| Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| 8:00–9:00 | | Registration/Software Demonstration |
| 9:00–9:05 | | Welcome and Introduction: Meeting Logistics, Guy Desmarquets (ACD/Labs) |
| ACD/Labs' Solutions—Plenary Session 1 |
| 9:05–9:35 | | Vision in Action: Projects Driving our Business, Mark Bayliss (ACD/Labs) |
| 9:35–10:05 | | Evaluation of the XNMR Package Within Pharmaceutical Development, Ian Jones (AstraZeneca, UK) |
| 10:05–10:35 | | Using the Determination of MH+, MH-, 12C, and the Ratio of 12C and 13C to Lower Detection Limits and False Positive Detections for LC/MS Datasets Using ACD/IntelliXtract, Mark Bayliss (ACD/Labs) |
| 10:35–11:05 | | Coffee Break (Including Software Demonstration) |
| 11:05–11:35 | | Chemist Friendly NMR: A New Way of Processing and Predicting Spectra for Your Chemists, Ryan Sasaki (ACD/Labs) |
| Workshops—Parallel Session 1 (presentations on dedicated topics, including what's new in the next release, tips and tricks, open questions and debate) |
| 11:35–12:35 | |
- NMR Workshop, Ryan Sasaki, Gerd Rheinwald, Kirill Blinov, and Antony Williams (ACD/Labs)
- Mass Spectrometry, Mark Bayliss and Ian Peirson (ACD/Labs)
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| 12:35–2:15 | | Lunch Break |
| Workshops—Parallel Session 2 (presentations on dedicated topics, including what's new in the next release, tips and tricks, open questions and debate) |
| 2:15–3:15 | |
- NMR Workshop, Ryan Sasaki, Gerd Rheinwald, Kirill Blinov, and Antony Williams (ACD/Labs)
- Mass Spectrometry, Mark Bayliss and Ian Peirson (ACD/Labs)
- Chromatography, Michael McBrien and Karim Kassam (ACD/Labs)
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| ACD/Labs' Solutions—Plenary Session 2 |
| 3:15–3:45 | | Pushing Computer Assisted Structure Elucidation to the Limit, Venkat Manohar (Nicholas Piramal, India) |
| 3:45–4:15 | |
Component-based Technology as Part of an ACD/Labs Solution Platform (ChemFolder Enterprise, Web Librarian, Workflow Manager and Automation Server as a Generic Technology for High-Throughput Automation)
A Business and IT Overview, Mark Bayliss and Colin Read (ACD/Labs)
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| 4:15–4:45 | | Coffee Break (Including Software Demonstration) |
| 4:45–5:15 | | A Comprehensive Approach to Automating LC Method Development, Michael Swartz (Waters Corporation, USA) |
| Workshops—Parallel Session 3 (presentations on dedicated topics, including what's new in the next release, tips and tricks, open questions and debate) |
| 5:15–6:15 | |
- Chromatography, Michael McBrien (ACD/Labs)
- Enterprise Solutions, Mark Bayliss, Colin Read, and Antony Williams (ACD/Labs)
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| 7:00 | | Cocktails at the Hotel du Parc |
| 8:00 | | Dinner in the Restaurant La Cloche |
| Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| ACD/Labs' Solutions—Plenary Sessions 3 |
| 9:00–9:30 | | The Design and Implementation of RADAR: A Global Database Bridging the Gap Between Research and Development, Michael Mutz (Novartis, Switzerland) |
| 9:30–10:00 | | Automatic Confirmation of Chemical Structure Employing both 1H and 13C Spectra, Lee Griffiths (AstraZeneca, England) |
| 10:00–10:30 | | Iterative Steps Towards Automated Structural Analysis—Progress to Date and the Hurdles to Success, Antony Williams (ACD/Labs) |
| 10:30–11:00 | | Coffee Break (Including Software Demonstration) |
| 11:00–11:30 | | Efficient Creation of a Global Chiral Chromatographic Knowledgebase, Frank Riley (Pfizer, USA) and Michael McBrien (ACD/Labs) |
| Workshops—Parallel Session 4 (presentations on dedicated topics, including what's new in the next release, tips and tricks, open questions and debate) |
| 11:30–12:30 | |
- Enterprise Solutions, Mark Bayliss, Colin Read, and Antony Williams (ACD/Labs)
- Preformulation and Salt Screening, Karim Kassam and Ian Peirson (ACD/Labs)
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| 12:30–2:00 | | Lunch Break |
| Workshops—Parallel Session 5 (presentations on dedicated topics, including what's new in the next release, tips and tricks, open questions and debate) |
| 2:00–3:00 | |
- Preformulation and Salt Screening, Karim Kassam and Ian Peirson (ACD/Labs)
- IT Roundtable Around our Enterprise Components and Licensing Systems, Colin Read, Mark Bayliss, and Antony Williams (ACD/Labs)
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| ACD/Labs' Solutions—Plenary Session 4 |
| 3:00–3:30 | | Project Management in Method Development Suite 10.0, Michael McBrien (ACD/Labs) |
| 3:30–3:50 | | Using ACD/Labs Software to Facilitate Drug Metabolite Identification Processes, Ian Peirson (ACD/Labs) on behalf of Heather Meigh (Pfizer, UK) |
| 3:50–4:20 | | Customer Services Within ACD/Labs, Karim Kassam (ACD/Labs) |
| 4:20–4:40 | | Customer Needs, Expectations, and Feedback Session, ACD/Labs Team (ACD/Labs) |
| 4:40–4:45 | | Concluding Remarks, Antony Williams (ACD/Labs) |
| 4:45 | | End of Users' Meeting |
