At The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), the increased volume of research data generation, coupled with institutional culture, have led to the establishment of a multi-tiered research storage architecture to help meet these needs. This architecture and its associated policies were designed to stabilize and minimize the financial costs required to meet unconstrained research demand for increased research storage capacity. This talk provides an overview of the research computing environment at JAX, with a specific focus on the design decisions behind the capacity, performance, and availability choices of the research storage platforms with parallel and distributed computing systems, various data science and data analysis platforms, and data-generating scientific instrumentation.  

Vir is a relatively young but fast-growing biotech company with a cloud-first approach to IT systems. As part of implementing a cloud-based Electronic Lab Notebook solution, we wanted to ensure all raw data and analysis for experiments would be captured in an immutable vault, similar to what the ELN offered. This is the realm of Scientific Data Management Systems, which have traditionally been installed on-premises. We ended up implementing a newer cloud-based solution that both gives us the long-term, scalable storage vault we were seeking while also providing a data lake with metadata that can be mined by Vir’s Data Science team in the future. This talk will re-walk our winding path to this destination, including the alternatives we considered and the requirements we developed, and share what we learned along the way.

The cloud offers huge opportunity to scale research by leveraging public cloud compute elasticity. However, going all-in on the cloud is daunting at Petascale levels, especially with on-prem investments you want to leverage. We rarely see a complete lift-and-shift to the cloud; leading hybrid deployment to be the most effective use of resources.
 

This talk outlines strategies for getting the most from your cloud investment and leveraging existing on-prem storage infrastructure.

Austin Radiological Association (ARA) said ‘Goodbye’ to their old file servers because they couldn’t scale fast enough to keep up with the millions of medical images being created every year across 17 ARA locations. They replaced the aging tech with a modern cloud solution that simplified every aspect of managing, sharing, and protecting files. On top of it, they cut their IT budget in half. With limitless capacity on-demand, access to medical images and other files from any location, and improved data protection, file storage is no longer an impediment to growth for ARA. Attend this session to learn how ARA is continuing to modernize its approach to storing, sharing, protecting, and managing unstructured data at scale – all through a unified solution that meets strict compliance and security requirements, while saving millions of dollars. 

Too often we let technology drive our decisions and forget that all technology should be a manifestation of business strategy. In this talk we will start with our business objectives and explain how each step in our technology evolution was designed toward those goals.  This will not be a technical talk but rather focus on how we have leveraged tools to clear hurdles to achieving our business strategy.

Improving productivity of delivering new and better medicines for patients requires new ways to drug discovery. One of the key pillars for doing so is computational biology. This poses a strong demand for data across the value chain. Providing a FAIR, flexible and agile access to data for computation requires to apply new principles for data architecture (i.e., we must leave behind monolithic and inflexible vintage architecture principles we are so familiar with in order to enable a step change in the way we work with data). This talk will focus on and discuss future proof data architecture principles in early research.

Modern AI results are driven by massive data movement to and from storage devices and GPU. But traditional system architecture limitations constrain the design possibilities of these solutions. Join Liqid's Chief AI Architect to discuss the AI challenges facing modern research organizations, and a new way to deploy bare metal AI systems via software called Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI). 

The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments. CIS Controls and CIS Benchmarks provide foundational tools to prioritize security program control implementations according to known threats. CIS is the home of the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), whose mission is to improve the overall cybersecurity posture of the nation's state, local, tribal and territorial governments. All members have access to our Controls, Benchmarks, and software tools to implement them at no-cost. This talk will explain the CIS best practices as well as the resources available.

From ER waiting rooms to rural 911 calls to clinical studies with the microbiome to eye-tracking in cardiovascular disease to issues in EMR trust, the nurse-patient and physician-patient trust bonds remain the strongest in the world. Dr. Shah will briefly outline these use-cases along with a "mind-map" approach to trust in EMR systems.

IT Security is a discipline that has always had too few dollars chasing too many problems. A significant hurdle is when an organization’s security spend is effectively utilized, there are few operational compromises supporting the necessity of the spend. It is important to convey a situational awareness of an organization’s security standing with appropriate metrics when things are operationally satisfactory to prevent enterprise regression to a posture of unacceptable vulnerability. Conventional and novel metrics and algorithms will be discussed with an emphasis on leading prediction focused measurement techniques to advance interventions before they are needed.

Recent news-cycles have provided ample proof on the importance of cybersecurity and trust. Data currency, accuracy, provenance and trust are on the critical path for digital health, software and manufacturing supply chains, RWD/RWE and the future of clinical trials. Sanjay will host a panel of standards experts and practitioners from the biopharma and healthcare industries.