International IT Symposium

Biobank Information Management Solutions

& Federated Search & Data Analysis Platforms

To access the programme, please click here.

Days / time:

Thursday 21^st January 2021 from 13:00 – 17:15 CET

Friday 22^nd January 2021 from 10:00 – 12:30CET

Monday 25^th January 2021 from 10:00 – 17:00 CET

January 21^st:      Federated Search & Data Analysis Platforms

13:00     Opening welcome

Jens Habermann & Rosita Kammler

Session Chairs: Kurt Zatloukal& Ann-Kristin Kock-Schoppenhauer

13:15     Showcasing HDR-UK National Gateway Portal Project – a Biobank Management and Federated Search Solution

Paul Smith

Business Development Director, BC Platforms

13:45     TriNetX: Optimising Clinical & Academic Research using a Federated Global Data Network

Paula Underhill

Director Global Clinical Engagement of TriNetX

Christina Mueller

Director, EU Data Networks North, TriNetX

14:15     The Cafe Variome / RD-NEXUS Asset Discovery Platform

Anthony J. Brookes

Director of the University of Leicester HDR-UK node, Leicester, UK

14:45     Bioface – distributed system for Biobanks to share and manage samples information

Dominik Strapagiel

University of Lodz, Poland

15:15 – 15:30     Coffee Break

Session Chairs: Christoph Brochhausen & Phil Quinlan

Challenge Talks ¹ (20 min presentation + 10 min questions)

15:30     Federated Research: Novel Applications of Emerging Technology

Sean T. Manion

Chief Scientific Officer, ConsenSys Health

16:00     Protect and share sensitive data in hybrid clouds

Werner Strasser

CEO, fragmentiX

16:30     Self Service Access and Federated Queries to Clinical and Research Data Using the Open Source Leaf Platform

Sean D. Mooney and Nicholas Dobbins

University of Washington and UW Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA

17:00     Concluding remarks

17:15     Adjourn

January 22^nd:      Federated Search & Data Analysis Platforms

10:00     Opening welcome

Rosita Kammler & Jens Habermann

Session Chairs: Murat Dogru & Petr Holub

10:15     Federated Search for Biosamples in European Biobanks using FHIR and the open- source “Sample Locator”

Martin Lablans

German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, and University Medical Center Mannheim, Germany

10:45     A Common API for Federated Data Sharing?

Experience from the Alzheimer’s and COVID research community

Rodrigo Barnes

CTO, Aridhia Informatics

11:15     Connecting cohorts and samples to public molecular data archives

Tony Burdett

The European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI

11:45     Connecting cohorts and samples to public molecular data archives

Jordi Rambla De Argila

Team Leader, Federated EGA, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain 12:15       Concluding remarks on Federated Search & Data Analysis Platforms

12:30     Adjourn

January 25^th:      Biobank Information Management Systems

10:00     Opening welcome

Rosita Kammler & Jens Habermann

Session Chairs: Michael Hummel& Blazej Marciniak

10:15     Connecting Health and Medical Research with Modern Data Technology using VizzDAT Solutions

Loreana Norlin

CEO & Co-founder, VizzDAT AB

10:45     Control, Manage, Exchange within an ASKION C-line® Biobank

Stefan Chabierski

Manager International Marketing & Sales, Business Development, ASKION GmbH

11:15     Rabbitfish – the tool you need to manage your data

Timo Schüler

CEO, Informeleon LifeScience Technologies

12:15 – 13:00     Lunch break

Session Chairs: Christoph Brochhausen & Phil Quinlan

13:00     Driving High Quality Specimen Data with Thermo Fisher Platform for Sciencesoftware

Craig DeLoughery

Senior Business Development Manager, Thermo-Fisher Scientific, Digital Science Business Unit

13:30     CentraXX for Biobanking

Martin Zünkeler

CEO, Kairos GmbH

14:00     Achiever Medical LIMS – Make Every Sample Matter

Sharon Williams

Interactive Software Limited

14:30     OpenSpecimen, a Highly Configurable Biobanking LIMS

Srikanth Adiga

OpenSpecimen

15:00 – 15:15     Coffee Break

Session Chairs: Ann-Kristin Kock-Schoppenhauer & Kurt Zatloukal

15:15     A national biorepository management tool to provide a unified platform to support tissue bank networks and researchers

Emily Jefferson

Director, Health Informatics Centre (HIC), University of Dundee

Sharon King

Biorepository Manager, Tayside Medical Science Centre (TASC), University of Dundee

15:45     Next generation inventory system – incorporating LIMS with automated freezers for even better collection control and visibility

David Lewandowski

Global Business Development Manager, Cryo Division, Brooks Life Sciences

16:15     Integrated solutions to manage your biorepository and maintain high quality data

Julia de Diego

Technical Business Consultant, ABBOTT – STARLIMS 16:45     Concluding remarks

17:00 Adjourn