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The evidence is already there.
Learn how to read it.

One day inside a live contamination investigation. Return with practical methods you can apply in your facility the very next day.

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Why This Congress Exists

Every investigation begins before the positive result.

By the time a test fails, the evidence has already been accumulating. The challenge isn’t collecting more data — it’s learning how to read it before it becomes a deviation. That is why this Congress exists.

Evidence accumulatingFailure declared
Environmental baseline
Routine monitoring, within limits
Early trend drift
Counts edge quietly upward
Recurring signals
Patterns begin to cluster
Repeated excursions
The warning, often missed
Positive result
The deviation is finally raised
The Problem

We teach professionals how to perform tests. We rarely teach them how to lead investigations.

Real investigations demand observation, critical thinking, pattern recognition and the ability to connect evidence that appears unrelated. Those skills are rarely taught in a classroom — they are developed through experience.

Taught in the classroom
Test execution
Method validation
Data recording
Procedural compliance
Demanded by the investigation
Observation
Critical thinking
Pattern recognition
Connecting unrelated evidence
Live cleanroom gowning demonstration on stage
Inside Edition One
“When practitioners stop presenting and start investigating, the whole room leans in.”
Live panel · Edition One, Ahmedabad
Experience the Investigation

This is not another conference. It is a working investigation.

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Live Case Investigations
Real contamination events that changed manufacturing decisions.
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Airflow Visualisation
Invisible airflow becomes visible forensic evidence, live.
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Hands-on Demonstrations
Practices demonstrated rather than described.
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Regulatory Perspective
How regulators evaluate investigations and CCS in practice.
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Practitioner Discussions
How senior professionals approached difficult investigations.
Signature Sessions

Sessions designed around practice.

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Keynote Case Study
Anatomy of a Contamination Event

From the first unexpected result through root cause investigation to corrective action.

★ Live Demo
Air Flow Visualization as Forensic Evidence

See contamination move before it reaches your product.

Practitioner Case Study
The Water System That Grew Burkholderia

How one water system exposed weaknesses across a facility.

Fireside Chat
Twenty Years of Other People’s Failures

Decades of investigations and the lessons that still shape CCS today.

Meet the Investigators

Professionals who have been inside the investigation.

More than twenty experienced practitioners, committed to sharing methods — not marketing.

Meet Our Speakers →
Pro. Tim Sandle
Pro. Tim Sandle
Pharmaceutical Microbiology Expert & Author
Pravin Kulkarni
Pravin Kulkarni
Global Quality Sustainability & Quality Culture
Vikram Shukla
Vikram Shukla
VP, Parenteral Operations
Life Sciences
Abhay Kumar Srivastava
Abhay Kumar Srivastava
Sr. VP, Operations
Dr. Bhapinder Singh Grover
Dr. Bhapinder Singh Grover
Contamination Control Specialist
Ranjit Menon
Ranjit Menon
Sterile Manufacturing Leader
Dr. Sathish Sadagopan
Dr. Sathish Sadagopan
Microbiology & QC Leader
Laxmikant Tiwari
Laxmikant Tiwari
Quality Assurance Leader
Pro. Tim Sandle
Pro. Tim Sandle
Pharmaceutical Microbiology Expert & Author
Pravin Kulkarni
Pravin Kulkarni
Global Quality Sustainability & Quality Culture
Vikram Shukla
Vikram Shukla
VP, Parenteral Operations
Life Sciences
Abhay Kumar Srivastava
Abhay Kumar Srivastava
Sr. VP, Operations
Dr. Bhapinder Singh Grover
Dr. Bhapinder Singh Grover
Contamination Control Specialist
Ranjit Menon
Ranjit Menon
Sterile Manufacturing Leader
Dr. Sathish Sadagopan
Dr. Sathish Sadagopan
Microbiology & QC Leader
Laxmikant Tiwari
Laxmikant Tiwari
Quality Assurance Leader
Edition One · The Proof

What the first edition brought together.

A snapshot of Edition One — the community that made this second edition inevitable.

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Edition One

Built on experience. Continuing the investigation.

Edition 2 builds on Edition One, where the industry came together to strengthen contamination control through collaborative learning.

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The Pharmig India community on stage
Pharma Now — The Series

Conversations the industry is actually having.

Short, sharp films from the people shaping pharmaceutical microbiology — straight from the Pharma Now studio.

Will AI break pharma regulations?
04:12
Will AI break pharma regulations?
Episode 04 · Regulatory Futures
Are India’s diseases increasing?
06:38
Are India’s diseases increasing?
Episode 03 · Public Health
Inside a sterility investigation
03:55
Inside a sterility investigation
Episode 02 · On the Bench
Who Should Be in the Room

Different roles. One shared responsibility.

Microbiologists
Microbiologists
Strengthen investigation skills and practical contamination control.
Quality Assurance & QC
Quality Assurance & QC
Stronger root cause investigations and CAPA decisions.
Manufacturing & Operations
Manufacturing & Operations
How contamination control supports operational excellence.
Plant Heads & Quality Leaders
Plant Heads & Quality Leaders
Build a Living CCS beyond regulatory compliance.
Engineering & Validation
Engineering & Validation
How facility design and utilities influence risk.
Technology Partners
Technology Partners
Connect with the people making contamination decisions.
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Apple AirPods
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Smart Watches & Merch
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The next investigation
will not wait.

It will begin in your facility. Every contamination leaves evidence — learn how to read it.

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