Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Blogging the Annual Meeting- Day 3

Tuesday…seminar day!!!

Bought the one day “a la carte” session pass…picked Tuesday for the Biotechnology session in the morning and the C and Q session in the afternoon…it would have been nice to be able to attend the full day in each, but that was the luck of the draw based on the schedule.

The Biotech session started the day off with a schedule adjustment to accommodate some of the speakers’ requirements…Tony Lubineicki gave a nice presentation on the progress made in the previous 25 years in the biotech industry…good background for some of us who weren’t there in the glory days of the industry. Another presentation was made to review possibilities for the next 25 years…maybe we will begin to realize the true power of the human genome…missed part of this for phone calls from the office…oh yeah, people back at the office are still working on the project!!!, should turned my phone off, not just on silent… the first part of the morning session finished up with a case study for a flash-track project presented jointly by a client and the consulting engineer...the remainder of the day seemed to be given over to discussion regarding development and production of generic biotech products, so I decided to give the rest of the session a miss.

So…over to the C and Q session which was continuing a good presentation of the new guideline document…some of the authors were available to present the overall intent and scheme…

Lunch was the ISPE working business meeting, but enjoyable nonetheless, given the number of speeches and sundry discussions regarding budget approvals, etc, etc, etc…out of that giant sea of people wandering in to the lunch hall, I still managed to run into someone I knew…

Spent the rest of the afternoon in the C and Q session…

Dinner that night was the big gala celebration…had to wear a jacket to dinner…lot’s of speechifying, good dinner, good entertainer…back to the hotel…

The presentations, or some of them anyway are available on the ISPE website…I’ll be reviewing the sessions in more detail as I get the time…look for more to come!!!

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