The ICIC 2017 conference, taking place from October 23-24 in Heidelberg, serves as a major international gathering for scientific information professionals, focusing on trends, best practices, and networking opportunities. It will feature around 24 presentations and discussions on various topics, particularly in patent information and chemical data, attracting over 100 attendees from diverse backgrounds. This event emphasizes skill enhancement and professional growth for those involved in the information sector within sci-tech industries.

1. ICIC is the International Conference
on Trends for Scientific Information Professionals
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2. ICIC 2017
23-24 OCTOBER . HEIDELBERG
ICIC 2017 - The Meeting
ICIC is the International Conference on Trends for Scientific Information Professionals.
29th ICIC International Conference for the Information Community
For those in the sci-tech world, sharing best practices, networking and evaluating trends have become matters of considerable
importance, and the annual ICIC Meeting & Exhibition is the significant forum for this, attracting over 100 attendees from the
main sci-tech companies and information, service or software providers. It will be a venue where attendees will learn about new
ways to work with disseminate scientific and patent information.
Started in 1989...
These exciting and highly respected annual conferences, that started in Montreux in 1989 and were subsequently held in
Annecy, Nîmes, Barcelona, Nice, Vienna and Berlin have always provided a barometer as to the strengths and frailties of the
world of sci-tech and patent information.
The conference lasts for two days and features approximately 24 formal presentations, panels on topical matters, all interspersed
with short new product information presentations. All sessions are plenary. The conference normally begins with a reception
and Welcome Dinner on the first evening to enable attendees to begin to network with each other. Lunches are taken at the
conference venue, and breaks are designed to facilitate networking and interaction. A focused exhibition of approximately
20 stands is integrated within the conference. Attendance at these meetings is highly international, with no one nationality
predominating. The 2017 ICIC conference is organised by Dr Haxel Congress and Event Management.
Subject Areas for the 2017 Programme
The traditional focus of the ICIC programmes is subjects of interest to information professionals in a scientific or
technical environment. As in previous years, this year‘s programme contains a number of presentations examining aspects
of patent information retrieval, including drug discovery; patent information presents many challenges and is thus an excellent
test-bed when it comes to information technology. The ICIC meeting‘s roots in chemical information also ensure that that area
features prominently; chemical information was one of the first fields to attract modern information technologies back at the end
of the twentieth century and the very beginning of the twentyfirst.
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PROGRAMME
19:30 - 22:00
Welcome Reception
with Fingerfood,
Großer Mohr,
Untere Straße 5-7 Heidelberg
Registration
Stadthalle Heidelberg –
Congress Center Heidelberg
19:30 - 22:00
Conference Dinner
at Palais Prinz Carl,
Kornmarkt 1, 69117 Heidelberg
15:00-18:00 Registration
Starts at 09:00
• Welcome Speech
Christoph Haxel (Dr. Haxel Congress and Event Management GmbH, AUT)
• The Next Era: Deep Learning for Biomedical Research – Srinivasan Parthiban
(Parthys Reverse Informatics, IND)
• AI (Artificial Intelligence) and its use in patent drafting and searching
Willem-Geert Lagemaat (Lighthouse IP Group, NED)
• New Product Introductions - Minesoft / BizInt / Infochem
• Freeware and public databases: Towards a Wiki Drug Discovery?
Fernando Huerta (Chemical information systems consultant, SE), Alexander Minidis
(Collaborative Drug Discovery – CDD VAULT, SWE)
• New Product Introduction – FIZ Karlsruhe / Gridlogics Technologies /
Lighhouse IP
• How to effectively monitor Technological Developments in IP
Jochen Spuck (Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, SUI), Kornel Marko
(Averbis, GER)
• Facilitating Insights through Patent Analysis Education
Inbar Yasur (Hipusit Information Services, Israel)
• New Product Introductions - CFL Software / EXPERT SYSTEM Deutschland
• Building a Linked Data Knowledge Graph for the Scholarly Publishing
Domain – The Springer Nature SciGraph
Henning Schönenberger (SpringerNature, GER)
10:30 - 11:00 Exhibition and Networking Break
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch, Exhibition and Networking
15:30 - 16:00 Exhibition and Networking Break
SUNDAY 22 OCTOBER MONDAY 23 OCTOBER
ICIC 2017
23-24 OCTOBER . HEIDELBERG

