January 2026
In this episode, host Bob Chew is joined by Martin Orcoyen, President of ISPE Argentina Affiliate, Ricardo Miranda, President of the ISPE Brazil Affiliate, and Alejandro Bustamante, President of the ISPE Mexico Affiliate, to discuss the jointly hosted 2025 ISPE LATAM Symposium. (Video Only)
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Welcome to the ISPE podcast, shaping the future of pharma, where ISPE
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supports you on your journey, fueling innovation, sharing insights, thought leadership,
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and empowering a global community to reimagine what's possible.
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Hello, and welcome to the ISPE podcast, Shaping the Future of Pharma.
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I'm Bob Chew, your host, and today we have another episode where we'll be sharing
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the latest insights and thought leadership on manufacturing, technology,
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supply chains and regulatory trends impacting the pharmaceutical industry.
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You will hear directly from the innovators, experts and professionals driving progress
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and shaping the future.
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Thank you again for joining us, and now let's dive into this episode.
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We're here in Buenos Aires, where the ISPE Latin American Symposium
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is happening this week.
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Our guests this morning include Martin Orcoyen, who is
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chair of the ISPE Argentina affiliate Ricardo Miranda,
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who is chair of the ISPE Brazil affiliate and Alejandro
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Bustamante, who is chair of the ISPE Mexico affiliate.
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Gentlemen, welcome.
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Please give me an overview of this event.
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Go ahead, Martin.
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Thank you.
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And I am the one who has to welcome you to our country and our city.
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I'm really glad to have you and all of you in Buenos Aires for this
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first edition of the Latin American Conference in Argentina.
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For those of you who don't know, this Latin American symposium is jointly organized
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by ISPE Argentina, ISPE Brazil, and ISP Mexico, the three
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Latin American affiliates in ISPE.
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And this is the sixth edition of our this Latin American symposium and the
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second hybrid, first in person in Buenos Aires.
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Ricardo?
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Yeah, I'm so happy to be here.
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It's this great hospitality from the Argentina people, this beautiful city.
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And more than this, to see this amount of the professionals from life science,
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Argentina, from Brazil, from all the Latin American, sharing knowledge, sharing
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how they are dealing with your current problems in the pharmaceutical industry.
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So first of all, thank you so much Martin for your hospitality
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and let's work to make this beautiful event more and more
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giant each year.
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Siempre este tipo de eventos desde que surgió la iniciativa que tengo
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entendido, Martín, surge como una propuesta tuya con esa visión
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a largo plazo de concentrar y de unir, este, los capítulos
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y los esfuerzos en un bloque, este, bastante interesante que es Latinoamérica.
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Gustoso de estar aquí, de ser parte de este proyecto, este, que, pues sí, vamos
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por un sexto año, pero se siente todavía como un bebé, ¿no?
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Este, creo que están muchas cosas por venir, pero estamos, este, las personas
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que que nos hemos involucrados, seguimos emocionados And
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so totally.
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And and as you said, Alejandro, this sixth year of the
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sixth edition of the Latin American symposium might seem like already and already
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established events, but it's still growing and has much
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more to grow.
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This this year, I'm really happy.
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That's it.
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So it's not only the three cohosting affiliates, but we have
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speakers in Buenos Aires, in person speakers from I hope don't forget
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anyone.
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Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Brazil,
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Mexico, The US, Switzerland.
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So this is regional and beyond.
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I'm really happy about that.
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So about how many in person and virtual attendees do
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you think you've got?
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So yesterday I mean, during yesterday and today, it's a two day event.
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We're probably having 110, 120 in person
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attendees, and maybe 200 remote live
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remote attendees.
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But then as all the every session is being recorded,
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we're probably going to have hundreds on demand
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attendees.
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I know the rooms yesterday were packed, the two tracks.
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I was amazed.
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And everybody was engaged with the presentations.
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I was really impressed with the content.
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You also have exhibitors, right?
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Maybe eight or 10 exhibitors?
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Yes.
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No.
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We had only seven, but not because it's not that no
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one else wanted to come, but the venue so the the capacity of the venue is limited.
