Innovation Advisory Board Sample Clauses

Innovation Advisory Board. Our Centre’s Innovation Advisory Board, or IAB, has moved from strength to strength. We started with around 14 IAB members for the first meeting and now, to date, we currently have 20 IAB members. The members include academics specialising in HPC and professional sustainable software practices, practicing medics from hospitals and universities, alongside members from Industry, particularly SMEs. The members come from both our Core and Associate Partners but, most importantly, also from outwith CompBioMed altogether. All IAB members sign NDAs upon attendance and present their own personal views which may be different to the views of their home intuitions. IAB members from industry come from the following industrial companies, in no particular order: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, EvoTec (UK) Ltd, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Neuravi Ltd, CADREM Ireland Ltd, and Medtronic Plc. The first IAB meeting was held at UCL in London on the 30th of May 2017. Six of the then fourteen members were in attendance, along with four CompBioMed staff members. What follows is a description of the 1st IAB Recommendations: Create a Forum: ● specialists/practitioners can learn what is out there ● provide translation/terminology service o clinicians don't understand biotech who, in turn, don't understand hpc ● Offer consultancy for o data management ▪ storage/movement o connecting with other groups o FAQs ▪ pre-clinical studies ▪ how to get results quickly ● “ask an expert” button for real-time interaction Provide a directory of services ● lists of contacts, groups, information, providers ● exhaustive list of CBM resources o codes, platforms, models, paradigms, etc. o list of associated experts o public domain ▪ perhaps a second one is needed for internal use only Create CompBioMed Ambassadors ● Informed and empowered members to attend conferences Offer speed-up of existing software ● web browser app that looks like familiar UI ● front-end to cloud HTC/HPC ● Time to solution reduced by 50% is not good enough o Reduce from hours to minutes Shift focus ● More on SMEs, less on practitioners o Focus on early results o Clinicians will be slow to employ CompBioMed results ● More on Models, less on HTC/HPC o General workshops are simply too general o Model-specific workshops ▪ Speed of compute is key, however ▪ Underlying code not of interest ● More on HTC, less on HPC Miscellaneous ● Offer Solutions as a Service o Not “Software as a Service” or “HPC as a Service” o Create pictorial repr...
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Innovation Advisory Board. Our Centre’s Innovation Advisory Board, or IAB, has moved from strength to strength. We started with around 14 IAB members for the first meeting and currently have 19 IAB members. The members include academics specialising in HPC and professional sustainable software practices, practicing medics from hospitals and universities, alongside members from Industry, particularly SMEs. The members come from both our Core and Associate Partners but, most importantly, the majority are from outwith CompBioMed. All IAB members sign NDAs upon attendance and present their own personal views which may be different to the views of their home intuitions. IAB members from industry come from the following industrial companies, in no particular order: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Evotec (UK) Ltd, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Neuravi Ltd, CADFEM Ireland Ltd, and Medtronic Plc.
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