Venue
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, 1101 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA

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Event Date Wed Oct 30 EDT - Thu Oct 31 EDT (about 2 months ago)
Location Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia
1101 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
Region Americas
Details

This event captures all elements of the laboratory, from fundamental scientific breakthroughs to the latest technological advancements, you will have two full days of collaboration, innovation, and networking. This is the first conference of its kind – We cover ALL areas of the lab and ALL industry disciplines that host laboratories. The 2024 edition will showcase the biggest solution providers and invites lab leaders from life sciences, pharma, FMCGs, petro chemical, food & beverage, forensic, and agricultural labs to help break down silos and spark discussions across the United States and abroad.

Speakers

2024 Speakers

Dorothy Addie
Data Science Assistant, The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute

Silas Adekunle
Co-founder and CEO, Lumi

Mitch Adler
Chief Executive Officer, Spaero Bio

Samer Albahra
Director, Research and Development, PLMI's Center for Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, Cleveland Clinic

Jon Albo
Graduate Research Fellow, Cornell University

Alaaeddin Alsbaiee
R&D Manager, BASF

Sajaa Altaleb
Program Lab-Advanced Network Innovation Lab, California State University

Alexis Anchundia
Sr Facilities Engineer, Noven Pharmaceuticals

Demet Aybar
Chief Executive Officer, US Lab Partners

Yousef Baioumy
Automation Engineer, Adaptive Biotechnologies

Katie Barrio
AD Data Analytics & Operational Excellence, AstraZeneca

Mary Belfast
Associate Director, Automation, Specialty Bioanalytics, Teva Pharmaceuticals

Pranav Bende
Senior Robotics Engineer, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Victoria Bostler
Territory Sales Manager, Grenova

Fatih Buyuksonmez
CEO, Labquote.AI

David Calabrese
Automation Chemist, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Devin Carsdale
Associate Director, Sustainable Procurement, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Jignesh Chandarana
Sr Staff Process Engineer, GRAIL

Peter Chase
Scientific Director, Core Automation, Bristol Myers Squibb

Alan Chramiec
Senior Business Manager, Ganymede Bio

Robert Christmas
Chief Operating Officer, The Baruch S. Blumberg Institute

Ozzie Civelekoglu
Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca

Will Clark
Senior Director, CMC Sustainability, GSK

Nathan Clark
Chief Executive Officer, Ganymede Bio

James Connelly
CEO, My Green Lab

John Conway
Chief Visioneer Officer, 20/15 Visioneers

Clare Corden
Conference Producer, Terrapinn Holdings Ltd

Patrick Courtney
Member of Board of Directors, SiLA Consortium

Katie Daisey
Scientist, Arkema

Iman Dehzangi
Professor, Rutgers University

Mark Ding
Senior Advisor of Automation, Eli Lilly

Eric Dingfelder
SVP, Scientific & Safety, Clinisys

Andrew Doran
Principal Scientist, Automation, Anagenex

David Eckert
Business Development Manager, QIAGEN

Cosette El Hage
Chemistry/Physics Lab Manager, Lehigh Carbon Community College

David Fagan
Senior Application Analyst, MSKCC

Iman Farasat
Scientist, JNJ

Caroline Fawcett
Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca

Ben Freckmann
Associate Director of Sales, US, Hamilton Company

Flavio Freitas
Program Manager - Digital Lab Process Design, BASF USA

Kirsten Gesenberg
Portfolio Director, BIOVIA

Kevin Ghiasi
VP Global Alliances & Integrations, Elemental Machines

Rich Gilliam
Automation Engineer, GRAIL

Alexander Godfrey
Chemistry Automation Lead, NCATS/NIH

Kalpesh Gupta
Associate Director, Moderna

Doug Hamilton
RVP Lab Operations, Quest Diagnostics

Amanda Hart
QC Director, AstraZeneca

Stephen Hayward, PhD
Director of Marketing BIOVIA, BIOVIA

Kristan Henderson
Sr. IoT Solutions Consultant, Machine Q, a Comcast Company

Jason Hirshman
CTO & Co-Founder, Uncountable

Nate Hoxie
Research Associate, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Yamin Htet
Sr. Scientist, AstraZeneca

Kara Hunter
Associate Director of Employer Engagement, Johns Hopkins University

Kevin Hynes
Head of Business Intelligence & Digitalization, AstraZeneca

Nadia Issa
Medical Laboratory Specialist, UNC Health

Stuart Jackson
Chief Operating Officer, Oncology R&D, AstraZeneca

Del Ray Jackson
Director of Product Management, Hamilton Company

Ishrat Jahan
Lead Engineer, Regeneron

Hardik Jani
Scientist, Moderna

David Jennions
Sr Director, R&D Systems, GRAIL bio

Conchita Jiminez-Gonzalez
R&D Environment, Health, Safety, & Sustainability Lead, GSK

