“The Paperless Lab Academy is the greatest European congress where to deepen in laboratory data management related concepts and methodologies”  This is what our attendees’ comment every year.

As such, we keep working on maintaining the momentum and have set for the 7^th edition a central theme that will strongly focus on the digital transformation process with a holistic approach covering the complete #eDataLifeCycle.

As such, we´ll discuss topics related to what we like to define the four main phases of the data life cycle: #eConnect, #eManage, #eDecide and #eArchive.

The event is a learning platform for those considering consolidating, integrating and simplifying scientific data management systems and processes.  A platform where experiences and expertise are shared, where discussion generates food for thoughts on how to convert the so valuable scientific data generated in the laboratory to actionable insights for the company. Ultimate goal is to turn your laboratory into a data-driven knowledge center.

The topics that you would expect to be covered at the #PLA2019 are and not limited to:

 Is the Internet of Lab Things (IoLT) confirming its potential to capture the data at its source?

Definitely needed for effective and secured operations at the laboratory. The latest solutions for capturing the data at its source are nowadays available from the top high-level scientific instruments to the more basic balances, without omitting controlling the precision and reproducibility of the pipettes.  All generated records and data along with their correlated information, metadata, are now stored efficiently so that searches, reviews, modifications, and decisions are simple and safe processes fully compliant with the industry regulations.

The transparency afforded by technology provides analysts, supervisors, and managers with the information needed to make appropriate decisions. The laboratory becomes a knowledge center where information is aggregated and visualized comprehensively, analyzed and digested, through dashboard views for quick decision making.

The digitalization of the processes allows adequate collection of an immense amount of data and information from all points along the analytical processes. The information facilitated allows also to identify key areas that can benefit from innovation and improvement or can alert on urgent problems to be solved. The risk is not being ready and benefit of all the generated information.  Not being ready for extracting the essence of what makes your laboratory so valuable within your company.

This is when we go over the proper technology, which is, again, already available today. A solid data strategy is then required to set the foundation where the technology can help by providing complete visibility on the laboratory operations.

How to approach the definition of a data strategy and how to set a common source of data to be used across the enterprise are the topics you should expect to discuss during the #PLA2019.

Are the laboratories ready to jump in and speed for innovation?

Those are the topics should expect to be discussed at the #PLA2019. See the full program at https://www.paperlesslabacademy.com/agenda-2019/

• About the future of the laboratory within the industry 4.0
• Demystification of the Cloud-based solutions
• Business decisions and companies’ processes supported by scientific data management
• The relevance of a data transfer strategy when replacing solutions
• The reality of the IoLT (Internet of Lab Things)
• How to apply the FAIR principles and secure your data
• Why archiving is the beginning and not the end of a solid #eDataLifeCycle
• Practical sessions on Audit trails, data integrity, and new Compliance guides

The event is also a unique opportunity to meet with more than 20 International and European solution providers and discover their latest Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) features and their ability to support the lab on data integrity, audit trails and sample workflows. You will have the opportunity to see multiple solutions for Electronic Note Book (ELN), Scientific Data management (SDMS), Chromatography Data Systems (CDS), environmental monitoring (EM), paperless validation solutions, instrumentation integration solutions…

Short introduction to our Premium and Gold sponsors. They all will be running a one-hour interactive workshop. see the topics they´ll be covering at the page https://www.paperlesslabacademy.com/workshops-pla2019/ 

AGILAB, PREMIUM SPONSOR 

AgiLab offers the most advanced unified laboratory digital platform to support operational process from R&D, QA/QC through manufacturing. Built using the latest future-proof web technology powered by Oracle®, AgiLab leverages technologies to help laboratories to accelerate their R&D for faster time to market, improve collaboration across their departments, enhance their decision-making capabilities and meet the increasing regulatory requirements with ease.

During the workshop, AgiLab will present the best-in-class capabilities to move from paper-based to paperless GxP and non-GxP development process workflow. www.agilab.com

LONZA, PREMIUM SPONSOR

Lonza’s MODA platform has become the standard for paperless QC microbiology for a number of global pharmaceutical and other regulated manufacturing organizations. It eliminates paper-based monitoring and testing that can be expensive, error-prone, time and labor-intensive, therefore reducing timelines enhancing data integrity and potentially saving clients QC costs.

