Conferences

Upcoming

Oct. 19-21 - eXL’s Digital Pharma conference, Bridgewater, NJ. Speaking and live-blogging. Here’s a discount code for 15% your registration: P615WOO

Oct. 26-27 – Kru Research’s e-Patient Connections conference, Philadelphia, PA. Speaking and live-blogging. Here’s a discount code to save $500 off your registration: SW500

Nov. 3-4 – eyeforpharma’s 4th Annual eCommunication and On-line Marketing Summit, Philadelphia, PA. Speaking and live-blogging.

Nov. 7-10 – Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Annual conference, San Diego, CA. Speaking as part of panel.

Here’s a quick video clip (experiment with iPhone to see if it could capture a full  50-min. presentation – it can!) of my recent talk at the PharmaMed conference (on Social Media in Pharma: Where’s the low-hanging fruit?) The audio, of course, is weak at this distance, but if you turn up your speakers, you can actually make it out:

Recent

Sept. 23-24 – MedAdNews PharmaMed Marketing and Media conference, Princeton, NJ. Archived tweetstream from conference here (via CoverItLive)

July 20-21 – MDRx Physician Relationship Management conference, Philadelphia, PA. Summary of this event, and Social Communications and Healthcare half-day event (BDI, NYC), here.

June 25-26 – CBI’s 2nd Annual Bio/Pharmaceutical Emerging Media Optimization for Consumer-focused Marketing Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Summary/recap here.

May 11-14 – Society of Pharmaceutical and Biotech Trainers (SPBT), Chicago, IL. Presented two workshops – one on Project/Vendor Management, and one on Building your own Opportunity Network. Summary/re-cap here.

April 21 – HealthCamp Boston Social Pharmer “Unconference”. Archived videos from this event here.

Conference Speaking

I attend a number of conferences (Marketing/Social Media/Pharma) as a blogging correspondent and/or as a speaker. When presenting, I focus on themes around social media, blogging, and pharma training/marketing.

Typical Topics:

Building an Opportunity Network with Social Media

Technology Trends in Pharmaceutical Training

The Use and Future of Social Media in Pharma

Creating your Personal Brand

Vendor Selection and Management

Project Definition and Management

Starting a Business based on YOU

Past Workshops / Conference Presentations

Building Your own Opportunity Network, Steve Woodruff and panel (Don O’Guin/Pfizer and Jerry Clor/Roche), workshop presented at May 2009 meeting of the Society of Pharmaceutical Biotech Trainers (SPBT).

But I Didn’t Sign up to Manage Projects!, Steve Woodruff and Bob Holliday (Boehringer-Ingelheim), workshop presented at May 2009 meeting of SPBT.

Key Pharma Business Needs that can be Addressed NOW with Social Media, workshop presented at inaugural Social Pharmer conference (April 2009) in conjunction with HealthCamp Boston.

Posse Blogging (member of core conversation panel with Jay Ehret and Becky Carroll), at South by Southwest Interactive conference, March 2009.

Social Media and Pharma (member of panel discussion), at IIRUSA’s ePharma Summit, February 2009.

Vendor Selection: Right-Sourcing 101, Steve Woodruff and Angela Nicoletta workshop presented at May 2008 meeting of SPBT.

Incorporate Learning Management Systems (LMSs) into Your Sales Training Programs, Steve Woodruff, John Sjovall, Jim Delaney, workshop presented at October 2006 CBI Research Pharmaceutical Sales Training Summit.

Is Your Sales Force Ready, Able, and Certified?, Steve Woodruff and John Kuchna, workshop presented at June 2006 IVT Marketing and Sales Summit.

On-line Assessments: Value to the Business, Steve Woodruff, workshop presented at the May 2005 meeting of the Society of Pharmaceutical Biotech Trainers (SPBT)

e-Learning Models: Using Various Electronic Formats to Deliver Training, Steve Woodruff and panel, workshop presented at the June 2004 meeting of the Society of Pharmaceutical Biotech Trainers (SPBT)

Learning Management Systems and Learning Content Management Systems – What, Why, and How, Steve Woodruff and panel, workshop presented at the June 2003 meeting of the Society of Pharmaceutical and Biotech Trainers (SPBT)

e-Learning: A Top Ten List of Practical Lessons, Steve Woodruff and panel, workshop presented at the June 2002 meeting of the Society of Pharmaceutical and Biotech Trainers (SPBT)

E-Testing: Using on-line Assessments in e-Learning and Employee Development, Steve Woodruff and Wanda Kearney, (Abbott Labs), workshop presented at the May 2001 meeting of the Society of Pharmaceutical and Biotech Trainers (SPBT)

Managing the Future: Advances in Technology-based Training, Steve Woodruff and Matthew Selvaggio, (Wyeth-Ayerst), workshop presented at the May 2000 meeting of the National Society of Pharmaceutical Sales Trainers (NSPST)

Web-based Assessments: Pressing Questions, Practical Answers, Steve Woodruff, workshop presented at the February 2000 Training 2000 Conference.

Web-based Training: Fulfilling the Promise, Steve Woodruff and Louise Zawislak (Wyeth-Ayerst), workshop presented at the June 1999 meeting of the National Society of Pharmaceutical Sales Trainers (NSPST)

Webinars

Frost & Sullivan Webinar – Delivering Effective Training for Life Sciences, Steve Woodruff, co-presenter

Saba Inside Content Webinar – Award-winning learning solutions in Life Sciences. Steve Woodruff, co-presenter

Bowne Global Webinar – e-Learning: Taking a Global Approach, Steve Woodruff, co-presenter

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(Image credits: Social Pharmer by Joseph Cerro; SxSW by Leigh Duncan-Durst)