Past Events

Open Source VistA Innovation for VA-- at the Intersection of Progress & Process

Event Details
Type: 
Seminar/Webinar
Date: 
October 18, 2016 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Deanne Clark of DSS will highlight some key enhancements for modernizing VistA contributed by DSS to the Open Source/OSEHRA Community and examine the challenges and barriers to VA code intake.

Open Hardware Summit 2016

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 7, 2016 - 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
1332 West Burnside Street
Portland, OR 97209
United States

The Open Hardware Summit is an annual event hosted by the Open Source Hardware Association. The Open Source Hardware Association aims to be the voice of the open hardware community, ensuring that technological knowledge is accessible to everyone, and encouraging the collaborative development of technology that serves education, environmental sustainability, and human welfare.

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11th DoD/VA and Gov Health IT Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 4, 2016 (All day) - October 5, 2016 (All day)
Location: 
Mary M. Gates Learning Center/United Way
701 N. Fairfax St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
United States

Defense Strategies Institute is proud to announce their 11th DoD/VA and Gov Health IT Summit occurring on October 4-5, 2016. With the central theme of “Advancing the Coordination of Health IT,” the Summit will bring together senior leaders from DoD, VA, HHS, Federal and State agencies, along with leaders from Industry and Academia that support them, for two days of Government briefings and informal discussions in their "Town Hall" setting in Alexandria, VA. DSI has created a Summit that will bring together a variety of stakeholders in order to build out two days of discussion and debates that tackle many of the areas involved in modernizing the DoD and VA health systems in order to provide better care to our warfighters and veterans.

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OpenClinica 2016 Global Conference

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Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 3, 2016 (All day) - October 4, 2016 (All day)
Location: 
Joseph B. Martin Conference Centerat Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA
United States

This year’s OpenClinica conference will be held Oct 3rd & 4th, 2016 in Boston, MA. The event is located in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical Area within The New Research Building at Harvard Medical School, The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School.  Read More »

eHealthALIVE 2016

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
September 6, 2016 - 10:00am - September 7, 2016 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Sandton Convention Centre
161 Maude Street
Johannesburg 2196
South Africa

eHealthALIVE 2016 is designed to bring patients, caregivers, health workers, public health and eHealth experts, researchers, policy makers, and members of the public together to collaborate on to improve the health of people in Southern Africa. Read More »

O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 26, 2016 - 10:00am - August 27, 2016 - 7:15pm
Location: 
Javits Center
655 W 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
United States

The O'Reilly AI Conference will cover all the most essential—and intriguing—topics in applied AI. You'll learn how to implement AI in your projects, uncover AI's limitations and untapped opportunities, and explore how AI will change the business landscape. And you'll meet the brightest minds in applied AI, including keynotes from Microsoft's Lili Cheng, Peter Norvig of Google, and Facebook's Yann LeCun. Urs Muller from NVIDIA will address learning for autonomous driving...

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Linux Security Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 25, 2016 - 10:00am - August 26, 2016 - 6:30pm
Location: 
Westin Harbour Castle
1 Harbour Square
Toronto, ON M5J 1A6
Canada

The Linux Security Summit (LSS) is a technical forum for collaboration between Linux developers, researchers, and end users. Its primary aim is to foster community efforts in analyzing and solving Linux security challenges. The LSS is a unique global event which provides the opportunity to present and discuss your work or research with key Linux security community members and maintainers...

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The Xen Project Developer Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 25, 2016 - 10:00am - August 26, 2016 - 6:30pm
Location: 
Westin Harbour Castle
1 Harbour Square
Toronto, ON M5J 1A6
Canada

The Xen Project creates an industry leading open source hypervisor that is powering some of the largest clouds in production today. During 13 years of development, the Xen Project enabled many different use cases covering datacentre and server virtualization, cloud computing, desktop virtualization,  security for desktop computing and within hardware appliances. More recently, the Xen Project started to expand into new markets covering NFV, mobile virtualization, embedded virtualization and automotive...

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OpenStack East

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 23, 2016 - 10:00am - August 24, 2016 - 6:30pm
Location: 
PlayStation Theater
1515 Broadway at 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
United States

This August, we’re gathering the OpenStack community for the first OpenStack Day in New York City. This conference will include keynote presentations, panels, networking, and demo sessions, all with some of the most notable names in the OpenStack community. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about new products, project updates, and more...

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Open Source Open Society (OS//OS) Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 22, 2016 - 11:00am - August 23, 2016 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Michael Fowler Centre Wellington, WGN
New Zealand

OS//OS is back and will be bigger, bolder and better in 2016. Over 2 days we'll showcase, connect and amplify the impact of the people and organisations who are designing, sharing, building, making, working, exploring, debating, advocating and championing an open world that is better for business, technology and democracy. Join us for a highly interactive conference; designed a platform to serve global leaders, local champions and the community building around them...

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LinuxCon North America

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 22, 2016 - 9:30am - August 24, 2016 - 11:30pm
Location: 
Westin Harbour Castle
1 Harbour Square
Toronto, ON M5J 1A6
Canada

LinuxCon is the place to learn from the best and the brightest, delivering content from the leading maintainers, developers and project leads in the Linux community and from around the world. There's simply no other event in North America where developers, sys admins, architects and all types and levels of technical talent gather together under one roof for education, collaboration and problem-solving to further the Linux platform...

