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SharePoint User Workshop for the
Life Sciences Industry

May 25, 2011 | Wyndham Forrestal Hotel & Conference Center | Princeton, NJ 

The widespread implementation of SharePoint has led to an increased interest in standards and best practices across the pharmaceutical industry. To help the industry better industry better understand how SharePoint can be effectively used in an R&D environment, PHARMICA Consulting is proud to host our 5th semi-annual SharePoint User Workshop for the Life Sciences Industry. This one-day event will provide a forum for pharmaceutical R&D business users and IT professionals to share their SharePoint experiences, applications, and best practices.

Register today and come hear from other pharmaceutical professionals as they present real-life examples of how their organizations are using SharePoint.

Workshop Agenda 

8:00         Arrival Breakfast and Registration

8:30         Welcome and Opening Remarks                                        

8:45         Collaboration In Action...the BMS R&D Story 

Synopsis: In 2009, the R&D organization at Bristol-Myers Squibb set out to drive enhanced collaboration and connectivity across R&D. The focus was not just to implement tools but rather to enable teams and individuals with the capabilities, behaviors and collaborative culture that would increase team effectiveness and individual productivity. Today we are seeing clear results of this effort and this presentation will tell Bristol-Myers Squibb R&D's success story.

Paul Biondi, Senior Vice-President, R&D Operations -- BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB

9:15         BMS R&D: The GDMA Divisional Story 

As a part of the R&D organization, the Clinical Development & Global Medical division of 3500 employees provide a SharePoint service capability, which support both strategic site development and end-user self service implementation.   This service group is a part of the Drug Development Learning & Collaboration team, which leverages the two capabilities to drive connectivity and knowledge sharing.   This presentation will review the business case for implementing 6 disease strategy sites, as well as the service model required to support the global site owner community. 

Donna Beccaria, Dir. Drug Development Learning & Collaboration -- BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB
Julie Phelps, Associate Director, Learning Technologies -- BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB 

10:00       Break

10:30       From Sandbox to Portal: A Journey for GSK Discovery

As the Discovery organization changed at GSK it became clear that we needed to consolidate intranet communications for business partners in the therapeutic areas. A plethora of departmental websites and applications existed which had not maintained the pace of change in the business and lacked a connection to the discovery process. This coincided with a GSK strategy to change our communication applications to Microsoft products. We undertook the development of a portal to connect information, data, experts and products in an easily navigable environment. The resulting portal is our face to the therapeutic groups and continues to evolve adding new services and experts by the month.

Stephen Gardiner, Portfolio Data Manager -- GSK
Jane Miller, Operations & Communications Manager -- GSK
 

11:15       Relationship Management and Collaboration Across Functional Areas

As a result of the recent integration between Merck and Schering Plough, the newly formed Global Site Relationship Management (GSRM) group (part of the Global Clinical Trial Operations) faced many time-sensitive, communication and support challenges, both among the functional areas within GSRM as well as functional areas outside of GSRM on a global level.  This presentation demonstrates how GSRM utilized teamsites to align GSRM functional areas as well as provide a global customer focus approach to the company. 

Carol Seider, Head of Global Site Relationship Management - Merck

12:00       Lunch

 1:30        Microsoft's Perspective on SharePoint Solutions for the Life Sciences

This session will give a behind the scenes look at the rapid adoption of SharePoint in the Life Sciences.  Particular focus areas will include: How SharePoint is being adopted across the Life Sciences value chain, which parts of Life Sciences have seen the largest adoption rates, the emerging areas of adoption and what Microsoft is focusing on next for SharePoint in Life Sciences.

Les Jordan, Chief Technology Strategist, Microsoft

2:00         Treating Acute SharePoint Viruses: Formalizing SharePoint Governance 

Like a virus, SharePoint sites can quickly multiply out of control if standards and governance are not put into place quickly.  This is what happened at Lilly when SharePoint was implemented in 2006 and the result was a proliferation of collaboration sites that did not utilize SharePoint efficiently.  In July 2010, Lilly formed a team to address these issues.  In this presentation, we will share our lessons learned and evolving transformational roadmap.

Tina Blandford, Business Systems Support
Christine Wagoner, Business Systems Support
Ryan Welch, Business Systems Support
Eli Lilly & Co., Development Center of Excellence (DCoE) Operations

2:45        Break

3:15        Roundtable Sessions

4:15        Roundtable Sessions II

5:15        Closing Remarks & Usage Survey Results

5:20        Cocktail Reception – Princeton Room