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Program
 
 9:00 Moderator's introduction to the Symposium
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Stoll, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
 
 9:10 Welcome address
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Henrici, Vice President, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden - University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany
 
 9:20 Welcome address
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schulz, Dean, Computer Science Department, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden - University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany
 
 9:30 Industry requirements to laboratory automation
Dipl.-Ing. Werner W. Braun, Strategic IS Management and Coordination for Development, Corporate Department IS Applications, Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, Ingelheim, Germany
  • Challenges and Opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Lab automation in pharmaceutical industry.
  • Process Analytical Technology (PAT).
  • Compliance, Electronic Records / Archiving.
  • Automation examples at Boehringer Ingelheim.

Discussion
 
 10:15 Methodology trends and highlights in Analytical Laboratory Automation
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kerstin Thurow, Life Science Automation, Center for Life Science Automation, University Rostock, Rostock, Germany
  • Analytical technologies in chemical and biological screening procedures.
  • Requirements and challenges in current High Throughput Systems.
  • Fully automated sample preparation for analyical meaurements.
  • Direct coupling of devices and processes via web based LIM systems.
  • Future development towards high content screening systems.

Discussion
 
 11:00 Coffee break and visit of the exhibition
 
 11:30 Did regulatory requirements reach already their ultimate end - trying a prognosis
Pharmazie-Direktor Karl-Heinz Menges, Regierungspräsidiumum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Trends in the laboratories reflecting in regulatory recommendations and guidelines like:

  • EU GMP Annex 11
  • PIC/S PI-011-2
  • US FDA 21 CFR Part 11

Discussion
 
 12:15 Unifying and Integrating Laboratory Informatics
Dr. Andreas Waßerburger, Senior Product Manager Lab Informatics, Life Sciences & Chemical Analysis, Agilent Technologies R&D and Marketing GmbH & Co. KG, Waldbronn, Germany
  • Speed and regulatory compliance requirements imply development of high performance analytical instruments and data systems.
  • Need to manage different types of information.
  • Presentation of an integrating knowledge engineering system combining the enterprise content management with a modern multi vendor instrument management.

Discussion
 
 13:00 Buffet Lunch

Exhibition
 
 14:30 Micro and Nanotechnology make Lab-on-a-Chip Systems working - Innovative technologies drive novel applications
Dr. Klaus Stefan Drese, Head fluidic and simulation department, IMM Mainz, Mainz, Germany
  • Major micro and nano technology and Lab-on-the-Chip systems - how they synergise.
  • Characteristics of Lab-on-the-Chip systems and resulting requirements.
  • Commercial Lab-on-the-Chip systems.
  • Challenges in the commercialization of Lab-on-the-Chip systems.
  • Improvements utilizing micro and nano technology innovations.

Discussion
 
 15:15 The Analytical Information Markup Language (AnIML): a New Format for Interchanging and Archiving Chromatography and Spectroscopy Data
Dr. Gary W. Kramer, Group Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
  • AnIML provides mechanisms to describe, organize, encode, interchange, and store arbitrary analytical data.
  • AnIML is based on XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and uses a "meta dictionary" approach with a general "core" schema that affords generic means to represent and organize analytical data and their associated metadata.
  • Base Technique Definitions are used to constrain the general mechanisms provided in the core.
  • ASTM E13.15 committee on Analytical Data is developing AnIML and will provide standards and usage guidance documents, and specific Standard Base Technique Definition documents for NMR, mass spec, chromatography, IR, UV/Vis, and IMS.

Discussion
 
 16:00 Coffee break and visit of the Exhibition
 
 16:30 Economic Espionage and Intranet-Security
Dr. Otto D. Mayr, Executive Manager, Communication, Analysis and Defense GmbH (COMMANAD)
The presentation examines threats related to economic espionage (by definition originating from secret services and agencies, in contrast to industrial espionage mainly performed by competing companies).
  • Secret Cooperations (services, provider and IT-companies).
  • Collection (eavesdropping of international communication networks).
  • Information Operations (attacks to targeted IT-systems).
  • HUMINT (Human Intelligence).

Discussion
 
 17:15 Quo Vadis Healthcare Laboratory Informatics?
Dr. Robert McDowall, Director, R.D.McDowall Ltd, Principal, McDowall Consulting, Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Surrey, Bromley, Kent, UK
  • The direction of Healthcare informatics in the future depends on strategy, technologies and people.
  • Strategy: How can we plan the laboratory automation jig-saw puzzle for an effective electronic environment?
  • Technologies: What systems and applications are available?
  • People: How can we persuade people to change their ways of working?
  • Bringing the products and the people together is the most difficult part of the work.

Discussion
 
 18:00 Round table discussion Trends in Laboratory Automation
Moderator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Stoll
 
 19:00 Reception with Dinner
 
 

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