Paul Laurent was born in Montreal, where he completed his primary, secondary and university studies. He has worked for several sectors of activity for the Canadian Government, Hydro-Quebec, universities and the Government of Quebec. Since the 1980s, he has invented commercially successful products and built his own business. Today, he advises inventors and entrepreneurs in product and business development.

Dr. Azis Shraibi, Eng, has over 25 years of experience in process engineering, layouts, clean systems and utilities, cleanrooms and Validation in various sectors: pharmaceutical, biotechnology, morphine/cannabis, medical devices, natural health products, cosmetics, nutraceuticals, food, pulp & paper, biorefinery & bioethanol. He is an expert referent for Health Canada & MAPAQ, for the implementation of quality systems, but also for facility compliance audits, in accordance with regulatory requirements: GMP/CGMP, HACCP, ISO-22000, SQF, GFSI.

Process and chemical engineer with a Bachelor from University Laval in Quebec City.
Mr Joseph has more than 15 years experience in engineering, automation, validation of manufacturing equipments, clean utilities, pharmaceutical systems and computer systems CSV (cGMP, GAMP5, CFR-21 part 210, 211, 11).

Marco Charron Consult, Senior. Validation & Compliance Specialist according to cGMP regulatory requirements of Health Canada, EMA and US FDA :

• Protocols (QIOQ/PQ) development, tests execution, analysis and report writing;
•  URS, FDS writing;
• Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) and Site Acceptance Test (SAT) development;
•  Validation Master Plan development;Environmental program development and implantation;
• SOP’s writing;
• Validation project coordonator and management;
• Technical advisor for all critical systems and clean utilities
• Environmental control and cleanroom assessment implementation (ISO14644);
• cGMP Technical support regarding to FDA and EMEA regulatory compliance.

Process and chemical engineer with a Bachelor degree from Sherbrooke University and Master level courses in Engineering, concentration in International project management and global engineering. Mrs Lestage has more than 15 years experience in engineering, QPIC, research and development, batch release, SOP, processes & cleaning validation, validation of cleaning and processes, Lean manufacturing & Green Belt & technical transfers (cGMP, CFR-21 part 210).

Liliana has more than 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical Validation field, manufacturing equipment, sterilization and packaging.

She has a very good knowledge of Canadian (BFP) and American (FDA) regulations for equipment validation. Liliana has excellent analytical skills and good command of the office suite (Excel, Word, Power Point, low data, etc.).

In addition, she has extensive experience in project planning. In addition to having very good communication skills, she also has skills to prioritize, to demonstrate a good autonomy, a sense of organization and a team spirit.

With her several years of expertise in equipment qualification Annick Patenaude presents an expertise in good manufacturing and laboratory practices (GMP and GLP).

With Confab, she worked as a qualification specialist on a lot of projects where she met challenges in tasks, among ohers, of equipment qualification, corrective actions follow-up and activity coordination/project management.

She was nominated to the position of Quality systems associate. She is also accredited by Health Canada as qualified person in charge of controlled substances and is proficient with the ISO20807 certification on non-destructive testing. At Sterigen (sterile facility), she was in charge of the validation department and the metrology.