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It's it's a it's a very nice historical building in Downtown Buenos Aires.
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You've seen it.
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But the space the the the exhibiting space is limited, so we could
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only accept seven booths, seven exhibitors
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with a booth.
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But we might have had many more if we had space.
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Yesterday was a very engaging program and the audience was enthusiastic and
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receptive.
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Why do you think people are attending?
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What excites them about being a part of ISPE and the pharmaceutical industry more
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broadly?
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If I can add some words, the people that are present at Buenos Aires, as Alejandro
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said, is sharing the issues, are connecting and making network.
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But I would like to talk about the people that are connecting online or you
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see the views on demand.
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Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, they are the engineers of the pharmaceutical
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industry in Latin America.
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When we have so many countries in Latin America, have so many people, so many professionals
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from life science that need to receive training, need to receive
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knowledge, they need to share experience.
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So this kind of hybrid event is marvelous because it could work
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in both sides.
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The presidential people, connection and the remotely people from the other smallest
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countries that have the same promise that we have and they need to take care of the
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public health as we do.
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So for me, this is a success.
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And if the guys allow me to talk about a little bit about the history of this
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event, we started the pandemic in 2020.
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Everybody was closed.
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That's why we joined our efforts, prepared this first Latin America
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symposium, working in this sense for four years, just
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online.
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And last year in Mexico and this year in Buenos Aires, putting people together.
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So we are growing as a continuous improvement in terms of this event
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and we hope each year will be better, each year will be bigger and we have
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more people from Latin America.
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And of course, not just Latin America, people that speak Spanish in Europe, people
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that speak Portuguese in Europe.
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So putting all these people together, sharing these issues, sharing these knowledge.
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As I see it, that's the biggest value of ISB.
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And you probably know it as well as I do.
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I the the magic that ISB does is connecting people.
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So we are connecting people who have the knowledge and want to
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share with people who need the knowledge and want to get it.
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And one of the greatest decisions that we did this year when organizing
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the conference is that we didn't not invite speakers.
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We just published an open call for proposals.
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So every speaker all all the speakers that we're having this week in Buenos Aires
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is people that decided they wanted to come and share
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and connect in person.
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That's awesome.
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That's amazing.
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So what speaking of the program, what do you consider to be the highlights of yesterday's
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program, and what are you looking forward to with today's program?
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Ricardo, you were hosting one of the two conference rooms.
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So maybe you know better than us, how and this reacted.
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Yes.
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The one that was hosting.
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There are different subjects, people from different parts of the world.
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But they have some we just have a lot of things.
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But one thing in particular, all the presentation were very, very nice,
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very high quality, talking in Spanish, talking in English, in
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Portuguese, whatever.
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And people in the room, people online make a lot of questions.
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So the quality of the presentation, I think, is the main factor.
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Covering what?
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Covering an excellent from the ICS, covering ASCG,
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covering some gaining matters,
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covering Pharma four point zero is things like this.
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So all the current challenges that we have in the pharmaceutical
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industry that move us to search for more knowledge, more
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exchange of experience among this community.
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Yes.
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We organize we opened six no, seven different
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tracks.
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When when we opened the call for proposals, so we decided to open seven different
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tracks.
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Digital transformation, operational excellence, sustainability, biotech,
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regulatory trends, women in pharma and emerging leaders.
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We intentionally wanting a diverse
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program, diverse speakers, diverse cultural background.
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Ricardo, you when you mentioned the languages that were spoken, you forgot Portunol.
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Portuguol language in Latin America.
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Perfect mix of Portuguese and Espanol.
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And I think that that it was, again,
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a great decision to open different tracks to any
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person who wanted to come.
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And we received so we had 20 presentation slots, and we received
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over 45 proposals.
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So we had to as Ricardo said, we had to curate the program.
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And I think that the team did it pretty well.
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Well, that's exciting.
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You know, I sat through the Pharma four point o.
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I sat through, a talk on AI governance and management,
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and then a more detailed talk on Agentic AI.
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So the technologies are advancing very fast.
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There was another presentation on radiopharmaceuticals.
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So maybe give us an overview of the pharmaceutical industry in the Latin
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American region, maybe starting with the countries you represent.
