Computer Vision for Automated Cell Culture at Scale (Fireside Chat)
Integrations (Theater 2)
Jeff Winchell,Associate Data Scientist, The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute
Dorothy Addie,Data Science Assistant, The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute
Oct 3114:30
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The Evolution of Automation
Automation (Theater 1)
Will Serber,Head of Automation Solutions, Ginkgo Bioworks
last published: 31/Oct/24 17:15 GMT
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Thierry Masquelin / Opening Keynote Address: A Specialized Platform for Innovative Research Exploration (ASPIRE) at NCATS (Fireside Chat)
Dr. Thierry J. Masquelin is a visionary leader with extensive expertise in Medicinal and Chemical Technology, driving transformative advancements in drug discovery processes. With over 30 years of experience in Drug Discovery and robotics, his contributions include the creation of state-of-the-art...
Alexander Godfrey / Opening Keynote Address: A Specialized Platform for Innovative Research Exploration (ASPIRE) at NCATS (Fireside Chat)
Alexander Godfrey, Chemistry Automation Lead, NCATS/NIH
I am a PhD-trained organic synthetic chemist with over 50 publications and patents. Currently, I help lead a multidisciplinary team of chemists, biologists, and engineers at NCATS, where we are working to transform our laboratories into state-of-the-art facilities for life sciences research. Since...
Eric Zimmerman Zuckerman / Try Before You Buy- A Model for Bringing New Automation Into the Clinical Laboratory
Eric Zimmerman Zuckerman, Principal Developer, Mayo Clinic
Eric Alan Zimmerman Zuckerman, MS, is a seasoned expert in laboratory automation and translational research, currently serving as the Principal Developer at the Process Innovation Through Automation (PITA) laboratory at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Eric earned his Bachelor’s degree in...
Stephen Hayward / Data-Driven Labs: The Power of AI and LIMS
Stephen Hayward, PhD, Director of Marketing BIOVIA, BIOVIA
Stephen Hayward has a PhD in Chemical Engineering, with a background in laboratory informatics, chemical modeling, and environmental analysis. Originally from Toronto, Canada, he currently leads product marketing efforts for lab informatics solutions at Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA in San Diego.
David Shiembob / Panel: Designing Laboratories for Teaching and Training: Educational Perspectives
David Shiembob, Manager, Healthcare Advisory Services, ARUP Laboratories
David Shiembob is the Manager of Healthcare Advisory Services at ARUP Laboratories, located in Salt Lake City, Utah. David began his career at ARUP Laboratories as a technologist trainee after obtaining a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Utah. He served ARUP over the next ten...
Kara Hunter / Panel: Designing Laboratories for Teaching and Training: Educational Perspectives
Kara Hunter, Associate Director of Employer Engagement, Johns Hopkins University
With over 9 years of experience in higher education and student affairs, Kara currently serves as the Associate Director of Employer Engagement at The Life Design Lab at Homewood - Johns Hopkins University. In this role, she develops and maintains strategic partnerships with employers across the...
Yousef Baioumy / Panel: Designing Laboratories for Teaching and Training: Educational Perspectives
Laboratory automation professional, helping biotechnology companies scale up and become future proof.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yousefbaioumy
Samer Albahra / Using Large Language Models to Assign ICD-O Codes to Pathology Reports
Samer Albahra, Director, Research and Development, PLMI's Center for Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Samer Albahra is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and a Staff Pathologist at the Cleveland Clinic's Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute. He completed his residency in Anatomic and Clinical...
Peter Smith / Building a FAIR Scientific Data Foundation: Starting with Intent and Scientific Business Process Mapping (Fireside Chat)
Peter Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Labbit
Peter is the CEO and co-founder of Semaphore Solutions, which provides laboratory informatics solutions for life sciences laboratories. With a decade of experience in professional services within high-complexity, high-throughput laboratories, Semaphore launched Labbit LIMS in 2022. Labbit is now...
Alaaeddin Alsbaiee / Polyurethane Sustainability: Challenges and Roadmap to Closing the Loop
Alaaeddin Alsbaiee, R&D Manager, BASF
Dr. Alsbaiee holds a B.Sc. in applied chemistry from Damascus University, an M.Sc. in synthetic organic chemistry from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, and a PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Alberta and the Canadian National Institute for Nanotechnology. In 2014, he...
Eric Zimmerman Zuckerman / Roundtable 5: Clinical Lab Perspectives in Automation
Eric Zimmerman Zuckerman, Principal Developer, Mayo Clinic
Eric Alan Zimmerman Zuckerman, MS, is a seasoned expert in laboratory automation and translational research, currently serving as the Principal Developer at the Process Innovation Through Automation (PITA) laboratory at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Eric earned his Bachelor’s degree in...
