Boston, MA
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General: $625
Group Rate (5+): $575 each
One day Pass: $400
Students: $150
39th Annual Quality Conference #BOSCON2020
“Performance Excellence — Your Competitive Edge”
March 30-31, 2020, Hilton Boston Logan Airport, E. Boston, MA.
CALL FOR SPEAKERS – SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION BY JANUARY 10
BOSCON is an annual quality conference hosted by ASQ Boston. BOSCON is the New England signature event where national and international quality professionals hear speakers discuss different quality topics and network with them. The conference focus for 2020 is Performance Excellence -Your Competitive Edge in the tracks below.
Tracks and possible focus
QSR revisions, ISO 14971 revised, Real World Data, Supplier Management, …
Software Quality, Cyber Security, Data Analytics, Industry Government Collaboration, …
TRIZ, Agile concepts, CMMI, ISO 27001, Privacy, Networks, …
Manufacturing 4.0, Supplier Risk Management, Outsourcing Life Cycle, …
Not interested in presenting, but want to participate as a volunteer?
Contact Michelle St. George-Coyle mcoyle@regions.asq.org
BOSCON 2020 Chair Michelle St. George-Coyle
November 18 — 6 to 9 PM
The Conference Center at Waltham Woods
860 Winter St, Waltham MA 02451
Join us for an exciting November Dinner meeting and presentation featuring Ken Peterson, globally recognized Quality Management Systems and CAPA consultant and MasterControl Partner.
Check-in & networking start 5:30, dinner 6, program about 6:45-8:20
Arriving at a workable corrective solution is only one component of an effective corrective and preventive action (CAPA) for companies that manufacture products with oversight regulations. Too often CAPA owners and managers don’t understand the separate nature of verification and validation and how they orchestrate the effectiveness checking process. They are not the same thing! What are the elements of each and how do they work both independently and together? Do you need to do both? “How long do you need to conduct the effectiveness check?” and “Can you close the CAPA before it is finished?” are just a few questions that make completing this component of the CAPA process difficult.
This presentation will examine both pre- and post-corrective actions and how to get the most out of your effectiveness checks in both reliability and efficiency. Bring your CAPA work instructions and questions and compare them to the best practices of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other outstanding companies as we discuss effectiveness checks and closing CAPAs using a risk-based model. Solid pharma and medical device manufacturing examples will be discussed.
Bring your resumes or open job descriptions!
Ken Peterson is a quality industry leader with expertise in both the life sciences and engineering. He has more than 30 years of experience in consulting and organizational change, quality management, and product development, and has trained hundreds of companies in leadership, innovation, compliance and CAPA systems. Peterson frequently travels across the United States and internationally, educating audiences about best practices in CAPA.
He has served as chairman of the board of directors for Intermountain Biomedical Association (IBA) and on the board of advisors for the Utah Technology Council (UTC). Peterson works closely with the FDA and businesses to drive growth and build lasting partnerships.
Most recently, he is an executive with Touchstone Enterprises, an education and consulting firm specializing in compliance and process management. Before leading Touchstone, Peterson played an important role at MasterControl as director of quality solutions, where his responsibilities included enhancing the company’s quality management system software offering by incorporating best practices for CAPA management. He is currently working on two new books; Innovations for life sciences and Performance Management in a Technical Environment.
Earlier in his career, he founded and served as the CEO at PathWise, an education and consulting firm specializing in compliance and process management. While there, he was involved in customer service, product development, marketing, delivery, quality systems (specifically CAPA and risk management), sales systems and policy changes, and successfully solved hundreds of quality problems from high-impact CAPA investigations to implementing better quality management systems. Prior to his 15-year tenure at PathWise, Peterson worked with Pfizer, where he gained a rich understanding of both the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
Peterson graduated from Brigham Young University in 1981, where he was one of the founding members of the entrepreneurship program. He speaks annually for such organizations as the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA), the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Barnett International, The Executive Committee (TEC) and other industry forums.
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September 10 — 6 to 9 PM
Gillette World Shaving Headquarters
1 Gillette Park Boston, MA 02127
Join us for a special September Dinner meeting as we host three distinguished experts in manufacturing for a round table discussing Advances in Process Control Strategies, use of sensors and on-line quality systems and the future of manufacturing among other discussion topics.
Panelists include:
His responsibilities include the quality of the shaving razors manufactured in North America and Latin America that are exported to more than 120 countries and territories. Mr. Villalobos is also leading Digital Quality and other initiatives for the Grooming business globally.
Mr. Villalobos started his career in Procter and Gamble at the Gillette plant in Mexico City as a Quality Engineer and moved to the World Shaving Headquarters in South Boston where he has worked for the past 18 years.
Mr. Villalobos studied Chemical Engineering and complemented his education with a master’s degree in Quality Engineering from Iberoamericana University in Mexico City.
Under Mr. Pihlajavesi’s leadership, Predisys has grown from a local Finland based startup to a leading global software provider in a number of industries, such as Semiconductors, Electronics and Automotive. As he founded Predisys in 1996 as a young entrepreneur, his responsibilities varied from sales to product and business development. Today he is in charge of building a winning team, leading Predisys product strategy and engaging in strategic market development initiatives.
Mr. Pihlajavesi was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1967 and moved to the United States with his family in 2010 to open Predisys business operations for the Americas. Prior to founding Predisys, he worked as a Quality Engineer in the rapidly growing Finnish mobile phone industry of the 90’s. He holds a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology.
Mr. Sybrowsky has over 10 years of project management experience within the product and quality management spheres of the life sciences and other regulated sectors. As a general business manager at MasterControl, he has been instrumental in all phases of the creation of the company’s new manufacturing software solution, from planning and development to beta testing and launch. In his current role, Sybrowsky works closely with C-level stakeholders and quality engineers to demonstrate how digitized solutions can help manufacturers improve quality while also reducing production errors and delays while obtaining gaining greater operational efficiencies.
He is Project Management Professional (PMP) certified and has a wealth of experience leading business projects with multimillion-dollar portfolios. Mr. Sybrowsky has consistently assisted clients in increasing productivity and efficiency by helping them implement quality and project management principles and planning. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Russian with a minor in business management from the University of Utah.
Check-in and networking start at 5:30 pm. Dinner and the program from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
Bring your resumes or open job descriptions!