10^th Pharma Supply Chain &
Logistics Innovation Programme

Challenge Group is a unique, international air cargo conglomerate offering tailored air freight industry solutions from handling, air and ground logistics, to aviation services, for a wide range of industries and commodities. Challenge Group employs over 1,000 people across three airlines (Challenge Airlines IL in Israel, Challenge Airlines BE in Belgium, Challenge Airlines MT in Malta), a commercial division (Challenge Air Cargo) in Malta, a ground handling company (Challenge Handling in Liege, Belgium), a European road feeder provider (Challenge Logistics in Liege, Belgium), an aircraft and parts leasing division (Challenge Aviation), and a comprehensive line maintenance provider (Challenge Technic). The company has trebled its capacity over the past four years and now handles 300,000+ tonnes of cargo per year.

Veratrak, an award-winning UK-based software company, has been at the forefront of digital transformation since 2018. Our software: the Hub, is a secure supply chain platform purpose-built for the life science industry to facilitate integrations between pharma companies and their portfolio of logistics partners. The Hub offers pharma companies a more streamlined way to manage integrations by removing point-to-point connections across their logistics network. In a world where transparency and collaboration are essential for the future of a sustainable pharmaceutical industry, the Hub provides a single and secure path to automatically extract, synthesise and visualise partner performance metrics across your supply chain, including carbon emissions and final mile data – enabling secure access to a full range of partners, along with full visibility into their activities in real-time. Our end-to-end solution helps improve operational efficiency, reduce costs and facilitate better compliance across your supply chain operations. For more information visit: www.veratrak.com.

Born in 1998, Dryce is a joint venture between Gruppo Marotta the multinational group Nippon Gases. Starting its business manufacturing and supplying Dry Ice (solid carbon dioxide), over the years the company has gradually improved its know-how and expanded its products range, still having a focus on innovation, providing customers with the best solutions available and becoming one of the major Italian and European players in the Cool Chain Packaging field. Our Mission is to guarantee to our customers the best preservation of their Thermo-Sensitive products, designing, testing and qualifying standard or customized packaging solutions, also supporting them during the study phase, while planning new solutions and afterwards. In Dryce we cultivate our Mission, day after day, working with passion and dedication. At the core, there is our commitment to listen and learn from our customers, understanding their needs and turning them into effective and sustainable solutions.