Amphora Research Systems

Simon Coles is giving a talk “Surveying the ELN landscape” which can be downloaded from here.

Simon Coles and Jo Worthington hosted a work shop on the pre-conference day on the subject of “The Use of ELNs in Biology Research” in addition Simon presented a talk on “Are “ELN” projects doomed from the start?”

Simon Coles presented a talk on “Walking the tightrope between scientists and lawyers.”

• Bridging the chasm between scientists and lawyers whilst keeping them both productive and harmonious.
• How to work with scientists and IT to ensure adequate and consistent IP protection
• Responding to the challenge of long-term compliance and availability of electronic recordkeeping processes
• The increasing move to Computerised working and collaboration within the lab is changing the IP protection landscape

Simon Coles presented a talk on “Lessons from the edge: Think now or pay later.”
Most researchers know the old favorite bound lab notebook, but people forget WHY they are asked to keep it. Changing to an electronic environment causes more confusion, what should go in to an ELN? Where should raw data be stored? All these questions will be answered, and more.

• Common misunderstandings between record managers and scientists
• Practical steps for your organisation to reduce costs and risks in record creation
• Experiences from implementations
• Comparing different industries and countries.
• Happiness & harmony throughout.
  PDF’s available.

Amphora will be delivering a pre-conference workshop on “Lessons Learned in ELN Implementation across Different Industries”, as well as chairing the first day of the main conference. Simon Coles will also give a talk entitled “ELNs: Bringing harmony and happiness, How to make your scientists happy, and your Board even happier”.

Amphora will be a Session Sponsor of this well established annual event. Simon Coles will be addressing the subject of “Walking the tightrope between scientists and lawyers” which is a subject close to his heart.

Amphora was invited to attend IQPC’s IP Protection Strategies in Frankfurt and Simon Coles delivered a presentation on “Harnessing your scientists in an electronic world”.

Simon Coles and Jo Worthington attended BioTrinity in Oxford, England, which was particularly aimed at emerging Biotechs and BioPharmas and presented a talk on “I.T and I.P in Biotechs”

Simon Coles presented a talk on “Chemist vs. Biologist and their needs for Electronic Solutions” at the the IQPC Lab Informatics Conference in California

Simon Coles was asked to host a workshop at the IQPC ELN Conference in Frankfurt with Colin Sandercock, a partner in the US Law Firm Proskauer Rose US on the subject of “Ensuring admissibility, credibility and reliability of your ELN records in court”. In addition Simon will be presented a talk on “Lessons Learned in ELN Implementation across Different Industries”.

Simon Coles gave a session at the IQPC SmartLab in London. Due to a change in some of the other sessions, Simon’s was the only one running so the audience was larger and more diverse than originally planned, resulting in a slight change of plan. The audience were given a choice between two presentations, and several people asked for both to be made available. See SlideShare for the presentations.

Amphora participated in the SMI ELN conference in London. As well as a number of Amphora’s customers presenting, Simon Coles chaired one of the conference days, as well as giving a presentation on “ELNs and Compliance”

Amphora and PhaseFour Informatics gave a well-received all-day workshop on ELNs at the Association for Laboratory Automation conference in Palm Springs, CA.

Simon Coles delivered a presentation on ELNs and Patent Evidence at the IQPC 2007 ELN Conference in Brussels. A PDF of the presentation is available.

Simon Coles and John Trigg (from PhaseFour Informatics) delivered a presentation on Best Practices on ELN Implementation at the IQPC 2007 ELN Conference in Brussels. A PDF of the presentation is available.

Simon Coles and John Trigg (of PhaseFour Informatics) delivered a well-received workshop at the ALA conference in Palm Springs, CA.

Simon Coles gave a presentation entitled “ELNs Beyond Chemistry” at the IQPC ELN conference in London, Sept. 26th 2006(download the presentation here). In addition, Cat Tarlton from Array gave a presentation on their use of PatentSafe with their CambridgeSoft ELN, and Katrien Lorre gave a talk on Innogenetic’s use of PatentSafe with their in-house ELN.

Simon Coles of Amphora gave a presentation on “Cutting the Cost of ELNs” at the SRI ELN conference Feb 28th 2006 in Philadelphia, PA. You can download the presentation here.

Simon Coles of Amphora and John Trigg from PhaseFour gave a joint workshop on “ELN Implementation – Strategies for Success” at the SRI ELN conference Feb 27th 2006 in Philadelphia, PA. Workshop materials are available to participants.

At the IVT ELN conference in Dublin, Ireland, Simon Coles of Amphora a presentation on “Cost Effective ELNs”, a copy of which can be downloaded. Later that day Simon also delivered a 3.5 hour workshop on Records Management.

Simon Coles of Amphora and John Trigg from Kodak are gave a joint workshop on “ELN Implementation – Strategies for Success” at the IVT ELN conference in Dublin, Ireland.

David Brittain from Oxford Biomedica spoke about their successful implementation of Amphora’s products at the IQPC ELN Conference in London.

Simon Coles from Amphora gave a workshop “Successful ELN Implementation Strategies” at the IQPC Electronic Laboratory Notebooks conference in Boston.

Simon Coles from Amphora gave a workshop “Successful ELN Implementation Strategies” at the IVT ELN Conference in Philadelphia, and a presentation on “ELN Integration Techniques”. A PDF of the presentation slides is available

Simon Coles from Amphora gave a workshop “Successful ELN Implementation Strategies” and a general presentation on “ELN Architecture” at the SRI Electronic Laboratory Notebooks conference in Boston. Simon’s ELN Architecture presentation is now available.