Vikas Patel / Roundtable 7: Leveraging Data Products and Compute Optimization to Scale AI / Gen AI across R&D
Vikas Patel, Digital & Data Transformation Life Sciences Executive, .
Vikas Patel is an accomplished global leader in life sciences R&D,  bringing over 25 years of expertise in digital transformation, data analytics, and artificial intelligence within the healthcare sector. Most recently, Vikas was the Global Head of R&D Data, AI, and Analytics Products at...
Kevin Ghiasi / AI-Predicted Health Score: Using Data Science as the Foundation of Labs of the Future (Fireside Chat)
Kevin Ghiasi, VP Global Alliances & Integrations, Elemental Machines
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Kevin Ghiasi is a seasoned professional with five years of experience at Elemental Machines, specializing in the Biotech and Life Sciences sectors. Throughout his tenure, Kevin has successfully managed sales and strategic alliances, building valuable relationships and driving growth. Over the...
Ben Freckmann / Lights, Camera, Automate: Meet Hamilton’s DeckWatch
Ben Freckmann, Associate Director of Sales, Hamilton Company
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Devin Carsdale / Sustainable Laboratory Practices in Healthcare and Diagnostics (Fireside Chat)
Devin leads the supply chain sustainability strategy under BMS's Global Supplier Diversity and Supply Chain Sustainability program. He aligns company-wide initiatives with procurement goals, creates and drives strategies, partners with stakeholders, collects supplier data, conducts due...
Courtney Phillips / From Innovation to Impact: Transforming the Instrument Service Model to Cultivate Efficiency and Sustainability
Courtney Phillips, CEO, Matrix Fluidx
Dedicated & creative CEO with 15 years experience in instrumentation for the life sciences. Courtney’s passion for sustainability puts her at the forefront of remote support program development. She has built a strong community within the laboratory automation field focused on long-term...
Marco Ravot Licheri / Lab of Today - Get the Digital Advantage Now
Marco Ravot Licheri, Head Digital - Life Sciences Business, Tecan
Marco has a background in Computer Science & Biomedical Engineering and focused on the last decade on the development and implementation of Digital Strategies in the Life Sciences sector. With Tecan, he was deeply involved in defining the Digital strategy and in its implementation, including...
Lucas Yule / Panel: Internal Robotics Software Vs External
Lucas Yule, Senior Scientist, Merck
Laboratory automation expert with 10 years experience in the field. I have worked for Thermo Scientific installing and mantaining laboratory systems throughout the world. Three years ago I made the switch to the customer side where I take assays from the bench and transfer to the robotic...
Eugene Tung / Panel: Internal Robotics Software Vs External
Eugene Tung, Executive Director, Merck
Dr. Tung is the Executive Director of Manufacturing IT and co-leads the Digital Transformation strategy at Merck & Co. for the company’s pilot plant and commercialization facilities, supporting various platforms including plant historian, manufacturing execution systems, predictive...
Jon Albo / Panel: Waste Reduction and Recycling in Laboratory Operations
Jon Albo, Graduate Research Fellow, Cornell University
With over 9 years of experience in research labs, Jon is currently completing his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. His experience working in labs with varying levels of funding which impacted their ability to answer complex questions has driven him to specialize in designing...
Stephen Hayward / Keynote Address: The Lab is an AI Data Factory
Stephen Hayward, PhD, Director of Marketing BIOVIA, BIOVIA
Stephen Hayward has a PhD in Chemical Engineering, with a background in laboratory informatics, chemical modeling, and environmental analysis. Originally from Toronto, Canada, he currently leads product marketing efforts for lab informatics solutions at Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA in San Diego.
Lucas Yule / Keynote Panel: From Bench to Breakthrough: Key Insights from the Lab Experts
Lucas Yule, Senior Scientist, Merck
Laboratory automation expert with 10 years experience in the field. I have worked for Thermo Scientific installing and mantaining laboratory systems throughout the world. Three years ago I made the switch to the customer side where I take assays from the bench and transfer to the robotic...
Dr. Thierry J. Masquelin is a visionary leader with extensive expertise in Medicinal and Chemical Technology, driving transformative advancements in drug discovery processes. With over 30 years of experience in Drug Discovery and robotics, his contributions include the creation of state-of-the-art...
David Shiembob / Chair Opening Remarks
David Shiembob, Manager, Healthcare Advisory Services, ARUP Laboratories
David Shiembob is the Manager of Healthcare Advisory Services at ARUP Laboratories, located in Salt Lake City, Utah. David began his career at ARUP Laboratories as a technologist trainee after obtaining a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Utah. He served ARUP over the next ten...
