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CONFERENCE
5-6 May, 2027 | Excel London
Join global leaders in Laboratory R&D to explore the cutting edge of scientific and technological innovation. This event delves into the latest advancements across eight key themes—including sustainability, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, lab operations, and more. Discover how modern labs are evolving to meet tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities.
AGENDA THEMES
Day 1
Artificial Intelligence
The technology everyone is talking about…but how can these technologies be used in drug discovery, to enhance industries outside of the life science domain and enable the development of self-driving labs?
Operations & Efficiency, Quality & Compliance
Ensuing the lab is well managed, operating effectively, and with assets that are maintained. These sessions will address the use of space, facility assets management, and increasing functionality within the lab.
Digital Transformation & Strategy
Discover how unified data and informatics strategies build a AI-ready lab. Explore how AI , robotics, automation, cloud services, ELNs and LIMS are revolutionizing the bench and driving measureable ROI.
Sustainability & The Green Lab
Gain the tools to reduce your carbon footprint and meet net zero targets without compromising scientific excellence.
Day 2
Automation & Robotics
Maximising outputs by introducing technologies and reducing human intervention, with topics including digital twins, mobile robots, automated workflows.
Data Management
How do we ensure we are getting the most out of our data? These sessions will focus on data standards in practice, FAIRification, platform schedulers and more.
Connectivity & IoT
We are breaking down silos by looking at how we collaborate across a singular lab, multinational spaces and even across different companies. Ensuring agile technology and promoting openness are the key areas of focus of these.
Lab Infrastructure & Lab Design
From fundamental equipment to strategic site selection and world-class lab design , discover how the physical environment sets the stage for innovation and scalability.
AGENDA
2026 SPEAKERS
Hassan Abba, Head of R&D IT Architecture, AstraZeneca
Silas Adekunle, Co-founder and CEO, Lumi
Jo Allatt, Head of Sustainability, UKRI
Helena Andres-Terre, Associate Director, UCB Pharma
Uzma Asghar, CSO & Consultant Medical Oncologist, Concr
Matteo Battilocchi, Quadrant Laboratory Operations Manager, The Francis Crick Institute
Vitaly Biniyaminov, Lab Automation Expert, Steinbeis-Beratungszentrum Digitale Transformation und Prozessautomatisierung
Mattia Bolzan, Chief Technology Officer, Prebiomics
Caitlin Broadbent, Sustainable Research Officer (LEAF), University College London
Ian Brotherston, Interim Deputy Director Innovation Funding, Innovate UK
Kate Carlisle, Ecosystem Challenges Portfolio Manager, The Royal Society of Chemistry
Ana Cavalcanti, RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies, University of York
Vijay Chavda, Head, Scientific Data Engineering & Architecture, GSK
Ella Churchill, Insights Manager – Life Sciences, MedCity
Peter Clarke, Director, Global Analytical Sciences & Reading Science Centre Site Lead, Mondelez International
Anna Codina, Senior Director Strategy and Business Development, SciY
James Connelly, CEO, My Green Lab
Andy Cooper, Professor and Co-Director, AI for Chemistry (AIchemy), University of Liverpool
Bethan Coulson, R&D Data Stewardship Lead, Johnson Matthey
Patrick Courtney, member of board of Directors, SiLA Consortium
Benjamin Deadman, Reaction Data Evangelist and Program Manager, Open Reaction Database
Somdip Dey, CEO / Danah Zohar Professor of Quantum Philosophy, Nosh technologies
Dace Dimza-Jones, National Life Sciences Specialist, Department for Business and Trade
Tim Doggett, Chief Executive, Chemical Business Association CBA
Jodie Eastwood, Chief Executive, Knowledge Quarter
Mike Egan, Senior Business Development Manager, The Liverpool School of tropical Medicine
Ian Fairlamb, Professor in Chemistry, Albert CDT, University of York
Jingyu Feng, DIGIBAT facility Manager, Imperial College London
