External Engagement/Conferences

Pistoia members have spoken at a number of conferences over the past year, including BioIT World and Collaborative Innovation in Biomedicine. Please join us at the following events to learn more about Alliance projects and the organization's broader mission. We often get requests to speak at conferences, so if you would like to speak on behalf of the Alliance, e-mail the Executive Director at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

• The 8th Annual Pharmaceutical 2010 Technology IT Congress Oxford Global, Sept. 15-16, London (Ian Harrow)
• Laboratory Data Management, Sept. 22-23, Boston (Ramesh Durvasula)
• BioIT Europe, Oct. 5-7, Hanover (Eagle Genomics)
• ICIC 2010, Oct. 24, [Vienna] (Ian Harrow)

In addition to conference presentations, the Alliance has also met with several organizations including the BBSRC, BioIT Alliance, IMI, PRISM, and W3C HCLS. Our key aim is to show how the Alliance can work with and support other initiatives for the delivery of key information standards and participate in wider discussions about precompetitive collaboration and its impact on the delivery of informatics services in life science.