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One of the foremost contributors to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report will lead a conference session at the ENERGY INDABA 2010, which takes place on February 24-26, 2010 at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg. For its work the IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Renowned for his thought leadership on issues relating to climate change and the study of energy policies, Dr Robert Schock, the present Director of Studies for the World Energy Council (WEC) London, was a Coordinating Lead Author of Energy Sources for the IPCC’s 2007 4th Assessment Report, authoring and coordinating a chapter on ‘mitigation measures for energy sources’. In 2007, the global scientific body for climate change’s 20 years’ of scientific reports - that demonstrate the link between human activities and global warming - earned a joint Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, former Vice-President of the U.S. and author of
‘An Inconvenient Truth’.

“Dr Schock brings a wealth of knowledge and will provide valued input to the ENERGY INDABA conference programme,” says Liz Hart, MD of Siyenza Management, the organiser of the conference and exhibition. He will facilitate a conference session focused on technology on February 25, 2010 where global and innovative technology trends in energy will be under the spotlight. “This session will focus on Africa-specific technological solutions that seek to reduce the continent’s carbon footprint and provide greater accessibility to alternative sources of energy,” explains Hart.

In addition to his role at WEC, Dr Schock is a consultant to industry, laboratories and governments worldwide, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Global Security Research in the U.S. He has also held roles at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he initiated and led programmes in energy R&D at a local and national level; high-level nuclear waste disposition, environmental restoration and waste management; fusion energy, hydrogen fuels, energy policy analysis, and climate change focused energy research. Dr Schock has also played a leading role in the U.S. government’s efforts to examine the application of new technology to the proliferation resistance of civilian nuclear power.
The ENERGY INDABA 2010 takes place on February 24-26 at the Sandton Convention Centre. For further information please visit www.energyafricaexpo.com

Robert Schock
Director of Studies, World Energy Council, London

Robert is presently engaged in the study of energy policies worldwide and the practices they foster at
the World Energy Council. He has had an active role in energy as the Coordinating Lead Author (Energy Sources) for the 2007 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for which he authored and coordinated a chapter on mitigation measures for energy sources. At his previous role at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Robert was able to initiate and lead programmes in energy R&D, high-level nuclear waste disposition, environmental restoration and waste management, fusion energy, hydrogen fuels, energy policy analysis and climate change focused energy research.

Gulf Water Week 2010 looks for affordable and sustainable measures

Kuala Lumpur, 4 February 2010 - Water scarcity underscores the need for better water resources and management.

While there has been short supply, demand for water is growing throughout the planet with GCC countries named as the most affected region. It is undeniably the result of population increase and other social factors such as rapid urbanization and wasteful consumption patterns.

Led by the thirst and desperation, policy makers and experts are always on the lookout for solutions and alternatives. Debates and discussions continue. As part of corporate commitment to the world’s society, JFPS Group Malaysia will bring together industry experts from all over to Dubai for Gulf Water Week 2010.

The 3-days event taking place from 24 – 26 May 2010 is designed in such a way to give attending delegates the benefits of a comprehensive discussion on issues of water conservation and integrated water resource management, wastewater treatment and reuse, as well as water distribution and loss management. All these will be delivered through practical case studies and interactive forums.

Expect more than 100 C-level delegates from water-related industries; i.e.; water utilities and water supply companies, water ministries and authorities, environmental ministries and agencies, as well as municipalities.

Key speakers for the event include Dr. Ahmed Ali Murad, Head of Geology of UAE University; Tim Waldron, Chief Executive Officer of Wide Bay Water Corporation, Australia; Abdul Ghani Khalaf, Director of Water Distribution, Electricity & Water Authority, Bahrain; Colin Hannan, Director of Water Services, Regulations & Supervision Bureau of Abu Dhabi, UAE; Dr. Mohamed Raouf, Program Manager – Environment, Gulf Research Centre, UAE; Dr. Nurul Akhand, Irrigation Specialist of International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), UAE; and Kevin Samson, Manager-Wastewater of City of Cape Town, South Africa.

Sponsorship and delegate registration is now open at www.jfpsgroup.com. To learn more about Gulf Water Week 2010, please contact +603 2600 6000 or alternatively email your enquiries to sales@jfpsgroup.com.

