This webinar will show how you can use failure data to predict expected future failures, proactively drive quality and reliability improvement and react quickly to emerging issues. Why Should You Attend: Manufacturers design and develop products based on an expected product lifetime. Many manufacturers conduct extensive reliability testing to minimize the risk that products will fail prematurely. Despite these efforts, unexpected failures occur due to design flaws, manufacturing process changes, or a misunderstanding of the product use environment. Premature failures alienate customers and significantly impair brand and company reputations. Failure data may be easily modeled to forecast future failures and…

"Teens Using Drugs: What To Know and What To Do" is a free, ongoing, two-part series designed to help participants learn to understand, identify and address adolescent alcohol/other drug problems. Part 1 provides information on how to understand and recognize the signs of a teen substance abuse problem and includes a short video. Part 2 provides information on what should and should not be done when a teen substance abuse problem is recognized, and concludes with a short open talk by a young person in recovery. The series is presented on the first (part 1) and second (part 2) Tuesday…

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability globally and is considered a serious public health problem. In the US, an estimated 1.7 million people sustain a TBI every year, and over 30 percent of all reported injury-related deaths list TBI as a contributing factor. Moreover, mild traumatic brain injury is the most common combat-related injury and along with spinal cord injury, TBI accounts for nearly 25 percent of combat casualties. Treatment of TBI and especially acute TBI is still a major unmet medical need. Therapies that prove an ability to limit the damage done to…

Transforming Africa’s healthcare systems—where should change happen? Healthcare demands in Africa are changing. With chronic diseases rising, an emerging middle-class demanding better quality, affordable healthcare and private healthcare on the rise, what is the future for healthcare systems across the continent? Healthcare in Africa will bring together influential healthcare stakeholders from government, providers, suppliers and patient groups to confront and explore key issues around healthcare systems in Africa. You’ll be able to participate in interactive brainstorming sessions, hear cutting-edge case studies, and hear from a range of inspiring speakers. TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED: What is the right balance of private…

NHS clinical research contracts Delivering you practical insight and key legal advice on how to ensure watertight robust agreements Are you responsible for managing clinical research contracts for your site? Do you want: more guidance on how to craft strong agreements? understanding of the range of clinical studies and their different contracting needs? to develop organisational level agreements with strategic partners? practical insight and expert advice on common legal hurdles and trip points? Yes! Then this interactive seminar has been designed for you. This day will ensure that you fully understand the practical realities of clinical research contracts. Develop your…

Assessing Best Practice Designs and Construction Technologies for Cost Effective Offshore Wind Solutions Offshore Wind Power Development Asia 2012 will bring together government, wind farm developers and wind farm operators with turbine manufacturers, electrical engineering experts and construction and engineering consultants to unlock China’s wind energy potential and ensure the timely delivery of offshore wind farm projects. Featuring 5 leading Offshore Wind Project case studies, hear from 16+ leaders in the Wind Energy industry to: • Understand new regulations and 2nd round public bidding procedures of offshore wind projects in China • Identify development opportunities and challenges • Examine the…

Main Keywords: • Lightweight • Lightweighting • Carbon fiber composites • BIW • body in white • Polymer composites • Automotive plastics • High-strength Steel • Advanced High-strength Steels (AHSS) • HHS • Magnesium Alloy • Aluminum panel • Emission standards • Vehicle mass reduction • Forming • Welding • Joining Technologies • High-performance Polymers Automotive Lightweight Materials 2012 Having successfully organised automotive conferences in the US and Europe to explore these top notch technologies and best practices, Automotive IQ is delighted to bring this international platform to China. In addition, you will expect to meet with the Chinese leading…

Best Practice Forum to Building and Delivering an Effective and Cost-Effective Strategy The IT industry is facing a serious dilemma: to stay with the co-location option or to build their own. More often than not the end-users find it difficult to see the business case for building their own datacentre with an ever-increasing storage need. Our conference will provide a unique opportunity of detailed guidelines through the process of making the decision between data co-location or rental and the new build construction of a datacentre, bringing you the latest industry case studies from sophisticated as well as from entry level…

Overview: This webinar details both regulations and provides details for implementing computerized systems. Learn exactly what is needed to be compliant for all three primary compliance areas: SOPs for the IT infrastructure, industry standards for software product features, and the 10-step risk-based validation approach. This webinar demystifies Part 11 and the new European equivalent Annex 11. It gets you on the right track for using electronic records and signatures to greatly increase productivity. Areas Covered in the Session: Which data and systems are subject to the regulations? What the regulations mean, not just what they say. Avoid 483 and Warning…

This webinar on clinical site audit/ inspection will outline the responsibilities of the Investigator and the clinical research coordinator during and after site audits/inspections and show what you must do to ensure preparedness at all times. Why Should You Attend: The Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) plays a key role in the site’s success at audits/inspections, and must therefore know how to ensure the site is ready for an audit or inspection at all times. In order to ensure audit/inspection preparedness, the CRC must be aware of the applicable regulatory and sponsor requirements, guidelines and SOPs, and ensure the conduct of…