Bryant Jones
Laboratory Operations Manager, NMS Labs

Joseph Keary
Systems Director of Laboratory Services, Arnot Health

Andrew King
Senior Director of HSE, Sustainability and QC IT, AstraZeneca

Jonathan Klane
Sr Safety Editor, Lab Manager

Karthik Raj Konnaiyan
Senior Laboratory Automation Engineer, Tolmar Inc

Erik Laurence
Managing Member, GRI Labs

Jocelyn Lee
Associate Director, American Association for Cancer Research

Sam Lim
Senior Research Specialist, The Dow Chemical Company

Julie Lorenz
Vice President Analytical, Chemistry and Supply, Zoetis

Manan Luthra
Automation Engineer, NIH/NCATS

Sally Madden
Bioinformatics, Software Engineer, Genentech

Rishi Mahajan
Lead R&D Automation Engineer, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Elisabeth Maida
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Fathom

Maureen Malakowski
Director, Environmental Health and Safety, University of Pennsylvania

Victoria Mander
Scientist, Janssen R&D

Sarine Markossian
Lead, Assay Guidance Manual (AGM) Translational Science Resources Program, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences - NCATS

Roland Martinez
Senior Field Applications Scientist, Automata

Thierry Masquelin
COO ASPIRE Initiative, NIH/NCATS

Sharon Matamoros
Scientific Investigator & Scientific Lead, GSK

Tiago Matos
Associate Principal Scientist, Merck & Co

Tamara McKenna
Director – Global Scientific LIMS Sales, Clinisys

Adam McLennan
Head of Global QC and Stability, AstraZeneca

Sam Michael
Chief, Information Technology Resources Branch, NCATS/NIH

Robert Middleton
Director of Product, Lab Automation, Labcorp

Pascal Miéville
Executive Director, EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Lane Milde
Scientist, Pfizer

Christina Minnick
Senior Scientist, Merck

Scott Mosser
Director of Quantitative Biosciences, Merck

Dan Myers
Technical Coordinator, New York State Police

Jason Nagy
Lab Safety Support Coordinator, Sentara Healthcare

Maureen O'Leary
Associate Vice Provost for Research, Environmental Health and Radiation Safety, University of Pennsylvania

Vikas Patel
Global Head Digital R&D Data Products, Sanofi

Samantha Pearman-Kanza
Senior Enterprise Fellow, University of Southampton

Casey Peters
VP of Research & Data Science, Elemental Machines

Courtney Phillips
CEO, Matrix Fluidx

Stephen Powell
Laboratory Capital Equipment Lead, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Phyllis Pugh
Scientist 1, AstraZeneca

Scott Radcliffe
Associate Principal Scientist, Merck

Aco Radujevic
Automation Chemist Engineer, NCATS/NIH

Ken Raiche
Managing Director, Client Success, Astrix

Adrian Ramirez-Galilea
Senior Lab Automation Scientist, Takeda

Marco Ravot Licheri
Head Digital - Life Sciences Business, Tecan

Juan Reyes
Associate Director, Automation Engineer, Moderna, Inc.

Nancy Ross
Assistant Director Clinical Pathology and Quality, Montefiore Medical Center

Mark Russo
Professor, The College of New Jersey

Tarik Safouan
Director of the DX Lab, Barry University

Pedram Samani
Senior Wet Lab Manager, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Edward Sampey P.E.
Managing Director, Sampey Consulting LP

Burkhard Schaefer
Head of Partnering, SiLA Consortium, AnIML

Dan Scungio
Lab Safety Officer, Sentara Healthcare

Will Serber
VP Automation, Ginkgo Bioworks

David Shiembob
Manager, Healthcare Advisory Services, ARUP Laboratories

Michael Simpson
CEO, Clinisys

Peter Smith
Chief Executive Officer, Labbit

Peter Soler
Senior Principal Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb

Mark Spooner
Lab Director & Adjunct Professor, Utah Tech University

Igor Stagljar
Professor, University of Toronto

Summer Stephens
Automation Scientist, GSK

Kyrie Stevens
CBO, US Lab Partners

Kelly Sullivan
Director of Lab Operations, CIC

Gene Tetreault
Sr Director BIOVIA R&D, BIOVIA

Jameson Travers
Automation Specialist, NIH/NCATS

Joseph Tzeng
Manager of Data Analytics, GSK

Joseph Valluri
CEO, Koan Inc.

George Varughese
Business Development Lead, Biologics, BD

David Watson
Automation Engineer, Moderna

Brian Webb
Director of Environmental Safety, GSK

Sam Yoon
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan

Rami Younes
Director, Digital Manufacturing, Amgen

Wenqi Yu
Senior Engineer, AstraZeneca

Sponsors & Partners

2024 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• Agilent Technologies
• BIOVIA
• Clinisys

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Automata
• Ganymede Bio
• My Green Lab
• Sapio Sciences
• Spaero Bio
• Uncountable Inc.

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Astrix
• Elemental Machines
• Grenova
• Hamilton Company
• Labbit
• Tecan
• Qiagen
• Zifo

SILVER SPONSORS:
• CellPort Software
• PerkinElmer