Session 1 - Strategy overview - Key steps for digital adoption

Join the evolution and embrace Canada's digital landscape

  • Discover the key opportunities in integrating digital into a traditional approaches.
  • Understand how digital can complement the field force, not compete with it.
  • Plan for the next wave of challenges with Mobile adoption

PANEL with senior Marketers - Gain internal buy in for digital campaigns

  • Meet the needs of the marketing department to achieve increased budget and approval.
  • Understand how to present a value proposition to roll out innovative and brand changing campaigns.

PANEL: ASC, PAAB & Regulatory from Pharma - sing their song and learn from the mistakes of others

  • Latest updates and recommendations based successful and unsuccessful case studies from the past 12 months.
  • What is the 10 point check list to ALWAYS ensure you campaign fits into the regulatory frame work


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Session 2 - Marketing Mix - develop a fusion of old and new

Utilizing Social Media to Drive New Product Commercialization

  • Case Study - employing social media to launch a new product - Schizophrenia category
  • Use social media to move physicians through the first 2 stages of the product adoption process and contract the sales cycle
  • Communicating across the pre-existing physician social network to drive adoption
  • Prevent the threat of Adoption Stall pre-launch and help the reps with this innovative digital engagement.

Ensure your product is suitable for online Marketing.

  • Profile and understand your audience's before you push the wrong campaign.
  • Apply online marketing best practices for each stage of a product's lifecycle.
  • Partner with the right organisations to ensure you support and meet their needs.

Plan for the future with a robust multi-channel marketing campaign

  • Develop a solid marketing strategy with insights and recommendations from a mix of regulated industries.
  • Build brand strength by ensuring your offline channels compliment your online activities. -
  • Apply the learning from other industries in defining ROI and KPIs


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Session 3 - Lay solid digital foundations for maximum visibility

Optimize your existing digital programs by applying the essential tools.

  • Increase site traffic by ironing out the flaws in your current websites to ensure you're fully optimized in all the top search engines.
  • Understand how to measure ROI by taking control of your analytics.

Content is King - build a solid attention strategy, persuasion architecture and content persuasiveness on your existing sites.

  • Draft copy that effectively hooks and holds engagement to become a brand publisher on your website
  • Increase email effectiveness and conversions through concise and targeted messages.
  • Step away from applying brochure copy on your website to write SEO friendly compelling copy.

Test test test! Understand the exact metrics needed on your digital campaign.

  • Understand how to utilise the most innovative 3rd parties to track and adjust social media campaigns.
  • Link Return On Engagement (ROE) to ROI - create clarity on these measurements
  • Get a true understanding of your customers by adjusting to their needs.

Uncover the secrets to successful Facebook marketing

  • Roll out an effective strategy that supports your audience and raises brand awareness
  • Understand how to be both compliant and transparent.
  • Learn from other successful campaigns that have shown reach, growth and ROI.

To Tweet or not to Tweet - therein lies the question.

  • Hear from industry expert bloggers and influencers on how to become an industry influencer
  • Utilise this tool to drive traffic, raise your brand and support your community.
  • Develop a strategy that incorporates and complements all your social media activities.


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Session 4 - Engage the modern mobile physician

eDetailing - new innovative tactics for an old challenge

  • Utilise the latest technology to increase detail time and repeat engagement in today's challenging market.
  • Ensure you have a strong telesales support team to compliment your digital activities.
  • Hear a detailed case study into increasing the physician engagement time with the latest technologies.

Learn from a series of case studies on best practice examples of eCME

  • Discover how eCME can enhance the patient care environment.
  • Create the perfect mix of traditional CME with digital eCME
  • Plan your programme to adopt the latest Mobile approaches to increase reach and usage.

Build effective strategies for Online Physician Engagement to support the sales rep.

  • Position your message to reflect what physicians want from pharma in today's market
  • Discover the changing focus of the sales force and how they manage different doctors preferences towards engagement.
  • React to the physicians insight on how they see pharma evolving over the next 10years - position your campaign to benefit from this.

Physician Panel

  • Hear from leading physicians on their views towards mobile adoption and support.
  • Discover their requirements for educational platforms and adherence
  • Ensure you position your digital strategy to maximise engagement


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Session 5 - Innovation and the future of Digital

Increase reach and impact by embracing Electronic Health Records (EHR)

  • Plan for the future by understanding how you can leverage the government's shift to integrating electronic health records.
  • Map out a strategy to engage with all key stakeholders in this future model of healthcare.
  • Get the latest stats and insights into the adoption of EHR and how you need to position you campaign

Connect your offline promotions with the perfect digital compliments.

  • Understand how digital signature, QR codes, mobile support can complement traditional print engagement.
  • Ensure your product is suitable and pull out the relevant ROI within this approach
  • Hear direct feedback from the field on the success and failures - ensure.

mHealth - it's not just smartphone use

  • Innovation of technology what is the best way to educate and support on this medium.
  • See how mobile is significantly growing in importance and how pharma must adapt to this medium.
  • Get the latest stats and insights into mobile adoption by physicians.

Ensure you engage effectively with Physicians with timely clear Mobile strategies.

  • Get the latest insights on the global trends of physicians for mobile use - understand the value of tablets vs smart phones.
  • Increase engagement through developing localised mobile platforms to meet the physician's personal needs
  • Effectively shift all your traditional marketing approaches to a mobile platform


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Session 6 - Patient Engagement

Patient Engagement > Health 2.0, participatory medicine

  • Add value through online education
  • Engage and collaborate with patient groups to improve health outcomes
  • Understand patient online behaviour
  • Discover the potential for clinical trial recruitment.

Patient Panel - the new stakeholder

Hear from some of the leading ePatients and organisations in Canada on their aims and wishes from pharma.

  • Partner and work these new stakeholders in a transparent and mutually beneficial way.
  • Position your campaign to ensure that you add value at all stages of disease support.

Breakout workshops x 3

  1. Developing a successful Marketing Mix
  2. Utilising Social Media in a compliant manner
  3. Thinking outside the box - Innovation and future strategies.

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