Natalie Fey, Associate Professor, University of Bristol
Paul Freemont, Co-Chair of Engineering Biology Steering Group, UK Government
Kerry Garfitt, Senior Funding Policies Adviser, Wellcome Trust
Andrew Garrood, Senior Manager, Deloitte
Nancy George, FAIR Data Lead, Syngenta
Lorenza Geronimo, Knowledge Management Change lead, Novartis
Zara Ghazoui, Global Digital Innovation Director, AstraZeneca
Sharon Glaysher, Research & Innovation Laboratory Manager, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Adam Glen, Founder, Unicorn Biotechnologies Ltd
Trevor Groome, Director, Founder, Flavourist, Orchid Aromatech Ltd
Radhika Gudipati, Technical Specialist-Robotics, Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA)
Rob Harkness, Chief Technology Officer, Biosero
Jack Hawes, Scientific Services Director, AstraZeneca
Simon Hepher-Davies, Head of Asset Management - Regent's Place and Innovation Assets, British Land
Mahdis Hesami, R&D Manager, Henkel
Emilia Hietala, Application Scientist, Collaborative Drug Discovery Inc
Stephen Hilton, Associate Professor, University College London
Jonathan Hirst, Professor, University of Nottingham
Gemma Humby-Smith, Programme Manager - Sustainable Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry
Allison Hunter, Technical Operations Manager, Imperial College London
Sarah Jafri, Group Data Management Manager, Centrica
Ajit Jaokar, Course Director-Artificial Intelligence, University of Oxford
Khosro Jarrahian, Executive Researcher, Global Petronas Research and Technology Centre
Frederik Jelden, Global Strategic Account Technology Strategist, Microsoft
Lavanya Joshi, COO, Dome Vitamins
Pankaj Kale, CEO and Founder, AnyFeast
Aaron Kalvani, AI Strategist & AI Governance Advisor, United nations
George Karageorgis, Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca
Natasha Karp, Director Hit Discovery & Biostatistics, AstraZeneca
Liran Kessler, Group Director of Human Resources, 2M Group of Companies
Sachin Khandelwal, Strategy & Innovation Manager, Reckitt
Ahmad Khodr, Head of the Microbiology Innovation Laboratory, L'Oréal
Andrew King, Senior Director HSE, Sustainability & IT, AstraZeneca
Jennifer Kingston, Associate Director, AstraZeneca
Nicola Knight, Senior Enterprise Fellow, University of Southampton
Lana Lee, ATLAS Facility Manager, Imperial College London
Dagmara Lewandowska, Product Manager Reagents, Integra-Biosciences
Lori Liu, Head of Digital & Data for Ice Cream R&D, Unilever
Zeeshan Mahmood, Director of Partnerships, Uncountable
Mohamed Mahmoud, Senior Lab Scientist, NAPLD, Saudi aramco
Kourosh Malek, Head of department AI and Data Analytics, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
Paolo Malerba, Strategy Lead, Novartis
Paul Mercer, Head of Industry Partnerships, The Francis Crick Institute
Valentina Milanova, Founder & CEO, Daye
Charlie Mitchell, CEO, Sciopolis
Geraint Morgan, Professor in Analytical Chemistry, University of Southampton
Wael Muselmani, Senior Investment Manager, MedCity
Puja Myles, Director Clinical Practice Research Datalink, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Cindy Novak, Director, IT, R&D Business Partner, Avidity Biosciences
Gearóid Ó Faoleán, Licensing manager, Jisc
Özlem Özcan, Head of Division, Material and Surface Technologies, B.A.M. Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
Andrew Palfreeman, Associate Director, Quell Tx
Josh Palmer, Global Head of Real Estate, GlaxoSmithKline
Raj Patey, Business Development Director, My Green Lab
Samantha Pearman-Kanza, Senior Enterprise Fellow, University of Southampton
Bob Poole, Chief Sales Officer, Solution4Labs
Adam Prosho, Full Spectrum Academy Director, CBRE
Suchitra Ramaswamy, Science & Tech Client Partner, Zifo
Vidya Ramathas, Lab Operations and Facilities Lead, LabGenius Ltd
Anusshka Raveendran, Sales Account, Eusoft srl
Martin Redhead, Associate Vice President, recursion
Gill Reid, Past President, Royal Society of Chemistry, The Royal Society of Chemistry
Samira Richardson, Head of Partnerships, Sustainability and Fundraising, CAML
James Roden, Director, Deloitte
Bastian Ruehle, Project Group Leader, Federal Institutte for Mateials Research and Testing (BAM)