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Mandy Lee Abdullah
Marketing Manager
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Email: mandy.lee@jfpsgroup.com

About JFPS Group

JFPS Group is the leading business performance enhancement company with affiliated partners across the globe. As a world-class business intelligence provider, JFPS Group provides business executives with knowledge and skills through conferences, professional training, in-house training and consulting. Every year JFPS Group organizes more than 70 events and works with more than 10,000 senior executives from leading companies to improve their strategic decision-making process.

There is clearly an increasing need for more innovative pricing and reimbursement agreements to help to balance the often conflicting objectives of pharmaceutical and medical technology manufacturers, payers, health technology assessors (HTA), physicians and patients. The industry faces a sustained increase in the cost of healthcare and an ever-increasing range of expensive drugs and technologies available as potential therapies.

Clearly, difficult choices need to be made by payers and HTAs about which products receive funding from increasingly restricted healthcare budgets, especially with often insufficient clinical and real-life evidence available. In terms of innovative agreements, more manufacturers, in more countries, are proposing risk-sharing and value-based schemes more often.

NextLevel Pharma has organised a unique meeting that will be focused purely on risk-sharing and value-based pricing schemes and will provide experts theories and practical case studies of successful models.

Why Attend?

Understand the opportunities, obstacles and challenges in designing and implementing innovative agreements.

Find out when risk-sharing & value-based agreements are required and how they can be designed to satisfy all stakeholders to gain market access.

Understand whether or not the turbulent macroeconomic environment will increase payer motivation for flexible agreements.

Obtain the best and most focused picture of risk-sharing and value-based pricing models today.

Learn how drug effectiveness is being demonstrated in different regions.

Understand the best ways to communicate value and achieve maximum patient and market access.

Hear the perspectives of all stakeholder groups: Payers, regulators, insurers, health economists and the pharmaceutical industry.

Discover how payers are evaluating conditional reimbursement agreements.

Who should attend?
Pharmaceutical companies:

Vice-Presidents, Directors, Managers involved in:

Pricing & Reimbursement,

Market Access,

Health Economics & Outcomes,

Government & Stakeholder Relations,

Regulatory Affairs,

Medical Affairs,

Marketing & Commercial,

Therapy Area Heads,

Country Managers,

Business Unit Heads

Solution providers & consultants:

CEOs,

Business Development,

Senior Consultants,

Regional Heads.

Independent Academics, Health Economists, Senior Doctors, & Patient Representatives.

Agenda request
To request the full agenda please follow the link:
2nd Annual Pharmaceutical Risk-Sharing & Value-Based Pricing & Reimbursement Models

For Booking Information contact:
Erika Vavrovicova
Tel: +421 232 660 382
Fax: +421 232 660 397
Email: erika@nextlevelpharma.com
Visit: www.nextlevelpharma.com

The pharmaceutical industry is constantly facing increasing demands for efficiency and cost effectiveness, making the development of project management skills and tools combined with their flawless application critical to deliver the best chance of success for a new compound. A well planned and executed project is vital in ensuring the speedy collection of critical data to judge efficacy, safety and the value of progressing the drug candidate to the next level.

However, in drug development it’s a constant challenge to identify early on the best candidates and strategic approaches to achieve proof-of-concept and minimise attrition likelihood in p.III. As drug development becomes increasingly globalised, unexpected delays combined with requests for further studies and communication failure can prevent the timely completion of a project.

“Enhancing Performance of Early Phase Drug Development” will look to examine the current state of project management approaches during pre-clinical to phase II and the improvements that can be made in planning, implementing, and controlling pharma project components. By developing these areas biopharma companies and project teams will be able to minimise the risks associated with a new drug’s development, and better reach go/ no go decisions in both small and large molecule drugs.

Why Attend?
This conference will cover how to decide upon early phase research strategies, and the operational project management tools and techniques to be best used:

Improve strategic decision making to enable multiple project successes.

Minimise risks generated by advancing a compound’s development

Learn how to execute projects involving varied early phase & remote stakeholders, both internally and externally.

Clarify project scope & team responsibilities to enable optimum allocation of resources.

Define project management tools and techniques to better leverage early stage research

Build effective project teams involving both internal and external resources.

