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Published 04-01-22

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What do you get when you combine the best ideas coming out of biology, chemistry and data science?

A powerful tool with the potential to change lives for the better.

From curing incurable diseases, providing people with preventive tools to live healthier, better and longer lives, to producing enough food for our growing population without starving the planet, we are on the brink of unlocking a world of enormous potential.

While the worlds biggest challenges may appear to be very different in nature, the key to overcoming them could be similar. It all comes down to this confluence of the life sciences and data science.

Join us for the Bayer Breakthrough Innovation Forum where we will shed light on the promise this new era in the Life Sciences holds for humanity.

Join us April 1 for a virtual event-Add to calendar

What does this mean for health and nutrition?

While still in its early stages, the convergence of chemistry, biology and data science to accelerate innovation is much more than a theoretical scientific concept. Scientists around the world are already working on applications that leverage todays enhanced technological toolkit to decode and engineer biology for the benefit of people and the planet.

We are driven to push the limits of what medicine can do today. Cell and gene therapies can move the needle from managing sick care, to providing true healthcare. Precise, personalized care could one day be available to everyone on the planet beforethey get sick.

In agriculture, biotechnology will be a critical enabler for our ability to feed the 10 billion people that will be on the planet by 2050 while at the same time fighting the impact of climate change. To grow more food with fewer resources like water, we will need to shift to a regenerative approach and make crops more resilient to climate impacts.

Shorter stature corn, and the number of resources it saves by not snapping in high winds, is just one example of climate-smart agriculture already in action. And advances in digital farming are giving growers the opportunity to maximize the amount of carbon they capture from the atmosphere. Our work to establish the carbon marketplace is one more example of genetics and data coming together to help solve what previously seemed unsolvable.

"Health and nutrition are among the most basic needs of societies around the globe. Its the definition of systemic relevance. Based on the converging worlds of genes, cells and data, we see anew foundation for scientific breakthroughs in those areas."

Werner Baumann , Chairman of the Board of Management (CEO) of Bayer AG

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Bayer: Science For A Better Life

Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the Life Science fields of health care and agriculture. Its products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. At the same time, the Group aims to create value through innovation, growth and high earning power. Bayer is committed to the principles of sustainable development and to its social and ethical responsibilities as a corporate citizen. In fiscal 2015, the Group employed around 117,000 people and had sales of EUR 46.3 billion. Capital expenditures amounted to EUR 2.6 billion, R&D expenses to EUR 4.3billion. These figures include those for the high-tech polymers business, which was floated on the stock market as an independent company named Covestro on October 6, 2015. For more information, go to http://www.bayer.com.

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In light of the ever-growing technological innovation and the rising growth opportunities in the field of data science, an industry-leading software house headquartered in Pakistan, Confiz, decided to establish a globally recognized knowledge-sharing platform called the Confiz Data Summit. Hosted on 26th March 2022, the event is believed to be Pakistans first-ever data and machine learning summit organized to further Confizs agenda to inspire ideas, and innovation in the data science community as the global big data market is set to reach $234.6 Billion by 2026.

At Confiz, we believe that hard work, innovation, and knowledge sharing are the key factors for technological advancement. The Confiz Data Summit is an effort to promote and propagate our values for students, professionals, and educators to bring into practice our efforts for a better and more knowledgeable data community in Pakistan., Faheem Jabbar keynote speaker at the Summit and Senior Data Architect at Confiz.

The event was the first-ever hosted of its kind, and was planned in collaboration with the University of Management and Technology (UMT) on 26th March 2022. It was revered by the 300+ online registrants and 150+ on-site attendees as it presented an opportunity to learn, share, and celebrate the latest trends and technologies shaping the future of data.

The speakers spoke about modern day technology applications, unique business use cases, and the fast-expanding global technology landscape. During the speeches, great insights on vision technology, demand forecasting, the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning, data ingestion, and prominent data management techniques were shared.

Our goal for today is to dive deep into the intricate world of data science, discuss the recent developments in this fast-expanding industry, and dissect modern problem-solving techniques as crucial to leveraging data innovation., Aitezaz Sheikh Vice President Engineering at Confiz.

Prominent speakers at the event included:

Syed Fahad Khalid Lead Product Manager AI, Meta

Muhammad Fahad Bhatti Specialist Data Governance Trainer

Nauman Bashir Sr. Software Architect, Confiz

Naufil Hassan Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Confiz

Jawwad Mansoor Principal Data Scientist, Confiz

Dr. Fazeel Abid Assistant Professor, UMT

Usman Barkat Chief Innovation Officer, Algo

The event also served as a networking platform for those in attendance including seasoned IT professionals, software developers, machine learning experts, data scientists, and university professors, who shared the common passion towards revolutionary change-enablement in the field of data science.

