Day 1 Agenda

10am-10.30am | Welcome Coffee and Registration

10.30am-11.00am | Opening Remarks
Moderator: Ms Spring Gombe, Partner in Public Affairs, MAA

Dr Amadou Alpha Sall, CEO of the Institut Pasteur de Dakar

Prof. Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Director of the Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale, DRC

11.00am-12am | Research & Scientific Advances
Moderator: Ms Spring Gombe, Partner in Public Affairs, MAA

Session Keynote: Prof. Sir Peter Horby, Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford

Dr Rebecca Grais, Executive Director, Pasteur Network

Dr Abdou Rachid Thiam, Chair in Biophysics at Ecole Nationale Supérieure

Dr Xavier Berthet, Scientific Director at the Institut Pasteur de Dakar

12pm-1pm | Deploying Interventions for Epidemics
Moderator : Dr Marie-Paule Kieny, Chair of Medicines Patent Pool

Session Keynote: Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Assistant Director General at the World Health Organization

Dr Sergio Carmona, Chief Medical Officer of FIND

Dr David Blazes, Deputy Director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Dr Philippe Duneton, Executive Director of Unitaid

Closing remarks: As Sy, Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation

1pm | Lunch

2pm-3.30pm | Manufacturing Platforms for Epidemic Countermeasures
Moderator: Ms Spring Gombe, Partner in Public Affairs, MAA

Session Keynote: Dr Jerome Kim, CEO of the International Vaccine Institute

Dr Nicaise Ndembi, Head of Partnerships at the Partnership for African Vaccine Manufacturing (PAVM) & Head of Science Office at Africa CDC

Dr Marie-Angélique Sene, Head of Advanced vaccine bioprocessing lab, Institut Pasteur de Dakar

Dr Jose Castillo, CEO of Quantoom/Univercells Group

Dr Ali Alloueche, Vice President, Global Head Business Development, Alliance Management and External R&D of the Hilleman Laboratories

3.30pm-4pm | Coffee Break

4pm-5.30pm | Policy, Financing and Resilience to Epidemics

Moderator : Ibrahima Cheikh Diong, United Nations Assistant Secretary General and Director General of the African Risk Capacity Group

Session Keynote: Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa CDC

Dr Solomon Zewdu, Senior Executive Resident, Mastercard Foundation

Yalda Momeni, Senior specialist at Gavi

Robert Kwame deGraft Agyarko, Lead Adviser for Outbreaks and Epidemics, African Risk Capacity Group

Dr Isaac Chikwanha, Senior Director, Investment Strategy, Access & Delivery, GHIT

5.30pm-6.30pm | Closing Keynote
Moderator : Prof. Peter Piot, LSHTM

Dr. John Nkengasong, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for health diplomacy, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS relief

6.30pm | Drinks Reception and Testimonies

7.30pm | Live music at the Phare des Mamelles Lighthouse

Day 2 Agenda

7.15am transit from Dakar hotels to Diamniadio

8am-10am | Site visits (parallel)
1) Institut Pasteur de Dakar Historical site visit in Plateau

2) MADIBA vaccine manufacturing facility site visit in Diamniadio

11am-5pm | Bilateral meetings
Institut Pasteur de Dakar campus

Radisson Hotel in Diamniadio

1pm | Lunch at Radisson Diamniadio

Transport options to Dakar will be made available during the day of the 1st

5pm | Farewell drinks
Radisson Diamniadio Hotel

6pm-8pm | Shuttle to airport, as required