1. WELCOME 5-7 September 2012© 2012, BRIITEBiomedical Research Institutions Information Technology Exchange

2. BRIITE Biomedical Research Institutions Information Technology Exchange http://www.briite.org 4-6 September 2012 Hosted by St Jude Children’s Research Hospital Memphis, Tennessee 5-7 September 2012© 2012, BRIITEBiomedical Research Institutions Information Technology Exchange

3. 3 © 2012, BRIITE http://www.briite.org BRIITE Mission Establish personal contacts, bringing together those responsible for research computing activities at biomedical research institutions. Identify and document common problems and interests. Seek opportunities for partnership / consortium activities. Identify common issues that should be brought to attention of home institutions, government and other funding agencies.

4. 4 © 2012, BRIITE http://www.briite.org BRIITE Goals Interaction among participants at meetings. Establishment of a community among IT professionals who support biomedical research. Sharing of ideas, methods, tools, insights, and lessons learned. Coordination of activities and approaches (when warranted). Ongoing interactions between meetings.

5. 5 © 2012, BRIITE http://www.briite.org BRIITE Meetings Began as a one-time, ad hoc gathering to exchange ideas. Initially evolved into a regular, twice-yearly meeting. Now has become an annual meeting. Session formats: plenary presentations, self- organizing discussions, tech-exchange meetings. Lots of opportunities for informal interactions. Most important results of BRIITE meetings happen after everyone goes home.

6. 6 © 2012, BRIITE http://www.briite.org Meeting Theme ALIGNING EXPECTATIONS WITH RESOURCES: WHAT’S THE TRICK?

7. 7 © 2012, BRIITE http://www.briite.org Meeting Agenda Thu NOON:Lunch (Pavilion) Thu PM:Plenary comments, self-organizing breakout groups Thu eve: Reception / Dinner (Madison Hotel) Fri AM:Plenary session: reports from breakout groups; Tech Exchange Fri NOON:Box Lunch (Auditorium) Thu AM:Introduction, plenary presentations Fri PM:Plenary session: Tech Exchange

8. 8 © 2012, BRIITE http://www.briite.org BRIITE Speakers (Thursday) ALIGNING EXPECTATIONS WITH RESOURCES: WHAT’S THE TRICK? Robert Robbins Aligning Expectations with Resources Ron Hood The Evolution of Governance at the Hutchinson Center Warren Kibbe Spanning the Gulf: Maturing Research Solutions for the Enterprise Clayton Naeve The St Jude & Wash U Pediatric Cancer Genome Project: A CIO’s Perspective Frank Manion Building a Roadmap for Research IT and for Biobanking at the U of M Dirk Petersen Deploying and Governing a Highly Scalable Scientific Computing Environment

9. WELCOME 5-7 September 2012© 2012, BRIITEBiomedical Research Institutions Information Technology Exchange