NEW YORK, NY – On March 20th through March 23rd, 2023, Midtown New York City was home to the 95th Annual DCAT Week, one of the world’s largest and highly recognized and attended business events for the pharmaceutical industry. During the 4-day event, hundreds of member companies engage in high-level meetings with customers, typically engaging at the senior management or C-suite level. The event serves as one of the premier events in the United States for the global pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing value chain.
Porton USA served as one of the premier sponsors for the event this year, sponsoring a number of activities and resources throughout the course of 4 days. Strategically, this aligns well with aiming to bring Porton’s highly technical and client oriented CDMO service offering to customers in the United States. The company’s involvement in this highly visible event was crucial to ensuring that customers in the US can look to Porton to help solve technical challenges and bring innovative drugs to market.
On Monday, March 20th, Porton Chairman & CEO, Oliver Ju, delivered a presentation at the DCAT Annual Membership Forum, an invite-only presentation platform to highlight exciting company news within the DCAT Member Company network. Mr. Ju presented on Porton’s exciting global expansion plan, highlighting Porton’s new site in Slovenia as well as the new drug product facility in the United States. Additionally, the presentation also showcased Porton’s focus on next generation technologies and digitalization to optimize process efficiency and control during R&D and manufacturing.
On Tuesday, March 21st,Porton was one of the headline sponsors of the DCAT Member Reception. The event had over 1100 registrants and over 700 attendees, and company representatives got the chance to give DCAT members an overview of Porton’s capabilities and highlights. The event was attended by all Porton leadership, as well as the business development and marketing teams.
On Wednesday, Porton was one of the sponsors of the Disruption Busters Seminar series. The seminar series highlights key topics and areas that are fast moving and impactful within the industry, and key experts from around the world deliver high value presentations on best practices and key initiatives. Porton’s sponsorship covered a discussion on supply chain risk and mitigation, and stressed the need to find the right partner to ensure pipeline and commercialization success. Porton’s sponsorship also covered a tabletop display where interested attendees connected with Porton’s business development team.
On March 23rd, DCAT’s grand finale was held at the New York Hilton Midtown, where the DCAT Annual Dinner was held. With an attendance of over 1500 attendees and guests, this is one of DCAT’s highest profile events. The night served as a fantastic celebration of 4 days of hard work and great success for the company. The night was capped off with a performance by well known comedian and actor, Jerry Seinfeld.