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Confidence in Compliance symposium
Showcasing industry-driven GDP compliance

SeerPharma UK Symposium 2026:

Confidence in Compliance

Date: 13 October 2026
Host: SeerPharma UK

Overview: Welcome to the annual SeerPharma UK Symposium. Join leading industry executives, regulatory specialists, and former MHRA inspectors for a day of high-impact insights into supply chain security, quality culture, automation, and human factors and more across the pharmaceutical industry.

 

SeerPharma UK Symposium 2026:
Confidence in Compliance Schedule

 

 

 

Safeguarding the Medicines Supply Chain: Fake Medicines, Artificial Intelligence and the Pharmacist’s Role

 

Speaker: Professor Amira Guirguis, Royal College Of Pharmacy


Focus Areas: Protecting the integrity of medicines requires vigilance across the entire supply chain, from manufacture and distribution through to supply to patients. This presentation will consider emerging risks associated with falsified and illicit medicines, including examples involving GLP-1 medicines and benzodiazepines, and examine the supply-and-demand factors that can create opportunities for counterfeit markets. It will then explore how artificial intelligence, analytical technologies and digital monitoring could complement existing approaches to medicines authentication, surveillance and risk detection. Finally, the session will consider the implications for pharmacists, focusing on governance and the importance of retaining professional judgement as AI becomes increasingly embedded within pharmacy and pharmaceutical systems.

Professor Amira Guirguis biography

Beyond the Sensor:
Preventing the Pharma Write-Off Before It Happens


Speaker: Stuart Tatters, SENSOS


Focus Areas: A written-off pharma batch is never just the cost of the product, it’s the reorder, the deviation paperwork, and the number that ends up in front of the board. A temperature excursion caught too late isn’t a monitoring failure. It’s a write-off. Stuart Tatters will unpack that shift – from sensors that flag a loss to systems that prevent one, bringing the Sensos view alongside a strong line-up across quality, security, and cold chain.

Stuart Tatters biography

Practical AI for Quality & Compliance: Start Small, Stay in Control


Speaker: Carolina Luna, AIT Worldwide Logistics


Focus Areas: Carolina will be looking at how AI has been implemented and plays a part within quality and compliance at AIT Worldwide Logistics and provides tips and tricks on how to get started and risks to be considered.

Carolina Luna biography

Building the Wholesaler of Tomorrow


Speaker: Mikael Ginai, Ginai Pharma


Focus Areas: In this session, Mikael shares how he designed and built G Pharma to systemise a GDP wholesale operation end to end — connecting quoting, inventory, dispatch, traceability and validation within a single workflow. The central theme is that automation and compliance are not competing priorities. Designed well, an automated system embeds regulatory requirements directly into day-to-day operations. A practical look at where pharmaceutical distribution is heading, and what it takes to get there.

Mikael Ginai biography

The Automation Paradox: Pitfalls and Defences


Speaker: Titus Rawlins, Human Factors Trainer


Focus Areas: Titus breaks down essential human factors like communication, leadership, and empathy to foster safer, high-performing workplaces and explores how these critical behaviours impact quality, safety and team performance. With worked examples on how AI can support but also hinder.

Titus Rawlins biography

Minimizing Cargo Losses and Optimising the Resilience of Supply Chains


Speaker: Harry Hughes, TAPA


Focus Areas: Harry will explore the cargo crime risks facing pharmaceutical supply chains and the practical steps businesses can take to reduce losses. Drawing on his experience in pharmaceutical transport and as UK Ambassador for TAPA EMEA, Harry will cover how security standards, intelligence and industry collaboration can help protect sensitive shipments and strengthen supply chain resilience.

Harry Hughes biography

SeerSurgery – Q&A session & Close


Speakers: SeerPharmaUK Directors and Speakers

Opportunity for delegates to ask questions or pre-submit questions related to the topics covered with an opportunity for an open discussion with presenters, former MHRA Inspectors and SeerPharmaUK team.

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Professor Amira Guirguis biography

Professor Amira Guirguis is the Chief Scientist at the Royal College of Pharmacy and Professor of Pharmacy at Swansea University. A pharmacist independent prescriber, researcher and scientific leader, she works at the interface of pharmacy practice, medicines safety, research, regulation and public policy.

She is internationally recognised for her work in substance misuse, novel and emerging drugs, pharmacovigilance, harm reduction and pharmaceutical science, and has authored more than 100 scientific publications.

Amira has also pioneered the UK’s first Home Office-licensed pharmacist-led drug-checking service.

