First Symplectic User Community Conference

25 March 2009

Symplectic is pleased to announce its First Symplectic User Community Conference. The conference will be held at Woburn House (Universities UK) in the Tavistock Room on 5th May 2009. The conference is intended to be a forum for Symplectic's clients to meet each other, share problems and to express concerns or requirements directly to Symplectic. We hope to identify common requirements across the user community and prioritise these developments within our work schedule.

Numbers for the conference are limited and attendance is by invitiation only - if would like to be invited and have not received an invitation please contact us. Invitees will include clients, representatives from institutions who have expressed a strong interest in the product range and partner companies. Closing date for the acceptance of invitations is Friday 17th April at 6pm.

Timetable

9:00am - 9:30am	Registration
9:30am - 9:45am	Welcome Daniel Hook, Symplectic
9:45am - 10:30am	Analysis and Interpretation: Optimising research in an uncertain environment Jonathan Adams, Director, Research Evaluation, Evidence Limited
10:30am - 11:00am	Coffee
11:00am - 11:30pm	Virtual Research Environments: New research opportunities and new challenges Patrick Carmichael, University of Cambridge
11:30am - 12:00pm	Planned Research Serendipity: Exploiting Web 3.0 Henry Rzepa, Imperial College London & Omer Casher, GSK
12:00am - 12:30pm	Symplectic Repository Tools Richard Jones, Symplectic Limited
12:30pm - 14:00pm	Lunch
14:00pm - 14:30pm	Development Preview Daniel Hook, symplectic
14:30pm - 16:30pm	Workshop

Presentations for download

Workshop

The workshop will try to cover as many areas of development as possible. However, key subjects for discussion will include:

new data sources;
repositories;
management statistics;
CERIF;
supporting Virtual Research Environments.