Sarbani Saha, Head of Digital Products, BUPA
Valeria Scagliotti, Sustainability consultant, SustainLABility
Burkhard Schaefer, Managing Director, Splashlake
Thomas Schmidt, Marketing Director, Agilent Technologies
Deepa Shinde, Senior AI Leader and Quantum Computing Ambassador, Microsoft
Mateusz Sokolowski, Alloy Research and Development Laboratory Manager, Alloyed Ltd
Pernilla Sorme, Senior Director, Research and Technical Resources, My Green Lab
Twan Spenkelink, Director of Customer Success EMEA/APAC, eLabNext
Elliot Stamp, Director - AI & Data, Deloitte
Andy Stanford-Clark, Distinguished Engineer & (former) Chief Technology Officer, IBM
Jessica Staniland, Research & Technology Manager- Skin Care, Croda
Greg Stevens, Technical Operations Director, Full Spectrum Lab Services from CBRE
Satnam Surae, Co-founder and CTO, Twig Bio Limited
Georgios Tetradis-Mairis, Head of R&D Futures, Nomad Foods
Andrea Townsend-Nicholson, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University College London
Rouan Tulloch, Digital Sales Specialist, Agilent Technologies
Ashutosh Upadhyay, Solutions Architect, AWS
Aakash Varambhia, Data Scientist, Johnson Matthey
Priya Vijayakumar, CEO, WattIQ
Craig Wallbank, Implementation Manager, CWC UK National Authority, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Yi Wan, Professor (Hainan University, China), Visiting Professor, Imperial College London
Jinjie Wang, Director-Science & Healthcare, Canary Wharf Group
Susan Weatherby, Science Conference Manager, Royal Society of Chemistry
Alicia White, Senior Associate, Economist Impact
Ellie Whitehead, Project Manager, Terrapinn Holdings Ltd
Peter Zipfell, Product Marketing Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific
GLOBAL SPEAKER HALL OF FAME
Chemical, Petrochemical & Materials
Finn Bauer
Vice President
Bernhard von Vacano
Vice President
Dan Wu
Associate TS&D Director
Tim Doggett
Chief Executive
Julien Lebranchu
IT Senior Leader - R&D Technology
Fast Moving Consumable Goods (Including: household, cosmetics, fragrance)
German Faraoni Heidenreich
Global Director IT & Digital
Rahul Tyagi
VP & Global Head Data Science, AI & Intelligent Automation
Anat Shiloach
Senior R&D Director, Science & Technology
Maximilian Kammerinke
Investment Manager VC
Maria Zelkovskaya
Director Data Governance Transformation
Pharma & Biotech
Emma Eng
VP, GD & AI Development
Shaun Grady
Chair
Scott Oloff
VP R&D Data Science Discovery, Product Dev & Supply
Sabyasachi Dasgupta
Global Head, R&D Data Platforms & Products
Bryn Roberts
VP Global Head of Data, Analytics & Research
Agriculture & Energy
Daniel Lipp
CTO, R&D
Claudia Ortugno
EMEA Development Director
Amellalih Reza
Global QA Manager IT Projects
Lukasz Luzar
Global IT Innovation Lab Manager
Ben Mintz
Director, Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) Initiative
Education & Academic
Peter Licence
Director GSK Carbon Neutral Lab
Ahmad Zeidan
Chief Technology Officer, Automation Centre
Pascal Miéville
Executive Director
Graham Lord
Senior Vice-President of Health & Life Sciences
Alexei Lapkin
Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering
Food & Beverage
Gaston Besanson
SVP, Global Head of Data + AI
Peter Clarke
Director, Global Analytical Sciences
Nur Altuğ
Head of Analytical Science & Regulation
Andre Dourson
Director AI, Next Generation Technologies
Carolina Pinart
Associate Vice President Group Head of R&D Information Technology
Other industries include: Medical, Tech, Investors & Government
Alex Luck
Director National Digital Twin Programme
Vincent Revol
Vice President, Industry 4.0 & Life Sciences
Kathleen Fisher
CEO
Puja Myles
Director, Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)
Sheila Beladinejad
European AI Alliance Member
Ian Brotherston
Deputy Director, Innovation Funding
Maria Anselmi
Head, StartUps & Next Generation Innovators
Zisis Kozlakidis
Head, Laboratory Services & Biobanking
David Ruau
Head of Strategic Alliances, Drug Discovery AI, EMEA
Alessandro Curioni
Global Research VP, Strategic Partnerships and Technology Incubation
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