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So we are also that's not
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a random, I think.
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Argentina, Mexico and Brazil are three PICS
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members.
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So I think Argentina was the first.
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Brazil came then Mexico.
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And then Mexico.
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And maybe that explains why ISPE grew initially
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in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, why we got together and
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why I think our country's pharmaceutical industry, together with
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Colombia, of course, and then some other countries, I think we're really strong in
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terms of regulation, compliance and almost absolutely aligned
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with FDA and EMA guidelines.
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So I said, I'm very proud of the industry we have.
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And also having six sixty million of persons in Latin America.
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So a lot of people need the medicines, needing the biotechnology.
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And the markets are growing a lot, two digits every single year.
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Brazil is the biggest in Mexico, I think, is the second one in the region.
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I don't know, I'm not sure about the third one.
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But if you put all these people together, all these induced together, we have the
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both sides, the high technology, the high standards and Latin America
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unfortunately so far in some countries not so good standards.
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That's another mission to ISP in Latin America.
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And thinking in other way, as Martin said, Argentina,
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Brazil and Mexico, they are members of BICS.
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And our hands from ISP have some influence
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on this.
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We work together with the agencies in our countries, in our region, moving the bar
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of the currency, the good manufacturing process.
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So when we work together working as ISP Latin America,
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to reinforcing that the good prices are being spread
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throughout our region, not just in our countries.
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Líneas de conocimiento muy muy claros como en GAM, ¿no?
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Este, pero también algunas otras áreas, como lo son biotecnología, generación
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de vacunas y terapias avanzadas.
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Entonces, creo que los tiempos, los momentos, los temas y la inercia
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y la evolución de de los mercados, este, en favor de
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de los pacientes, como lo menciona Ricardo, este, se conjuntan hoy y
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nos toca a nosotros hacer nuestra You
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know, the four of us were in the car last night heading to dinner, and and so that
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that's four countries, in The Americas.
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And then we had a fifth person, one of the speakers, who was from Uruguay.
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And I was really amazed and impressed with our conversation, not
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only around manufacturing, but around new technology and discovery
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and clinical research that's happening, across the region.
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So what do you think makes the region attractive to multinational companies?
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If you ask me or if if I may answer first, I think
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that key to our success is education.
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Education in Latin America is usually either
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pre government supported or accessible.
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Really, lots of people, it's a huge
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amount of people in Latin America can access education, university.
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I think that's key to our success.
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Latin America wouldn't be as big as
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we are without the the great education that citizens
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get.
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Many people from different countries come to Latin America just to get education.
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Este, traer a a las personas que tengan ese conocimiento,
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simplemente pueden buscar proyectos de inversión acorde a a a los sectores o a las
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inversiones que están manejando, pero, este, dirigiendo y tomando, pues
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ahora sí que el el talento, este, que cada región tiene y ha
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desarrollado, y y que incluso, este, pues muchos de de de
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los países que hoy que hoy representamos Hice
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a quien compromete a little bit.
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I think you are both correct.
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People are always key.
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Talent people is much more key.
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But we have at least more two points.
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and growing.
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could take to be present, to have manufacturing, to have packaging
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in Latin America.
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It's again in both sides for the public health and to
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make money.
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So are there any special challenges for pharmaceutical manufacturers in the
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region?
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And how might ISPE help overcome some of these challenges?
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Harmonization?
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Harmonization, for sure.
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And ISPE is working hard on harmonization,
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regulatory harmonization.
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There's a work group within ISB that is
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trying to work in to tackle that harmonization challenge.
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And I think maybe that's one of the first work groups in ISB that went
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truly global.
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And that's awesome.
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I find it awesome.
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And let's remember that one of our missions, especially Latin
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America, is to share knowledge.
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So for example, Brazil, this year, you have 74
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trainings online, webinars, in person, because
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we have a lot of new people, young people coming.
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These people need to be ready.
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They need to be 100% very, very fast.
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So I think, again, part of our mission is to speed up this
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sharing of knowledge.
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ASP is very well recognized in Latin America as good trainers.