At the Paperless Lab Academy 2019, the Lonza Informatics team will also unveil Lonza’s next-generation EBR, electronic batch record execution platform, the MODA-ES™ Software Platform, Building on Lonza’s extensive informatics know-how and vast experience as a contract manufacturing organization (CMO), the new platform offers a flexible and cost-effective solution for consolidating and managing batch and quality data produced across cell and gene therapy and non-automated manufacturing processes. www.lonza.com/moda

Lonza will run a workshop about: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF DATA INTEGRITY AND AUDIT TRAIL REVIEW

AGARAM TECHNOLOGIES, GOLD SPONSOR

Agaram Technologies is a global Laboratory Informatics products suite provider. Over the last 2 decades, we have helped customers in QC and R&D laboratories meet GxP and compliance (21 CFR Part 11, EudraLex Annex 11, etc.).

The sudden cognizance of Data Integrity has led to sharp demands for a reliable solution.

“LogiLAB SDMS with the unique CFR Gateway”, has been immensely successful in multiple implementations for global customers. Our learning stems from iterative customer inputs.

Through the workshop, we aim to share our learning amassed over the years with a pragmatic solution to automate Data Integrity & Compliance. www.agaramtech.com/solutions/data-integrity/

Agaram Technologies to run a workshop about: PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO ACHIEVE DATA INTEGRITY & COMPLIANCE

AGILENT, GOLD SPONSOR

Agilent Technologies  is a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets. With more than 50 years of insight and innovation, Agilent instruments, software, services, solutions, and people provide trusted answers to its customers’ most challenging questions. Agilent’s laboratory informatics systems offer the control that businesses demand, as well as the flexibility and technical functionality that cutting-edge labs require. Our lab software portfolio features a range of high-quality solutions to ensure your laboratory can make the most of every analytical system. We offer workstations, electronic laboratory software, chromatography data systems, and other specialized lab software packages.

In May 2018, Agilent acquired Genohm to enhance our current software portfolio. Genohm’s main laboratory software automation suite, SLIMS integrates a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) with an Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN). To learn more about SLIMS, please visit Genohm’s website here. https://www.genohm.com/slims/

Agilent to run a workshop about HARNESSING THE POWER OF MODERN IT TO DELIVER LABORATORY EFFICIENCY

DASSAULT SYSTÈMES BIOVIA™, GOLD SPONSOR

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported. Dassault Systèmes’ collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve the real world. The group brings value to over 220, 000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries.

Powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, BIOVIA™ provides global, collaborative product lifecycle experiences to transform scientific innovation, BIOVIA solutions create an unmatched scientific management environment that can help science-driven companies create and connect biological, chemical, and material innovations to improve the way we live. www.3ds.com

Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA to run a workshop about: THE TRULY CONNECTED LAB IS HERE TODAY

DEXSTR, GOLD SPONSOR

DEXSTR is a Life Science IT company specialized in integration and visualization of heterogeneous scientific data using ontologies, advanced search, and AI technologies.

Our Insight Engine named Inquiro, offers ground-breaking solutions to scientists in Life Science in order to ingest, understand, organize, query and share their unstructured data.

Inquiro unleashes the power of internal scientific data by:

• allowing easy handling of high volumes and varieties of data,
• reducing time to insights,
• capitalizing on assets, avoiding redoing experiments,
• significantly saving time in M&A data integration process,
• creating serendipity using data.

DEXSTR applies its expertise in large scale Life Science industries such as pharmaceuticals, agri-food, and cosmetics areas. www.dexstr.io

DEXSTR to run a workshop about: HOW INSIGHT ENGINES DESIGNED FOR LIFE SCIENCE CAN INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF YOUR LAB

GLOBAL VALUE WEB, GOLD SPONSOR

Executing for today, organizing for tomorrow.

GVW enables leading Life-Science companies and professionals to become better in their own globally extended networks. The work for scientists, enabled through data, is shifting back to the core. Connecting Data through the Value Chain is critical to the success of Life-Science companies.
GVW Services gather, organize and analyze relevant laboratory data to truly enable efficiency and speed needed in laboratories. Through the global reach of GVW Lab Enabling Services, compliance and accuracy are ensured.
Through GVW’s technology partner network GVW leverages unique IT-Technologies to further complete the needed app landscape. global-value-web.com

LABWARE, GOLD SPONSOR

LabWare’s Enterprise Laboratory Platform is a unique and proven suite of product capabilities that encompass LIMS, ELN and LES method execution in a single integrated and enterprise-ready solution. Its Enterprise Laboratory Platform combines LabWare LIMS and LabWare ELN, a comprehensive and fully-integrated electronic laboratory notebook application, which enables companies to optimise compliance, improve quality, increase productivity and reduce costs.
LabWare will be showcasing latest developments in the area of Mobile Laboratory Automation, with LabWare Mobile.
LabWare mobile builds on more than 20 years of LabWare technology and experience as a global provider of enterprise laboratory data and information management systems. www.Labware.com

Labware to run a workshop about: DEMYSTIFYING THE CLOUD – HOW WILL IT HELP MY LABORATORY?

