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Conferences, head count and content

There have been a number of posts on theintegratedlab.com from time to time about conferences, so it was interesting to be alerted to some comments from Tim Bray and Simon Coles about ‘numbers of attendees’ reported by conference organisers. Now I don’t want to get into that specific issue, but in the background it does [...]

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Yet More Conference Notes

I haven’t written about conferences for awhile and I don’t remember if John has, either, so I thought I’d make my usual pitch, which is: Get out there and go to a conference. Find a good one that meets your needs, get the budget, and just get to it.
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Forthcoming meetings

The Automation & Analytical Management Group (AAMG) of the Royal Society of Chemistry is holding a one day workshop on the topic of ‘The Challenges Facing Laboratory Systems’ Integration‘ on Thursday 20th May 2010 at The Royal Society of Chemistry Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.

Arena International is holding the 2nd annual conference on ‘Laboratory Data Management‘ on [...]

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The future of informatics conferences

Following the last ELN meeting in Europe (ELN: Laboratory Informatics for the 21st Century, the SMi Group, London, January 2010), a considerable amount of discussion ensued on an ELN LinkedIn Group in which some thoughts were expressed about the role and effectiveness of ELN conferences.  The general consensus was that delegate attendances were falling, content was [...]

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Laboratory integration – the way forward?

There have been two separate discussion running on LinkedIn that have a bearing on the subject of laboratory integration. The first of these follows up from a question I raised: “Does anybody have any thoughts on the integration/interfacing of laboratory systems to SaaS offerings of ELN and LIMS?” The second was based on the [...]

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