WELCOME TO BIO-IT WORLD CONFERENCE & EXPO 2011Record Attendance Expected at the 2011 Expo!
Setting aside any and all volcanic eruptions, the 2011 Expo plans to unite 1,700+ life sciences, pharmaceutical, clinical, healthcare, and IT professionals from 29 countries. The Expo provides the perfect venue to share information and discuss enabling technologies that are driving biomedical research and the drug development process. Since its debut in 2002, the annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo has established itself as a premier event showcasing the myriad applications of IT and informatics to biomedical research and the drug discovery enterprise. The 2011 program will feature compelling talks from industry and academia on new
trends in data generation, knowledge management, and information technology in life sciences and drug development, including best practice case studies and joint partner presentations relevant to the technologies, research, and regulatory issues of life science, pharmaceutical, clinical and IT professionals. New features include tracks on: Cloud Computing, Drug Discovery Informatics, Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics, as well as several pre-conference workshops on Cheminformatics, Diagnostics, and Proteomics.
trends in data generation, knowledge management, and information technology in life sciences and drug development, including best practice case studies and joint partner presentations relevant to the technologies, research, and regulatory issues of life science, pharmaceutical, clinical and IT professionals. New features include tracks on: Cloud Computing, Drug Discovery Informatics, Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics, as well as several pre-conference workshops on Cheminformatics, Diagnostics, and Proteomics.
KEYNOTE PANEL:A special plenary session featuring a series of succinct, forward-looking presentations by:
 Ken Buetow, Ph.D., Associate Directorfor Bioinformatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute |  Martin D. Leach, Ph.D.,Executive Director, MRL IT for Discovery & Pre-Clinical Sciences, Merck & Co. | Debra Goldfarb, Senior Director, Strategy, Microsoft |
 Yury Rozenman,Global Head of Marketing, Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Sector, BT Global Services |  Mark Boguski, M.D., Ph.D.,Founder, Resounding Health Incorporated |  Jamie Heywood,Co-founderand Chairman, PatientsLikeMe |
Since its debut in 2002, the annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo has established itself as a premier event showcasing the myriad applications of IT and informatics to biomedical research and the drug discovery enterprise. The 2011 program will feature compelling talks from industry and academia on new trends in data generation, knowledge management, and information technology in life sciences and drug development, including best practice case studies and joint partner presentations relevant to the technologies, research, and regulatory issues of life science, pharmaceutical, clinical and IT professionals. New features include tracks on: Cloud Computing, Drug Discovery Informatics, Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics, as well as several pre-conference workshops on Cheminformatics, Diagnostics, and Proteomics.
Spanning three days, the meeting includes 9 parallel conference tracks and 13 pre-conference workshops dedicated to:
CONCURRENT TRACKS:
NTWorld: IT Infrastructure – HardwareTrack 1 explores high performance computing technologies and techniques (traditional and accelerated technologies), architecture to handle data in a concise fashion, transferring data across networks (storage, management, safety, visualization), and grid computing.
NTWorld: IT Infrastructure – SoftwareTrack 2 explores data handling and integration activities (new approaches to integrating corporate internal data with public literature, collaborative web technologies, semantic solutions for knowledge management, open source software approaches, social media), disruptive technologies, mobile applications, and analysis pipelines.
NTWorld: Cloud Computing - NEWTrack 3 provides focused research presentations, real world use cases and individual experiences with cloud computing. Themes include HPC in the Cloud, value of cloud computing studies, cloud vendors/providers, non cloud solutions that provide what the cloud does, performance benchmarking, security models, and tools and frameworks for data analysis.
NTWorld: BioinformaticsTrack 4 explores databases/data warehousing (biological/public/private/genomic), epigenetics, emerging genomics technologies, general strategies to integrate information for translational studies, and biomarker discovery.
NTWorld: Next-Generation Sequencing Informatics - NEWTrack 5 explores sequencing platforms and managing the instruments, workflows and data analysis tools.
NTWorld: Systems & Predictive MedicineTrack 6 provides an in-depth approach from in silico to in vivo with an emphasis on drug discovery, ADME predictions, and systems medicine resulting in efficient clinical trials.
NTWorld: eClinical Solutions for Clinical Trials and Clinical OperationsTrack 7 explores how to leverage technology to optimize speed, quality and cost of clinical trials. Themes covered include best practices in data collection and analysis, systems integration, improving trial monitoring, recruiting and engaging patient communities using Web 2.0 technologies, adaptive clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, and utilization of EHR data for drug development.
NTWorld: eHealth and HIT Solutions for Personalized MedicineTrack 8 explores the integration of life sciences, IT and general healthcare to support the care delivery process and innovative R&D of next generation health IT and personalized medicine solutions. Themes covered include EHRs and their impact on R&D, translational medicine, the development of companion diagnostics, integrating clinical data with genomic data, and technology tools to support the care delivery process.
NTWorld: Drug Discovery Informatics - NEWTrack 9 will explore innovative methods, approaches and technologies that pharmaceutical organizations are utilizing for knowledge management and translational medicine.
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS | Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - from NTWorld.
Full Day (8:00am-4:00pm)
- (W1) Current Methods for Computational Toxicology and Chemogenomics
Morning Workshops (8:00-11:30am)
- (W2) Pathway-Based Analysis: A Systematic Approach to Biomarker Discovery
- (W4) Creating a Best of Breed Informatics Environment for Your Organization
- (W5) Building and Using an Ontological Framework for Drug Discovery to Clinical Data
- (W6) Tools and Methods for RNA-seq Analysis
- (W9) Utilization of EHRs/EMRs to Further Drug and Disease Related Research
- (W10) Imaging Informatics: Data Management and Annotation for the Life Sciences
Afternoon Workshops (12:30-4:00pm)
- (W3) Conquering the Complexity of Protein Data: Genes are Easy
- (W7) Visualization of Large-Scale Biological Data
- (W11) Cloud Computing: Applications and Advances
- (W12) Advancing Personalized Cancer Medicine through IT Innovation
- (W13) Next Generation Sequencing: From Data to Discovery - "I Have My Data, Now What?"
EVENT FEATURES:
- Access All Nine Tracks for One Price
- Network with 1,700+ Global Attendees
- Hear 125+ Technology and Scientific Presentations
- Attend Bio-IT World’s Best Practices Awards
- Connect with Attendees Using CHI’s Intro-Net
- Participate in the Poster Competition
- Choose from 13 Pre-Conference Workshops
- See the Winners of the following 2011 Awards:
- Benjamin Franklin
- Best of Show
- Best Practices
- View Novel Technologies and Solutions in the Expansive Exhibit Hall
- And Much More!
Click here to register for the 2011 Expo.
For questions or suggestions about the meeting, please contact:
Cindy Crowninshield Conference Director Cambridge Healthtech Institute 781-354-0120 ccrowninshield@healthtech.com Edel O'Regan, Ph.D. Vice President, Production Cambridge Healthtech Institute 781-972-5423 eoregan@healthtech.com | Micah Lieberman Executive Director, Conferences Cambridge Healthtech Institute 541-482-4709 mlieberman@healthtech.com Mary Ann Brown Executive Director, Conferences Cambridge Healthtech Institute 781-972-5497 mabrown@healthtech.com |