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Hello <<Salutation>> Reader,
We are very excited to present our second ISC Cloud & Big Data conference keynote speaker, Professor Peter V. Coveney, who will be talking about the current state-of-the-art in the development of personalized medicine on September 30.
In his presentation titled “The Virtual Human: In Silico Methods for Personalised Medicine,” Coveney will talk about the opportunities and challenges involved in developing personalized medical treatment for patients. Currently one of the major challenges posed is the ability to analyze a substantial amount of patient data and to use it for predictive modeling. The goal is to deliver therapies and to enhance clinical decision making, on time scales which are far shorter than those usually considered in the context associated with academic research and development activities.
Coveney will provide a couple of examples which illustrate the current state of the art. One addresses clinical decision support in the context of blood flow within neurovascular pathologies; the other is concerned with patient-specific drug discovery and treatment. He will also discuss the underlying infrastructure requirements, including data, compute and networks, and reflect on the potential for cloud and other approaches to meet future needs.
Hurry up with your registration – early bird ends August 19!
For the full program, please use our agenda planner - http://www.isc-events.com/cbd15_ap/. Apart from Prof. Coveney, over 40 cloud computing and big data experts will be addressing the latest and highly relevant topics in the tutorials, business, technology and research tracks.
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Introducing Professor Peter V. Coveney
 Professor Peter V. Coveney holds a chair in Physical Chemistry, is an Honorary Professor in Computer Science at University College London (UCL), and is Professor Adjunct at Yale University School of Medicine (USA). He is Director of the Centre for Computational Science (CCS) at UCL and Chair of the UK Collaborative Computational Projects Steering Panel. Coveney is active in a broad area of interdisciplinary research including condensed matter physics and chemistry, materials science, as well as life and medical sciences in all of which data-intensive high performance computing plays a major role. He has published more than 350 scientific papers and co-authored two best-selling books: The Arrow of Time and Frontiers of Complexity, both with Roger Highfield. He is lead author of the first textbook on Computational Biomedicine (Oxford University Press, 2014).
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ISC Cloud & Big Data Workshops
 In combination with the conference pass, or purchased separately for 145 Euro during the early-bird registration, you’ll have access to eight very interesting workshops on September 28.
Among the compelling workshops are “Using GPUs for Deep Learning – A Hands-On Introduction to Deep Learning for Accelerating Deep Learning on a GPU Cluster,” “Securing HPC in the Cloud,” “HPC Cloud Solutions for Manufacturing,” “Working in a Fairytale Country – Towards Becoming a Data Scientist,” “Large Scale Data Analytics with Amazon Web Services,” and “Large Scale Data Analytics with Amazon Web Services.”
If you visit the agenda app, you’ll notice that each workshop specifies its target audience, so, please take the time to browse through all of them to pick those that interest you most.
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Exhibition Update
We are happy to welcome Amazon Web Services, HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), Intel and NVIDIA as our event sponsors.
We are still open to limited sponsorship opportunities. If are interested in finding out more, please contact our customer relations manager, Anna Schachoff at anna.schachoff@isc-events.com.
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