{"id":97,"date":"2017-05-29T09:14:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T13:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=97"},"modified":"2019-10-25T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T19:19:13","slug":"bio-it-world-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/29\/bio-it-world-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio-IT World 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, one of my favorite conferences celebrated its 15th year: <a href=\"http:\/\/bio-itworldexpo.com\/\">Bio-IT World<\/a>.  This is one of only a few forums where my particular professional community comes together to share our experiences, re-connect, and to try to catch a glimpse of what the future might hold.  I\u2019ve been showing up since at least 2004, and it\u2019s always great to see old friends and to meet new ones.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m on the committee that awards \u201cBest Practices,\u201d and also \u201cBest In Show.\u201d  This year I didn\u2019t actually get to walk around and see the teams present their work.  I missed that \u2013 it\u2019s a private tour of the most interesting products and exhibitors.  We were amazed at the strength of the entries this year.  We saw projects from clinical diagnostics, agricultural genomics, semantic reasoning, and so very much more.  The choices are never straightforward, but this year turned some sort of a corner for me in terms of direct impact and technical maturity.<\/p>\n<p>The most fun two hours of the show was moderating the re-imagined \u201cTrends from the Trenches.\u201d  Chris Dagdigian has been giving that talk since 2008, and he finally won his multi-year battle to expand it beyond just him.  We re-framed the session as a panel \/ mini-symposium including five <a href=\"http:\/\/bioteam.net\">Bioteam<\/a> people.  It was a thrill to try to keep up with that crew, live and in real time.  We tried a couple of experiments in audience interaction while we were at it, <a href=\"http:\/\/sli.do\">Slido<\/a> to submit and vote on topics, and a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/getcatchbox.com\">Catchbox<\/a> throwable microphones.  There was immediate synergy between the two systems:  The very first Slido question was \u201ccan you reach the back of the auditorium with the Catchbox?\u201d I couldn\u2019t, but got an audience assist and it worked out okay.<\/p>\n<p>I also got to give a solo talk in the Data track, focused on a couple of practical points about cloud technologies and data management.  I\u2019ve put those slides online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/chrisdwan\/2017-bio-it-world\">Slideshare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everybody at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthtech.com\/\">CHI<\/a> who worked so hard to put together a great show.  See you next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, one of my favorite conferences celebrated its 15th year: Bio-IT World. This is one of only a few forums where my particular professional community comes together to share our experiences, re-connect, and to try to catch a glimpse of what the future might&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}