Leading Business Consultant to Present 'Leveraging Assets' Keynote at the 2006...

NEW YORK -- John Hagel will give a featured keynote presentation at the 4th Annual Clinical Trials Congress (CTC), February 13-15, 2006 in Orlando.

Mr. Hagel has written several books, most recently co-authoring The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction

and Dynamic Specialization (with John Seely Brown). He has also published articles in the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, the McKinsey Quarterly and CIO Magazine. Mr. Hagel was named one of the Top 100 Business Gurus by Accenture and one of the 50 Most Powerful People in Networking by Network World.

Mr. Hagel aims to define actionable business strategies to accelerate performance improvement. His keynote presentation will highlight innovative strategies for outsourcing that will help the pharma industry develop initiatives to mobilize third party resources and capitalize on core competencies.

Mr. Hagel will be joined on the morning keynotes by several other industry veterans, including Johan Van Hoof, MD, Senior Vice President, Head of Global Clinical Operations, Johnson & Johnson PRD, R. Adrian Otte, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Development Operations, Pfizer Global R&D, and Ira Spector, Vice President, Clinical Development Operations & Vice Chief of Operations, Wyeth Research.

BACKGROUND

The 4th annual Clinical Trials Congress is the leading US pharmaceutical industry gathering for professionals actively involved in running and managing clinical trials. Its mission is to delve deeper into the key issues that will help clinical professionals more efficiently respond to change and increase productivity in drug development.

SPONSORS

The event is sponsored by CampbellAlliance, Cytel, DigiScript, PTS, eTrials. Featured exhibitors include Acurion, Asian Clinical Trials, Averion, Axiom, Brady Corporation, CentraLabs, Clinical Research, Clinical Resource Network, Clinical Solutions, ClinPhone, Coast IRB, CRF Inc., DZS Software Solutions, Essential Group, ePharma Learning, Fast Track Systems, Health Research Association, i3 research (ingenix), ICTI, Imform International, Integic Corporation, MDS Pharma, Matthews Media Group, Maxwell Group, Mayo Clinical Trial Services, MediciGroup, Medidata Solutions, Medifacts International, Monitoring Force, NetRegulus, OpenText, Perceptive Informatics, PharmaNet, Phoenix Data Systems, The Patient Recruitment Agency, VIASYS Healthcare, Vimta Labs, Ltd. INDIA.

BROCHURE IS ONLINE AND AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

The 4th annual Clinical Trials Congress complete program and speaker roster is available for review at: www.clinicalevent.com.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

This event is now open for registration. Early bird discounts are available through Friday, January 13th. For registration information, visit the CTC website at: www.clinicalevent.com or call 888-670-8200; fax 941-365-2507; email: register@iirusa.com.

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