| Date & Time | 24 January 2023 (13.00-16.00 CET) |
|---|---|
| Location | Virtual Event |
BY-COVID industry event – Better data management for better pandemic preparedness, disease surveillance and outbreak control
The event will be focused on public-private collaboration examples’ presentations and roundtable discussions. Companies are welcome to join the community and give a short presentation on their approach to data driven innovation in infectious diseases and how open resources contribute to their achievements.
Purpose
Identify opportunities for data driven innovation in infectious diseases, join a network of specialists and explore potential collaborations with the BY-COVID project.
Target audience
Specialists in using open source software or openly available data of COVID-19 or other infectious diseases in their internal pipelines/business model from the following sectors:
- Diagnostics
- Pharma
- Biotech-/bioinformatics companies
- Contract Research Organisation/Contract Manufacturing Organisation
- Consulting
- Medical Devices
- Hospitals/healthcare providers
Organisers
This virtual event is organised under the EU project BeYond-COVID (BY-COVID), a project that aims to provide comprehensive open data on SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases across scientific, medical, public health and policy domains. Under this initiative, we are providing a virtual space for BY-COVID partners to engage with industry communities and ensure that we can find collaborative solutions for making COVID-19 and other infectious disease data available for innovation.
Main themes
- Repurposing data & software tools for a faster future health crisis response: How open source code and open or FAIR data were used in industrial needs during the COVID crisis and what researchers are looking for.
- Novel technologies and innovative projects tackling global disease burden developed during the pandemic: How novel tools could improve data quality, enable high data extraction from samples, or build robust prediction models.
- The societal impacts of a pandemics: An assessment of the impact of interventions and lessons learned
This access day is the first of a series of events, and the audience will have the opportunity to hear about examples of public-private collaborations, introduce themselves and their innovative projects through flash talks.
Learn more and register for the event here.