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And, more on-site, you are training also the regulators.
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So it's every single training, you have some people from, in my case, for an Anvisa.
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Believe me, we talk Portuguese.
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The other people talk Spanish.
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But people, for other agents in Latin America because they are also anxious
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to receive this knowledge from ISP.
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That's a neutral forum where you could put in the same table regulators,
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the industry and share this knowledge from ISP.
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So the agency members, inspectors and regulators are
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really they really they know that they need
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to get more knowledge, cutting edge knowledge, and they know ISPE
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is one of the best sources for the knowledge they need.
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Yesterday, we had in conference over regulator
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agency members present.
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That's amazing.
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So ISPE is comprised of chapters and affiliates.
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Tell me about your LatAm group.
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What is it, and why does it exist?
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Oh, that's a good question.
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Why do we exist?
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Maybe be because we have a lot of spare time, nothing to do.
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But no.
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It's because we we know that we're different.
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Our identities, our background is different, but not that different.
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So we realize that we can work together without leaving
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our local identities aside, but we are the we the three already established
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ISP affiliates are the ones that can together with ISP International, we
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can help ISP grow in Latin America to to
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increase penetration and to help reaching more
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and more people in in our continent every year.
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But, again, without losing well, forgetting our identities, we need to plant
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the seeds in different countries to grow a bigger ISP.
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Se ha dado de manera muy natural, y creo que desde donde estamos,
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cada cada uno de nosotros podemos tener una cobertura bastante estratégica
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para ayudar a, este, a que el conocimiento You
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may have answered this question.
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New countries?
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Are you trying to start affiliates in new countries?
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We are trying to and nominate ambassadors, ISB ambassadors
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in different countries that might be the seat for new affiliates.
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So currently, for example, ISB Argentina, have members
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that live that were born and still live and work in Chile, Uruguay,
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El Salvador, whatever.
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And I don't think that's fair that they have to to choose a different nationality
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for their affiliate.
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So they I think everyone deserves a a regional and local affiliate.
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So, yes, I hope really hope everyone feels they
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belong to ISP Latin America.
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And eventually, everyone has a local affiliate.
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I think that's could summarize.
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First, one word, synergy.
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You are working to make more with these members
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that we have today in ISP.
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And respecting the the different cultures, different
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people, each country has a different culture.
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So in each country, as a I hope one day, I wanna affiliate
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from ISP dealing with the local needs, but
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always in synergy.
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Always looking for this extra energy that could do it
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could have if you work together.
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So to me, synergy and respective for Q2 are the key points
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of this initiative or is in Latin America.
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Synergy, that's that I I will take your summary, Ricardo.
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Mhmm.
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Let's keep keep focusing on synergy.
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These three affiliates that we represent, we have never competed
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on sponsorships, for example.
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We share sponsors.
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this Latin American conference, we share sponsors, we share resources, we share
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speakers, we share everything.
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So this is a huge burden, but we are taking
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the burden altogether.
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So synergy and collaboration, thank you regardless synergy, is the best.
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So when should people mark their calendars and
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where for next year?
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That's my time now.
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Next year, it will be my pleasure to receive Latin America, ISP Latin America and
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Brazil.
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So next year, 11/20/3034, we
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have this new edition of ISP Latin America Symposium.
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And again, everybody will be more than welcome to Sao Paulo to join us
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in this multi language event, multicultural event, and
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we are all with our difference working for the public health.
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Well, that brings us to the end.
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I just want to review that we're here at the ISPE Latin
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American Affiliate Symposium.
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We've got, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina chapter
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chairs here on on this podcast.
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We talked about the huge workforce, the huge market,
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the advances in technology, and the fact that the three
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main countries in this affiliate are all members of PIX.
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So it's a very exciting, time to be in Latin America.
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So that brings us to the end of another episode of the ISPE podcast, Shaping
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the Future of Pharma.
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Please be sure to subscribe so you don't miss future conversations with the innovators,
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experts and change makers driving our industry forward.
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On behalf of all of us at ISPE, thank you for listening, and we'll see you next
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time as we continue to explore the ideas, trends and people shaping
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the future of pharma.
