Spotfire Quarterly Connect+ | PerkinElmer Informatics

December 7 Session Overview

Agenda:

• Practices in Visual Analytics

	- Design for human perception
	- Patterns, Estimation, Inference
	- Time and Space

• Lead Discovery focused Visual Analytics

	- Structure Rendering
	- Structure Search
	- R-Group Decomposition

• Spotfire Tips and Tricks

• Spotfire Office Hours

Speakers

	Michael O’Connell Chief Analytics Officer, TIBCO Michael O'Connell leads the TIBCO Data Science team, a group of ~30 data science experts and practitioners. This team delivers an evolving set of AI-Apps and Tech Tools across the analytics life cycle and multiple industries. This includes Spotfire Mods, Data Functions and AI Apps in science, engineering, manufacturing, customer and marketing analytics. Michael received his Ph.D. in Statistics at North Carolina State University. He has been working on statistical software applications for the past 30 years. His 2012 book ‘A Picture is Worth a Thousand Tables’ is devoted to best practices visual analytics, with focus on data from life sciences.
	Neil Kanungo Data Science Manager, TIBCO Neil Kanungo specializes in data visualization, real-time analytics, IoT, and geoanalytics. Using the full suite of TIBCO’s Analytics portfolio, he helps organizations surmount their biggest challenges. Outside of software, Neil takes a special interest in operationalizing analytics across organizations and building analytics adoption within teams. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and Texas Tech University with degrees in Radiation Physics and Mechanical Engineering. In his free time, he enjoys outdoor sports, hiking with his dog, and live music.
	Don Sullivan Principal Field Application Scientist, PerkinElmer Informatics Don joined PerkinElmer Informatics after 11 years at TIBCO Spotfire where he helped build their clinical practice and worked with both life sciences research and development customers. Prior to joining PKI, he worked in pre-sales consulting and pre-sales management positions at TIBCO Spotfire, Zephyr Health, Cytobank, Ingenuity, Incyte Genomics and Proteome. Before moving over to the software world, he was research scientist at Mitotix, Inc. Don earned his PhD in Cell Biology at Cornell which was followed by a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton.

September 14 Session Overview

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Agenda:
	• Spotfire Mods in Life Science, Dannys Martinez, PerkinElmer Informatics.
	• Out of the box and Outside the Box - Innovative Spotfire Visuals, Laura Hernandez, PerkinElmer Informatics.
	• Tips & Tricks and Open Office Hours, Linda Kewitsch & Dannys Martinez, PerkinElmer Informatics.

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.
	Laura Hernandez Team Lead Analytics Consulting Services Laura Hernandez gained her double Master of Computer Science from the National Institute of Applied Sciences, Toulouse (France) and Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). Laura joined PerkinElmer Informatics in 2015 as Senior Consultant in the Europe Services team, and her focus over these years has been to help customers to deploy and use efficiently Spotfire based solutions as well as coordinating the technical team and delivering architectural work.

June 8 Session Overview

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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

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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.