future role of artificial intelligence in driving life science supply chain operations? 
  • Where are the lowest hanging fruits and the most significant and scalable use cases already being seen in the industry? 
  • Why must the industry embrace imperfection (of data, people and processes) in order to take advantage of AI? 
  • And what is the hype? What is being promised by the technology which isn’t being delivered?  

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Mark.

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