Seminars and Workshops

Training/Education for analytical quality assurance as a service

Do you feel the need to improve your knowledge in analytical quality assurance for your daily lab work?

Every year, QuoData offers professional learning opportunities i. e. seminars, webinars and workshops covering topics directly related to our core competences. It is designed for those interested in learning about statistics and planning/evaluation in proficiency testing and more, which reflects latest statistical-based requirements of international standards.

Our well-experienced Data Scientists and PT experts provide first-hand knowledge on method development, proficiency testing and measurement uncertainty. Once the basics are covered, the focus is on advanced techniques and solving real-life day-to-day problems.

Your benefits:

Get a chance to significantly enhance your understanding in fields such as statistics and quality assurance
Get to hear first-hand about some of the latest developments from QuoData’s lecturers who are members of various national and international committees
Get familiar with the latest requirements of international standards such as ISO/IEC 17025, ISO/IEC 17043, ISO 16140, ISO 5725

Initial objectives of QuoData training:

Focus on problem-solving on the basis of examples taken from typical practical situations
Gain deeper knowledge of planning/evaluation in proficiency testing and for interlaboratory studies
Expert guidance in designing and conducting method validation studies including how to report uncertainty values in measurement properly

Upcoming Workshops

Webinar 1: Utilize your PT results for internal quality control

Assess your lab's performance over time with the help of PT data
How to interpret PT results to improve performance
How to spot a trend in your PT results and how to deal with it
Duration: approx. 60 minutes + Q&A session
Free access to the recording

Date/Time: 21/08/2019 at 16:00 CEST

Participation fee: 60€

Webinar registration

Webinar 2: Determine measurement uncertainties – approaches and implementation

Review of bottom-up, top-down and hybrid approaches
ISO 17025 and decision rules
Taking into account matrix effects and systematic lab bias
Duration: approx. 60 minutes + Q&A session
Free access to the recording

Date/Time: 26/08/2019 at 16:00 CEST

Participation fee: 60€

Webinar registration

Workshop: Method Validation and Statistics for Microbiological Methods

QuoData and FDA Workshop about Method Validation and Statistics for Microbiological Methods:
Part A – Qualitative Methods

Course Topics Include:

Statistics for qualitative microbiological methods (e.g. culture-based, immunoassay-based, and molecular)
Performance standards for qualitative microbiological methods: Scientific basis and how to interpret
Validation pathways and approaches for qualitative methods (ISO 16140 series and AOAC protocol)
Examples of single laboratory and multi-laboratory validation studies for qualitative methods

English Workshop

When: Sep 18, 2019, 8:00 AM - Sep 20, 2019, 5:00 PM
Where: University Maryland

Workshop registration

Workshop for the evaluation of interlaboratory studies with PROLab

The workshop for the evaluation of interlaboratory studies gives participants the opportunity to get a clear understanding of the standards behind proficiency testing and method validation.

English Workshop

When: 25. - 27. September 2019
Where: Berlin
Program: here

Workshop registration

Past Webinars

Get a taste of our webinars by checking out these clips from our last webinars (full version available by request).

Webinar 1:

mqVAL

Webinar 2:

Solutions for data import

Webinar 3:

What's new in ISO 13528

Webinar 4:

Best practices for PT

Also we gave two lectures on new approaches in the field of proficiency testing in October 2017. One of them at the PT Conf in Romania, and the other at the Eurachem PT Workshop in Slovenia.

Our presentations attracted wide interest, and we want to share them with everyone who had not the chance to attend.

Webinar 5:

Precision profiles and z score profiles

About: A QuoData initiated proficiency testing scheme. Within the proficiency test new approaches have been utilized to provide more reliable information on the performance of laboratories with the help z score profiles. This webinar is related to our contribution at the PT Conf 2017, in Romania.

Here you can download a summary of the webinar: https://quodata.de/s/Abstract_PTConf_2017.php

Webinar 6:

“Taking laboratory measurement uncertainties into account in assigned value estimates”

About: The consideration of laboratory specific measurement uncertainties for the performance assessment of labs within proficiency tests. This webinar is related to our contribution at the Eurachem PT Workshop 2017, in Slovenia.

Here you can download a summary of the webinar: https://quodata.de/s/Abstract_Eurachem_2017.php