4:00 – 5:00pm

Plenary Keynote 

Do Network Pharmacologists Need Robot Chemists?

Andrew L. Hopkins, DPhil, FRSC, FSB, Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Design, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee

5:00 – 7:00pm

10 Minute Welcome to the Reception!

5:00 – 7:00pm

Exhibit Hall Open

5:20 - 5:40pm

Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing  

Your LIMS: A New Perspective

Samuel Stowers, Business Development, RURO Inc.

Speaker Tom Dolan, a director at RURO, delves into the current LIMS market and examines what practices are developing that your lab business can benefit from. What are the most modern efficiencies and other value being derived from LIMS and how can your LIMS perform to its potential within your organization?

5:50 - 6:10pm

ActiveStor 14 Accelerated by SSD Technology

Geoffrey Noer, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Panasas

- performance benchmarks of the new scale-out NAS appliance and fully integrated parallel file system
- The price/performance value of an integrated SSD tier
- SSD technology improves metadata and small file performance

6:20 - 6:40pm

Creating a Flexible Data Center for Varying Workloads

Michael Schulman, Director, Marketing, ScaleMP

Data Centers must respond to user’s needs, whether for low resource intensive applications or large, resource heavy applications. With the ability to create a virtual SMP as needed, IT managers can respond to a varied list of requirements, while maintaining a low cost, industry optimized computing infrastructure.

7:00pm

Exhibit Hall Closes

8:00 – 9:45am

Plenary Keynote Program 

8:00 – 8:55am

Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D., Division Chief and Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine; Director, Center for Pediatric Bioinformatics, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital; Co-founder, Personalis and Numedii

8:55am

Benjamin Franklin Awards Presentation

9:15am

Best Practices Awards Program

9:45am – 6:15pm

Exhibit Hall Open

9:45 – 10:50am

Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing

10:05 – 10:25am

Presentation: Life Sciences in the Cloud Made Easy

Dave Maples, Senior Vice President, Bright Computing

Bright Cluster Manager significantly reduces the cost, complexity and effort of running applications in the cloud. Once configured, Bright enables the researcher to create a cloud-based server on the fly with just a few mouse clicks, or to extend an on-premise cluster into Amazon and manage these resources as part of the local cluster. Bright’s intuitive user interface make it easy to provision, schedule monitor and manage the cloud.

3:15 – 3:45pm

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing

3:20 - 3:40pm

Presentation: Plug-and-Play Search for the Scientific Enterprise

Jeff Catteau, Practice Lead, Knowledgent

An exploration of semantic and analytic practices and tools which drive differentiated information access and exploration for scientific enterprises.

5:15 – 6:15pm

Best of Show Awards Reception in the Exhibit Hall

6:15pm

Exhibit Hall Closes

10:20am – 1:55pm

Exhibit Hall Open

10:20 – 10:45am

Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing

10:30am

Poster Competition Winners Announced

10:45am – 12:15pm

Life Sciences CIO Panel  

Panelists:
~Remy Evard, CIO, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research

~Martin Leach, Ph.D., Vice President, R&D IT, Biogen Idec

~Andrea T. Norris, Director, Center for Information Technology (CIT) and Chief Information Officer, NIH

~Gunaretnam Rajagopal, Ph.D., Vice President and CIO, Bioinformatics & External Innovation at Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

~Cris Ross, Chief Information Officer, Mayo Clinic

~Matthew Trunnell, CIO, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

12:15 – 1:55pm

Lunch in the Exhibit Hall with Poster Viewing

12:55 - 1:15pm

Hadoop-Based Big Data Solutions for Translational Analytics – Why this is a Big Deal

Shree Nath, Vice President, PointCross Life Sciences, Inc.

The Data Tsunami approaching the Biopharma industry requires new ways to rapidly store and analyze large volumes of disparate Big Data to deliver new R&D insights. Join us for a demonstration of next generation Translational Informatics solutions that integrate Hadoop and other open source technology with an ontology platform to enable search, analytics and modeling across data silos.

1:55pm

Exhibit Hall Closes