Pharma Sustainability Integrates 2025

Driving sustainable practices in the pharmaceutical industry

25th February 2025

EVENT TOPICS:

  • Systems Change | Conserving Natural Resources | Evidence-Based Sustainability | Future Proofing

Now in its third year, Pharma Sustainability Integrates brings together experts, leaders, academics and policy makers from across industry and healthcare to discuss the challenges and opportunities related to reducing the environmental impact of the industry and the wider healthcare system. Featuring keynote presentations, fireside chats and interactive debate-led panel sessions, the agenda will cover policy, strategy, innovation and how industry can play its part in reducing its own Carbon footprint and that of the wider healthcare eco-system.

This year we will discuss:

How are the sustainability policies and expectations of government, investors, customers and employees shaping the future of pharma?

How can innovative technology help to reduce the carbon footprint of the entire pharmaceutical supply chain, from manufacturing to patient delivery?

As a ‘scope 3’  source of Carbon for Healthcare systems, how can the sector partner to reduce the overall environmental impact of Healthcare?

HEADLINE AND HOST SPONSOR:

SPONSORS INCLUDE:

AstraZeneca CPI DTG – Digital Technologies Group DHL

AGENDA:

08:30 - 09:30
Registration & Networking
09:30 - 09:40
Welcome & Opening Remarks:
Tom Keith-Roach

Tom Keith-Roach

AstraZeneca UK
Country President

Shaun Grady

Shaun Grady

AstraZeneca
Senior Vice President, Business Development Operations

09:40 - 09:55
Keynote Address:
Greener NHS – Showcase & Update
10:00 - 10:35
Fireside Chat: Scaling Innovation: Collaborative Solutions for NHS and Global Health Systems
How can we collaborate and scale beyond the UK’s small market to become a world-leading force in buying and negotiating power? What role does supplier diversity and inclusive supply chains play in ensuring future sustainability? How can we create a stronger bridge between pharma and healthtech to drive innovation and progress?
Dave Tudor
Facilitated by

Dave Tudor

CPI, Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre
Managing Director, Pharma, Healthtech and Quality

Systems Change | Conserving Natural Resources | Evidence-Based Sustainability | Future Proofing

10:40 - 11:15

Circularity in Healthcare, are we going round in circles?

Theme: Conserving Natural Resources

Regulations and roadmaps like “Design for Life” are driving efforts to improve waste management and circularity in healthcare, but how can these be effectively operationalised? Can we mix high-tech innovations and simple, behaviour-driven solutions to tackle recycling challenges?

PANELLISTS

  • Duncan Flack | Honeywell & CiPPPA

11:15 - 11:45

Networking Coffee Break

Headline and Host Sponsor :

11:45 - 12:20

Sustainability Metrics: Measuring What Matters

Theme: Science & Evidence-Based Sustainability

How can you accurately assess the effectiveness of your sustainability initiatives and what does the customer really want? This session will explore the metrics and methodologies used by companies, providing insights on accurately tracking and reporting environmental impact and what they mean for stakeholders.

12:25 - 13:00

Zero carbon by design: Building carbon efficiency into new product design and manufacture

Theme: Conserving Natural Resources

Revolutionize the future of medicine with eco-innovative design, paving the way to a zero-carbon footprint. Join us to lead the charge in sustainable pharmaceutical breakthroughs.

PANELLISTS

  • John Arthur | Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre, CPI

13:00 - 14:00

Networking Lunch Break

Gold and Silver Sponsors:

14:00 - 14:30

Empowering Future Pharma Leaders for Sustainability

Theme: Future Proofing

How can sustainability training be embedded into company culture, guiding suppliers and teams toward sustainable solutions? What actions are promoting diversity and inclusion in pharma to ensure its future? How does the sustainability agenda attract early career talent, and in what ways are apprenticeships contributing to tackling sustainability challenges?

Facilitated by

Phoebe Garfinkel

AstraZeneca UK
HR Director

PANELLISTS

  • Deborah McElhone | Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre, CPI

14:35 - 15:05

Decarbonising Patient Pathways

Theme: Systems Thinking & Change

What have we learned from extensive work on asthma and COPD pathways? How can carbon footprinting be effectively integrated? What is the critical role of collaboration in driving progress? Once innovative medicines address challenges, how can we ensure they reach patients? How are we developing the skills needed for future system changes?

Facilitated by

Fiona Adshead

Sustainable Healthcare Coalition
Chair

15:10 - 15:40

Greenwash or Greenwish? Examining Industry’s Sustainability Practices

Theme: Science & Evidence-Based Sustainability

There is a fine balance between genuine sustainability efforts and greenwashing. Can new “green laws” help celebrate real progress while ensuring companies back their sustainability claims with solid data?  Join us to discuss sustainability practises in industry.

Facilitated by

Hugh Montgomery OBE

UCL & Real Zero
Professor Intensive Care Medicine & Co-founder

15:40 - 16:40

Networking Drinks Reception

Media Partner:

VENUE:

The DISC, Cambridge

The DISC, Cambridge

Pharma Sustainability Integrates 2025 Venue: The DISC

The Discovery Centre (DISC)


A state-of-the-art global R&D facility located in the heart of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Cambridge, one of the most exciting bioscience hotspots in the world, is home to the largest UK research and development centre – The DISC. Here more than 2,300 scientists work in drug discovery and development, across our therapy areas, each playing a central role in our mission to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. The DISC is uniquely designed to strengthen collaboration, promote openness, and improve the sustainability of every aspect of our science and our business operations.

Getting here

The DISC is a 12 – minute bus ride from Cambridge Railway Station.

Google Maps directions.

Address:

Biomedical Campus, 1 Francis Crick Ave, Trumpington, Cambridge CB2 0AA

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