• Market trends and drivers of the biomedical industry and crystal balling future growth
• Emerging biomedical innocation from Asia and its impact
• The evolution of the global biotech capital market: Where and how does Asia fit into the equation

• The evolution and growth of the bioinformatics industry in Singapore
• The role of the BII and the part BII plays in supporting the development of pharma and biotech industry
• The challenges and opportunities in the future

• What are ASEAN initiatives put in place to encourage the sharing of biomedical information?
• What are some of the challenges faced in using bioinformatics?
• Individual country discussion

• Identifying your main business drivers and tailor your informatics systems to meet them
• Effectively re-engineering your informatics systems to do things smarter and cheaper
• Case study on Astra Zeneca

• Developing a data architecture with time, space, financial and quality benefits
• Incorporating flexibility in your data architecture to cope with changing demands of operational business units
• Case study on KOBIC

• Developing a platform that provides researchers access to data from disparate exsisting database
• Successfully linking publicly available research and genetic profiling data
• Case study on Molecular Medicine Informatics Model

• The move to incorporate biomarker concepts throughout R&D and building significant molecular imaging capabilities
• What are the IT standards and architectures that support incorporation of imaging biomarkers into drug discovery and clinical development?
• Challenges related to integration of imaging biomarker data with clinical and genotypic data

• Identifying new technologies for usage in biomarker R&D
• The role bioinformatics, imaging and data sharing can enhance biomarker research
• Case study on Actis Biologics

• Identifying the security concerns of integrating, transferring and managing huge data sets across regional centers
• Strategies to ensure and prevent breach of data security
• Case study on I2R

• The implementation of Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group (BRIDG) model project
• Determining the basis for harmonization among standards within the clinical research domain, biomedical/clinical research and healthcare
• Applications in the Life Science IT industry

• Overview of cell-mediated immune response and importance of MHC binding
• Use of state-of-the-art computational algorithms to model/predict MHC binding events
• Relevance to the design of vaccines and therapeutics

• Implementing innovative technologies that can help to improve the quality and reduce costs associated with computerizing records
• Creating a system that integrates data used by nearly 30 hospitals in Japan to assist in managing the workflow of patient care delivery at their facilities
• Case study on Kameda Medical Centrefs KAI system

• The implementation of General Hospital Information Management  (Allgemeines Krankenhaus Information Management) AKIM project
• The ongoing implementation of a gene expression (micro-array chips) platform
• Discussion of the solutions envisaged to ensure flexibility, user-friendliness and modularity of the bioinformatics platform

• Developing a flexible Electronic Data Capture solution that will enhance speed and productivity gains of clinicial trials
• Successfully yielding maximum gains from your EDC
• Case study on Merck

It will offer technology companies seeking Bioinformatics opportunities an exceptional platform to showcase their innovation software and hardware technologies to a targeted group of industry professionals

It will offer technology companies seeking Bioinformatics opportunities an exceptional platform to showcase their innovation software and hardware technologies to a targeted group of industry professionals

• What are some of the challenges faced by organizations in data integration and transfer?
• How can these challenges be met in a cost efficient manner?
• The role of bioinformatics in helping to meet these challenges

• How to integrate and transfer genomic data from different ethnic groups in Asia
• How to centrally manage and share data through different data centres efficiently
• The various roles of bioinformatics from bench to bedside and from western countries to Oriental markets

• Developing and utilizing informatics tools to meet current challenges in drug discovery and development
• A framework based approach to develop informatics platforms to integrate multiple applications and data sources
• Case study on Lily

• Developing an informatics systems that integrate the information supplied from materials management system, laboratory IMS, data archival system and data documentation system
• Determining how higher sample throughput has led to integration of various analytical and informatics solution
• Case study on Pfizer