Pre-Conference Focus Day and Workshops: 27th September 2010
Focus Day: Complementary Strategies for Leveraging LIMS and ELNs
09.30 Coffee And Registration
10.00 Pharma IQ Welcome And Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
10.10 CASE STUDY: Maximising The Business Value Of Your LIMS Systems
- What do you need to know before implementing a LIMS system
- Ensuring a cost effective roll-out strategy
- Creating collaborative data sharing through an integrated LIMS system
- Outlining the recent roll-out at Baxter: the challenges and the triumphs
Edward Reilly
LIMS Administrator
Baxter Healthcare
10.55 Global Vs. Local LIMS Implementations And Strategies
- Understanding the pros and cons of implementing a system, both globally and locally
- Planning for the challenges of implementing a system on a global scale
- Determining whether market changes will affect your strategy
Gloria Metrick
Principal Consultant
GeoMetrick Enterprises
11.40 CASE STUDY: (Almost) Seamless Integration Of R&D ELN Business Processes
Into An R&D LIMS
- Different order interfaces for different demands
- Sample centric work flow
- Work flows on demand - and it’s still GMP!
- Pros and cons for sample tracking
- Data capture: who is in the trap?
- Data archiving challenges to business
Dr Jan Hauss
Head of Central Analytics Informatics
Merck
12.15 Networking Lunch Break
13.15 CASE STUDY: Implementing An IT Revolution In Process Development At
Genentech
- Devising a Road Map for simultaneous change in a GMP and R&D setting: LIMS, ELN and other applications
- Defining requirements and selecting software in a diverse, multi-site organization
- Examples of solutions from LIMS and ELN we used to meet Process Development needs
- Ongoing issues and a path toward integration of multiple systems across regulatory environments
Samy Hernandez
Manager, Analytical Operations
Genentech
14.00 BREAK-OUT DISCUSSION SESSION: Time To Share Your
Views And Benchmark Against Others’ Strategies
Participants will be able to choose between the different roundtables and spend 60 minutes discussing key points and themes that have come up during today’s discussions
15.00 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks And End Of Focus Day
12.00 - 15.00 or 15.30-18.30 Workshop A: Understanding the IP Landscape Surrounding ELNs both in the US and EU
The workshop will explore issues from both the EU and US legal perspectives relating to:
- Creating the types of legal records that will provide a benefit under IP laws
- Designing ELN and data management systems
- Implementing remote hosted ELN systems
- Ensuring long term data archiving compliance and availability of electronic records
- Making records available to comply with litigation discovery obligations
Workshop Facilitator:
Colin G. Sandercock
Partner
Perkins Coie LLP
12.00 - 15.00 or 15.30-18.30 Workshop B: ELN Implementation: Planning for Smooth Deployment by Developing a Clear Roll-Out Strategy
Deploying a new system into your organisation takes many months of preparation and it is never clear which strategy is the right one for your roll-out. This workshop will give attendees the chance to discuss the major pitfalls and challenges, how to prepare for these and how to ensure successful adoption of your ELN. The workshop will cover:
- How to ensure you are getting what you want in terms of functionality
- Integrating this new e-laboratory into the scientist’s working day: champions, training and power users
- Rolling out over numerous laboratories all at once: the planning and preparation that is needed to ensure success
12.00-15.00 or 15.30-18.30 Workshop C: The Challenges Facing Laboratory Integration
The implementation of an electronic laboratory notebook eliminates the centuries’ old function of paper as a medium for recording and archiving experimental records. But replacing paper with electronic systems creates a demand to interconnect other laboratory applications and processes to produce a seamless, integrated solution. Unfortunately, most of these systems and processes were never designed to work together and furthermore, there are no data interchange and laboratory systems’ integration standards to help. This workshop will examine these challenges and investigate strategic pathways towards overcoming them. The workshop will:
- Show how business and scientific demands are driving requirements for integration
- Outline the technical barriers and constraints that challenge a way forward
- Raise questions about the available resources, knowledge and skills required to progress
- Examine the prospect that emerging technologies may provide a solution
Workshop Facilitator:
John Trigg
Director
phaseFour Informatics