EVENT: 5 May, 2023

Advancing Your Clinical Operations Technology Journey

Join NNIT, experts and peers from across the industry on Friday, May 5, 2023 for our second Knowledge Sharing Event: “Advancing Your Clinical Operations Technology Journey”. By attending, you will:

LEARN about the successes and challenges of implementing technologies, ranging from unified platforms, DCTs and AI tools, directly from those who have gone through the process.
HEAR from industry experts and peers in Singapore, the APAC region and the U.S. to understand current industry best practices and where the trends are headed.
ENGAGE in the conversation, share your insights, and gain from the experience of others while building your network and community.

This event is designed for R&D/clinical leaders in life science organizations looking to learn first-hand how others like them have adopted technology.

Agenda:

8:30 am – Welcome Coffee and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am – Meeting Kick-off

Event theme: Advancing the discussion from “what” technology to use, to “how” to successfully implement and optimize your technology investments.

9:15 am – Aligning Your Clinical Operations Technology with Your Business Goals to Achieve Unprecedented Outcomes

Deep dive into the industry technology adoption practices, and the achievement of real business outcomes by aligning your business goals and vision with your technology strategy.

10:30 am – Break
10:50 am - Where is Your Organization Within the Technology Adoption Life Cycle？ – Part I

Improve your understanding of your organization’s technology maturity to better align and realize your organization’s future business goals.
GUEST SPEAKER: Candace Rieder, Director Clinical Records, Global Head TMF Compliance and Inspection Readiness at Gilead Sciences will be joining us in-person to share Gilead's experience managing a mature eTMF; from daily eTMF operations to long-term business benefits and transformation.

11:30 am –Unlock the business benefits of data and improve your partner collaboration through data enablement.

GUEST SPEAKER: Susan Wang of Akesobio, based in China with offices in the US and Australia, will be sharing their experience implementing multiple EDC platforms for clinical trials within China and globally, their experience integrating EDC with other clinical operations technologies and their vision for consolidating the data for analysis and insights.in the future.

12:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 pm – Implementing AI Tools to Improve Clinical Operation Efficiency

With tools such as ChatGPT entering the market, the use of AI to increase efficiencies is quickly becoming a hot topic also within Clinical Operations. This session will focus on real-world examples of how AI tools are being implemented in Clinical Operations, giving attendees an overview of gains and challenges in implementing the technology.

1:20 pm – The Trends, ROI and Experience of Decentralized Clinical Trials
- GUEST SPEAKER: Jin Cen, APAC DCT Manager, Syneos Health, Tokyo Japan will be joining us in-person to discuss DCT trends in the US vs.APAC, provide an example of the ROI of DCTs and presenting a case study to share a sponsor's experience with implementing DCT technologies in APAC.

2:00 PM – Session Close

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Host: Wee Ming Chua, Head of Life Sciences – Advisory and Consulting, NNIT Asia

Date & Time:Friday, 5 May, 2023 8:30am – 2:00pm

Location: Parkroyal on Pickering

Current Presenters (additional presenters to be added):

Candace Rieder, Director Clinical Records, Global Head TMF Compliance and Inspection Readiness at Gilead Sciences

Candace has twenty-two years’ experience in the biopharmaceutical and medical device industry, specializing in the following areas:

Clinical Trial Document Management Professional focusing on developing and implementing high quality document management processes for Trial Master Files.
GCP Standards and Training focusing on developing Research and Development procedural documentation and training assets.
Project Management including the implementation and data migration activities for enterprise product lifecycle systems (Agile Oracle) and electronic document management solutions (Documentum and Veeva Vault Clinical eTMF.
Leadership in process design and change management.

Susan Wang – Head of Data Management, Akesobio

With 14 years of DM experience, Susan obtained CCDM certification in 2014 and Medidata Rave Builder certification in 2020. At present, she is the head of Akesobio’s Data Management (DM) Department, responsible for clinical data management, EDC build and automation development. Prior to joining Akesobio, she served as DM supervisor, data team lead and DM head in Rundo, IQVIA and Jeeyor. Susan has extensive DM experience in Phase I-III projects, especially in immunology and oncology.

Jin Cen, Manager of Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT) in Syneos Health

Jin Cen has 7 years’ experience in eCOA, ePRO, telemedicine, rater training project and program management for Asia Pacific.
In her current role, Jin acts as subject matter expert to support cross functional project teams on selection and implementation of appropriate use of decentralized solutions provided by both internal and external vendor partners. She is also developing and managing integrated DCT timelines and providing input to ensure implementation of decentralized solutions is in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures. Additionally, she is supporting Study Start Up staff in preparing required study and country level submissions required for regulatory and ethics approvals needed for contracted DCT assets on the study and providing ongoing risk management and mitigation strategies to ensure all project deliverables are successfully deployed

Wee Ming Chua, Head of Life Sciences – Advisory and Consulting, Asia at NNIT.

Wee Ming spearheads NNIT Asia’s strategy to deliver business transformational solutions to the Life Sciences industry through business process optimisation, best practices and digitalisation. Wee Ming is also the General Manager of NNIT Singapore where he oversees a team of over 40 consultants.

Wee Ming’s passions lie in Business and People Development; this has allowed him to be successful as an entrepreneur and become an expert in business start-ups in emerging Asian markets. A Biochemical Engineering Graduate from University College London, started his career as a Commissioning, Qualification and Validation Engineer and CSV specialist before embarking on a series of business ventures

Martin Lim, APAC Life Sciences Clinical Lead for NNIT

At NNIT, Martin is responsible for business development in the APAC region and identifying new opportunities to help life science companies accelerate their digital transformation from clinical operations, data management to decentralization of clinical trials.

Martin is passionate about advancing clinical research in the APAC region and has over 20 years of combined experience in Singapore and the U.S. as a start-up founder, clinical researcher and many leadership roles in healthcare software.

Martin holds an BS in Biology from UC Irvine, MS in Physiology from Georgetown University and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Business.

Franciska Darmer, Director, Clinical Life Science Advisory & Consulting at NNIT

With more than 25 years of experience within the life science industry, Franciska has worked for numerous Life Science organizations and technology vendors, supporting customers on their strategic digitalization journeys across clinical operations and data management. Franciska now leads the Global Clinical Advisory & Consulting program for NNIT – providing domain and IT services to Life Science organizations around the world.