2025 ISTO Annual Member Meeting

The ISTO Annual Member Meeting is an opportunity for ISTO Member Programs to connect and share successes, insight, and best practices. This year's meeting will feature presentations from ISTO Member Programs sharing their contributions to today's newest emerging technologies.

We hope you will join us and take advantage of this opportunity to learn about ways to ensure continued success in your Program.

We look forward to an engaging, interactive session! REGISTER NOW!

2025 Annual Member Meeting Registration

Agenda (Eastern Standard)

11:30am – 11:35am    Introduction Brianna Rich, ISTO Moderator
11:35am – 11:45am   Welcome and Opening Remarks Dan Burnett, ISTO President & CEO
11:45am – 11:50am    ISTO Financial Overview Elise Rabatin, ISTO CFO
11:50am – 12:10pm    Printer Working Group Overview Jeremy Leber, PWG Chair, Sr. Firmware Engineer, Xerox
Smith Kennedy, Software Lead, Hewlett-Packard Inc.
12:10pm – 12:30pm    IMPALA Presentation Roshan D'Zousa, Head of Quality Excellence Digital, Roche
12:30pm – 12:45pm   TBD
12:45pm –   1:00pm   Q&A Session Brianna Rich, ISTO Moderator

SPEAKERS – MORE TO COME – STAY TUNED!

Printer Working Group – Smith Kennedy

Smith has worked at HP Inc. (and Hewlett-Packard Company) since 1999, leading or contributing to many different software initiatives related to printer or peripheral software, protocol standards, and working with industry partners. Smith served as PWG Chair from 2015-2021 and is the current PWG Vice-Chair.  He has represented HP Inc. in the PWG since 2011 and has also participated in standards development in the Bluetooth SIG, NFC Forum, USB Implementor's Forum, and Wi-Fi Alliance. Smith was the co-author of the USB-IF's IPP USB standard and the NFC Forum's Device Information RTD, Verb RTD, and Connection Handover v1.4 specifications. He has edited and contributed to many recent PWG specifications and white papers.

Printer Working Group – Jeremy Leber

Jeremy is a senior firmware engineer at Lexmark International (recently acquired by Xerox International) and the current Chair of the Printer Working Group.  Jeremy began his career at Lexmark in 1996 as a test engineer focused on parallel, serial, and USB ports, and later joined the engineering team that would deliver Lexmark's first multi-function printers.  Currently, Jeremy owns Lexmark's connectivity mission, including implementation and certification of numerous industry standard protocols, and has represented Lexmark in the PWG since 2012, formerly serving as PWG Vice-Chair.  Jeremy has also been a member of the technical and certification working groups with the Mopria Alliance.

IMPALA Consortium – Roshan D'Souza

Roshan is currently the head of Quality Excellence Digital at Roche's Product Development Quality organization. The utilization of data analytics and digital technologies to unlock meaningful business outcomes has been a common thread since he started his career at Roche. An engineer by education, he has been working in the Pharma industry since 2000 in roles of increasing accountabilities and leadership in the areas of digital solutions, data analysis and GCP/GVP Quality. Roshan also chairs the IMPALA consortium; a non-profit organization focused on improving biopharma quality with digital and advanced analytics methodologies to medical solutions to patients faster.