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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.

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 make ...

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 Ian Brotherston Interim Deputy Director for Innovation Funding at Innovate UK. This role is responsible for setting the strategy, and then delivering and maximising impact across the portfolio of Innovate UK grant products. The portfolio covers Smart, New Innovators, Analysis for...

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...

Dr Benjamin J Deadman is the Program Manager and Reaction Data Evangelist for the Open Reaction Database (ORD). He works closely with the synthetic and digital chemistry communities to support and encourage the sharing of organic reaction data in a structured format that enables downstream...

Jeremy Frey is a Professor of Physical Chemistry and the head of the Computational Systems Chemistry Group at the University of Southampton. He is also a pathfinder and work package lead on the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) Initiative. Before working at Southampton, he obtained his...

Dr Stephen Hilton is an Associate Professor at UCL School of Pharmacy, having previously worked as a Senior Lecturer and as an academic fellow at the School of Pharmacy, University of London. He previously carried out postdoctoral research at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and at UCL...

Jonathan Hirst is Professor in Computational Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. In 2020, he was awarded a Chair in Emerging Technologies by the Royal Academy of Engineering, focusing on research that will empower the development of next-generation molecules that chemical engineers and...

Dr Hemachandran Kannan is the Director of the AI Research Centre, Associate Dean of the School of Business, and Area Chair of the Analytics Department at Woxsen University. He is an ambassador of the AI Accelerator Institute and an Advisory Board member in many international and national companies...

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...

Andrew has a background in environmental science, with experience of experimental research from his PhD assessing Chemical fate in the environment.  He has previously worked in the water industry but moved to pharmaceuticals in 2018 when he joined AstraZeneca. In that time, he has held a few...

Cindy has been working in the Biotech and Pharmaceutical industries for over 30 years.  Cindy has spent the bulk of her career supporting the labs by implementing numerous systems, including LIMS, Empower, SDMS, ELNs and a lab instruments.  She has worked at multiple companies as they navigate...

Ana Cavalcanti is a professor at the University of York and a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies. She leads RoboStar, a centre of excellence in Software Engineering for Robotics. The RoboStar approach to model-based software engineering compliments the current practice of...

Research Biography Specialism: Catalysis and Target-Oriented Synthetic Chemistry: Unlocking Reactivity and Selectivity Using Robotic Systems and Data AnalysisOur core interests are in the development and application of transition metal chemistry in mechanism-driven catalysis and synthetic...

Lori Liu is a visionary leader in digital transformation with a decade of impactful experience in aerospace manufacturing and Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) R&D. Currently the Digital & Automation Director in Home Care R&D at Unilever, Lori has been leading the global R&D digital...

Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud, is an Organic Chemistry Ph.D. Holder from Suez Canal University, he is working with Northern Area Technical Support Department as Sr. Lab Scientist, he has more than 15 years’ experience at Oil and gas analytical laboratories. He filed 7 patents with US Patent office and...

I am a Licensing Manager at Jisc, where I am responsible for identifying and negotiating the best agreements in digital innovations and technologies for our members. Prior to this, I worked in the scholarly publishing industry for ten years in various roles, from Head of Research Integrity to...

Prof Andy Stanford-Clark is an innovation leader in IBM Research, and was IBM's technical leader for the Mayflower Autonomous Ship project. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, a Master Inventor with more than 40 patents, and leads IBM’s Quantum Ambassador team in the UK. Andy is based at IBM’s ...

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...

Anna has a degree in Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Protein NMR from the University of Barcelona, Spain. She undertook her post-doc in protein NMR at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and following that worked in the Analytical R&D department of Pfizer for seven...

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...

Satnam is CTO and co-founder of twig bio, a venture-backed sustainability focussed synthetic biology start-up, founded in 2022. At twig, he leads activities across ML/AI, computational biology, bioinformatics and automation. Prior to twig, he was a leader in product management for machine learning...

Aakash Varambhia is a Data Science Lead in Johnson Matthey's Advanced Characterisation Department, where he spearheads the delivery of innovative imaging data science solutions for research and development. Aakash has a DPhil from the University of Oxford in quantitative electron...

Build automated cell R&D and manufacturing systems that overcome the unreliability of human operators and exceed human performance.  Built two labs ourselves, including one we converted from a "nightclub".

Tim Doggett is Chief Executive Officer of the Chemical Business Association (CBA), a multi award winning Trade Association representing the UK’s chemical supply chain. Tim is extremely active in leading and advocating for the sector not only in the UK but across the world. He constantly interacts...

Nicola Knight is a Senior Enterprise Fellow at the University of Southampton working on the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) - www.psdi.ac.uk. She co-ordinates and manages many the activities being undertaken in the PSDI, with a particularly focus on the communication, engagement and...

With over 25 years of experience in the Consumer Packaged Goods and Food industries, Matvii Smirnov has build a distinguished career spanning from supply chain operations to global leadership in R&D and innovations. He has worked with industry giants such as PepsiCo, Coca-Cola Beverages, and PA ...

Professor Andrea Townsend-Nicholson is at University College London (UCL) investigating the molecular basis of health and disease using experimental and computational methodologies. She is interested in facilitating the introduction of personalised medicine into clinical practice and teaches...

Trevor is currently a consultant to the food, flavour and agritech industries. As the former Global Innovation Platform Director for RE-IMAGINE DIGITAL at International Flavors & Fragrances, he harnesses a lot of experience in what does and does not work.    He is an experienced Flavourist...

Dr Jennifer Kingston is an analytical chemist with more then 25 years experience within the pharmaceutical industry. Jennifer has worked within drug discovery teams at companies such as Pfizer, Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Novartis and more recently at AstraZeneca. Jennifer is an experienced...

Kate is the Ecosystem Challenges Portfolio manager, at the Royal Society of Chemistry and joined the MoreChem Labs initiative in November 2024. Kate has a life sciences background and over 15 years’ experience in market research. She joined the RSC in 2010 as the business intelligence manager and...

Dr Dagmara Lewandowska works as a Product Manager at INTEGRA Biosciences, where she oversees introducing new products to the market, such as latest addition: MAGFLO™ magnetic beads for NGS size selection and PCR purification. With over a decade of experience, Dagmara specializes in customer-centric ...

Chief Technology Officer at PreBiomics, a pioneering company that combines the top-level expertise and scientific knowledge of its founders to deliver groundbreaking tools and services for personalized wellness strategies in the clinical human microbiome field.

Based in London, Kerry is experienced in policy advising and grant management. As a Senior Funding Policy Adviser at the Wellcome Trust, she plays a pivotal role in researching and developing grant funding policies, liaising with external organisations and supporting policy implementation. She has...

Allison Hunter, a Technical Operations Manager having recently returned to the role from a Laboratory Resource Efficiency Advisor secondment, has 16 years' experience in lab sustainability.  She initiated King’s College London’s very first lab sustainability project in 2008 when the building...

Gill is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Southampton and served as Head of School between 2016 and 2020.Born and raised in Central Scotland, Gill obtained both her BSc and PhD at the University of Edinburgh, before being appointed to a lectureship in Chemistry at Southampton in ...

For the past 25 years Peter has worked extensively with analytical hardware and software transitioning from LC-MS method development through HPLC technical support to chromatography data systems. He joined Thermo Fisher Scientific over 15 years ago and is currently covering Pharma and Biopharma...