Main Conference Day One Nov 19 2019
8:00 am - 8:45 am Morning Registration and Welcome Coffee
8:45 am - 9:00 am Chairman's Opening Remarks
9:00 am - 9:30 am Opening Keynote: The Patient Journey through a Digital Lens - From Target Discovery to Real World Evidence
This session will provide delegates with a comprehensive end-to-end perspective of how lab informatics and digital initiatives is focused around the patient journey and experience. Key points that the session will cover include:
- Target discovery and pipeline validation using very large scale computational biology
- Molecule advancement using machine learning
- Patient stratification using real world evidence including digital biomarkers
Peter Grandsard
Executive Director Research – Therapeutic Discovery – Discovery Attribute, Data, and Computational SciencesAmgen
9:30 am - 10:00 am Driving Lab Efficiencies and Productivity by Leveraging Consumer Technology into Your Lab: Merck Case Study
- Solving data capture and surface challenges by delivering real time, on the spot content to scientists through digital personal assistants
- Presenting and capturing contextualized information through wearable devices
- Analyzing the efficiency gains and metrics from the pilot project
- Overcoming challenges in project adoption and technology interoperability
10:00 am - 10:30 am Achieving Successful Business Outcomes through Data Lake and Advanced Lab Analytics at Bristol-Myers Squibb
This session will feature a joint presentation between the IT and business functions at Bristol-Myers Squibb to show how business outcomes were achieved and implemented through successful lab data integration exercises. The session will touch on how the team managed to overcome initial challenges in defining business outcomes and then executing the IT implementation map.
Kimberly Dickinson
Senior Scientist, Analytical Sciences & Technology, Global QualityBristol-Myers Squibb
10:30 am - 11:10 am Morning Tea Break and Networking
Interactive Discussion Groups
Small Pharma Topic 1
11:10 am - 1:10 pm Roundtable 1: Migrating Your Lab Informatics to the Cloud: Overcoming Migration Challenges
Delegates will get the opportunity to select 3 tables of their choice, each led by a roundtable host for a 40 minutes discussion. All 6 roundtables will kick start simultaneously, with delegates rotating after each 40 minute session. Discussion groups are deliberately kept small to ensure that all delegates get the interactive, multi-directional opportunity to ask their most pressing questions, thereby guaranteeing a perfectly tailored experience.
Small Pharma Topic 2
11:10 am - 1:10 pm Roundtable 2: Preparing Your Lab for Scalability: Ensuring that You are Prepared for Manufacturing and QC Benchmarks and Managing the Transition
Delegates will get the opportunity to select 3 tables of their choice, each led by a roundtable host for a 40 minutes discussion. All 6 roundtables will kick start simultaneously, with delegates rotating after each 40 minute session. Discussion groups are deliberately kept small to ensure that all delegates get the interactive, multi-directional opportunity to ask their most pressing questions, thereby guaranteeing a perfectly tailored experience.
Small Pharma Topic 3
11:10 am - 1:10 pm Roundtable 3: Data Integration All at Once: Going from Zero Data Integration to Instant Informatics Integration- What You Need to Know
Delegates will get the opportunity to select 3 tables of their choice, each led by a roundtable host for a 40 minutes discussion. All 6 roundtables will kick start simultaneously, with delegates rotating after each 40 minute session. Discussion groups are deliberately kept small to ensure that all delegates get the interactive, multi-directional opportunity to ask their most pressing questions, thereby guaranteeing a perfectly tailored experience.
Large Pharma Topic 1
11:10 am - 1:10 pm Roundtable 4: Can Your Informatics Architecture Really be Agile and Interoperable in a Legacy-Based Environment?
Delegates will get the opportunity to select 3 tables of their choice, each led by a roundtable host for a 40 minutes discussion. All 6 roundtables will kick start simultaneously, with delegates rotating after each 40 minute session. Discussion groups are deliberately kept small to ensure that all delegates get the interactive, multi-directional opportunity to ask their most pressing questions, thereby guaranteeing a perfectly tailored experience.
Large Pharma Topic 2
11:10 am - 1:10 pm Roundtable 5: Finding the Optimal Balance between Day-to-Day Operations and Long-Term Better Future State of Your SystemsDelegates will get the opportunity to select 3 tables of their choice, each led by a roundtable host for a 40 minutes discussion. All 6 roundtables will kick start simultaneously, with delegates rotating after each 40 minute session. Discussion groups are deliberately kept small to ensure that all delegates get the interactive, multi-directional opportunity to ask their most pressing questions, thereby guaranteeing a perfectly tailored experience.
1:10 pm - 2:10 pm Lunch and Networking Break
Data Standardization, Protocols and Integration in Lab Informatics
2:10 pm - 2:40 pm Bridging the Gap Across Systems and Applications by Standardizing Interfaces and Data Formats
- Overcoming challenges in instrument integration through a standardized method for interfacing
- Ensuring plug-and-play capabilities for new instruments through flexible and standardized data formats
- Reducing overhead challenges and labor-intensive integration
Dana Vanderwall
Director of Biology and Preclinical IT at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Chair of the BoardAllotrope Foundation
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm Improving Data Integrity in the Lab by Integrating Laboratory Workflows and Applying Digital Instruction Sets for Analytical and Aligned Lab Instruments: Project Case Study Updates from the Pistoia Alliance
This session will provide a comprehensive case study on how:
- Instrument specific instructions provide rich functionality but can create challenges for system integration along an experimental workflow
- Precompetitive Consortia can play a role in providing consistent guidance to technology providers to increase efficiency and reduce integration effort
- Consistency of laboratory data resulting from well-defined workflows are crucial for the efficient use of Artificial Intelligence in the Lab
3:10 pm - 3:40 pm Afternoon Tea Break and Networking
3:40 pm - 4:10 pm The Minimum Viable LIMS: Maximizing Informatics ROI In a Startup Environment
4:10 pm - 4:40 pm Closing Panel Discussion: Practical Takeaways and Examples of Successful Instrument and Application Integration
- Are manual processes here to stay or are there real life examples of successful instrument and application integration?
- What new technologies are facilitating instrument and application integration with the lab setting?
- Will LIMS solutions evolve or will pharma companies develop their own unified platform for an integrated lab approach
- Highlighting success stories and tangible business outcomes in integrating data across systems and applications
Dana Vanderwall
Director of Biology and Preclinical IT at Bristol-Myers Squibb and Chair of the BoardAllotrope Foundation