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Successful Pharmaceutical & Biotech companies recognize the essential role of innovation and the right disease targets for new molecules in this evolving & highly competitive market. Discovering the innovative approaches to managing R&D projects & portfolios as well as exploring the next R&D model and key steps for effective R&D reorganization is therefore vitally important.

Improving attrition rates in R&D projects and analysing risk management continues to be amongst the major themes at Fleming Europe’s 7th Annual Project & Portfolio Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry Conference which is once again bringing you three days of ground-breaking debate and pioneering case-studies from top industry, regulatory and association experts. We will be discussing key issues such as:

- R&D transformation in a major Pharmaceutical company – its impact on global project and portfolio management with Ian E. Davidson, VP Project Director at Sanofi Aventis
- Key drivers for successful CNS R&D Portfolio development and execution with Kim Andersen, Vice President Research at Lundbeck
- Measuring performance of a company’s portfolio with Natalia Borniquel, Associate Director R&D Portfolio Management at UCB

This unique event offers participants the opportunity to meet and discuss these current issues as well as network with fellow professionals. With over 15 high profile speakers and panellists from across Europe, North America and Asia this conference is one not to be missed!
To join the debate contact me directly at iza.bella@flemingeurope.com or click here.

NFC World Congress has attracted over 1300 visitors and 520 conference delegates coming from over 60 countries. Immediately ranking as a world-class event, the congress has shown up more tangible products and solutions than ever before in any show while also pointing out a clear direction for the NFC ecosystem at the conference.

Nice – Sophia Antipolis, September 23rd, 2011 - Will the NFC World Congress have the same bright future as the “GSM World Congress” in the late eighties? Relatively speaking, the first edition of this conference and exhibition dedicated to the contactless business reminds of the early debuts of the main mobile industry event: excitement around the technology, tremendous perspectives of a change in our daily lives, untapped markets of billions citizens, new business models to build, big moves of industry giants while new players just emerge, the sun of the French Riviera… and a success beyond expectations.

Buzz on-site and online
Indeed the first edition of NFC World Congress has been a great success thanks to the quality of the speakers, to the technological lead shown by the exhibitors and the attendance in large number. As such, this event ranks immediately as worldwide-class one. In details, the figures speak for themselves: the Congress attracted nearly 2000 Exhibition visits, from 520 conference delegates and 700 visitors coming from 60 countries… 65 accredited journals from around the world came to report to the world on this new exciting technology. The Congress has also enjoyed a fantastic buzz around the globe, both in media and in the fast growing “NFC ecosystem”.

A key step for NFC future
In terms of content, the Congress has marked an important step in the NFC mass deployment process, not only by showing up more tangible products and solutions than ever before in any show (nearly 100 new demos), but also by pointing clear direction for the industry and overall the NFC ecosystem. At the conference, main stakeholders have made clear commitments to push forward large scale roll-outs. Among the outstanding speakers and keynotes, the Opening Session featured Anne Bouverot, Director General of the GSMA, Koichi Tagawa, NFC Forum Chairman along with Samsung, Gemalto, MasterCard and Orange’s respective NFC managers. The keynote of Dr. Akio Shiibashi, the man behind the SUICA system, attracted a large audience too.

Several important announcements have also been made, including Orange’s NFC rollout plans, Mastercard’s approach of the Google Wallet, Sonim’s first NFC handset… not to mention the first results of UK’s first commercial NFC service by Barclaycard and Orange, the first multi-bank NFC application in Turkey, new insights into Korean market…
The event also took place outside the Congress venue: the Nice Cityzi Tours, allowing to experience daily life use of NFC, has also met with success. Additional tours have been set up to satisfy the demand of the Congress participants.

Now, right after the Congress closed its doors, the event keeps going on through its website: video captures of the presentations and video interview will be made available trough the “Virtual NFC World Congress”.

Quick facts about the Congress:

- Exhibition: 45 exhibitors, 1300 visitors, over 2000 visits, over 100 products, solutions and demos.
- List of exhibitors: Accenture, Airtag, AFSCM, AQ Corporation, AT4 Wireless, Barnes International, Bell ID, bnetTV.com, Bonwal, Cardolution, Cellum International, Clear2Pay, Collis, COMPRION, Connecthings, Duali, eLeader, ETSI, Evolute Systems, FIME, Gemalto, GSMA, Identive Group, Inside Secure, Micropross, Morpho, Nexperts, Nice Côte d’Azur, NXP, Oberthur Technologies, Orange Business Services, Payter, Samsung, SCM Microsystems, Smartag, Smart Urban Spaces, Sonim Technologies, Sony, Tagstar, Trusted Logic, Visa, ViVOtech, VTT Technical Centre of Finland, WhileOnTheMove, ZAPA.
- Conference: 520 delegates from over 60 countries, 65 speakers
- Media attendance: 64 journalists, editors and media partners

Held on September 19, 20 and 21 in the French Riviera, nearby Nice – one of the most advanced NFC cities -, in the #1 Science Park in Europe: Sophia Antipolis.