Amphora participated in the IQPC Electronic Laboratory Notebook conference in London. Some of the talks were by Amphora’s customers, and at exhibition a number of vendors demonstrated their ELN products working with Amphora’s Patent Evidence Creation & Preservation solutions. As a last minute change, Simon Coles delivered the Keynote address to open the conference, as well as delivering a well-received workshop (with John Trigg of Kodak) on ELN Implementation.

Amphora participated in the CENSA Quarterly meeting in West Virginia. Simon Coles spoke on Amphora’s unique offerings for Patent Evidence Creation & Preservation, our experiences and successes in the Biotech market, and partnerships with other CENSA members. CENSA members can get a copy of Simon’s presentation from the CENSA members-only Teamrooms.

Simon Coles spoke on “ELN perspectives: from the multinational to the startup” at the 227th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA

Simon Coles participated in the Laboratory Informatics Expo.

Simon Coles spoke on “Strategies to assess your corporate needs and select the most appropriate vendor for your ELN project” at the 2003 IQPC ELN conference in London. As well as chairing the second day of the full conference, Simon also gave a pre-conference workshop “Implementation Masterclass: Proven strategies to ease ELN implementation in your own company”.

Simon Coles spoke on “Electronic Laboratory Notebook Architectures: Designing Comprehensive R&D Enterprise Systems” at the Barnett conference in Philadelphia, Electronic Laboratory Notebooks: Comprehensive Strategies & Technologies for Managing Research Knowledge.

Simon Coles spoke on “Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Information Management and Electronic Records” at e-Lab 2003: The 17th International LIMS Conference in London.

Simon Coles spoke on “ELNs: Turning the Promise into Reality” at Laboratory Informatics 2003, part of PITTCON 2003

Simon Coles spoke on “Electronic Lab Notebooks and e-Archiving: a Timebomb?” at Infotech Pharma 2003.

Simon Coles led a workshop on “Easing the Transition from Paper to Electronic Notebooks – Strategies to Ensure Successful Culture Change” at the IQPC Laboratory Notebooks 2002 conference at The Cafe Royal, London, and also spoke on “Confounding myths: What is an ELN?”

Simon Coles delivered a talk on “What is an ELN?” at the 2nd Royal Society of Chemistry ELN conference in London, and also spoke on on “A Cultural Revolution in the Laboratory”

Amphora attended the Barnett International LIMS conference in Philadelphia and Simon Coles spoke on “Using XML to interface LIMS and ELNs”.

Amphora exhibited with CENSA at the 224th ACS National Meeting in Boston.

Simon Coles spoke on “Cultural issues in ELN adoption” at the re-run of the Barnett International “Laboratory Notebooks 2002” conference in Philadelphia This was a re-run of the conference in May as the original sold out and a number of people had to be turned away.

Simon Coles attended the Knowledge Management conference in Twin Cities, Minneapolis, and spoke on “ELNs and Research Information”.

Amphora attended the IQPC “Creating Value from Knowledge in R&D” conference in London and Simon Coles spoke on “Managing the cultural impact of Electronic Lab Notebooks”.

Amphora attended the Barnett International “Laboratory Notebooks 2002” conference in Philadelphia and Simon Coles spoke on “Addressing Cultural Issues when Adopting Electronic Laboratory Notebooks”. This conference was so successful it was repeated in Philadelphia that August.

Amphora attended the quarterly CENSA meeting.

Simon Coles spoke at the 2002 European LIMS forum on “Combining technologies to offer a structured framework for innovation and creativity in the laboratory”.

Amphora attended the quarterly CENSA meeting in New Jersey to update CENSA members on our latest organisational developments

Simon Coles spoke at the November CENSA meeting in New Jersey.

Simon Coles spoke at the Royal Society of Chemistry ELN conference in London, delivering a talk on “Electronic Lab Notebooks – the State of the Art”.

Simon Coles presented at the CENSA meeting in Chicago, on Amphora’s work with XML and ELNs

Simon Coles spoke at Barnett International’s conference “Laboratory Notebooks – Paper & Electronic”; in Washington, on “Lessons from Electronic Lab Notebook implementations”.

Amphora exhibited at the ACS meeting in San Diego with CENSA

Amphora attended the CENSA meeting in Cincinnati.

Simon Coles spoke at the 3rd Annual European LIMS forum in Waltham Abbey, London. Sheila Davis of Kodak also spoke about Kodak’s use of their ELN, and John Trigg of Kodak chaired the session.

Simon Coles spoke at the LIMS2000 – International Conference and Exposition in Atlantic City, New Jersey on the relationship between LIMS and ELNs.

A number of other talks at the conference were related to our work with ELNs:

• Kevin Smith from LabSystems is talked on XML interfacing to LIMS, which is how we prefer to link ELN and LIMS systems (it was the project with Kodak and that got us both into XML in a serious way).
• John Trigg from Kodak also spoke on “LIMS, Electronic Lab Notebooks and Knowledge Management”

John Trigg discussed Kodak’s ELN at the Knowledge Management in R&D conference in London.

With Sheila Ash of Accelrys, Simon Coles spoke at the 219th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, California, on Integrating electronic notebook systems with traditional databases.

Simon Coles discussed the Lab Notebook at the Second Annual e-Law Symposium on the 8th March in London with Richard Brockbank of Oxford Law & Computing.

Simon Coles spoke on ‘Chemistry Aware Laboratory Workbook’ at the 2nd Annual Electronic Records Event with Sheila Ash of Accelrys.

John Trigg of Kodak (one of our ELN customers) spoke on the XML interface developed by Kodak, Amphora and Lab Systems for integrating Kodak’s LIMS to their ELN, at the Lab Systems European user group meeting,>Lab Systems World in Holland.