Founder / Researcher

Bio Union

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I consider myself one part entrepreneur and one part educator. I have seven years of university-level
teaching experience, twelve years of fashion/visual design, and eight years of product design, new
business development, and blockchain technology. My early career was focused on multimedia
design, fashion design, and textile engineering. I founded Bio Union in 2018, we are developing all
kinds of smart garment solutions and modules that integrate medical-grade sensors into garments

Director Of Strategic Partnerships, Bid Management and Client Relationship

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Dr. Mazin Gadir is an External Advisor for healthcare government ministries and authorities with responsibility for Health and Digital strategy development, implementation, execution and Transformation.

Mazin Gadir, Director Of Strategic Partnerships, Bid Management and Client Relationship, IQVIAMoreover, Dr. Mazin Gadir is the Director of Partnerships, Client Relationships and Bid Management at IQVIA Payer Provider Government Group. Currently, he is working on a Post Doctorate research on Value Based Care and Digital Health Transformation in collaboration with the University of North Florida and Angel Kids Pediatrics. This program is part of CMS Transforming Clinical Practice initiative TCPi.

Founding Director

EPI-Watch

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Amber Witteman is a multiple rewarded intuitive engineer and a disruptive innovator with triple
highlighted novel technologies in the MedTech and DeepTech industry with a scope focus on PFS,
Primary Drug Containers, Drug Delivery Devices, Wearable -and Connected Devices. Miss
Wittman’s double highlighted Intellectual Properties by BioWorld-MedTech-Clarivate-Patent
Gazette, in sept. 2022 week 34, both ranked on nr. 1 out 10, said to be “The most important IP’s”
in the MedTech industry following BioWorld, Patent Gazette’s & Clarivate’s IP Experts reviews.
Miss Witteman is coming up with an even more breakthrough next innovation in the topic
“Sustainability” in Primary Drug Containers – PFS – Syringes, Drug Delivery Devices and Wearableand Connected Devices. Groundbreaking emerging technologies that extend both the shelf life
and container integrity dramatically meaning a real game changer for key driving critical aspects
trough out the industry.

Senior Regulatory Consultant in Vitro Diagnostics, Medical Devices

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Martin King has worked with wearable drug delivery devices since the 1980s. He brings extensive
global experience from working throughout the whole life-science value chain. His strong business
acumen and diverse technical engineering background; Electronics, Software as a Medical Device,
Mechanical Engineering and Materials science has guided him in leadership roles with Medical
Devices, In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals. He currently channels his skillset in applying Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs hands-on to help companies efficiently
realize their goals on 6 continents around the world. Martin is a Swiss citizen, born and Educated in
England in microelectronics, electronic engineering and materials science, he graduated MSc from
Middlesex Polytechnic, London.

Global Marketing Manager

Celanese

Bryan Deacon is a Global Marketing Manager for Celanese specialising in the drug delivery device
area. Over the past two decades, in various roles, he has supported the development of some of the
world’s most successful drug delivery devices, working across the value chain to help end users
bring their products to market. Mr Deacon holds a Beng in Mechanical Engineering/ComputerAided Engineering from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (UK).

Director

Wearable Biosensing Lab

In-person

Kunal Mankodiya, PhD is the Director of Wearable Biosensing Lab and is an associate professor in
the Dept. of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, RI, USA
since 2014. He is a co-founder at EchoWear, a startup aiming to offer digital health services and
wearable tech to people with chronic conditions. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER (2016) Award
enabling research on “Internet of e-textile wearables for telemedicine”. In 2018, he received
TechConnect Defense Innovation Award for his work on “Smart Textile Trouser”. He was recognized
as the “Innovator-of-the-year” by Future Textiles Awards, Frankfurt, Germany in 2017. Mankodiya
was also selected among “40 under 40” by Providence Business News in 2017. His design of a smarttextile ECG system earned him the 2010 SYSTEX Award, University of Ghent, Belgium. He is an
associate editor of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal and the Frontiers Journal of Wearable
Electronics. He runs various outreach activities including HealthHacks, IOT Sunday, Paper Circuits,
and BME Spark to promote STEAM among K-12 and undergraduate students. He pursued his postdoctoral research at Intel Science & Technology Center (ISTC) and Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU), Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Luebeck, Germany.
He holds MS (University of Luebeck, Germany) and BE (Saurashtra University, India) degrees in
Biomedical Engineering.

Senior Director Delivery Systems

Ypsomed AG

Jakob is an Engineer and Materials Scientist by training with an MSc degree in Chemical
Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden and a PhD in Polymer
Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. He has written
and published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers on medical devices, packaging materials and
polymers and is a regular contributor to technical and scientific conferences.
Jakob Lange, Senior Director Delivery Systems, Ypsomed AG
Jakob started his professional career as a Research Scientist in packaging R&D with Nestlé at the
Nestlé Research Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland. He then worked in R&D Management with GE
Healthcare Biosciences in Uppsala, Sweden, before joining Ypsomed in Burgdorf in 2006.
With Ypsomed he has held different positions within Marketing and Sales as well as in R&D Project
Management. Currently he has the role of Senior Director Delivery Systems, overseeing a team
managing Ypsomed’s autoinjector platforms as well as the associated customer relationships for
development projects and marketed products.