Smart Lab Exchange

Stream A: Global Systems Integration

Stream B: Web Technology

Stream C: ELNs and LIMS

Stream D: Data Innovation

A6: From Research to Pre-clinical Development and Quality Operations: The Novartis Vaccines approach.

Francesco will discuss how Novartis Vaccines have gained a large return from small budget investments and minimised risks with state of the art technology to their global system. Topics include:

• Securing access to heterogeneous systems and the role of the Web
• Harmonizing knowledge platforms and semantics in the Labs
• Processing and managing data intelligence and information
• Implementing the process analytical technology paradigm

Francesco Di Pisa
Senior Scientist, Head of Biostatistics
Novartis Vaccines

Networking break

Why not visit our exhibition or catch-up with your peers? As one of the key focuses of this unique event is on strategic networking, we want to make sure you have every opportunity to "exchange" ideas with your colleagues, get up to speed with the latest industry news and build new business contacts. Why not visit our exhibition?

C7: Improving Access to Information Company Wide By Integrating ELNS with Existing Systems

• Identifying the optimum solution for business requirements
• Enforcing changes whilst introducing ELNS into the workflow
• Future proofing: Accommodating for future business expansion and structural change to provide long-term solutions

D6: Innovative Data Preservation, Handling and Management Solutions for Long-Term Data Accumulation

• Exploring options for archiving and long-term readability of electronic records from LIMS and ELNS
• Responding to the growth in electronic data by providing facilities for retention and management
• Seeking vendor standardisation to provide formatting solutions and interfaces to standard archiving packages

Johan Aubert
R&D Technology Development Leader
L'Oreal

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

A7: Client Case Study from Leading Solution Provider

A practical insight into the latest technology from a selected innovator in the field of technology and knowledge management. Attend and learn:

• How new technology is being implemented and adapted to improve company-wide data management
• Potential for the future: What are the next steps for technology and how will they help global organisations

B5: Gaining Competitive Advantage by minimising the Pre-Clinical and Development Cycles

• Getting information back to scientists rapidly by optimising data accessibility
• Driving clinical decision-making through diagnostic data analysis
• Therapeutic drivers during the capture, analysis and assessment of medical images and lab data
• Avoiding silos by identifying best-practice solutions for application integration, data centralization and warehousing
• Minimising lab mistakes and increasing efficiency with accessible, centralised static data
• Decreasing the processing times of a life-cycle clinical event with the timely reporting of critical data

Mukhtar Ahmed
Vice President, Project Management Office
Kendle

C8: Using Size to your Advantage by Defining a Company-Wide Information Strategy

• Developing an all-incorporating knowledge management strategy based on underlying data layer solutions
• Personnel changes, hiring additional personnel, and setting up your world-wide organisation from multiple regional offices
• Ensuring work isn't repeated across regions by deploying technologies over multiple sites

Wilfried De Tobel
Manager, Technology Information Services
Cargill R&D Centre Europe

D7: Web-Based Solutions for Laboratory Data Centralisation and Warehousing

Investigating the implementation and deployment of a web solution for sample management used by 350 users on the Nestle research centre

• Optimising accessibility and avoiding silos with warehousing expertise
• Minimising lab mistakes and increasing efficiency with standardized, accessible, centralised static data
• Decreasing the processing times of a life-cycle with dedicated user interface

Frederic Raymond
Managing Scientist, Microarray Facility
Nestle Research Center

Networking break

Why not visit our exhibition or catch-up with your peers? As one of the key focuses of this unique event is on strategic networking, we want to make sure you have every opportunity to "exchange" ideas with your colleagues, get up to speed with the latest industry news and build new business contacts. Why not visit our exhibition?

