ICIC 2012 - The Meeting ICIC is the International Conference on Trends for Scientific Information Professionals. 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 200 attendees from the main sci-tech companies and information, service or software providers.

1. ICIC 2012
ICIC 2012 14 -17 OCTOBER . Berlin
ICIC 2012
14 -17 OCTOBER . 14 -17 OCTOBER . Berlin
The International Conference on Trends
for Scientific Information Professionals
ICIC 2012 - The Meeting Venue and Location The International Conference on Trends
for Scientific Information Professionals
The International Conference on Trends The 2012 ICIC will take place at the Andel‘s Hotel, Berlin
for Scientific Information Professionals The 4-star deluxe Andel’s Hotel Berlin is situated near historical
For those in the sci-tech world, sharing best practices, Alexanderplatz square in the eastern part of the city Berlin – the
networking and evaluating trends have become matters of perfect starting position to easily and comfortably visit the sight
considerable importance, and the annual ICIC Meeting & and attractions.
Exhibition is the significant forum for this, attracting over 200
attendees from the main sci-tech companies and information, www.andelsberlin.com
service or software providers.
Networking Programme
Subject Areas
All registered ICIC participants are invited to join our
for the 2012 Programme
Berlin Networking Programme.
The traditional focus of the ICIC programmes is subjects of
interest to information professionals in a scientific or • Conference Welcome Dinner & Lunches
technical environment. As in previous years, this year‘s • Conference Cocktail
programme contains a number of presentations examining • Conference Dinner
aspects of patent information retrieval, including drug discovery;
• Coffee Breaks
patent information presents many challenges and is thus an
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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 nineteenth century and the very beginning
of the twentieth.
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2. ICIC 2012 - Programme
Sunday 14 October
15:00 - 18:00 Registration
• Maximizing Quality and Efficiency of Patent Information
in a Divisionalised, Global Pharmaceutical Company
• Boosting the Accuracy of Patent Valuation
Methodologies - Giuditta De Prato, Daniel Nepelski
Sponsors
15:00 - 16:00 Workshop ThomsonReuters Robert Poolman (Novartis, UK) (European Commission, ESP) • Conference Dinner
17:00 - 18:00 Workshop Questel • Creating Future Interfaces to Library Services • Why Evaluating Patents And How? Economic Aspects sponsored by SureChem
18:00 - 19:00 Workshop Minesoft Morten Christoffersen (Novo Nordisk, DEN) of Patent Portfolios and Economic Ways of Rating
19:15 - 19:30 Welcome Reception • New Product Introduction: them - Dierk-Oliver Kiehne (IPR-Systems, GER)
• Conference Programme
19:30 - 22:00 Welcome Dinner InfoChem / LexisNexis / INTELLIXIR • A Transparent and Secure Market for Patents: Why
sponsored by BizInt
• Exhibition and Networking Break and How? - Patrick Terroir (CDC Intellectual Property, FRA)
Monday 15 October • New Product Introductions - FIZ Karlsruhe / Fairview /
• New Product Introduction:
Starts at 09:00 Max.recall / ChemAxon / Springer • Conference Wallets
Dolcera / Sagacious Research
• Welcome sponsored by Evolvus
• Chemistry Connect: AstraZeneca’s cheminformatics • Exhibition and Networking Break
• Mobile Chemistry – The Changing World of Chemical
platform for large-scale integration of structure and • Software Assisted Mental Representations of
Information - David A Evans (Elsevier Properties, SUI) • Coffee Breaks
bioactivity data - Sorel Muresan (AstraZeneca, SWE) Chemistry Information Retrieval Tasks - Stefan
• The Many Elements to the Article of the Future sponsored by InfoChem
• ChEMBL - A Large-scale Bioactivity and Drug Härtinger (EPO, GER)
Jason Wilde (Nature, UK)
Discovery Resource - John P. Overington (European • Text Mining Patents at Scale: Challenges and
• Smarter Content Delivery - Apps for Chemistry
Bioinformatics Institute, UK) Successes - David Milward (Linguamatics, UK) • Lunches on Monday
Anirban Mudi, Jignesh Bhate (Molecular Connections, IND)
• Reception - sponsored by Minesoft • Conference Dinner - sponsored by Digital Science and Tuesday sponsored
• New Product Introductions - Questel / Digital-Science
by Linguamatics
/ Minesoft
Tuesday 16 October Wednesday 17 October • Reception on Monday
• Exhibition and Networking Break
Starts at 09:00 Starts at 09:00 sponsored by minesoft
• The Recent Evolution and the Future Trends of Patent • A chemical company’s view and expectations on • The IBM Patent Data Donation to NIH, and its
Landscape in China and Asia - Lulin Gao (East IP, China) Markush structure searching Integration in the NCI/CADD Database and Web • Conference Buses sponsored
• Making Sense of China’s Information Explosion: Peter Geyer (BASF, Germany) Services - Marc Nicklaus (NIH, USA) by Molecular Connections
A Review of Information Sources and Analysis • The Future Role of Online Hosts - Will Values of Today • Opening Patent Chemistry to the Scientific
Techniques that can Help Address the Challenges be Valued Tomorrow? Community - Nicko Goncharoff (SureChem, UK)
Robert Stembridge (Thomson Scientific, UK) Sabine Brünger-Weilandt (FIZ Karlsruhe, GER) • A View of Recent Computer Aided Synthesis
• IP5 - Projects, Status and Future Plans
Nelson Das Neves (EPO, GER)
• New Product Introduction:
STN / dotmatics / Dolcera / ThomsonReuters
Developments - Mike Hutchings, Heinz Saller, Hans Kraut,
Peter Loew (InfoChem, GER)
Exhibitors
• New Product Introductions - Parthys Reverse • Exhibition and Networking Break BizInt / CAS / ChemAxon / Dolcera / dotmatics / Fair-
• Exhibition and Networking Break
Informatics / Linguamatics / BizInt view Research / FIZ CHEMIE / FIZ Karlsruhe / InfoChem
• The 2012 ICIC Host Panel - Randall Marcinko (MEI, USA) • Enhancing the User Experience for Wiley Chemistry
• Lunch, Exhibition and Networking Content - Reinhard Neudert (Wiley, GER) / Infonortics / Intellixir / Linguamatics / LexisNexis /
• Lunch, Exhibition and Networking
Lunch sponsored by Linguamatics • Social Design, Cloud Computing, Crowd Sourcing and max.recall / Minesoft / Parthys Reverse Informatics /
Lunch sponsored by Linguamatics Questel / Sagacious Research / Springer / STN Interna-
• The Linguistic Freedom and the Pain of Searching - the Patent Information Industry - Arne Krüger (MTC, GER)
Hans-Christof Wilk (Henkel, GER) tional / SureChem / Thomson Reuters / Treparel Infor-
mation Solutions / Dr. Haxel Consult