March 13 - March 18, 2011  Pittcon 2011, Atlanta, GA, USA

Stop by LabVantage's Booth #3271 at Pittcon 2011. Pittcon is organized by The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, a Pennsylvania not-for-profit educational corporation which is comprised of the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP) and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP). It attracts nearly 20,000 attendees from industry, academia and government from worldwide countries. Proceeds from Pittcon fund science education and outreach at all levels, kindergarten through adult.

Oral Presentation
Category: Laboratory Informatics: Regulatory Issues to New Software Tools
Title: How Much Virtualization and Consolidation can be Applied in a LIMS?
Date/Time:
Thursday, March 17, 2011, 10:35 am - 10:55 am
Location: Room 215
Description: With the emerging trend of cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS), are you ready to put your data into the cloud? To what extent are you willing to store the data in a hosted LIMS application? What should you know about going toward this trend? what are the challenges?

Category: Laboratory Informatics: Implementation Issues and Solutions
Title: How to Maximize Throughput by Minimizing Testing?
Date/Time:
Thursday, March 17, 2011, 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Room 215
Description: In order to simplify automated testing and accelerate time-to-market, reduced testing has been applied conditionally in many organizations. How do you apply skip-lot testing and reduced testing to expedite throughput? How much cost saving do you expect? What are the latest IT advancements to assist in testing?

Conference Networking Session
Title: What is the Fast Approach to Get a LIMS Validated, Up and Running?
Date/Time:
Monday, March 14, 2011, 8:30 am -10:30 am

To learn more about the technical programs at Pittcon, please visit Pittcon 2011 website.

April 12 - 14, 2011  Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2011, Boston, MA, USA

LabVantage will be at booth # 213, exhibiting and featuring ongoing demonstrations of its SAPPHIRE Laboratory Information Management Suite, as well as the following functionality:

• Risk Free BioBanking Solution - delivering the pre-packaged, out-of-the-box SAPPHIRE BioBanking Solution at a short duration of 90 days. By coupling it's industry leading SAPPHIRE software with a guaranteed implementation from its world-class professional services organization, LabVantage has eliminated the risks associated with system implementation with no compromise on quality.
• Reagents and Standards Management Solution - providing a complete solution for the management, maintenance, and tracking of laboratory consumables.
• Life Sciences R&D Solution - supporting discovery, research and development, pre-clinical, clinical and quality management endeavors. Combining the best elements of "out of the box" and custom solutions, SAPPHIRE provides pertinent functionality with easy-to-use configuration capabilities to the ever-changing needs of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical research and production.

May 15-19, 2011  Customer Training & Education Conference 2011, Charleston, SC

LABVANTAGE's annual Customer Training & Education Conference (CTEC) will be held from May 15 to 19, 2011, in Charleston Place Hotel, Charleston, South Carolina. Attendees from around the world and from various industries come together each year to network and dialogue with colleagues and with LABVANTAGE on ways to maximize the value of their investments in laboratory informatics. This year's conference theme is "Laboratory Knowledge. Delivered." Our keynote will highlight future trends in laboratory informatics. From there, you will hear about ways that LABVANTAGE can help you take advantage of those trends, from our innovations in LIMS and ELN to setting an informatics strategy for your laboratory, implementing business intelligence, leveraging our informatics services and more. Register today!

May 15 -18, 2011  ISBER 2011 Annual Meeting & Exhibits, Arlington, Virginia (Washington DC)

The ISBER 2011 Annual Meeting & Exhibits will be held at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, conveniently located within close proximity to many historic and modern attractions in Washington DC. Come visit LABVANTAGE at ISBER and meet with your colleagues in the specimen collection and repository industry from around the world!

Session topics are expected to cover the following areas:

• Impact on Large Scale and Global Science
• Impact of Biorepositories in Clinical Trials and Prospective Studies
• Innovative Technologies
• Valuing the Benefit of Biorepositories to Stakeholders
• Governance Models & Return of Research Data: Implications for Participants and the Public