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ContainerCon North America

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 22, 2016 - 9:30am - August 24, 2016 - 11:30pm
Location: 
Westin Harbour Castle
1 Harbour Square
Toronto, ON M5J 1A6
Canada

Linux has been at the center of this with advancements in nearly every aspect of virtualization with Linux containers being the most recent disruptive technology. The Linux Foundation is launching a new conference called ContainerCon to bring together leading contributors in Linux containers, the Linux kernel, and related projects to forge a path to continued innovation and education. Linux containers are disrupting traditional application development and virtualization models; enabling businesses to explore new, improved methods of deploying their services and products...

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IDLELO7

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 22, 2016 - 2:00am - August 27, 2016 - 2:00am
Location: 
IDLELO7 Secretariat Information Access Center, Ministry of ICT Building,
Plot 10/12 Parliamentary Avenue
Kampala
Uganda

The National Information Technology Authority-Uganda (NITA-U) is pleased to announce the African Conference on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and the Digital Commons (IDLELO) 2016. As part of the efforts to promote FOSS in Uganda in line with the Draft Free and Open Source Software policy and Strategy, National information Technology Authority (NITA-U) has identified hosting of an Open Source Conference in Uganda as one of the promotion activities for Open Source in the region...

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2016 VIVO Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 17, 2016 - 10:30am - August 19, 2016 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Denver Marriott City Center
1701 California St.
Denver, CO 80202
United States

The seventh annual VIVO conference in 2016 creates a unique opportunity for people from across the country and around the world to come together in the spirit of promoting scholarly collaboration and research discovery. The VIVO conference is an excellent opportunity to meet with VIVO team members from participating institutions, and offers an open and collaborative environment to share ideas and discuss topics related to adoption and implementation of VIVO, VIVO-based tools and the opportunities created by advancing data sharing and team science.

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OpenSym 2016

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 17, 2016 - 10:00am - August 19, 2016 - 5:30pm
Location: 
Fraunhofer FOKUS
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31
Berlin 10589
Germany

The International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym, formerly WikiSym) is an annual conference series dedicated to open collaboration research and practice. OpenSym’s fiscal sponsor is the U.S.-based 501(c)3 tax exempt non-profit organization The John Ernest Foundation. Any donations to OpenSym are therefore tax deductible under U.S. tax law...

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OpenStack Days: Silicon Valley 2016

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
August 9, 2016 - 10:00am - August 10, 2016 - 5:30pm
Location: 
Computer History Museum
1401 N Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA 94043
United States

In its third year, OpenStack Silicon Valley features thought leadership keynotes from open source infrastructure disruptors and IT leaders for Fortune 1000 enterprises on the edge of digital transformation. The event format features keynotes and deep dives on the main stage, with sponsored breakouts that go into specific solutions and technologies driving the agile revolution. OpenStack Silicon Valley is a community event, with ways for community members of every size to participate. Join us in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum on August 9-10...

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Redwood MedNet 2016

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
July 17, 2016 (All day) - July 18, 2016 (All day)
Location: 
HILTON SONOMA WINE COUNTRY HOTEL Santa Rosa, CA
United States

Connecting California to Improve Patient Care is an annual conference featuring presentations on electronic health records (EHR) and on the use of national technology standards to establish interoperability for electronic patient health data. Conference presenters will explain state of the art solutions for securely sharing electronic clinical information between heterogenous computer systems at unaffiliated health care facilities, such as outpatient practices, hospitals, laboratories, imaging centers, long term care, home health, EMS, public health, payers, patient engagement portals, and mobile apps.

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OSEHRA 2016 Open Source Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
June 27, 2016 (All day) - June 29, 2016 (All day)
Location: 
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center Bethesda, MD
United States

Looking to gain expertise in both public and private sector open source health IT?  Want to collaborate on global state-of-the-art solutions for electronic health records, and population health tool development? Need access to domestic and international market opportunities?  Then OSEHRA’s 5th annual Open Source Summit, held just outside of Washington, DC from June 27-29, 2016, is the place for you. Nearly 400 industry leaders, federal and state government officials, academics, clinicians, developers, and researchers participated in the 2015 OSEHRA Open Source Summit—with representation from the United States, Canada, India, Jordan, Mexico, Romania, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. Do not miss your opportunity to join them this year!

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tranSMART Foundation i2b2 Symposium

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
June 23, 2016 (All day)

The tranSMART Foundation has joined forces with the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) to host the tranSMART Foundation i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside) Symposium on June 23, 2016 at HMS. The all-day meeting, beginning at 8:00 a.m. with registration and the program running from 8:30 a.m. -5:30 p.m., will focus on the integration between and use of the tranSMART platform for translational medicine and the i2b2 platform. The sessions will cover the use of tranSMART and i2b2 in research programs, as well as presentations by scientists and clinicians who are using both platforms in their research studies. Confirmed speakers include...

Setting Up Early Stage Clinical Trials

Event Details
Type: 
Seminar/Webinar
Date: 
June 1, 2016 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: 
Hewlett Packard
1501 Page Mill Rd Building 5
Palo Alto, CA 94304
United States

The number of registered clinical trials has been increasing steadily from 83,000 in 2010 to 210,000 in March 2016 (33,000 of which are Phase 0 and I studies) while R&D spending for clinical trials has not grown as rapidly...With 17% of registered clinical trials being early phase studies, we asked experts from the sponsor and CRO worlds to share their knowledge on how to best set up and manage early stage clinical trials to meet this difficult environment. They will explore some of the challenges small and start-up biotechs face when launching clinical development programs:

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