Nathan is a physicist by training and since starting at Johnson Matthey in 2010, he has strived to enable collaborators in R&D to make better decisions, sooner. His current role is to help offer a R&D-wide Lab Informatics Platform to make JM’s chemistry data FAIR.

Claudio graduated from La Sapienza in Medicinal Chemistry in 2008 and obtained his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2012. He spent ca 7 years at the University of Cambridge working in the field of Flow Chemistry with Prof Steve Ley, in collaboration with several companies (including...

Dr Courtney has 20 years of experience in laboratory instrumentation R&D and marketing, as a former director at PerkinElmer, as well as at Sartorius and Cap Gemini. He is a current director at SiLA (Standards in Laboratory Automation) and leads the European working group on Laboratory Robotics...

Mark Doerr (Dr.) is a (bio-)chemist, software developer and staff scientist in Prof. Uwe Bornscheuer's protein engineering and biocatalysis group at the Institute for Biochemistry of the University of Greifswald. He is responsible for the institute's robotic protein high-throughput...

Shayesteh co-founded and headed up an award-winning and renowned multi-disciplinary Life Science consulting company as well as two pharma companies, leading its substantial growth and successful sale to a global CRO. She was responsible for the strategic direction of the company, business...

Christiane is in charge of the laboratory workplace strategy across the Roche Diagnostics Division dedicated to supporting innovation, improving investment- and operational cost efficiency and environmental sustainability. She is steering the target setting and requirements definition for current...

Vera Jost 2012: Joined Roche as an apprentice in Process Research Chemistry 2019: built HTE- Lab for reaction screening 2022: Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, University of Basel    

Carleen, an expert in automation engineering by profession, earned her B.S. degree in Bioengineering from Syracuse University and her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She joined the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) 19 years ago as a...

Michael Langner is a trained biologist. In 2013 he completed his bachelor's degree in microbiology and genetics and in 2015 his master's degree in molecular medicine with distinction at the University of Vienna. Afterwards he spent three years at the University Hospital in Würzburg in the...

Ineke studied Architecture, Building and Planning at the Technical University of Eindhoven and worked for more than 10 years in real estate management and business support. She prefers complex projects with many different stakeholders and interests since connecting people and knowledge in order to...

Diego Liberati is the Research Director for Information, Control and Biomedical Engineering, and memeber of the Board, within the Institute for Electronics, Information and Communications Engineering of the Italian National Research Council at the Electronics and Information Department of the...

Dr. Paoletti Samantha is enabling collaborative innovation in the Life Sciences and the Healthcare domains.   Working as Head of Research and Business Development for Life Science Technologies at CSEM, she is responsible for identifying market needs and for the strategic planning of internal...

Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza is a Senior Enterprise Fellow at the University of Southampton. She is a Pathfinder Lead on Process Recording for the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) Initiative - www.psdi.ac.uk. She is part of the AIChemy Hub Team (run out of Imperial College London and the...

Dr. Vincent Revol is Head of Research and Business Development, Life Science Technologies at CSEM. Responsible of the research roadmap and contacts with key partners and customers, he ensures the strategic alignment of CSEM activities with the Life Sciences market. Engineer and physicist by...

Andrea Sauerwein is the R&D Data Readiness Lead at Johnson Matthey (JM) and a qualified change practitioner. She is passionate aboute leading people through the change digital transformation brings to R&D. With a PhD in chemistry and more than 12 years of experience in various R&D...

Andreas Steinbacher is a trained mechatronic engineer and holds a PhD in Physics. He joined Roche pRED to progress the digitalization in research labs and introduced a global digital lab automation platform. Currently, he is focusing on preclinical data management challenges by advancing or even...

Etzard leads the global Information / Knowledge Management effort in Pharma Manufacturing for F. Hoffmann-La Roche, with a focus on processes and tools for effective knowledge utilisation. An active customer base of 20k colleagues utilises a range of AI/NLP capabilities that improve knowledge flow...

