2008 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo
a Resounding Success

The Sixth Annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo took place April 28-30, 2008 at the World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and was a resounding success.

Over 1,500 attendees from 23 countries participated during the course of the event. The event featured five concurrent tracks with over 100 technology and scientific presentations. 

The keynote presentations delivered by John Reynders, Ph.D., CIO, Johnson & Johnson, Pharma R&D; Joshua Boger, Ph.D., founder, president and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals; and Linda Avey, co-founder, 23andMe drew rave reviews with many remarking that the event was an excellent learning experience. View Webcast

The plenary panel discussion on the exciting field of "personal genomics" proved to be a highlight of the conference. Bio-IT World's Editor-in-Chief, Kevin Davies Ph.D., moderated the discussion which featured six of the most outstanding scientists, physicians and commentators in the field: View Webcast

• Dietrich Stephan, Ph.D., co-Founder, Navigenics

• Linda Avey, co-Founder, 23andMe

• George Church, Ph.D., Professor, Harvard Medical School; co-Founder, Knome

• Jeffrey Drazen, M.D., Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine

• Fred Ledley, M.D., Professor and Chair, Bentley College

• John Halamka, M.D., CIO, Harvard Medical School

The exhibit hall featured over 70 companies. Products from four biotech companies were named Best of Show Awards winners at a ceremony held during the event. The winning products included Isilon’s X-Series clustered storage systems, Medidata Solutions’ Medidata Designer, IO Informatics’ Sentient Suite, and Linguamatics’ I2E 3.0. more

Bio-IT World’s Best Practices Awards ceremony took place April 29, 2008 and was co-located with the event. Key industry leaders attended the ceremony, which featured keynote speeches by Colin Hill, CEO, president, chairman & co-founder of Gene Network Sciences; and Dietrich Stephan, Ph.D., co-founder and chief science officer of Navigenics, former deputy director, Translational Genomics Research Institute. Grand Prize winners within seven life sciences awards categories included Applied Biosystems, Christian-Albrechts-University, Eli Lilly & Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Genstruct, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca, and Merck & Company. more 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our many colleagues at CHI for their tireless efforts in producing this year’s event. We especially thank all of our speakers, 1500+ attendees, 30+ media partners, 70+ exhibitors and sponsors, and Advisory Board members for continuing to believe in the critical importance of this field. Most of all, we would like to thank you for joining us at this year’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. We trust you enjoyed the Event. We will see you in 2009!

Photos from the 2008 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo

2008 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo

	Linda Avey co-Founder 23andMe, Inc.
	Joshua Boger, Ph.D. President & Chief Executive Officer Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
	John Reynders, Ph.D. Vice President & Chief Information Officer Johnson & Johnson, Pharma R&D
	2008 Benjamin Franklin Award presented by Bioinformatics.org
Keynote Panel: The Future of Personal Genomics George Church, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics, Harvard Medical School Dietrich Stephan, Ph.D., Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Navigenics, Inc. Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D., Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine; Distinguished Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Fred D. Ledley, M.D., Professor and Chair, Bentley College; Founder and Chairman, My Genome John Halamka, M.D., M.S., CIO, Harvard Medical School Linda Avey, co-Founder, 23andMe, Inc.

• Harnessing the Semantic Web for Your Organization 

• Data Visualization for Effective Drug Discovery Decisions

• Next-Generation Sequencing Data Management

• Electronic Lab Notebooks and Collaborative Knowledge Management for Life Sciences R&D and Manufacturing

• Access All Five Tracks for One Price

• Network with 1,500+ Delegates

• Hear 85+ Technology and Scientific Presentations

• Choose from Four Pre-conference Workshops, the Oracle Life Sciences and Healthcare User Group Meeting, and Symyx Software Symposium 2008

• Attend Bio-IT World’s Best Practices Awards Dinner - April 29, 2008

• Connect with Attendees Using CHI’s Intro-Net

• Participate in the Poster Competition

• See the Winners of the following 2008 Awards: Benjamin Franklin, Best of Show, Best Practices

• View Who’s Who & What’s New in the Exhibit Hall

• And Much More!