The EDGE Conference
2024 Summary
We successfully delivered EVOLVE: Engage. Embrace. Empower. The EDGE 3 Conference on the 24th and 25th April 2024. Thank you to all of our delegates that we welcomed through the doors of the Vox Conference centre in Birmingham across the 2 days. The event was not only our first conference following COVID but was also a celebration post launch of EDGE version 3.
EVOLVE: Engage. Embrace. Empower. hosted by BBC Medical Editor, Fergus Walsh, aimed to bring the EDGE community of users back together to share best practice and improve methods of working within the clinical research industry, following the rollout of EDGE 3 - a brand-new version of EDGE which the unit delivered successfully throughout 2023 – 2024 following years of hard work and development.
The CPD certified event was the opportunity for research professionals to Engage and Embrace the new version of EDGE and leave ready to Empower their new skills and knowledge learnt, to ultimately advance research.
Celebrating paper to digital
EVOLVE also highlighted the evolution of technology within research - from paper to digital and showcased how EDGE has grown and development over the last 24 years, bringing its users more features and functions to improve efficiency and processes digitally. Some of these include the addition of an electronic delegation log, electronic site file and archiving capabilities, as well as the facility for sponsors to perform remote monitoring – all of these were highlighted in the conference’s agenda. Our speakers were EDGE Experts themselves who shared their progress with EDGE and showcased their very own case studies on their innovative digital tools for things like workload analysis, automated data transfer, finance and more.
Research Stories
At the EDGE Conference, we love to remind our users what research is all about - the patient. We were honored to have two real patient stories shared at EVOLVE. These talks were a great reminder on how important research is and how every person in the audience plays a vital part in improving health and care.
Presentations
These are now available under the EDGE Community Forum: Shareedge, which can be accessed by users via EDGE > Support > Community Forum. Speaker contact details have been provided on each presentation.
If you attended, we hope you found the conference useful. If you did not, we hope to see you at the next one!