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Innovative Technology and Data Strategies to Drive Company Knowledge

Smart Labs 2008 will be led by 36 Informatics, IT, Science and Innovation experts across 4 industry sectors to discuss best practice strategies for accelerating your development and quality life cycles. This year's agenda will be fuller and more diverse than ever before, giving delegates the chance to choose from 38 interactive workshops and plenary case-studies.

To ensure expert knowledge and strategy sharing, the Smart Lab Exchange is an exclusive, invitation-only event uniting only the most senior and experienced leaders across a range of information and scientific disciplines.

Following selection for the event, each delegate designs their own agenda by selecting interactive workshops, personal meetings, networking sessions and keynote presentations.
This unique format ensures every session reflects individual challenges interests and requirements; it is this highly-specialised structure that defines Smart Lab, and marks the Exchange apart from any other laboratory informatics events.

Four Exclusive Conferences in One Event!

If you qualify for Smart Labs you can target your specific technology challenges by selecting and moving between

4 Streams of Interactive Workshops

• Stream A: Global Stream: Systems Integration, Data Strategy and Wide Area Networks
• Stream B: Knowledge Access & Web Search: Portals, Semantic Web, Search Engines
• Stream C: ELNS and LIMS: Selecting, Implementing, Integrating, Enhancing
• Stream D: Data Innovation: Archiving, Integrating, Visualising, Processing

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Topics for 2008

Tailor your own itinerary by selecting sessions from just some of the following industry-led perspectives:

• Overall Company Strategies for Data Storage
• ELNS for Biology and Chemistry
• Prototyping the Use of Radio-Frequency Identification Tags
• Successfully Integrating Search Tools into Wide-Area Networks
• Integrating ELNS Technology
• Implementing LIMS for Quality Control
• Standardising Interfaces between LIMS, ERP
• Maximising the Value of Your Data Archives for long-term readability
• Optimising Lead Time with Cross-Functional People Management
• Company-Wide Access to Data from all sources
• Minimising the Pre-Clinical and Development Cycles
• Building the Platform for Rapid Decision Making in Large Pharma
• Calculating Laboratory Workflow Between Vendor Solutions
• Supporting Innovation in R&D with a Solid Knowledge Management Base

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Industry Specific Possibilities

Plus: Select the topics within the streams delivered for your particular work function, including:

• Consumer/Cosmetic Industry
• QA/QC
• Biotech
• Scientific Leadership
• Data Storage
• Systems Integration
• Web Search

Accelerate your informatics and knowledge management operations across your sector with expert leadership

Breakdown of Delegates Smart Lab 2007

Over 35 Expert Leaders, Including:

1. Dean Flanders, CIO, Novartis Research Foundation
2. Martin Blueggel, COO & Head of Bioinformatics, Protagen
3. Shalini Andersson, Director Medicinal Chemistry, AstraZeneca
4. Wilma Keighley, Senior Director Primary Pharmacology, Pfizer
5. Mohan Cashyap, Associate Director, Pre-Clinical IT, GlaxoSmithKline
6. Patrick Marichal, Programme Manager, R&D IT, Johnson and Johnson
7. Charlie Sodano, Information Systems Leader, Bayer Healthcare
8. Mark Scott, European Discovery Innovation Manager, Eli Lilly

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