ChemAxon b124dd5f17
24-11-2005 14:46:54
Hi,
So the UGM was a success, we expect that there will be much fresh material to be presented by clients and ChemAxon (as well as a strong interest from prticipants) so we are doing it again end of May next year (2006) hurrah!
So the question is.... can I interest you all in continuing to carry the organiser 'mantle' for another year?
Good!
In this case the works of this group are around tuning the format (see below) and later chewing through the submitted abstracts (March time). I have made some forum posts across technical support topics asking for suggestions for workshops "Suggest topics - 2006 User Group Meeting - Workshop" and I ask if you can contribute to these
Format tuning for 2006 - opinions please
From the feeback from last year I think these are the 2 main areas we need to address:
The ChemAxon people here are:
Alex
So the UGM was a success, we expect that there will be much fresh material to be presented by clients and ChemAxon (as well as a strong interest from prticipants) so we are doing it again end of May next year (2006) hurrah!
So the question is.... can I interest you all in continuing to carry the organiser 'mantle' for another year?
Good!
In this case the works of this group are around tuning the format (see below) and later chewing through the submitted abstracts (March time). I have made some forum posts across technical support topics asking for suggestions for workshops "Suggest topics - 2006 User Group Meeting - Workshop" and I ask if you can contribute to these
Format tuning for 2006 - opinions please
From the feeback from last year I think these are the 2 main areas we need to address:
- improve the experience of the developer - | - I am suggesting a split program for day 2. Day 1 has User applications and ChemAxon news, day 2 has 2 threads, thread 1 is more science and more focussed scientific applications and thread 2 is developer workshop
- tighten up on the "product sell style"' presentations - | - I will be more explicit in describing the aims of the presentations in the call for papers and perhaps will require to review actual VAR partner presentations prior to the event to make then cut the fat and focus on the technical / scientific issues related only to the ChemAxon bits.
The ChemAxon people here are:
- Ferenc Csizmadia (Pronounced; Ferents Chizmadia) - CEO
- Alex Allardyce (Pronounced; Allardice) - Communications Director
- Nora Lapusnyik (Pronounced; Lapushnyik) - Event organiser
- C. Deniz Akyuz, Target Validation at Merck & Co. NJ, USA
- Bob Grossman, Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, USA
- Dragos Horvath, Scientist, Institut de Biologie de Lille, France
- Sorel Muresan, Asoc. Prin. Scientist, GSI Chemical Computing, Astra Zeneca, Mölndal, Sweden
- TJ O'Donnell, Consultant in Scientific Computing and Visualization for various pharmaceutical and chemical companies, computer manufacturers and government research labs, based in San Diego, CA, USA
- W. Patrick Walters, Prin. Inv., Head of Meth. Dev., Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Yingao Zhou, Program Manager, Cheminformatics and LIMS, The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), La Jolla, CA, USA
Alex