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PROGRAMME
Starts at 09:00
• Publication Analysis and Publication Strategy
Dieter Küry (Novartis Pharma, SUI)
• Babies and bathwater: Keeping linguistics alongside machine learning in patent
search – David Wools (CFL Software, GBR)
• Opening up the world of chemical patents – Robert Poolman (Minesoft, GBR)
• New Product Introductions - infoapps
• Technology-Assisted Literature Monitoring in the Legal and Business Industries:
Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk
Giovanni Ciavarra (ISS Innovative Science Solutions, USA)
• Funding early-stage research software: from concept to prototype and beyond.
Case studies from Digital Science’s Catalyst Grant – Steve Scott (Digital Science, UK)
15:30 - 17:00
• Tutorial - Digging bioactive chemistry out of patents using open resources
Christopher Southan (The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY, GBR)
Closing Remarks – Christoph Haxel (Dr. Haxel Congress and Event Management GmbH, AUT)
2017 Meeting ends at approximately 17:00
• Open data in chemistry: the fast track to scientific content –
Josef Eiblmaier, Dorothee Gepper, Heinz Saller (InfoChem, GER)
• Cheminformatics Scaling-up for the Age of Big Data
Árpád Figyelmesi (ChemAxon, HUN)
• New Product Introductions
10:30 - 11:00 Exhibition and Networking Break
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch, Exhibition and Networking
15:00 - 15:30 Exhibition and Networking Break
TUESDAY 24 OCTOBER
ICIC 2017
23-24 OCTOBER . HEIDELBERG

5. Networking Programme
All registered ICIC participants are invited to join our Heidelberg Networking Programme.
Conference Welcome Reception & Lunches
Welcome Reception at a special place in Heidelberg
Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner at Palais Prinz Carlt, Monday 23 October sponsored by minesoft.
Coffee Breaks
All Coffee Breaks (during the conference) Sponsorship open
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ICIC 2017
23-24 OCTOBER . HEIDELBERG

6. Sponsors
BizInt
is sponsoring
the printed
Conference Programme
minesoft
is sponsoring the
Conference Dinner
on Monday
Exhibitors
ICIC 2017
23-24 OCTOBER . HEIDELBERG

7. Why should you attend
Who should attend the ICIC conference?
The ICIC meeting is of importance for all professionals involved in the information world, be they workers or managers in
information departments, information application developers, or patent specialists. The fact that the conference has always
attracted an enthusiastic audience every year since 1989 testifies to its long-term success as an international focal point for
professionals in the information domain.
Why should you attend?
• A three-day (with workshops) concentration on one clearly defined subject area enables you to improve and hone your skills
and to examine possible new ideas. Attending the presentations, and interacting with the speakers, will update you with the
best practices and technologies at the moment.
• You will be amongst colleagues who confront similar challenges to those you face and you can benefit from each others‘
experiences. Interaction with the expert speakers and with specialists in the exhibition will provide you with a fresh source of
facts and ideas. You will network with other professionals from leading international corporations and research centres in the
field of professional information, and information technology.
• Social networking via electronic media such as Facebook, Linked-In and Twitter enables you to interact with large numbers
of people in your subject area. But face-to-face contact such as you will find at the ICIC “family” meeting, including the many
meals and receptions taken together, remains unrivalled when it comes to exploring ideas informally and evaluating the
experiences and views of others.
• The knowledge of best practice for finding, analysing and understanding the contents of information such as that found in
patents or in business news is the principal way to anticipate and understand what your organisation‘s competitors are doing
or may be planning to do.
• Increasingly in the modern world, hard work is the key to success. But unless hard work is complemented by superior
skills and professional know-how, hard work alone will not enable companies to survive and thrive. You need to take every
opportunity to enhance your professionalism, and this focused information meeting provides such an opportunity. You can
then take the new knowledge you have acquired back to your colleagues in the office. You will become an increasingly
credible partner for your managers and will be involved in many of their decisions.
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23-24 OCTOBER . HEIDELBERG

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II-PIC 2017
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2017
2-3 NOV BANGALORE, INDIA
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The International Indian Patent Information Conference
for Patent Information Professionals

9. 23 - 24 APRIL .NICE, FRANCE
The International Information Conference
on Search, Data Mining and Visualization
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