Day One – Tuesday 8 November 2011

Day One – Tuesday 8 November 2011 »

Day Two – Wednesday 9th November 2011 »

last modified: 15 November '11

8am

Registration & coffee

8.50am

Opening remarks from the chair

STRATEGIC BACK DROP

9am

The Digital Agenda for Europe and What This Means for Cloud Computing

• Introduction to the Digital Agenda for Europe
• What does this means for cloud computing and in particular the Pharma industry in Europe?

› Jorge Gasós,

Head of Sector Software and Service Architectures and Infrastructures Unit, European Commission, DG Information Society

9.30am

KEYNOTE: Cloud computing in Pharma – demystifying the opportunities

• Pragmatic issues around moving to the Cloud
• Practical advice via worked examples from the initial business drivers, technology choices through to pilot and end user engagement

› Dr Ashley George,

Director, Innovation & Consuerisation Centre of Exllence, GlaxoSmithKline

10am

Taking Pharma to Virtual Computing Paradigm

› Karim Chine,

Founder and Lead Architec, CLOUD ERA LT

10.30am

Speed Networking and morning refreshments

CONSIDERATIONS FOR INTEGRATION

11.15am

Operational realities of adopting a cloud computing approach

• Clouds can be flexible & efficient @Bayer since November 2010
• Easy: Just three mouse clicks and a credit card away
• Clouds are sexy, but are they attractive? Usefulness vs. Hype!
• At Bayer, clouds are a fly-trap for orphan applications, test environments and HPC computing; other attractive areas include web applications
• Possibly, IT future is written in the clouds. Until then, use and see...

› Dr Philip Groth,

Managing Scientist, Bayer Schering Pharma

11.45am

Examining enterprise solution architectures as the bigger picture to cloud computing

• Cloud – is this the way to efficiency?
• “Middleware” one size fits them all?
• Business aspects: Availability, performance, response times, penalties, who is responsible?

› Jan Hauss,

Head, Analytical Research Informatics, Merck KGaA

12.15pm

Validation in the PharmaCloud

› Keith Williams,

Chief Executive Officer, GxPi

› Phil Harrison,

Product Quality Manager, GxPi

12.45pm

Lunch

CLOUD BASED HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

1.45pm

Application of cloud based High Performance Computing in R&D – opportunities and challenges

• Review of main uses of HPC in pharmaceutical industry
• Opportunities and challenges
• GSK experiences

› Jeremy Martin,

Manager Grid & Web Services, GlaxoSmithKline

2.15pm

CONTRAIL- Developing a robust open source cloud computing operating system

• The Life Science project is to develop an Electronic Drug Discovery service that will allow users (pharma, biotech and academic researchers) easy access to a suite of drug discovery
• How this development programme will service the Life Science research community

› Nick Trigg,

Chief Executive Officer Head, Innovation Management, Constellation Technologies STFC Innovations Ltd

2.45pm

PANEL SESSION: Using the cloud to maximize the use of computing infrastructure

• What other life science companies are doing in the cloud?
• Are you thinking about using the cloud but are not sure how or where to start?
• The potential and pitfalls of using new cloud computing technologies to address new research challenges

› Nick Trigg,

Chief Executive Officer Head, Innovation Management, Constellation Technologies STFC Innovations Ltd

3.15pm

Afternoon refreshments

SECURITY, DATA PROTECTION & COMPLIANCE

3.45pm

Regulatory perspective: compliance, data storage and data protection in the cloud

• Reviewing the current guidance of data in a validated environment
• Assessing the different local laws governing data storage in cloud computing
• Discussing how to ensure compliance when using cloud computing

› Vera Pozzato,

Legal Advisor, European Data Protection Supervisor

4.15pm

Methods used to increase data protection and security of information in the cloud

• Processing and archiving large data volumes
• Can we measure cloud security?
• The state of the art in cloud security
• The case for cloud federations

› Jens Jensen,

Leader, security WP Area Director, Security, Contrail Open Grid Forum

4.45pm

CASE STUDY: Security in the cloud focusing on the layered approach taken to secure our translational medicine data warehouse (tranSMART) in the cloud

• High level overview of security design
• Technology stack for securing application and data in the cloud
• Governance of data and specific authentication/authorization functionality

› John Boles,

It Lead, Centocor Research & Development

5.15pm