Alongside her RCPharm leadership role, Amira serves on the UK Government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, the General Pharmaceutical Council’s Fitness to Practise Committee, and the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland’s Accreditation Panel.

As Chief Scientist, she leads RCPharm’s work to strengthen science and research across the profession and ensure robust evidence informs pharmacy practice, policy and innovation. Her current interests include pharmacovigilance, netnography, diversion of pharmaceuticals, and the opportunities and emerging risks associated with rapidly evolving medicines and therapeutic technologies.

Stuart Tatters biography

With over 20 years in logistics, freight forwarding, and time-critical supply chains, Stuart Tatters has learned firsthand how crucial it is to know where your assets are, and where they’re going, at any given moment. In fast-moving, high-stakes environments, visibility isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity.

That experience shapes everything he does at Sensos, where he helps organisations turn complex supply chains into responsive, efficient ecosystems through end-to-end visibility, AI-powered analytics, and smarter execution. His approach comes down to aligning people, technology, and systems; because when those three work together, you get more than a functional supply chain, you get a competitive advantage.

 

Carolina Luna biography

Carolina Luna is Quality Manager and Responsible Person UK & NL at AIT Worldwide Logistics. With a career spanning pharmaceutical logistics, manufacturing and food production, she brings broad experience of applying GMP and GDP principles across regulated environments. Carolina holds a bachelor’s degree in Agro-Industrial Engineering, specialising in Food Processing.

Throughout her career, Carolina has focused on turning regulatory requirements into quality systems that work in practice. Her achievements include integrating three separate quality management systems into one, leading applications for WDA, API and MIA licences, and transitioning a paper-based QMS to an electronic platform. She has also supported regulatory inspections, conducted supplier audits, developed quality KPIs and delivered GMP/GDP training.

Carolina is currently completing a Level 4 AI and Automation Practitioner qualification and exploring practical applications of AI within pharmaceutical quality management. Through her presentation, “Practical AI for Quality and Compliance”, she aims to give quality professionals the confidence to use AI in a practical and controlled way, while reinforcing that technology should support, rather than replace, professional judgement and human oversight.

Mikael Ginai biography

Mikael Ginai is Sales Director at Ginai Pharmaceuticals, helping drive a new generation of pharmaceutical wholesale.

Combining commercial leadership with a passion for technology and innovation, he has helped lead the development of Ginai’s own in-house ERP system and introduced smarter, more efficient ways of working.

His focus is on building upon the strong foundations of the pharmaceutical industry while embracing technology, innovation and new ideas to help shape its future.

Titus Rawlins bography

A former Royal Navy Ship’s Navigator and Diver, Titus is an airline pilot of 25 years’ experience and a Human Factors Instructor who specialises in training teams who need to perform in hazardous work environments. He is qualified to deliver regulatory training to Flight Crews by the European Union Aviation Safety Administration and both the UK’s Military and Civil Aviation Authorities. 

Presenting to high performance groups and industries as diverse as Medicine and Logistics, from the UK, Europe and as far afield as Qatar and Nigeria, Titus employs a dynamic and interactive style to deliver easily relatable training models and case examples. His sessions have been proven to enhance communication and decision making, thereby minimising risk while improving efficiency, effectiveness and safety. 

Harry Hughes biography

Harry Hughes is UK Ambassador for TAPA EMEA and Managing Director of FET Logistics Ltd. He has nearly 30 years’ experience in logistics and supply chains, specialising in secure, GDP-compliant pharmaceutical transport. His work spans quality systems, cargo crime prevention and supply chain resilience.

Nuala Calnan PhD biography

Nuala is a 25 year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry. Her work as a consultant, academic, author and commentator is directed toward the development of practical, patient-focused excellence and includes research for FDA(USA) and HPRA(Ireland) on risk surveillance, patient safety and product quality in themanufacture and distribution of drugs.

Nuala works with organizations on transforming organizational culture, delivering more effective end-to-endproactive risk management, implementing knowledge excellence strategies, behavior-based qualityexcellence and enhancing performance management through people. She is the founder of the Quality Risk

Management Institute and is currently the Co-Ordinator for the Operational Excellence Team at the Institute of Production & Supply Chain Management at St. Gallen University.

Nuala co-leads the ISPE Cultural Excellence Team, acted as Technical Author on the AdvancingPharmaceutical Quality (APQ) Guide series. At TU Dublin, Ireland, Nuala leads a number of patient focusedregulatory science research projects at Masters and PhD level and teaches on the Executive MBA (LifeSciences) on OPEX, QRM and Regulatory Science.