Seminars, Workshops and Web-Seminars

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, web-seminars and workshops covering topics directly related to our core competences. It is designed for those interested in learning about statistics and planning/evaluation inproficiency 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 andsolving 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 Web-Seminars

Free presentation on µKPI for food microbiologists

In this web-seminar, we will introduce µKPI for verification of microbiological methods according to ISO 16140 Part 3.

The English Web-Seminar is planned on 22nd September 2023.

After all presentations, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about theory and practice. The web-seminar will take place from 9 am CST (Central Standard Time).

The participation is free of charge.

Web-Seminar registration

Web-Seminar for the evaluation of interlaboratory studies with PROLab

The workshop series for the evaluation of interlaboratory studies gives participants the opportunity to get a clear understanding of the standards behind proficiency testing and method validation. You can either register for the web-seminar series or for individual web-seminar.

The English Web-Seminar is planned from 07 November – 09 November 2023.

After all presentations, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about theory and practice. The web-seminar will take place from 9 am - 3 pm CEST including breaks.

The participation fee per day and participant is 350,- € net.
The total price for the web-seminar series is 1050,- € net.

Web-Seminar registration

Past Web-Seminars

Web-Seminar for verification, measurement uncertainty and validation for quantitative & qualitative microbiological methods

Web-Seminar participants learn how to validate and verify test methods according to ISO 16140 and how to evaluate measurement uncertainty according to ISO 19036. You can either register for the web-seminar series or for individual web-seminar.

You can either participate from 8 November - 10 November 2022

After all presentations, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about theory and practice. The web-seminar will take place from 9 am - 4 pm CEST including breaks.

Web-Seminar for the evaluation of interlaboratory studies with PROLab

The English Web-Seminar is planned from 25 October - 27 October 2022.

After all presentations, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about theory and practice. The web-seminar will take place from 9 am - 3 pm CEST including breaks.

Web-seminar for the verification of microbiological methods

Web-Seminar participants learn how to verify test methods according to ISO 16140. In this way, participants acquire indispensable skills for meeting the requirements of the new ISO/IEC 17025:2017.

After all presentations, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about theory and practice. The web-seminar will take place from 9 am - 4 pm CET including breaks.

Web-Seminars in May/June 2020

Two series of web-seminars were held in May and June 2020.

Web-Seminar for the evaluation of proficiency tests: 12, 19, 26 May 2020, Online, German

Web-Seminar for testing laboratories in the field of food microbiology: 27 May, 03, 10 June 2020, Online, German

Get a taste of our webseminars by checking out these clips from our last web-seminars (full version available by request).

Web-Seminar1:

mqVAL

Web-Seminar 2:

Solutions for data import

Web-Seminar 3:

What's new in ISO 13528

Web-Seminar 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.

Web-Seminar 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 web-seminar is related to our contribution at the PT Conf 2017, in Romania.

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

Web-Seminar 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 web-seminar is related to our contribution at the Eurachem PT Workshop 2017, in Slovenia.

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