SoCalBio Cloud Computing Conference to Focus on Helping Bioscience Firms Improve

The day-long conference will help small and mid-size companies take advantage of "cloud" resources and other advancements in information innovation that can improve performance and reduce the cost of doing business. It will address the special information needs of bioscience firms during exploring how the cloud can be used to improve R&D, manage clinical studies, deal with regulatory/quality control issues and engage with clients.

- David Barker, Director of Customer Support & Quality Assurance, EMC Document Sciences- Amanda Coolong, Producer and Host, This Week in Cloud Computing- Rosemarie Christopher, President & CEO, Rx Innovation Staffing- Giles Day, Managing Director, Distributed Bio, LLC- Rajiv Dulepet, CTO & Founder, WiseWindow- Mick Gallagher, Managing Partner, LS Technologies- Nancy Lehrer, Director of Information Systems & Enterprise Architecture, Amgen- Steve Phillpott, CIO, Amylin Pharmaceuticals- Michael Pearl, Partner, US Cloud Computing Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers- Steve Plank, VP of Global Information Services, Allergan- Srinivasan Sundara Rajan, Solution Architect, Hewlett Packard- Matt Wallach, Chief Strategy Officer, Veeva Systems

"We're going to focus on how bioscience firms can use the cloud as a business strategy," said SoCalBio President & CEO Ahmed Enany. "It's about leveraging cloud-based resources to improve every aspect of bio-business. We will as well address the unparalleled concerns that have in doing so far slowed the adoption of such innovation by biotech and medical device firms."

The Council's programs help local firms gain access to capital, potential partners and business support services. SoCalBio as well promotes innovation transfer and workforce training, during informing policy makers and the public at-large about the benefits of the region's life-science industry.

SoCalBio is open to membership by firms and organizations engaged in life-science research development and commercialization. More information is available at www.socalbio.org.

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