Day One:  Thursday, June 24, 2004

Main Conference

11:45 Main Conference Registration

12:55 Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Jan Malek, PA Consulting

1:00 Effective Ways of Incorporating Resource Allocation with Portfolio Management
Suzanne Brown, Senior Director, Resource Management, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D L.L.C.

1:45 Instilling Project Management Principles and Practices in a Drug Discovery Environment
• The role for project management in discovery
• Strategies to make sound project management a part of the organization’s culture
• What extent do you have to standardize process and project plans?
• Project management in drug discovery: benefit or burden?

Terence J. Hayes, V.M.D., Ph.D., D.A.B.T., Director, Discovery Project Management, Preclinical Research and Development, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.

2:30 Allocating Project Management Resources from Discovery to Commercialization - Guidelines for Project (and Product) Success
Overcoming technical and clinical hurdles are not the only factors to ensure that drug product development projects succeed. As important are the speed, quality, and reliability with which these projects deliver to critical milestones throughout their entire lifecycle. Proper allocation of project management resources is the key. This session will provide several guidelines and insights that participants can use to assess and modify their own PM allocation practices to ensure success.

Topics covered will include:
• Project Management Resourcing Models
• Changing PM focus throughout the project lifecycle - Results of a PM Time Study
• Team PM Maturity - Its impact on success
• Project Complexity/Risk Profiling - Not all projects are created equal

Timothy Noffke, B.S. ChE, PMP, Vice President, Operations, Life Sciences, Integrated Project Management Co., Inc.

3:15 Refreshment Break

3:45 Resource Management from a Project Manager's Perspective
Jennifer Jiang, Project Manager, Project Management and Portfolio Planning, Centocor, Inc.

4:30 Project Management at a Functional Level Best Practices on How to Get Things Done

Moderator: Timothy Noffke, B.S. ChE, PMP, Vice President, Operations, Life Sciences, Integrated Project Management Co., Inc. Panelists: Jann Nielsen, Ph.D., Director, Project Management, Wyeth Research Ramana Sonty, Senior Director, World Wide Project Management & Medical Operations, Worldwide Medical Organization, Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals Michael J. Ferrante, Associate Director, Capacity Planning & Management, Global Operations, Merck Research Labs

5:00 Close of Day One