Chemist at heart, but willing to program: Fourteen years of Process Chemistry at Roche in different roles. Five years of which building the RoSL HTE Lab. Academic Background:Postdoc with. Prof. LeyPhD on Oxetanes in Drug Discovery with Prof. CarreiraMaster Thesis with Prof. TrostUndergrad at...

Thole Züchner studied biochemistry and received his PhD in protein and neurochemistry in Germany and the USA in 2005. After a two-year research stay at Lund University, Sweden, he habilitated in 2013 in Germany in the field of bioanalytics as part of a start-up project. After 4 years in different...

As the Managing Director of the Steinbeis Consulting Center for Digital Transformation and Process Automation, I combine a solid engineering education with extensive experience as a software, automation system developer, and architect. In today's digital world, businesses are challenged to...

Rob Harkness, PhD, is the Chief Technology Officer at Biosero, a BICO company, where he previously served as Managing Director for the UK/EU business. Since joining Biosero in 2020, Rob has been actively involved in shaping the company’s technology roadmap and focused on advancing the capabilities...

Kerstin Hermuth-Kleinschmidt graduated in chemistry and holds a PhD in microbiology from the University of Freiburg.  She worked for several years in sales and technical customer service in the life science industry, before she turned her attention to the topic of sustainability.   As an...

Tamara is the Executive Editor for Data and Databases at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). She manage the RSC's database products (ChemSpider, MarinLit and The Merck Index* Online) as well as a team of content editors and information specialists. Together with colleagues from across the...

Dr. Kourosh Malek is currently heading the research department “Artificial Materials Intelligence (AMI)” as part of the institute for energy and climate research (IEK-13) at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH. He is also the founder and managing director at ViMi Labs, a software solution that designs...

Born and raised in Madrid, Spain. I studied Computer Science in the university and joined Roche as a trainee in 2016. After moving from different positions such as IT Engineer, Service Coordinator, etc, I got my current position as Product Manager in the S&R space in 2022. My team works side by ...

Samira is the proactive Head of Operations at Solena Materials who leverages her rich educational background and extensive experience to enhance the operational effectiveness of this innovative biotechnology company. Holding an MBA, an MRes, and Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Biology, she...

I hold a PharmD and a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Lisbon. After postdoctoral stays at ETH Zürich (2011-2015) and iMM (2015-2017) I became a junior group leader at iMM. Since 2019 I lead the Digital Chemistry Lab (DigiChem Lab) at the University of Lisbon and became an...

Lorenz Sommer is a Product Manager for Lab Operations & Automation at Roche. He specializes in enabling labs and scientists to work in a collaborative and shared environment, allowing them to efficiently plan, execute, and monitor experiments. He provides metrics and tools to optimize lab usage ...

Kerstin Thurow is Director of the Center for Life Science Automation at the University of Rostock, Germany. She obtained her Ph.D. in organometallic chemistry from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and the habilitation in measurement and control in 1999 from the University of Rostock. In...

I'm Alex, the Senior Innovation Lead Chemistry at 5-HT Chemistry & Health. He is responsible for managing all activities related to chemistry, pharma and life science of the 5-HT ecosystem. With over 700 ecosystem members form corporates, startups, investors and academia, we are working on...

Sebastian Kube is an expert in digital transformation within pharmaceutical development at Boehringer Ingelheim. With his team, he covers topics such as implementation of LIMS and ML-based image analytics, lab data management and data integrity and recently he is leading an interdisciplinary...

Cornelia brings extensive experience in phenotypic screening projects and the implementation of lab automation platforms across prestigious biomedical academic institutes, pharmaceutical, and biotech companies in Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and Germany. Currently, she is leading the lab...

Sanchit is a Cloud Solution Architect for Data & AI at Microsoft based out of Munich. He helps clients across Germany and EMEA to build robust, enterprise-ready AI solutions. He has a background in Computer Science. Before joining Microsoft, Sanchit was working at a startup building a fully...

