Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2017

The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo is a conference designed to showcase a wide variety of IT and informatics applications and enabling technologies for biomedical research, clinical and healthcare initiatives, and drug discovery and development. More than 3,300 delegates representing 41 countries are expected to attend this three-day event. The 2017 conference features keynote presentations, more than 280 speakers, workshops, industry awards, an exhibit hall, and the FAIR Data Hackathon 2017.

The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2017 offers 13 different tracks, including Data & Storage Management, Data Computing, Networking Hardware, Software Applications & Services, Cloud Computing, Bioinformatics, Next-Gen Sequencing Informatics, Clinical Research & Translational Informatics, Data Visualization & Exploration Tools, Phamaceutical R&D Informatics, Clinical Genomics, Cancer Informatics, and Data Security. The conference also offers 14 different workshops. The agendas for the workshops can be found here.

The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2017 is co-located with the Medical Informatics World Conference (May22-23). Paid attendees for the Bio-It World Conference & Expo can receive a discounted rate for the Medical Informatics World Conference. Pricing and registration for the conference can be found here.

Plenary Keynote Presenters include:

• Rommie E. Amaro, PhD. (Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry; Director, National Biomedical Computation Resource, University of California, San Diego)
• Rainer Fuchs, Ph.D. (CIO, Harvard Medical School)
• William Mayo (CIO, Broad Institute)
• Andrea T. Norris (Director, Center for Information Technology (CIT) and CIO, NIH
• Aarti Shah, Ph.D. (Senior Vice President and CIO, Eli Lilly and Company)
• Edison T. Liu, M.D. (President and CEO, The Jackson Laboratory)

A full list of other conference speakers can be found here.