15th Annual Cold Chain Global Forum: Main Conference Day Two, 28 September 2017

The former Cold Chain Global Forum website had a page at /event-agenda-day/main-conference-day-two. No archived copy was found. This page records what the 2017 event brochure listed for that day, and it is the only source used.

Verified facts

• Main Conference Day Two of the 15th Annual forum was listed for Thursday 28 September 2017, with the event running 25 to 29 September 2017 in Chicago. [1]
• The day’s keynote was listed as “Bringing Healthcare to People and People to Healthcare: The Future of Clinical Trials & Vaccine Distribution”, presented by John Brownstein, PhD, of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University. [1]
• Two breakfast briefings were listed: an IATA update on dangerous goods regulations for transporting lithium batteries, and a briefing on the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) given by its director, Dr. Kelvin Lee. [1]
• A session titled “Protecting Our Assets: Global Security’s Use of Intelligence and Analysis to Understand and Combat Threats” was listed under Bradford Stewart. [1]
• A session on return and reuse of temperature assurance packaging, “Creating Cold Chain Sustainability”, was listed under Ben VanderPlas of Sonoco Thermosafe. [1]
• The day’s schedule included a slot for the 2017 Cold Chain Global Forum Excellence Awards. [1]
• Ten roundtable discussions were listed, including “Passive VS Active Shippers” (Ben Romero, Bristol-Myers Squibb), “Innovations in Data Collection & Storage” (Ingrid Freeland, Astellas US Technologies), “Maintaining Optimal Risk Levels”, “Global Supply Chain Qualification Considerations”, “Shipping Outside of Label Claims”, “Strengthening the Weakest Link in the Cold Chain- Air Freight”, and “Customs Documentation Issues for Air & Ocean Cargo”. [1]
• Afternoon track sessions ran in four streams: Packaging/Logistics, Quality/Data Management, Serialization & Security, and a Blue Sky Room. [1]
• Listed Packaging/Logistics sessions included a case study on near -90°C excursions for dry ice shipments in passive parcel shippers (Rey Chern, Amgen), “Making the Case for Ocean” on a modal shift from air to ocean freight (Steve Epperson and Bryan Cardis, Eli Lilly & Co.), and an approach to passive cold chain logistics through inorganic phase change materials (Yasuhiro Suzue, Kaneka Corporation). [1]
• A Quality/Data Management session on integrating and analyzing temperature data from various sources, and a Quality/Data Management session on controlling the cold chain through the last mile with a cloud-based solution (Vallý Helgadóttir, Distica), were also listed. [1]

Additional detail from the sources

• The brochure’s agenda at a glance placed Day Two between Main Conference Day One on Wednesday 27 September and the International Focus Day on Friday 29 September. [1]
• An archived web page from 2 October 2017 listed the days as Master Class Day, Workshop Day, Main Conference Day One, Food Fresh Day, Main Conference Day Two and International Focus Day. [2]
• The title of the air-to-ocean case study, as printed, was “Making the Case for Ocean: How a Modal Shift from Air to Ocean Freight Resulted in Cost Savings & Increased Quality”. The speakers were Steve Epperson and Bryan Cardis of Eli Lilly & Co. [1]
• The temperature data session was titled “Data Optimization: How to Integrate and Analyze Temperature Data Stemming from Various Sources”, and the brochure listed it without a named speaker. [1]
• The return and reuse session was titled “Creating Cold Chain Sustainability: Reviewing the Return/Reuse of Temperature Assurance Packaging”. [1]
• Seven of the ten roundtable titles are reproduced above, and three are not reproduced here. [1]

Reading the brochure with care

The brochure was printed before the event. It records a plan, and the organizer could change speakers, titles or order. An archived web page from October 2017 disagreed with the brochure about one speaker’s affiliation, which is why this record gives none for that session. [1][2] The brochure is also the only source for the day, so no session here has a second source confirming that it ran.

Source material and scope

What exists: the brochure’s Main Conference Day Two pages, as a single file hosted by a third party. It is undated, and its attribution to the organizer rests on the signatories on its cover letter. Titles are given as printed, including the brochure’s own wording.

What is missing: the original website page for the day, any changes between the brochure and the event, session times, the full session descriptions, and speaker details beyond the titles shown. The brochure was a pre-event marketing document, so listed sessions may not have run as printed. The list above is a selection and not a full agenda. The brochure gave Bradford Stewart’s affiliation differently from an archived October 2017 web page, so no affiliation is stated here. Affiliations of other speakers are those printed in the brochure.

How this record connects to other archive pages

Day Two sat inside the week described in the agenda records for 2016 and 2017, which also cover the other agenda days named in the archived web page. The following day, the International Focus Day, included the session recorded in the Rita Karam speaker record. The 2017 awards slot listed on Day Two has a predecessor in the 2016 awards record, which describes the previous year’s ceremony.

For a comparison with a different format, the 2016 master class record shows how a pre-conference session was described, and the 2018 edition record shows the following year with less agenda detail available. The brochure is listed in the historical resource index, and every record is on the archive home.

Editorial analysis: why these topics still matter

The brochure gives titles and names without summaries, so this analysis by the Editorial Desk describes nothing any speaker said or found. It starts from the titles and asks what a buyer can still ask.

A roundtable on “Passive VS Active Shippers” names a decision that every lane still faces. The guide on active versus passive shipping systems treats it as a question about what the system includes, what it depends on, and where handover points sit. The listed session on return and reuse of temperature assurance packaging leads to the practical loop of dispatch, receipt, inspection, cleaning and re-conditioning in the guide on reusable shipper operations.

The inorganic phase change material title points to the choice of refrigerant, and the guide on refrigerant selection describes how the product range, the phase-change temperature and the conditioning requirement come before any material is named. Two data titles, “Innovations in Data Collection & Storage” and the session on integrating temperature data from various sources, connect to the guide on data logger selection and to the guide on real-time versus offline monitoring. The ocean freight case study title is a reminder that changing the mode of transport changes the transit profile, which is a condition any qualification evidence has to match. This record makes no claim about the outcome of any session.

Editorial reconstruction note

This page was prepared by the Cold Chain Practice Editorial Desk from the public source listed above. DeltaSpark and Cold Chain Practice are not affiliated with IQPC or the organizers of the former event. There is no registration and no current event. People and organizations named here are historical references and are not partners or endorsers of this site.

For the wider context see the agenda records for 2016 and 2017.