Supply Chain Logistics in Biopharma
Join the BitsInBio community as we explore the evolving landscape of pharmaceutical supply chains in 2025. Our expert panelists will discuss how digital technologies are reshaping everything from lab procurement to cold chain logistics, while addressing current challenges including tariff impacts, regulatory compliance, and the future of advanced therapies.
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Agenda:
5:30 - 6:15 pm : Doors Open & Networking
6:15 - 7:15 pm : Supply Chain in Life Sciences Panel
7:15 - 8:00 pm : Networking
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Panelists:
Tom Ruginis is the founder of HappiLabs, creator of the Virtual Lab Manager, a service for biotech companies that supports labs with purchasing, supply chain and other lab manager related duties. HappiLabs was acquired by Science Exchange earlier this year. Before HappiLabs, he started as a molecular biology grad student at the University of IL before realizing the potential to solve a headache for most labs who don't have a lab manager. He now lives in Pacifica, CA, was raised in Chicago, and loves to talk science and play poker.
Olivier Causse is the co-founder and CEO of ZoomLogi, an AI platform that reduces risk and cost in pharma cold-chain logistics. Before launching ZoomLogi, he spent seven years at Uber Freight, finishing as General Manager for the SMB and Mid-Market segment. A mechanical engineer by training, Olivier also brings experience as a venture-capital investor.
Tyler Wilson is the Co-founder & General Partner of Constellation, an early‑stage venture capital firm investing at the intersection of healthcare, bio, and AI. Previously, he was a product leader at Transcarent, an AI‑powered care‑navigation company, and a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he supported growth investments in healthcare and bio companies.
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Sponsors:
Bits in Bio is a global community building at the intersection of software and biotech. Our mission is to bring together the tech and bio communities to share knowledge and build software tools to empower scientific discovery. We organize meetups, Q&As with industry leading figures, hackathons, and much more to facilitate connections in this space.
ZoomLogi: AI-powered pharma supply chain software that provides real-time visibility on all shipments, predictive risk alerts (weather, flights, traffic, customs, etc...), automated workflows with AI calls / emails, and dynamic scorecards (benchmarking courier, lane, etc...). ZoomLogi is backed by leaders in healthcare including General Catalyst, Eclipse Ventures, and Virtue, alongside Executives from big pharma and tech-logistics.
Pebblebed is a technical early stage VC founded by Pam Vagata (cofounder of OpenAI, ran AI for Stripe, inventor of FBLearner Flow); Keith Adams (founded Facebook AI Research, was chief architect at Slack, 20th engineer at VMWare); Luke Byrne (former partner at Tapestry) and Tammie Siew (former Sequoia Southeast Asia investor, former Sequoia & GGV backed founder).
ScienceExchange is a cloud-based software company offering an R&D marketplace to buy and sell scientific services. The marketplace gives life sciences companies access to the outsourced research they need and the platform fully automates R&D outsourcing from source to pay.