Resilience by Design: Future Proofing Sample Management Operations

Session Topics:

This session will explore how organizations can design resilient sample management operations to withstand disruption, ensure compliance, and support long-term growth. The discussion will cover:

• Designing for resilience and continuity
  Building redundancy into critical systems, planning for failure, and maintaining operational continuity across sample repositories and supporting infrastructure.
• Strengthening governance, audit, and risk management
  Implementing effective governance and audit strategies to ensure data integrity, process assurance, and inspection readiness while mitigating operational risk.
• Embedding resilience during facility design and expansion
  Integrating sample management requirements early in new facility design to align infrastructure, workflows, and digital systems with future operational needs.

Session Chair:

Gustavo de Oliviera
Biorepository Site Manager (Azenta Life Sciences)

Speakers:

Justin Shumate
Associate Scientist (Vaxcyte)

Lane Milde
Director, Global Sample Management (Takeda)

Lissette Nale, MS
Director, Chemistry Project Management and Operations (Merck)