LONDON, January 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Dean Flanders, CIO of the Novartis Research Foundation, Graham Watson, CTO at Cancer Research Technology and Martin Blueggel, COO at Protagen are among the thirty plus industry leaders presenting at the Smart Lab Exchange this February.

They join representatives from organisations such as The Hershey Company, Dow Chemical, Pfizer, L'Oreal, Cargill and Johnson & Johnson will gather to share best practice in senior level data strategy in a non-competitive cross industry forum.

The Smart Lab Exchange is an invitation-only event uniting only the most senior and experienced leaders across a range of information and scientific disciplines. Following selection for the event, each delegate designs their own agenda by selecting interactive workshops, personal meetings, networking sessions and keynote presentations.

Smart Lab 2008 will be led by 36 Informatics, IT, Science and Innovation experts across 4 industry sectors to discuss best practice strategies for accelerating development and quality life cycles. This year's agenda is significantly more diverse than previous years, giving delegates the chance to choose from 38 interactive workshops and plenary case-studies.

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