Merck Technology Symposium is now in it’s 22nd year. Note that this year we are embedding much more Digital Health and end-user IT activities into this event. Merck’s older IT event (originally called the IDEA Forum and later Merck IT Symposium) morphed into a full fledged company wide Innovation event (with 5,000 employees over three worldwide locations), leaving a hole in the set of Merck events. While the older events focused on IT infrastructure, we are looking for end-user IT (e.g., areas like data visualization, data analysis) as well as Digital Health.
In addition, we expect a number of new activities such as a DATA VISUALIZATION Hackathon (Merck attendees only, but available as a marketing opportunity), a “Lab of the Future” area, as well as publicly available “Science as Art” and Merck Archives Exhibit areas.
What is “Science as Art”? Merck’s invitation to its employees (it’s open for Merck attendee submissions only so far):
“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, the MTS invites submission of new creative images and works from our colleagues across the Merck organization to display at this year’s Technology Symposium. We invite submission of any research-inspired visual imagery or three dimensional design related in some way to research completed or ongoing at Merck.”