Laboratory Informatics Webcast Series – The Digital Laboratory: What the Future Holds

Astrix Technology Group has been helping scientific organizations implement and integrate new informatics systems in the laboratory since 1995. Our experienced team of expert informatics consultants bring together technical, strategic, regulatory and content knowledge to provide the most effective solutions to problems faced by scientific organizations. Our domain experts have helped hundreds of companies globally effectively navigate their digital transformation journey.  Astrix partners with many of the industry leaders in this space and have brought them together for a one of kind webcast series that will delve into the future of lab informatics and technology.

Below are the list of upcoming sessions.  Be sure to check back often as sessions will be added throughout the fall.  You must register for each session individually but can register for as many as you like.

The Digital Laboratory:  What the Future Holds

Astrix Technology Group is hosting a thought leadership webcast series on “The Digital Laboratory:  What the Future Holds”.  The industry leaders in Laboratory Informatics are partnering with Astrix to share their insights and vision for the Digital Laboratory of the Future.  Join us for this weekly series of game changing strategies to help navigate your digital transformation journey!

List of Webcasts

Title:  Precision Medicine:  Trends, Challenges and Data Management Implications

  • Date:  Feb 4th 1:00 EDT
  • Company:  BioIt Solutions
  • Presenters:  Mike Fannon, President BioIT Solutions; Bob Beliveau, Vice President BioIT Solutions

Session Summary

The emergence of molecular diagnostics, autologous cell therapies, and related Precision Medicine approaches presents significant challenges.  Responsive, adaptable systems are critical for collecting, organizing, analyzing and interpreting the vast amount of highly-variable data generated from these technologies.  We will explore the characteristics and key features for robust, flexible data management systems required to support Precision Medicine research, development and clinical testing.

Title:  Building a “Lab of the Future” — Scientific Blueprints for Your Data Ecosystem

  • Date:  Feb 18th 1:00 EDT
  • Company:  Riffyn 
  • Presenters: Loren Perelman, Vice President of Science, Riffyn

Session Summary

Data is the number one asset of any R&D company. It’s the proverbial gold that enables knowledge gain and decision making that drive commercialization. With the ever-increasing amount of data produced by life science R&D companies, knowledge sharing within a group and across groups becomes significantly challenging. Better digital tools for data capture and analysis are now more critical than ever to getting value from data assets.

Dr. Perelman and his team have worked closely with global R&D organizations on their digital transformation. In this talk, he will use case studies to illustrate the value of a process-centric approach to scientific work and data — a strategy built on “blueprints” to define R&D activities and using those to deliver fully structured, in-context data automatically for analysis. These blueprints form an organizing data backbone for a “Lab of the Future” – a modular ecosystem of interacting software, hardware, and data assets that drive accelerated product development and tech transfer to manufacturing.

Title:  Knowing What to Look for:  Advancing Lab Operations Through Smart Analysis

  • Date:  March 18th 1:00 EST
  • Company:  Agilent Technologies
  • Presenters:  Melissa Zeier, Applications Expert, Agilent Technologies ; Greg Stevens, Digital Services Specialist, Agilent Technologies

Session Summary

  • Practical instrument monitoring for asset management
  • Data-driven fleet and service right-sizing
  • Identifying and removing workflow bottlenecks
  • Balancing CapEx & OpEx

Today’s labs are large and complicated with complex equipment, numerous vendors, IT infrastructure security requirements, difficult data collection methods and many other challenges.  If you are responsible for a laboratory, you are keenly aware of the effort it takes to gather data to make decisions with confidence targeted to improve results.  It is difficult to get full visibility because of geographical differences, new acquisitions, data collection methods, analysis and a variety of other reasons.

Learn how to use lab-wide instrument data to make capital expense decisions, reduce operational expenses, and improve productivity.  Understand the hidden costs of not collecting instrument usage data.  Show internet-of-things (IoT) technology available today to help lab managers measure instrument usage.  Demonstrate how analytics, developed with industry leading experts, can transform the journey to laboratory excellence.

More Sessions will be added soon!

 

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