One of the distinguishing features of RDD Europe is the workshop session, when a dozen companies offer 60-minute presentations on their latest technology, products, or services to small groups of 10-40 people at a time. Each workshop is presented 3 times during the session, and RDD Europe attendees have the opportunity to select 3 of the 12 sessions.
“The workshops are incredibly popular,” notes RDD Online’s Richard Dalby, one of the meeting organizers, who notes that registering early is important if you want to attend a particular presentations since each workshop has limited space. Carolyn Penot of Aptar Pharma, which coordinates the workshops, confirms that many attendees are heeding that advice: “We are glad to see that once again this year there is a great number of early registrations for all of our 12 workshops.”
Workshop topics range from the proposed use of HFA 152a as an MDI propellant to connected devices to the use of functional respiratory imaging (FRI) for investigating deposition. Quite a few of the workshops cover practical solutions for device development challenges, and several offer attendees the opportunity to discuss their own challenges with the expert presenters.
Dalby cites the Mexichem workshop, which promises to provide attendees “a much better understanding of the implications around the potential introduction of the new HFA propellant on their MDI products” as a source of great interest: “I imagine that people should probably register early and get signed up for the Mexichem workshop if they want to see because it is probably going to be a hot item.”
Other workshops likely to be of great interest include Fluidda’s “FRI Deposition: Next Generation Aerosol Deposition and Delivery Optimization,” which “will introduce the different building blocks of FRI aerosol deposition analysis including patient-specific 3D airway geometry modeling, inhaler characteristics and CFD simulations to model lung deposition.” The workshop will be presented by Fluidda Chief Technology Officer Cédric Van Holsbeke, who will also discuss FRI as a faster and more cost effective alternative to scintigraphy.
