Michael Braxenthaler, president of the Pistoia Alliance, describes progress over the past year and what to expect at the 2012 Conference.

1. The Pistoia Alliance
2nd Annual Conference
Boston - April 24,2012
http://pistoiaalliance.org

2. Welcome
© Dave Powell

3. Thanks!
Joe Donahue
Andreas Matern
Barbara Love

4. Thanks!
John Wise (Exec Director)
Deb Ausman (Communications)
Martyn Wilkins (Secretary)
Nick Lynch (External Liaison)
Ashley George (Treasurer)

5. Thanks!
Simon Thornber (GSK)
Sandor Szalma (Janssen)
David Kniaz (Merck)
Alex Drijver (ChemAxon)
Ramesh Durvasula (BMS)
Sean Ekins (CDD)
David Klatte (Pfizer)
Etzard Stolte, Ralph Schlapbach (HP)
Nick Trigg (Constellation Technologies)
Misha Kapushesky (Genestack)
William Spooner (Eagle Genomics)
Carl Chesal (Cycle Computing)

6. What you can expect today…
Delivery
• Sequence Services
– Overview (Simon Thornber)
– Presentations
– Demos
• HP
• Constellation Technologies/Genestack
• Eagle Genomics/Cycle Computing
• SequenceSqueeze Competition

7. What you can expect today…
Looking Forward:
Six New Pistoia Activities
• Dragon’s Den pitches
• Speed dating

8. The Pistoia Alliance – Setting The Stage
“Partnerships, integration and working
together are increasingly key themes in any
discussion about healthcare,
with the growing realization that no one
industry, organization, sector or service can
afford to go it alone, either financially or
practically.”
Source: PME (Pharmaceutical Market Europe) Nov 2011, www.pmlive.com

9. Rapidly Evolving Pharmaceutical Ecosystem
Proprietary
content
Public provider
content
provider
Big Life CRO Patient
Science organization
Company Pharma
Regulatory
authorities
Academic
group
Service provider
Software vendor

10. The Pistoia Mission
Lowering the barriers to
innovation
by improving inter-operability of
R&D business processes
through pre-competitive
collaboration
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11. Role of the Pistoia Alliance
• Standards: Landscape, gaps, sign-posting, agile
standards development
• Fostering the market place for shared services
– Example: Sequence Services Project
• Open innovation
– Example: SequenceSqueeze Competition
• Platform for collaborative projects with defined legal
and financial framework