Spotfire Quarterly Connect+

Join us for this ongoing Spotfire Quarterly Connect+ community series and learn how you can go beyond and get more out of your data using PerkinElmer Informatics' Spotfire powered solutions. Connect with industry experts and colleagues that will help you gain critical insights from scientific data to drive data-driven decisions in real time.

2022 Sessions

DATES: September 14, and December 7

TIME: 8 AM PT/11 AM ET/5 PM CET

This quarterly event will follow a similar agenda structure each month:

Spotfire Spotlight Presentation
Use Case Presentation
Spotfire Tips & Tricks
Open Office Hours

September 14 Session Overview

Agenda:
	• Customer presentation, TBC.
	• Spotfire Mods in Life Science, Dannys Martinez, PerkinElmer Informatics.
	• Spotfire Tips & Tricks, Linda Kewitsch, PerkinElmer Informatics.
	• Spotfire Office hours.

PerkinElmer Informatics Speakers

Linda Kewitsch
Senior Informatics Field Application Scientist- Biological Applications

Linda Kewitsch gained her Master of Science in Plant Biotechnology from the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Linda joined PerkinElmer Informatics in 2011 as Service Engineer, deploying and configuring Electronic Notebook and Analytical Solutions. In 2015, Linda joined the FAS team, helping customers to understand and evaluate PerkinElmer’s biologics related product portfolio.

Dannys Martínez
Senior Informatics Product Sales Specialist

Dannys Martínez is currently a Field Application Scientist at Perkin Elmer Informatics (PKI). He is focused on helping other scientists efficiently analyze and visualize their biological sequence data, with PerkinElmer Informatics’ solutions for lead discovery. With a background in Protein Structure and High-throughput Genomic Sequencing, he earned a PhD in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2017.

June 8 Session Overview


Agenda:
	• Replace your Spotfire analysis templates with Signals VitroVivo workflows, Dr.Christof Gänzler & Kevin Ryan, PerkinElmer Informatics.
	• Spotfire Tips & Tricks, Alexandra Vamvakidou, PerkinElmer Informatics
	• Spotfire Office hours, Alexandra Vamvakidou, Christof Gänzler & Kevin Ryan, PerkinElmer Informatics

PerkinElmer Informatics Speakers

	Christof Gaenzler PhD Molecular Biologist and expert in Life Science R&D data analysis and processing Christof Gänzler gained his doctorate in molecular biology from German Cancer Center (dkfz) in Heidelberg/Germany working on Human Papilloma Virus vaccines. Previously he held positions at LION Bioscience as a Scientific Bioinformatics Consultant before joining TIBCO Spotfire. There he led the Central European Sales Consultants team and later Christof joined ZephyrHealth. Then he came to PerkinElmer Informatics as Manager, Scientific Analytics and later Christof was responsible for strategic marketing and business development of Signals VitroVivo and Signals Image Artist. Today he is the Product Marketing Manager for Biology.
	Kevin Ryan Senior Product Marketing Manager Kevin Ryan has over twenty years of experience applying his engineering background with a specific focus on modeling and simulation. Previously the director of engineering at an SPR instrumentation company, he is currently senior product marketing manager for Signals VitroVivo and Signals Inventa.
	Alexandra Vamvakidou Principal Field Application Scientist- Data Analytics Alexandra holds a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University. As a PerkinElmer Principal Field application scientist, she works closely with researchers to identify their challenges and propose solutions.

March 9 Session Overview


Agenda:
	• What´s new in Spotfire, Gerard Conway, PerkinElmer Informatics.
	• Spotfire-powered analyses for Biologics: Advanced Sequence Analyses with Lead Discovery Premium, Dannys Martinez, PerkinElmer Informatics.
	• Scaling Spotfire in a High Growth Pharmatech, Alastair Pate, Exscientia.
	• TIBCO Spotfire Tips & Tricks, Gerard Conway & Ismail Ijjaali, PerkinElmer Informatics.
	• TIBCO Spotfire Open Office Hours, Dannys Martinez, PerkinElmer Informatics.

Invited Guest Industry Speaker

Dr.Alastair Pate
Associate Director Data, Science, Exscientia

Alastair currently works as Associate Director, Data Science at Exscientia where he is responsible for the visualization of scientific data. Prior to this Alastair worked in Financial Services, where he held a number of roles in data science/analytics. Alastair has longstanding experience of working in drug discovery informatics, having previously been the Informatics Manager for the Drug Discovery Unit at the University of Dundee and has also held positions at Organon/Merck. Alastair successfully gained a MSc in Data Science in 2016 and completed his PhD in Pharmacology at Imperial College, London.

PerkinElmer Informatics Speakers

	Gerard Conway Senior Field Application Specialist Gerard has spent the past 20 years working in Life Science informatics across the full range of Life Science functions including Research, Clinical and Commercial. Gerard has spent the past 7 years at PerkinElmer to helping deliver scientific focused analytics applications built on the TIBCO™ Spotfire® platform. Prior to joining PerkinElmer Informatics he spent 10 years working for TIBCO where he was a Senior Solutions Consultant and Solutions Consultant Manager working with numerous global pharmaceutical companies and CROs on a wide variety of analytic projects. Gerard has a BSc in Biochemistry from National University of Ireland Galway and an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Manchester.
	Dannys Martínez Senior Informatics Product Sales Specialist Dannys Martínez is currently a Field Application Scientist at Perkin Elmer Informatics (PKI). He is focused on helping other scientists efficiently analyze and visualize their biological sequence data, with PerkinElmer Informatics’ solutions for lead discovery. With a background in Protein Structure and High-throughput Genomic Sequencing, he earned a PhD in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2017.
	Ismail Ijjaali Manager, EMEA Field Application Scientists Ismail Ijjaali received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Henri-Poincaré University, Nancy, France. After his post-doctoral fellowship at Northwestern University Chicago and a diploma in Computational Chemistry, Ismail spent 8 years at Aureus Sciences (now part of Elsevier) where he was involved in consulting activities for their chemical/biological knowledge databases and managing several funded European projects in drug discovery. Ismail joined PerkinElmer in 2012 as part of our Regional Marketing team working on Chemistry Enterprise solutions and Analytics. Currently, Ismail holds the position as Manager of the EMEAI Field Application Scientist team.