B6: Behaving like a Bio-Tech: Building the Platform for Rapid Decision Making in Large Pharma

• Overcoming corporate bureaucracy for rapid innovation and flexibility within a robust systems infrastructure
• Using company size to your advantage by leveraging large databases and buying power
• Overcoming internal and cross site cultural differences by offering options via modular systems

Wilma Keighley
Senior Director Primary Pharmacology
Pfizer Ltd

Second Chance Repeat Session

Do you want to attend two workshops but find that they are scheduled at the same time? Good news - in order to ensure you don't miss out, we will be repeating a handful of our most popular sessions by our top speakers

D8: Maximising the Value of Your Data with Bridging, Integration and Visualization

• Overcoming cultural differences to enable multi-site integration of data
• Achieving a balance between flexibility and performance needs in a Discovery environment
• Annotating data to allow new ways of analysis
• Integrating and aligning data from different sources in different formats using visualisation techniques

Patrick Marichal
Programme Manager, R&D IT
Johnson and Johnson

A8: Client Case Study from Leading Solution Provider

A practical insight into the latest technology from a selected innovator in the field of technology and knowledge management. Attend and learn:

• How new technology is being implemented and adapted to improve company-wide data management
• Potential for the future: What are the next steps for technology and how will they help global organisations

B7: Investigating and Prototyping the Use of Radio- Frequency Identification Tags (RFID) Within the Discovery Environment

• Problems and issues in implementing RFID in the lab environment
• Investigating the possibilities: Models for prototypes and potential applications
• Implementing the system and integrating RFID with existing technology

Mark Scott
European Discovery Innovation Manager
Eli Lilly

C9: Bio-Tech Start Ups and New Technology Roundtable Examining the effects of new technology and fast rolls outs in leading biotechs.

• . Demonstrating tangible results of the latest laboratory technology roll-outs in companies where size in an advantage

Kim Mark Knudsen
Ph.D. Senior Director, Biometrics
Genmab

Martin Blueggel
COO & Head of Bioinformatics
Protagen

Daniel Weaver
Senior Manager of Scientific Computing
Array Biopharma

Networking break

Why not visit our exhibition or catch-up with your peers? As one of the key focuses of this unique event is on strategic networking, we want to make sure you have every opportunity to "exchange" ideas with your colleagues, get up to speed with the latest industry news and build new business contacts. Why not visit our exhibition?

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

A9: Improving Document Management by Integrating ELNS, Scientific Data Management Systems, and LIMS

• Identifying document management strategies to avoid duplication
• Centralising, collaborating and distributing data across a company for greater interoperability
• Overcoming export control issues to allow international visibility of data and enhance global cooperation

Alfred Stefan
Manager, Research Systems
Abbott

B4: Developing a Unified Portal for Electronic Data: Allowing Company-Wide Access to Data from Labs, Clinics and Trial Management

• Biotech strategy: Defining and rolling-out a company wide strategy for data solutions
• Analysing, formatting and presenting all electronic data to one focus point

Kim Mark Knudsen
PhD, Senior Director, Biometrics
Genmab A/S

C10: Calculating Laboratory Workflow Between Vendor Solutions

• Driving automation: Establishing how to change established practices?
• Understanding workflow in a mixed instrument environment
• Connecting data and samples

Mats Kihlén
Head of Research Informatics
iNovacia

Second Chance Repeat Session

Do you want to attend two workshops but find that they are scheduled at the same time? Good news - in order to ensure you don't miss out, we will be repeating a handful of our most popular sessions by our top speakers

A10: Where, Why and How the ELN Fits into Wide Area Networks

• Identifying product strengths and weaknesses to plan how users need to trained and supported
• Improving statistical analysis functionality, application performance and developing integration tools

Dr. W. Jeffrey Hurst
Senior Staff Scientist
The Hershey Company Technical Centre

C11: Integration, Interoperability and Standards: ELNS and LIMS: Masterclass

• Identifying a desired end result for combined systems and gauging the true capabilities potential technology before purchase for faster implementation of new interfaces
• Motivating the standardisation of software and interfaces in the production environment to ensure compatibility
• Establishing criteria for systems combination to ensure compatibility and maximise adoption rate

Dr Rich Lysakowski
Chief Science & Technology Officer
Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Association (CENSA)

Networking break

Why not visit our exhibition or catch-up with your peers? As one of the key focuses of this unique event is on strategic networking, we want to make sure you have every opportunity to "exchange" ideas with your colleagues, get up to speed with the latest industry news and build new business contacts. Why not visit our exhibition?