Maria is Head of Division Start-Ups and Next Generation Innovators at Innosuisse. She has an international professional background in the financial information, Data & Analytics, SaaS space. Before joining Innosuisse, she was VP of Global Data Partnerships at Dun & Bradstreet. Till 2020...

Rob Brown is Senior Director of Product Marketing at Sapio Sciences.  Prior to joining Sapio Sciences he spent eight years at Dotmatics where he held various positions including Head of Global Presales and Head of Product Marketing & Product Management. Earlier in his career he was responsible...

As the Manager of Laboratory, Strategy, and Development at Basel Area Business & Innovation, Tebbe is responsible for coordinating the organization and development of the lab area, as well as fostering the scientific community at the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area in Allschwil...

Frederik Jelden is a Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft, specializing in the Chemicals & Energy sector. He works with customers to develop digital strategies, drive technology adoption, and realize value from Microsoft's data and AI solutions, with a current focus on chemical...

Christof Klöpper has been CEO of Basel Area Business & Innovation since 2016. Prior to this, he was Managing Director at i-net innovation networks. He was Head of Development for Industry and Technology at the office of Industry and Employment in the Basel-Stadt Economics Department and...

Wolfgang is a director in Pharmaceutical Science at AstraZeneca in Gothenburg/Sweden. Within a digitisation group he is driving the data and digital strategy for early clinical development of synthetic drugs. Before moving to Pharmaceutical Sciences, he worked as a chemoinformatician in R&D...

Partha started his career as a lab scientist and started to dedicate his career in occupational health and safety after a fatal lab accident at UCLA where he was a postdoctoral fellow. After holding several safety related positions of increasing responsibilities at UCLA, Yale and Harvard, he is...

Daniel is Chief Technology Officer at Syngenta Crop Protection R&D IT, guiding the organisation to shift the focus of doing R&D from labs and fields to computers. After his physics degree, he transitioned to IT. With over 25 years' experience, he has coded himself, led software...

Career: Since 2024 President, smartlab society (www.smartlab.network) Since 2020 Board of Directors & CFO, SiLA Consortium (www.sila-standard.com) Since 2019 Head of Automation, myriamed (www.myriamed.com) Since 2018 Groupleader, University Medical Center Göttingen, Dept. Pharmacology 2013 -...

Dr. Vesna Petkovic earned her MD in medicine in Serbia, and later a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Bern, focusing on cell signaling in neurological development. She pursued postdoctoral research at Basel’s Anatomy Institute and Singapore’s Faculty of Medicine, investigating axonal...

Giorgia holds a PhD in Polymer Science with an international background in academia and industry. As Materials Science Manager at MassChallenge, her role supports startup growth, connects founders with industry partners, and fosters an entrepreneurial mindset within STEM disciplines through...

Johannes graduated 2015 in Chemical Engineering at the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria, where he also completed his doctoral studies on asymmetric organocatalysis, transition metal catalysis and computational chemistry in the group of Prof. Mario Waser. Right after finishing the PhD in...

Tom Valentin is the Group Leader for Automated Sample Handling at CSEM. He has a BSc and MSc in mechanical engineering, and a PhD in biomedical engineering. He joined CSEM in 2019 after a postdoc at ETH.

Prof Vidal-Puig obtained his medical degree from Valencia Medical School before training in clinical endocrinology at Granada Medical School, where he obtained his PhD based on clinical and physiological studies of the relationship between insulin resistance and hyperandrogenism. The award of the...

I started my carrier studying material science at JMU Würzburg in 2011. During the first semesters I recognized in the study plan a (total) lack of computer science and automation as important modern tools for research. For that reason I decided to join the B.Sc. program in computer science as...

Giulio Volpin is a scientist and project leader at Bayer Crop Science, where he drives innovative research in chemical crop protection. He earned his Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from LMU Munich, Germany, and holds a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology from the University of...