New market forces, including globalization, accelerating regulatory changes, personalization, and the digital consumer, are outpacing businesses’ traditional approaches to maintaining quality and regulatory compliance. To properly manage risk and remain compliant in this new reality, forward-thinking business leaders are leveraging adaptive processes and new technologies that promote agility and harmonization. In this keynote session, Veeva General Manager Frank Defesche will talk with leaders from diverse regulated industries about why agility and harmonization across departments is critical to achieving high product quality, product speed, and product compliance.

Historically, one of the most painful aspects of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) was bringing together divergent processes and technologies. Cloud-based technologies have the potential to dramatically streamline all aspects of this critical process. Hear from senior IT and Business leaders from the "Acquisitions and Divestitures" unit of a Top 5 CPG company on the impact of Cloud from pre-deal to transition planning to onboarding to ongoing governance. They'll share best practices for using cloud-based solutions to drive enterprise-wide alignment and how to avoid the classic trap of maintaining disparate systems post-transaction.

Regulated industries like cosmetics, consumer goods, and chemicals are highly globalized with supply chains and markets spanning all regions. As a result, our industries benefit from harmonized global regulations that enable business and ensure consumer safety. In this session you'll hear from thought leaders from the Personal Care Products Council and Cosmetic Alliance Canada on international best practices for cosmetic regulation, as well as advocacy strategies and mechanisms for achieving global regulatory harmonization that could be applicable across other regulated industries.

Across the product journey, key business processes are being pressured to speed up to keep pace with consumer demands, even as regulatory and supply chain complexity increases. Hear how your peer companies are leveraging modern technology to achieve the transparency and collaboration necessary to bring innovative, high quality products to market faster without compromising compliance.

Getting leadership buy-in and budgetary approvals for new technology is no easy task, and remains one of the most challenging aspects of companies trying to adopt a cloud solution. This session will give you actionable best practices for building a business case. With content derived from interactions with hundreds of Veeva customers, you'll walk away with strategies and tactics for preparing a well thought out business case presentation from evaluating the current state to outlining the future state.

Veeva's vice president of product will give you a preview of our product vision, and walk you through what to expect from our quality and regulatory solutions in the next calendar year. You won't want to miss this glimpse into what we have in store for our valued customers.

Veeva General Manager Frank Defesche shares key takeaways from the morning's general sessions before releasing the group to lunch and separate afternoon quality and regulatory tracks.