IQPC Exchange 5th Annual SmartLabs Exchange 2010

Driving Lab efficiency through SMART informatics strategy

Smart Labs brings together senior level professionals from across the pharmaceutical, petrochemical, cosmetic and FMCG industries, as well as selected market-leading solution providers. Representatives from these industries are responsible for informatics and data management initiatives ranging across organisational boundaries and laboratory functions. The Smart Labs exchange format offers invitees the opportunity to attend sessions focussing on research and development, quality, and processing laboratories, and back-end information systems and infrastructure.

Speaking Faculty Includes:

Dr Allan Ferguson, Senior Director, Research Information, MERCK USA
Dr Beat Widler, Global Head, Clinical Quality Assurance, F. Hoffman-la Roche
Slava Budin Jones, Discovery Strategy and Consulting Director, GSK
Ian Cooper, Strategy & Portfolio Director, Astrazeneca
Jim Clark, Manager, Global IT GSC/GQO, Schering Plough
Mark Beggs, Programme Manager TMRC, Wyeth
Dean Flanders, Head of Global Informatics, Novartis Research Foundation
Ben Gardner, Biological Data Manager, Pfizer
Mike Hart, Technical Applications Manager, British Sugar
Joe Liskouski, Director, Institute for Laboratory Automation
Dr Jan Hauss, Head Central Analytics Informatics, MERCK

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Enhancing User Adoption of Laboratory Informatics and Data Management Systems Dean Flanders presentation from SmartLabs 2009

Knowledge Management and Efficiency Gains Capture, Protect and Exploit Corporate Knowledge; Increasing Efficiency and Productivity with ELNs

Why doesn’t a traditional Electronic Laboratory Notebook Work in a QA/QC Lab? ELN Requirements for quality assurance and quality control

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Focus Areas Include: Informatics within the wider corporate aims, Change Management & Organisational Buy-In, Business Process Improvement, Data Warehousing and Mining Initiatives, Implementation of Informatics, Discovery, Development, Manufacturing & QA/QC Laboratories, Analytical Laboratory Informatics, Electronic Laboratory Notebooks, Laboratory Information Systems, and Document Management & Archiving. And much, much more...

Attend to discover the best ways in which to:

Designing, executing and optimising your lab informatics strategy to fit within your wider corporate aims with expert guidance from MERCK
Discover how GlaxoSmithKline built effective initiatives to successfully manage change and integrate technology into their organisation
Understand how to effectively centralise and store your data for increased collaboration and efficiency: Pfizer discuss their groundbreaking initiatives!
Managing the complex relationships between the different functional groups in your organisation with best practice from Astrazeneca
Assess cutting-edge technological developments in the laboratory arena, covering open innovation, digital archiving, web 2.0, software as a service, ELNs and LIMS
Understand how by defining their system architecture, Novartis allowed a successful Informatics strategy to evolve

Why the Exchange & what will it do for you?

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.

Don't take our word for it, here's what some of our previous Smart Labs attendees had to say about the meeting:

"Ideal setting & format for discussion on industry challenges in the informatics space-great networking opportunity & thought provoking workshops."
- AstraZeneca

"I had the opportunity to sit in on a number of great talks and I look forward to next years meeting as we look to work smarter in the lab arena."
- Schering Plough

"Best overview and insights you can get in this field."
- Roche-Kulmbach Gmbh

"Unique occasion to exchange on data management with peers from different industries."
- L'OREAL

"Very informative, covering most of the questions & issues, which have been challenging the future implementation of informatics."
- FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICE

"A good diverse get-together of many in the world of informatics."
- BP

"Very interesting information exchange during those 2 days."
- Johnson & Johnson

"Interesting experience with the new format allowing for interactive discussions."
- NOVARTIS PHARMA AG

"Good variety of formats & informal."
- GLAXOSMITHKLINE