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VelQuest Corporation was pleased to sponsor the 6th annual IMACS conference providing a forum to detail IT-based compliance and productivity solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical devices QC/QA laboratory environments.

The IMACS 2009 organizing committee invited industry speakers with topics including: paperless lab initiatives, QC/QA e-notebook's, 21CFR Part 11 and 21st Century cGMP remediation issues, integration of PAT technologies, SOP/method-centric automation platforms and process batch record automation.

IMACS (International Meeting on Automated Compliance Systems), is the definitive conference on IT-based compliance productivity solutions. The life science industry is challenged with

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reducing costs and improving productivity throughout the drug development and production process. IMACS is dedicated to providing an information exchange for enabling technologies designed to meet those challenges. IMACS is open to all individuals interested in advances and experiences in automating compliance and features implementer experiences and insights.

Presentations discuss the roles and perspectives of laboratory analysts, lab management, IT, QA and executive management involved in late stage development, stability, clinical supply release, in-process and final product QC/QA.

* The organizing committee did not accept commercial presentations. IMACS 2009 took place in Dublin, Ireland on April 21 - 22, 2009 *

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Venue

The venue for IMACS 2009 is the Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links in Dublin, Ireland

Mission

1)	Provide a stimulating information exchange between automated compliance system users/implementers and managers
2)	Create a respected forum for automated compliance innovators to present and publish their work
3)	Recognize pioneers and visionaries "leading the way" in automated compliance and productivity technologies in GLP and GMP environments

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