Romain Veillon, PharmD GSK Vaccines

Romain Veillon is Director Vision Technology at GSK, in Global MSAT Manufacturing Technologies. As global expert he is leading Visual Inspection performance and expertise network on multiple sites.

He now focuses on Quality Integration Lead, New Technology Development, Validation Strategy, Capability assessment, Asset Management programs, Technical Watch, Performance Improvement and Develop Equipment strategy within network. He manages a network of vision experts to develop visual Inspection expertise within GSK Vaccines. Romain is now focusing in digitalization and innovation management with new AVI-LT asset deployment.

Romain has developed expertise in new AVI equipment qualification and Deep Learning deployment.

Last past 24 years he has worked in parenteral manufacturing, he has gained experience at Sanofi Pasteur, E Lilly and GSK, in support to production and secondary operations projects for filling and freeze-drying.

He also developed innovative vision systems with some academic collaborations and regular presentation to PDA conferences.

In 2017, Romain developed a PDA course "Mastering AVI". Since 2018 Romain is Interest Group Leader for Visual Inspection in PDA Europe. Since 2019, Romain co-led a taskforce to prepare a point to consider document for AI applied to Visual Inspection.

In 2020 Romain received PDA James P. Agalloco Award for educational training.