PERKINELMER, GOLD SPONSOR

PerkinElmer Informatics’ focus is on redefining how labs embrace electronic data capture, cloud-based applications and collaborative tools to modernize research environments and deliver efficiency improvements. The firm’s suite of robust ELN solutions, TIBCO Spotfire, has powered advanced data analytics applications, and its new cloud-based PerkinElmer Signals platform helps scientists unlock the hidden knowledge within their scientific data, whether working independently or collaboratively. Thousands of scientists are benefitting from its solutions designed to support a wide range of disciplines, from R&D, to screening. www.perkinelmer.com

PerkinElmer’s workshop to be about: SMARTER QUESTIONS & FASTER ANSWERS – ACCELERATING YOUR RESEARCH WITH SIGNALS PLATFORM

WATERS, GOLD SPONSOR

Waters’ Empower is one of many products in a suite of informatics solutions that convert scientific data into useful information to drive your business success.
Managing regulatory compliance and security are some of your lab’s biggest challenges. Empower 3 provides a simple yet comprehensive interface for system management.
The software guides the system administrator to ensure the system is configured to comply with regulatory requirements across all industries.

Waters NuGenesis SDMS, the automated data repository, and foundation of the NuGenesis Lab Management System, automatically imports diverse data generated by instruments, scientists, and outside sources into a centralized data repository. This information can easily be searched, communicated, and shared among scientists and team members.

Waters NuGenesis Lab Management System uniquely combines synergistic data, workflow, and sample management capabilities to support the entire product life cycle from discovery through manufacturing. The software readily adapts to your organizations existing Informatics environments, facilitating software integration and standardization without the complex, costly, and time-consuming deployments often encountered with traditional information management solutions. www.waters.com

Waters to run a workshop about: CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE IN MOVING TO PAPERLESS LAB

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Scilligence, a software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded in 2010 by scientific and IT leaders from Novartis and Boehringer Ingelheim to address some of the unmet needs in the field of research informatics.

The company supplies pharmaceutical, biotech, and chemical industries with state of the art informatics tools to improve their R&D bottom line. By seeding universities, research institutes, and government agencies with our innovative tools, Scilligence empowers leading scientists working on the cutting edge of life science research and help in the training of next-generation scientists. Scilligence’s proprietary technologies address three main areas of Life Science R&D informatics needs: knowledge management and collaboration; project, workflow, and material management; and knowledge mining of unstructured data.

Scilligence’s informatics solutions enhance knowledge sharing and productivity of researchers in discovery and development of small molecule and biologics therapeutics.

Their knowledge mining tools enable chemical structure search across a variety of data sources and file types, allowing our customers access to information previously bound by technology silos. Scilligence’s project management and inventory systems improve productivity and safety compliance. Their applications are specifically designed to minimize IT footprints and require no client-side installation. The Scilligence platform is designed by scientists and for scientists. Ph.D. biologists and chemists work closely with software engineers to develop their wide-range of informatics products.

Scilligence’s solutions are built using their own proprietary technologies. Having no dependency on third-party providers allows the system to be fully customized based on the client’s needs. They have has successfully configured and implemented solutions at various biotech and pharmaceutical companies and has been referred by its current clients to future perspective ones.

What makes the Scilligence platform different?

• Powerful integration components for internal and external collaborations
• A single platform supporting both small molecules and macromolecules
• Truly designed for any device, browser, and platform
• Absolutely no Java dependency
• Fully supports HELM (Hierarchical Editing Language for Macromolecules) notation (Scilligence developed the JavaScript HELM Editor for Pistoia Alliance)
• Developed completely by Scilligence allowing complete configuration and customization unique to each company, organization, or institution
• Flexible workflow engine to enable process control and ease system integration
• Cost effective in deployment and maintenance

Scilligence’s software is very intuitive and has a shallow learning curve. There is little downtime or access interruption. There is very minimal downtime in off peak hours for upgrades. New catalogs can be easily incorporated with use of SD files. Scilligence’s solutions can be deployed on their client’s on-premise server or on the cloud. Scilligence is certified in quality management and data security. The system is fully compliant with FDA 21 CFR Part 11.

Scilligence is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with locations and presence in China, U.K, and San Diego, California.

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