The 11th International LIMS Conference

Information Integration in Cyberspace: LIMS and beyond

The 11th International LIMS Conference, aka LIMS '97, is being held in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Division of Computational Chemistry of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society, the Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging.

The conference theme will be integrating information from personal computers or analyzer workstations to LIMS to the corporate mainframe. Related topics such as statistics, chemometrics, molecular design, costing and resource management will also be highlighted.

The program will feature a series of plenary lectures by acknowledged experts in LIMS and laboratory computing, parallel breakout sessions, vendor/user workshops, and poster sessions. In addition, there will be a comprehensive exhibition featuring the market leaders in LIMS and scientific computing.

On Monday, June 2nd, the LIMS Conference will host a number of affiliated training seminars. These short courses by LIMS experts have been a feature of the US LIMS Conferences for some years, but seminars on this scale will be a new feature for the European LIMS Conference.

Program Topics:

- Manufacturing Enterprises, Intranet and Internet
- LIMS: Common Design and Installation
- Understanding the Human Dimension in LIMS Projects
- Integrating LIMS with MS Windows Programs
- Evolution of an HTML LIMS Data Delivery System
- LIMS: A Quality Management Tool for Quality Assurance & Validation
- Integration: LIMS - the Automated Laboratory and Production Control
- Legal Issues of LIMS
- Re-engineering for Regulatory Compliance through LIMS
- Turnkey LIMS Implementation
- Requirements Analysis and Re-engineering
- LIMS and LIMS Vendor Selection for New Users
- Preparing for Robotization
- Integrating LIMS with Chromatography Systems

Short Courses:

· Randy Collins: Re-engineering and Workflow Analysis
· Joseph Golden: A LIMS Primer - An Introduction to LIMS
· Bob McDowall: LIMS - Strategies and Tactics
· Reinhold Schaefer: Implementation and Integration of a LIMS into a Complex Environment
· Siri H. Segalstad: LIMS Validation

1997 LIMS Award Recipient to be Honored

Dr. Robert D. McDowall of McDowall Consulting (Bromley, Kent, UK) is the recipient of the 1997 LIMS award. The LIMS Award was established to recognize and honor distinguished service to the LIMS community and is awarded annually. Dr. McDowall was recognized by the LIMS Institute award committee for his many contributions to the LIMS community. In particular, the award committee noted his many important publications, his long career as a teacher of LIMS courses, and his many years of service as the UK editor of Laboratory Automation and Information Management. The award will be presented during the LIMS '97 Conference.

Registration Fees

The fee to attend the three-day conference is just under £500 (UK) including VAT. For additional details, surf the listing in either http://www.lims97.com. or http://www.limsconf.com