This 3-hr virtual seminar will discuss the requirements and compliance in medical device adverse event reporting and medical device surveillance/vigilance system in the US, Europe and Canada. It is designed to help the audience with their global compliance in adverse event reporting and surveillance/vigilance system during pre- and post-marketing. Why Should You Attend: To be able to achieve sustainability and to remain sustainable and competitive in global medical device markets, it is necessary to streamline regulatory compliance processes, in particular, the Adverse Event (AE) Reporting during clinical studies and post-marketing. Thus, to establish and maintain a medical device AE reporting…

“PBL and the Problematization of Teaching and Learning”, held by the Republic Polytechnic of Singapore, is an international PBL symposium that seeks to bring together educational and industry practitioners, scholars, researchers and curriculum developers from various pedagogic backgrounds that shape the future of PBL, particularly in the Asian region. The symposium offers an interdisciplinary forum to engage in dialogues and exchange of ideas on various PBL-related topics such as managing problem-based learning courses, assessing students’ learning progress, conducting PBL researches, harnessing technology in PBL, among many other issues. The symposium also features keynote addresses by eminent international speakers and includes…

This is the 18th annual course in Spinal surgery (previously known as The Hammersmith Spine Course) and is an annual International forum for trainees, consultants and industry scientists.

Your Dedicated NHS Clinical Research Costing Day: commercial and non commercial costing analysis revealed: delve deeper through interactive financial models for clinical research Gain confidence in your NHS clinical research finance Finance solutions are subjective: there is no one right or wrong approach to costing. This is where the challenge lies and this unique event has been designed to help you work through your finance challenges using 3 easy steps: Step 1: benefit from expert speakers’ insights and experiences: share their understanding and discover how they have approached the complexities of clinical research finance Step 2: work your way through…

Successfully transform your GloCal HR Service Delivery by utilising Social Media, HR Marketing and innovative recruitment strategies to consolidate your employee engagement efforts, improve employee motivation and add quantifiable value Over the past ten years, the HR world has undergone great operating changes. It has had to cope with the impact of recession, a raft of employment regulations, and found itself in need of re- evaluating its role. With the constant development of new technologies such as social media, the next ten years look to be just as challenging and exciting as the previous. HR Service Delivery is designed to…

The 7th Drug and Medical Device Litigation Conference will be a two-day, industry focused event specific to those within Drug & Medical Device Litigation, Product Liability and Regulatory Affairs in the Medical Device, Biotech and Pharmaceutical industries. By attending this event, industry leaders will share best practices, strategies and tools on incorporating litigation readiness, utilizing cost efficient litigation strategies and accurately managing policies to ensure an effective defense at trial. Attending This Event Will Enable You to: 1. Review the current landscape of drug and medical device litigation 2. Learn strategies in settlements and mass tort issues 3. Manage litigation…

Overview: This webinar will examine the existing and proposed requirements for the FDA's DHF -- including its derivative documents, the DMR and DHR. It will consider the MDD's TF/DD requirements, and evaluate the documents' differing purposes / goals. Required and desirable contents will be discussed. Also considered: Areas requiring frequent re-evaluation / update; Similarities and differences; Future trends; Typical DHF Table of Contents; Technical File or Design Dossier Table of Contents; The importance and usefulness of the "Essential Requirements"; Structure of the "Declaration of Conformity"; self-declaring or N-B reviewed; Parallel approaches to development. Finally, the differing approaches to file audits…

This 90-minute webinar will help you understand the 510K process including some history about 510ks versus PMAs and give you the necessary information to know when to file a 510k, as opposed to a PMA, or to not file any 510K of a new or existing medical device. Why Should You Attend: FDA is responsible for overseeing entry into the market of all medical devices. All devices, unless exempt, must go through a pre-market review for safety and efficacy. Anyone who wants to be a player in the medical device market must have a sound understanding of what is expected…

This Method Validation training in drug development process will provide guidance in setting appropriate specifications, determining if the assay is validatable, and monitoring progress during the validation. Why Should You Attend: This webinar will address frequently observed issues and problems with method validations. Validated methods are required for Phase III of the drug development process. Moving methods from the development phase to the validated phase ready for sample analysis does not always occur without unforeseen issues arising. Differences in laboratories and analysts, as well as instrumentation can contribute to delays in validating methods. Setting appropriate specifications and criteria based on…

The International Conference New Perspectives in Science Education will take place in Florence, Italy, on 8 -9 March 2012. The Conference has the aim to promote transnational cooperation and share good practice in the field of innovation for Science Education. The Call for Papers, in the framework of the New Perspectives in Science Education Conference, is addressed to researchers, teachers and experts as well as to coordinators of projects and initiatives in the field of science education. Researchers, teachers, experts and project coordinators in the field of science education are invited to submit an abstract of a paper to be…