Who will benefit?
· Project Managers and those individuals with project responsibilities in early phase Development
· VPs, Senior Directors and Managers of:
o Discovery,
o pre-clinical development,
o exploratory development,
o early phase clinical development,
o clinical science,
o clinical operations,
o clinical pharmacology & PK/ PD, drug safety,
o biomarkers,
o translational medicine,
o adaptive research,
o regulatory affairs,
o therapy area heads & specialists,
Agenda request
To request the full agenda please follow the link:

http://www.nextlevelpharma.com/events/request_agenda/enhancing_performance_of_early_phase_drug_development_projects
For Booking Information contact:
Erika Vavrovicova

Tel: +421 232 660 382
Fax: +421 232 660 397
Email: erika@nextlevelpharma.com
Visit: www.nextlevelpharma.com

In a quest to secure an adequate supply of energy for the emerging economy and growing population, the focus in Africa has been largely centered on developing and restoring the continent’s power generators. Yet in this day and age of climate talks, there is the need for the continent to also make use of its vast potential of clean alternatives such as renewable biomass, wind or solar technology – a largely underdeveloped market that could hold the key to Africa’s supply challenges and participation towards a sustainable future.

“While the focus on energy supply and accessibility increase in Africa is important and much needed, there are some important questions to be considered and lessons to be learnt from leaders in clean energy such as Europe,” says Sebastian von Wolff, a keynote speaker of the ENERGY INDABA 2010 that takes place at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg on February 24-26, 2010.

On a governmental level, this involves a move away from large scale government owned power projects and a clear call for a private sector driven and decentralised power supply for effective and efficient demand management. “Europe took decades to cross that bridge from slow moving state-owned utilities to dynamic energy sector driven by the private sector.” He also indicates to the opportunity for Africa to tap into the potential of Renewable Energy (RE) should be an integral part of a new power policy.
“Africa now has the opportunity of a double leap, from undersupply straight to a thriving private energy sector with a strong RE component, and thus jump over a phase of national utilities trying to meet the heavily increasing demand with concepts from an unsustainable fossil fuel age.”

An expert in CDM and Carbon Finance in sub-Saharan Africa, von Wolff is presently the MD of Orbeo South Africa in Johannesburg, a joint-venture between French chemical company, Rhodia and French investment bank, Société Générale. As a trained engineer and an expert in renewable energy and energy efficiency technology, his experience extends to the German Energy Agency, a governmental initiative where he was the head of the department of international efficiency and renewable energy projects. Von Wolff has also been a consultant to a number of multinationals on their international energy and sustainability strategies.
At the ENERGY INDABA conference, Von Wolff will explore the subject of carbon finance, with a focus on supporting renewable energy finance. He will share his experience from different places and markets that he has worked in all over the world. “Particularly for CDM and Carbon Finance, I want to give the audience a realistic picture of what it can offer and what it can’t,” he says.

According to von Wolff, there is a great opportunity for eligible Carbon Finance in renewable power projects. “CDM in general has long been focusing on power generation or efficiency projects in the industrial sector. Now, that private developers and investors are lining up to form an entirely new sector of IPP (Independent Power Producers), they need to understand and take advantage of the opportunities Carbon finance can give them,” he says.
However, for the IPP sector to be thriving there needs to be a clear energy strategy developed between private and state owned stakeholders. “The positive message now is that some governments are moving and more projects are slowly coming to light,” says von Wolff. “Having experienced the high quality and great atmosphere at the ENERGY INDABA last year, I have high expectations of the next event this February,” says von Wolff. “I expect - and am looking forward – to meeting high level players and developers in the energy sector throughout the continent. I am also excited to meet the movers and innovative entrepreneurs in this market of the future.”
ENDS
28 January 2010
Prepared by: Leigh-Anne Sa Joe
Siyenza Management
(011) 463 9184
leighanne@siyenza.za.com

On behalf of: ENERGY INDABA

Contact: Liz Hart
liz@siyenza.za.com

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The Washington State Convention and Trade Center has shortened its name, dropping the word “Trade” from its official title.

“Our new name better describes the true nature of our business — the Northwest’s premier gathering place for conventions, meetings and exhibitions,” said Michael McQuade, director of sales and marketing for the facility, in a statement.

He added the change won’t affect any account information, business process or points of contact at the center, which is located at 800 Convention Place in downtown Seattle.

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