NFC World Congress online: www.nfcworldcongress.com

Contact: Lenick Perron – lperron@strategiestm.com – +33 (0)6 79 70 17 98

Sponsors: Mastercard Worldwide, Gemalto, Orange Business Services, Samsung, Visa, Bell ID, INSIDE Secure, Oberthur Technologies, Sony, Accenture, Airtag, Clear2Pay, FIME, NXP, Ericsson, Nexperts, Stollman, Veolia Transdev

Endorsing Organizations: European Payments Council, Eurosmart, GlobalPlatform, Mobey Forum, Mobile Contactless Services Forum, NFC Forum, Nice Côte d’Azur, Land of innovation, SIMalliance, Smart Card Alliance, Smart Card Federation of China, Smart Payment Association, Smartex

Media Partners: globalsmart.com, ABI Research, ARCSIS, bnetTV.com, Cards Systems & Technologies, Card World, Cards Tech & Security, Convergencialatina, FILRFID, Goingtomeet, Loyaltymarketing.ru, Mobility magazine, Mobile Payments World, Near Field Communications World, NFC Times, Payments Cards & Mobile, Smart Card & Identity News, Smart Insights, Smart-Payments.info, SmartCardsTrends, Smartphone.Biz-News.com, TelcoProfessionals, Telecom India Daily, Telecomkh.com magazine, TeleSemana, The Smart Sense, Webzine des Telecoms & du Net, Wireless Watch Japan

China, as the world’s biggest energy consumer, has an abundant of unconventional gas, such as shale gas which is exploitable reserves of 26 trillion cubic meters, as much as that found in the United States. There are abundant of unconventional gas resources in China but these resources need the opportunity to develop such as government encourage. In 2011, 12th Five-Year Plan, China’s government will build up flexible the political environment to attract more entrants to developing unconventional gas resource. Unconventional gas resource are expected to dedicate the future of energy sector across global, including China. Many international operators are attracted by the big potential market and get ready to explore China market.

China completed its first horizontal shale gas well, after 11 months of drilling, as the world’s biggest energy consumer seeks to tap its reserves of the cleaner-burning fuel.“Once we start large-scale production, shale gas won’t be an unconventional fuel for China anymore and it will play an important role to supply China’s energy needs,” Che Changbo, said, deputy director of the Ministry of Land and Resource’s oil and gas strategy center.

In Asia, Indonesia and India have the quite experience about unconventional gas exploration and production. Having plentiful of unconventional gas reserves is the major reason for these countries to develop but the flexible market access principles also stimulate unconventional gas booming in these countries. Sharing the advanced experience and technologies from global players is very helpful for Asian emerging market, particularly in China.

2nd Unconventional Gas Asia Summit 2011, which will be held on Dec 6th-9th, 2011, Beijing, China, is the international event focusing on Asia market including the policy changing, technical innovation and the project updating.

Hear the latest views and forecasts from key industry speakers from along the entire value chain, Speaker under prior consideration:

? Xinmin Jiang, Deputy Researcher, Energy Research Institute National Development and Reform Commission
? Ing Evita Legowo, Director General of Oil & Gas, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, the Republic of Indonesia
? Fengyin Xu, Vice General Manager, PetroChina Coalbed Methane Company Limited
? Baoyu Wang, Vice General Manager, JinCheng Anthracite Mining Group
? Weifeng Wu, General Manager, China United Coalbed Methane Corporation
? Xiaokang Fu, Director, International Cooperation, China United Coalbed Methane
? Prashant Modi, President & COO, Great Eastern Energy
? Rabdeep S Grewal Chairman & CEO, GREKA
? Michael R. McElwrath, CEO and President, Far East Energy
? Peter Cockcroft, Chairman, Blue Energy
? PK. Bhowmick, Executive Director-Head of Institute, KDMIPE, Oil and Natural Gas Corp
? Marek Karabula, Deputy Chief Executive, Upstream Operations, PGNiG
? Atilla Aydemir, Coordinator for Unconventional Resources Project, Turkish Petroleum Corporation
Highlights in 2nd Unconventional Gas Asia Summit 2011
? Projects Updating
? China Policy Updating
? China Current Projects
? Qinshui Basin-Main CBM Development in China
? Ordos Basin-Abundant Reserves for Shale Gas
? Sichuan Basin-Shale Gas Favorable Region
? New Shale Gas for Bidding
? Major Basin Projects Updating
? Raniganj Block
? Thrace Basin
? Technical Innovation & Utilization

On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to invite you and other senior executives to attend the 2nd Unconventional Gas Asia Summit. With your attendance in UGAS we believe it will bring up the profile of your firm in the unconventional gas industry and probably bring more potential business to your company.

Organizing Committee of 2nd Unconventional Gas Asia Summit 2011
Tel: +86 21 5830 0710
Fax: +86 21 5831 1668
E-mail: info@szwgroup.com
Website: http://www.szwgroup.com/2011/unconventional/

Singapore, Singapore April 2011 – Neoedge will put up an international conference that is poised to attract procurement leaders to get ahead of the market by learning the most updated solutions while raising corporate standards in terms of procurement performance. It will happen at a summit this coming 26th-27th July to be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

• Get updated solutions and address key procurement concerns
• Raise corporate standards but simplifying the business process
• Determine sustainable strategic sourcing in the region
• Perform at optimal level by applying modern best-practices

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Neoedge Pte. Ltd

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