09 & 10 SEPTEMBER 2025
Siena - Italy
Venue:
Auditorium
Via Petriccio e Belriguardo, 35
Siena, Italy
Ore 08:30 Attendees registration and Welcome Verifica Registrazioni e Introduzione alla Conferenza
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Ore 09:00 “Fast Science, Safe Labs” Balancing biosafety requirements with public funding
timelines - experience at Human Technopole
Ivana MILONE - Head of HSE, Human Technopole | Italy
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Ore 09:40 Biosafety as a Cornerstone of One Health: Bridging Disciplines for Safer Systems
Heidi AUERSWALD - Virologist and biosafety expert, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale
Abruzzo e Molise | Italy
Ore 10:20 Development of assays for emerging infectious diseases
Alessandro MANENTI – Chief Development Officer, VisMederi Group|Italy
Ore 11:00 Network Coffee Break
Ore 11:30 Lecture:
Strategic Biorisk Assessment for Modern Biosafety - Understanding Risks, Shaping
Culture, Building Resilience.
Cláudio MAFRA - Professor (retired), Expert Consultant in Biosafety, Biosecurity and
Biodefense, President of the Brazilian Society for Biosafety and Biosecurity (SB3)|Brasil
Ore 12:30 Biosecurity Risk assessment in Pharma Context
Carole HARFOUCHE – Biosafety Officer |Italy ​
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​​Ore 13:00 Network lunch
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Ore 14:00 Applied Risk Assessment, ISO 35001 and verification of biological labs
Dionysis VOURTSIS – President of Hellenic Biosafety Society | Greece
Ore 14:30 ISO 35001 a Paradigm shift for Biosafety and Biosecurity
Stefan Wagener – CEO, Biorisk Management International Ltd (BRMI) | Malta/Canada
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Ore 15:00 Network Coffee Break
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Ore 15:30 Biosafety and biosecurity regulations, what's next…
Luis Alberto OCHOA CARRERA – High-Containment Lab/Pandemic Safety
Manager, Michigan State University|USA
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Session: Commercial presentations
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Ore 16:00 Brief presentation by each exhibitor on their company/service
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Ore 16:10 ISO 14644-3:2019 standard: installed HEPA filters system leakage test
La norma ISO 14644-3:2019: test di integrità dei filtri HEPA installati negli impianti
Raffaele PIERI - Life Sciences Segment Manager, Camfil SPA
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​​Ore 16:30 Advantages of polymeric filtration membranes in biosafety applications
Vantaggi delle membrane di filtrazione polimeriche nelle applicazioni di biosicurezza
Peter RUITER – Vice President Filtration Technology, AAF International
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Ore 16:50 Personal protective equipment against biological-chemical risks
Paolo Maria ROSSIN – CEO, Indutex SpA​
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​​Ore 17:10 Chiusura lavori del primo giorno di conferenza - Closing 1st day of conference
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​Ore 17:30 Guided tour of the "Siena Vaccine Science Centre"
(free admission - registration in advance - free event)
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Ore 20:30 Conference Dinner - Cena della conferenza
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Wednesday 10 Sept 2025
Ore 09:30 Containment Laboratories – Ventilation Design Applications
Andrea Massimo GIUSTI - Engineer, i-nvent Srl | Italy
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Ore 10:10 Design of a facility for controlled human infection models: Biosafety first
Gijsbert VAN WILLIGEN – Biorisk Management Professional, Leiden University Medical
Center|The Netherland
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Ore 10:50 Network Coffee Break
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Ore 11:20 Using Embodied AI Agents to Automate High-Containment Laboratories -
Lyema P. DE HARO – Senior Scinetist, Merrick & Co.|USA
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Ore 12:00 Plant quarantine pathogens: implications in the development of research programs
under biosafety conditions
Maria SAPONARI – Senior Scientist, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Institute for
Sustainable Plant Protection IPSP | Italy ​
Ore 12:40 Network lunch
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Session: Commercial presentations
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Ore 14:00 Decontamination & Sustainability
Luca BONANOMI – Sales Manager, Actini Group
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Ore 14:20 Suncombe - Global Specialists in BioWaste Decontamination Systems for BSL3 & BSL4
Labs
Zulfikar DAYA - International Sales Manager, Suncombe Ltd.
Scientific session: (...continue)
​Ore 14:40 Inside the Viral Toolbox: Design, Production, Optimization and QC of Viral Vectors for
Efficient Delivery at EMBL
Adriana CASTILLO CABALLERO – European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL
Monterotondo)|Italy​​
​Ore 15:20 Multi-Pathogen Biosafety in BSL-3 Labs: Safety, Containment Performance and
Emergency Response
Riccardo RUSSO - Program Management & Biosecurity​ |Italy​​
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Ore 16:00 Biohazard management advisor - Current status at Mediterranean countries and
possible pathway to ISO/TS 5441:2024 principles
Jorge PERÉZ BRUZON – Partner, Lab Safety Consulting SLU | Spain​
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Ore 16:40 Chiusura della Conferenza - Closing of the Conference
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Ore 17:00 Sessione di esame IFBA* per la certificazione delle competenze professionali nella
disciplina di Biosicurezza (solo per coloro che ne faranno anticipata richiesta tramite
IBP all’indirizzo ibpwww@gmail.com entro il 31/07/2025. Info anche al sito
https://internationalbiosafety.org)
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in-person IFBA* exam session for certification of professional competence in the Biorisk
Management discipline(s) (only for those who apply in advance through IBP
at ibpwww@gmail.com within 31 July 2025. Info also at https://internationalbiosafety.org)
*IFBA = International Federation of Biosafety Associations https://internationalbiosafety.org
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​La Conferenza non è propedeutica all’esame IFBA / The conference is not preparatory to the IFBA exam
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La conferenza IBP è inclusiva / the IBP conference is inclusive
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Conference language: English / lingua della conferenza: English ....con un pochino pochino di italiano
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SPONSORs OF IBP' CONFERENCE
(updated 02 August 2025 - ....continuously updated section)
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