The Confiz Data Summit proved to be a success, fueled by an overwhelming response from the students and industry experts globally, and has set the stage for similar thought-leadership initiatives for other industry leaders in the technology landscape. Confiz commits to carry on the initiative annually to invest in the culture of knowledge sharing, collaborate with industry professionals and support future data enthusiasts globally.

About Confiz

Confizis a global technology service and solutions company, catering to small, medium, and large enterprises, with multiple Fortune 100 customers in retail, CPG, manufacturing, and other verticals. The company was founded in 2005 and has now grown to a workforce of more than 600 team members working from offices in the US, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia.

Its expertise areas include cloud, data analytics, business intelligence and footfall analytics solutions, Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP and CRM, and bespoke development and consulting services. Over the years, the organization has excelled through seasoned leadership, a highly qualified and efficient workforce, and a strong uncompromising focus on quality deliverables.

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Professor Jerri Bartholomew stands next to her art installations Salmon and There Will Be Good Years: 2009-2021 (lower) at The Little Gallerys exhibition of her work titled Abstracted: Where Science Meets Art and Music on March 4. This piece and others incorporate data from her microbiology work into art pieces created by herself and other collaborative artists.

Jerri Bartholomew has combined her glass art and extensive microbiology work in a new exhibit titled Abstracted: Where Science Meets Art and Music at The Little Gallery in Kidder Hall through April 8.

Bartholomew, a microbiology professor at Oregon State University, discovered her passion for microbiology, specifically in the field of fish-related diseases, during her graduate studies at OSU. Forty-one years later, shes still here and has worked across various roles in the microbiology department. Bartholomew is also director of the John L. Fryer Aquatic Health Laboratory.

According to Bartholomew, shes always had an interest in art. She said that, even though she chose science as a career, art has always been an important aspect of her life. She took glass art classes toward the end of her graduate studies and became very interested in it, describing glass art as a field in itself.

The inspiration behind her art, Bartholomew said, is her science. She said shes been creating scientifically-based art pieces for over 20 years and while she was on sabbatical in 2021, one of her goals was to explore the interconnectivity of art and science and find ways to get people interested in the science they do.

The art-sci network on the OSU Corvallis, Ore. campus is a community Bartholomew wants to draw more attention to, including their Seminarium group intended for students who want to explore the connections between art and science.

Bartholomew said there are a lot of great art-sci connections at OSU that, despite having no current formal structure, are a strength to keep in mind.

The Little Gallery and Helen Wilhelm, the gallery curator, have featured other exhibits involving the art-sci community in the past. Bartholomew said The Little Gallery is a nice, personal space among other gems on campus that are lesser-known and she hopes theyll have more exposure in the future.

According to Bartholomew, the title of the exhibit, Abstracted, is inspired by the first part of a scientific manuscript: the abstract. She said this part of the paper distills down the entire project and is the part most likely to be read. She said she wanted to see how far she could take abstraction in the artistic sense while still making the viewer curious about the science itself.

Bartholomew said she combines science and art in a few different ways. One of the pieces in the show includes data graphs taken from one of her research projects on the Klamath River, which she then incorporated into glass. She said art helped her to ask further questions of her own science that she may not have otherwise.

Another way she combined technology and art was by collaborating with musicians, Bartholomew said.

Jason Fick, OSU assistant professor of Music Technology, coordinator of Music Technology and Production, and president of the College Music Society, Northwest Region, sonified Bartholomews data into a 16-minute digital musical piece which is included in the exhibit Murky Waters.

Fick said he and Bartholomew have been working together on this data for about two years after meeting in 2016. Fick said he created a software platform to read data and map it to sound behaviors in real-time. The data includes waterborne spore density, water flow and temperature.

According to Bartholomew, she worked with Andrew Myers, instructor of Art at OSU, and Dana Reason, OSU assistant professor of Contemporary Music and musician, on a piece concerning developmental cycles of parasites titled Microdestruction: Using Art and Music to Understand Parasite Development. Meyers created a live drawing from the data while Reason composed a musical piece to tell its story.

Reason, who is also the coordinator of Popular Music Studies for Ecampus and Corvallis campuses, said she hasnt seen the full show yet, but shes excited to share and celebrate this exhibit.

Prior to working on this show, Myers and Bartholomew co-taught a course titled Art of the Microbiome, which combined art and microbiology, and both serve as advisors for Seminarium, an OSU student club that examines the intersection of art and science.

In this project I am giving my visual interpretation using traditional drawing media, in collaboration with Dana Reasons performance of the life cycle of the parasite central to Jerris research, Myers said. Collaborations, specifically interdisciplinary collaborations, are extremely interesting to me and this one has been very rewarding.

Bartholomew said art and science dont have to be separate, and indeed didnt used to be until the past 150 years or so.

According to Bartholomew, next year shell be working on the Klamath River dam removal, and she will be incorporating aspects of that into her art next winter.

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