Tiago Matos / Evolving Integrated Continuous Biomanufacturing Control Strategies through Digital Twins
Tiago Matos, Associate Principal Scientist, Merck & Co
Tiago Matos, an Associate Principal Scientist with a PhD from Lund University and a Post Doc from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA, boasts over a decade of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. His career has seen him holding pivotal roles in process development at Novo Nordisk and...
Ozzie Civelekoglu is a Senior Scientist at AstraZeneca, based in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He earned his doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he developed a micro-scale flow cytometer. Following a brief time at MSD, Dr. Civelekoglu brought his expertise to AstraZeneca in July...
Sarine Markossian / The NCATS Assay Guidance Manual Program: Advancing the Practice and Rigor of Preclinical Translation
Sarine Markossian, Sarine Markossian, Lead, Assay Guidance Manual (AGM) Translational Science Resources Program, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences - NCATS
Dr. Sarine Markossian is the lead of the Assay Guidance Manual (AGM) Translational Science Resources Program at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). This program is a unique translational science initiative that aims to create and disseminate best laboratory...
Michael Norman / AI-Powered Protein Engineering and reducing 98% of the work. We didn’t believe it either…
Michael Norman, US Director, BioProdict
Michael has spent 20 years in the life sciences space. With a degree in Forensic Chemistry from West Chester University he spent the first decade of his career focused in the analytical space in the technical method development space across biotech, food, ag, and industrial applications with...
Sharon Matamoros / Panel: Growth in Laboratory Automation: A Roadmap for Innovation
Scientific Investigator & Scientific Lead in high throughput analytical experimentation with recognition both internally and externally as a scientific expert in automated analytical workflows. Leader of implementation of automation in a variety of areas, including oral and long-acting...
Yousef Baioumy / Panel: Growth in Laboratory Automation: A Roadmap for Innovation
Laboratory automation professional, helping biotechnology companies scale up and become future proof.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yousefbaioumy
David Gould / Transforming Lab Operations: Streamlining Inefficiencies for Superior Performance (Fireside Chat)
David Gould, Senior Product Manager, Lab Design Tool, powered by Kaon
David Gould has over 25 years of experience in the software industry and a broad background in product management, product marketing, market research, and software engineering for a range of industries, including database systems, multimedia consumer devices, and on-premise cloud services. Most...
Dr. Thierry J. Masquelin is a visionary leader with extensive expertise in Medicinal and Chemical Technology, driving transformative advancements in drug discovery processes. With over 30 years of experience in Drug Discovery and robotics, his contributions include the creation of state-of-the-art...
David Shiembob / Chair Opening Remarks
David Shiembob, Manager, Healthcare Advisory Services, ARUP Laboratories
David Shiembob is the Manager of Healthcare Advisory Services at ARUP Laboratories, located in Salt Lake City, Utah. David began his career at ARUP Laboratories as a technologist trainee after obtaining a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Utah. He served ARUP over the next ten...
Fatih Buyuksonmez / Navigating Through The Landscape of Pre-Owned Instrumentation: Pros, Cons, Pitfalls
Fatih Buyuksonmez, CEO, Labquote.AI
Dr. Buyuksonmez brings a wealth of experience from both academic and industry perspectives to the laboratory instrumentation sector. As a Professor Emeritus with over 30 years of research experience, having setup multiple laboratories, and the founder of one of the world's leading pre-owned...
David Shiembob / Thinking of Your Lab Processes from a Production Standpoint
David Shiembob, Manager, Healthcare Advisory Services, ARUP Laboratories
David Shiembob is the Manager of Healthcare Advisory Services at ARUP Laboratories, located in Salt Lake City, Utah. David began his career at ARUP Laboratories as a technologist trainee after obtaining a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Utah. He served ARUP over the next ten...
Alexander Godfrey / Automation in Chemistry vs Biology (Fireside Chat)
Alexander Godfrey, Chemistry Automation Lead, NCATS/NIH
I am a PhD-trained organic synthetic chemist with over 50 publications and patents. Currently, I help lead a multidisciplinary team of chemists, biologists, and engineers at NCATS, where we are working to transform our laboratories into state-of-the-art facilities for life sciences research. Since...
Erik Laurence / Navigating Integration: Challenges and Wins for Regional Labs
Erik Laurence, Managing Member, GRI Labs
Erik Laurence, managing member and co-owner of GRI Labs, draws on over 20 years of technology industry expertise to steer GRI through the complexities of integrating diverse and evolving technology platforms.
Jon Albo / Design and Creation of On-Demand Screening
Jon Albo, Graduate Research Fellow, Cornell University
With over 9 years of experience in research labs, Jon is currently completing his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. His experience working in labs with varying levels of funding which impacted their ability to answer complex questions has driven him to specialize in designing...