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Forum on Collaboration in Discovery and Development
Co-chaired by Peter Gates (Johnson & Johnson PR&D) Bio.... and Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect) Bio....
Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, 09.00 -18.00, 12 October 2009 |
This forum will discuss developments in collaboration practices and support infrastructure including:
- the challenges and requirement complexities across time, function and organizational spaces
- key ingredients for combined collaboration and innovation success
- promising practices, models, and solutions for collaboration
- service requirements for flexibility, evolution, and learning characteristics
- accounting for structural and business model changes in the healthcare industry environment
- key requirements and directions for collaboration infrastructure
- potential and actions for collaborative approaches to collaboration infrastructure development
Research is by its nature a set of disciplines that are undergoing constant change. Development in contrast, largely due to safety considerations, is a set of disciplines that are looking for stability, reliability and consistency. Add to this the scale in terms of resources and duration of the pharmaceutical research and development process.
These factors combine to create formidable challenges in the creation of effective collaborative strategies. We will discuss specifically the need to build support for collaboration where change and adaptability are requirements that must be specifically engineered into our collaborative solutions.
The goal of the forum is to bring together a variety of perspectives to discuss the opportunities, challenges, practices and solutions required for successful collaboration in advancing drug discovery and development goals in an increasingly collaborative virtualized environment. We call on participants to consider a diversity of perspectives to include technical, business, scientific, medical, intellectual property, culture, and knowledge management viewpoints.
A Knowledge Café involving all forum participants will be used to have an extensive discussion of experiences and opinions.
Speakers can also submit a perspective manuscript before the meeting for refereed publication in a special focus issue to be published by the Future Science Group in early 2010, and to which we also intend to provide a group industry perspective as an outcome from the forum to.
Program and Schedule
09.00 Introductions and Overview
09.15 Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect), Knowledge-oriented Support of Virtual Organisations Abstract & Bio....
09.45 Shree Nath (Pointcross), Contextual Knowledge Environments to Unify R&D Processes, Data Flows and Collaboration Abstract & Bio....
10.15 Coffee Break
10.45 Simson Alex (Johnson & Johnson), The ABCDs of Experimental Data Abstract & Bio....
11.15 Chris Waller (Pfizer), The Pistoia Alliance, Inc. – A Construct for Precompetitive Collaboration Abstract & Bio....
11.45 Knowledge Cafe on Perspectives [Thomas Great Hall]
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Michael Liebman (Strategic Medicine), Drug Development Across the Healthcare Ecosystem Abstract & Bio....
14.30 Jeff Spitzner (Rescentris), Managing Collaborative Research Projects in Distributed Research Organizations Abstract & Bio....
15.00 Bob O’Hara (ResultWorks), R&D Knowledge Management – Technology Initiative or Business Fundamental? Abstract & Bio....
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Knowledge Cafe on Perspectives [Thomas Great Hall]
18.30 Refreshments & Dinner [Wyndham Alumnae House]
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