Dear Colleague:

I am pleased to announce production of Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s and the BioPharma Strategy Series’ Eighth Annual Strategic Resource Management conference being held November 2-3, 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Philadelphia
Downtown Hotel in Philadelphia, PA.

If you are interested in presenting, please submit a speaking proposal for review. We are looking for case study-based presentations and the deadline for submissions is March 12, 2010. Please note that priority for submissions will be given to those from within large and small pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as those with pertinent case studies from major oil & gas, defense, aerospace, IT, and telecom companies. Additionally, as per BPSS policy, a select number of vendors/consultants who provide products and services to these biopharmaceutical companies are offered opportunities for podium presentation slots based on a variety of Corporate Sponsorships.

Each year the Strategic Resource Management attracts over 100 participants who help lead their organization’s resource management strategy. Our 2010 meeting will build on last year's successful event with novel case studies and perspectives from thought leaders. Key issues to be addressed include:

• Designing strategic and flexible resource management systems specifically for pharma R&D
• Optimizing resource allocation to efficiently drive the most promising projects 
• Building partnerships between project management, resource management, functional management, and finance
• Allocating resource projects and studies in this contracting environment
• Understanding the impact of partnerships and co-development deals on resource and portfolio management
• Pursuing operational excellence: competitive advantages, new operating models, a new lean industry, and learning from resource process development beyond just clinical
• Embracing the changing R&D business models: off-shoring, in-sourcing, in-out licensing and risk-sharing
• Avoiding budget creep and achieving accurate clinical trial forecasting and budgeting
• Implications for resource and portfolio management of different development paradigms: research, early and late stage development
• Aligning portfolio & productivity with corporate strategy to drive strategic resource allocation
• In addition, a Pre-Conference Workshop: ‘Maximizing Portfolio Value in a Time of Increasingly Constrained Resources’

Again this year, we will be running the meeting back to back with the fifth annual meeting focused on Portfolio Management, which takes place November 3-4. Both meetings will come together for a plenary session on the afternoon of November 3rd creating a three-day event (Nov. 2-4) covering the topics most important to you.

Please review the past program from November 2009. I welcome your feedback, preferred topics, and speaker referrals as we shape the 2010 program.

Please share your feedback and speaker suggestions with us at this time and do join us in Philadelphia in November.

Very sincerely,

Micah Lieberman

For questions or suggestions about the meeting, please contact:
Micah Lieberman
Executive Director, Conferences
BioPharma Strategy Series
Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI)
T: (+1) 541.482.4709
E: mlieberman@healthtech.com

For exhibit, partnering and sponsorship information, please contact:
Arnold Wolfson
Business Development Manager
BioPharma Strategy Series
Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI)
T: (+1) 781.972.5431
E: awolfson@healthtech.com
 
For media and association partnerships, please contact:
Jim MacNeil
Vice President, Marketing
Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI)
T: (+1) 781.972.5441
E: jmacneil@healthtech.com

Bethany Gray
Marketing Manager
Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI)
T: (+1) 781.972.5494
E:  bgray@healthtech.com