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OLSUG-2008 INTERNATIONAL ORACLE LIFE SCIENCES AND HEALTHCARE USER GROUP MEETING April 27-28, 2008 | World Trade Center | Boston, MA Venue: World Trade Center, Boston, MA, USA |
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Oracle Life Science User Group
The Oracle Life Sciences User Group (OLSUG) represents a worldwide association of people who share a vested interest in the successful deployment and use of Oracle products within the life sciences and healthcare industry. The OLSUG-2008 International OLSUG meeting is designed to accelerate the success of users of Oracle products by providing a forum for sharing useful information and best practices, discovering novel and innovative practices, and exposing issues and limitations concerning Oracle products.
Meeting Format
The meeting will consist of exciting keynote presentations from industry renowned individuals. There will be workshops and discussions that are focused on topics of great interest, for example, the Semantic Web and database analytics. Oracle partners will be describing their latest offerings. In addition, there will be many presentations that have been selected to be of interest to scientists, healthcare IT professionals, application developers, architects and DBAs.
Submission Process
To be considered for a presentation, an abstract (max. 600 words) needs to be submitted by January 31, 2008 to the online submission form or as an e-mail to OLSUG (board@olsug.org or olsug2008@olsug.org)
Please note, by submitting an abstract, you are granting OLSUG permission to post the abstract and presentation on the OLSUG Web site.
Important Dates
Last date for submission of abstracts: January 31, 2008
Presentation notification: February 14, 2008
International OLSUG2008 Meeting: April 27-28, 2008
Topics of Interest as Related to Life Science and Healtcare IT
Distributed Data Access: Gateways, External Tables & Generic Connectivity.
Data Integration: Relational and XML.
Semantic Web: Use of Oracle's RDF enabling data integration and knowledge representation
Healthcare IT: Translational research (Benchside to Bedside)
Healthcare IT: Molecular profiling (Bedside to Benchside)
Healthcare IT: Evidence-based practice
Supporting Many Data Types: Text, Images, XML and RDF.
Managing Lots of Data: Partitioning, RAC, ASM, Streams, Data Guard and Grid.
Enabling Secure Collaboration: Collaboration Suite, Portal and Security.
Finding Patterns and Insights: Data Mining, Statistics and Text Mining.
Application Development: Fusion Middleware, JDeveloper and Application Express.
Database Performance: Tuning tips.
Registration
Please click here to register. In order to receive the 15% OLSUG Member Discount for Bio-IT World Conference 2008, please reference the code 820OSG when registering by phone or should input the code in the 'promotional code' field when registering online.
Conference Fee
Academic/Government/Hospital-Affiliated: $99
Commercial early bird: $199 (registration until March 15, 2008)
Commercial full: $299 (registration after March 15, 2008)
Conference Program Co-Chairs
Gyorgy Babnigg, Argonne National Laboratory, gbabnigg@anl.gov
Charlie Berger, Oracle, charlie.berger@oracle.com
Andy Bryant, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, adb@sanger.ac.uk
Marcus Collins, Novartis, marcus.collins@novartis.com
Bill Gettys, Oracle, Bill.Gettys@oracle.com
Mark Forster, Syngenta, mark.forster@syngenta.com
Derek Scuffell, Syngenta, derek.scuffell@syngenta.com
Frank Schaffer, MDL US, F.Schaffer@mdl.com
Tony Webb, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, amw@sanger.ac.uk
Benjamin Zack, Merck, benjamin_zack@merck.com
