UPDATED August 16th with Merck Archival information. Merck attendee registration this year is already up 20% to 1000 Attendees – we expect to close Merck registration shortly. We were also able to make available more open talks than ever for this event. Remember that we have added quite a number of IT type activities at the event and we are looking for more IT type Exhibitors, particularly in Digital Health; Big Data, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Real World Data.
Here are details of some new activities at the event. We are just opening up submissions for the Innovation Workshop.
Innovation Workshop – Submissions Requested from Exhibitors and Sponsors
We have an Innovation Workshop using Design Thinking on Day 2. This workshop will illustrate design thinking methodology for creative problem solving that can be adapted to any problem. It is a powerful methodology to rapidly accelerate the ability to identify solutions to problems, put ideas into action via experimentation and come to rapid decisions.
The workshop will involve working through this methodology together solving a problem.
This is where you come in!
You have the opportunity to identify a problem and articulate this in a succinct problem statement and submit it. We will choose one of these problem statements to work through at the Design Thinking workshop. It will be a dynamic event and we hope to see you there. Merck is also sending a request for submissions internally.
Deadline for submission is August 23, 2018.
INNOVATION WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS
Science as Art Exhibit
Located in Hallway between Main Lobby and Conference Area.
Science and art share many commonalities including creativity, discovery, imagination and experimentation. Inspired by previous MRL Art of Science exhibitions and more recently the Translational Biomarkers employee exhibition calendars, new creative images and works from across the Merck organization are on display at this year’s Technology Symposium, including research-inspired visual imagery and three dimensional design related in some way to research completed or ongoing at Merck
MEDx: TED-style talks
Day 1: 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM in Atlantic I/II
This year, the Merck Technology Symposium will hold a session of TED-style talks, called MEDx, to provide a novel opportunity for our colleagues to share innovative ideas related to our work and to encourage an open and collaborative environment between attendees/colleagues. The emphasis will be placed on finding talks with not only interesting insights and discoveries but also messages and learnings that can be internalized and applied to our next day behind our desk, at a meeting, or at the bench. All ideas are welcome for submission.
This inaugural MEDx session establishes a different kind of format for communication with TED-style talks – engaging with the audience in ways that our more formal scientific platforms aren’t able to achieve. Similar to TED talks, MEDx presentations are delivered to create a personal connection with the audience, helping the audience to better apply take home messages and learnings to their own everyday life.
‘From the Archives’ Exhibit
Located in Hallway between Main Lobby and Conference Area.
With more than 4,100 linear feet of material and over 78,000 digital assets, the Merck Archives covers over 125 years of rich history and more than 20 legacy companies. The Merck Archival Services Team supports more than 4,000 research requests per year from Merck employees and external researchers, including documentary filmmakers, PBS, university libraries and more. The artifact table display provided by the Merck Archival Services Team will allow you to connect with Merck’s history of innovation and its mission to save and improve lives.
now OPEN for registration. The 23rd Annual Merck Technology Symposium provides a networking forum for nearly 1000 Merck scientists, with talks and posters, supplemented by a supplier trade show with over 70 exhibitors. 
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