CONFERENCE
29-30 September 2027 | Pennsylvania Convention Center, PA, USA
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
Automation & Robotics
Data Management, Standards & Analytics
Digital Transformation
Sustainability
Day 2
Connectivity & Collaboration
Lab Operations & Efficiency
Facilities, Real Estate & Clean Room
Artificial Intelligence, Machine & Deep Learning
2026 SPEAKERS
Radia Abdul Wahab, Director Systems Integration and Engineering, Guardant Health
Shoeleh Assemi, Founder and CEO , Imessa Research Inc., Imessa Research Inc.
Demet Aybar, CEO, US Lab Partners
Shraddha Babariya, Executive Medical Director, Laboratory Services, American Red Cross
Yousef Baioumy, Automation Engineer II, Adaptive Biotechnologies
Peter Bellstedt, Director, Global Enterprise Sales, SciY
Zachary Berenson-Barros, Enterprise Account Executive, Uncountable
Dhruv Bhatt, Head of Digital Transformation Office, Roche
Melina Blees, Regional Director, Mid Atlantic, BioLabs
Caroline Briggs, CEO and Founder, MyAmici
Bryce Butler, Automation Engineer II, Frederick National Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Inc
Wei Cai, Senior Chemist/Scientist, Wacker Chemical Corporation
Stacie Calad-Thomson, Global Business Development Lead, Pharma Labs and Manufacturing, NVIDIA
Larry Callahan, Chief Scientist, Autopoiesis Sciences
Luiz Miguel Camargo, AVP Data Foundry, Eli Lilly and Company
Tempest Carter, Director of Strategic Tech Initiatives, City of Philadelphia
Mary Carty, Director of Education Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Drexel University
John-Peter Casabar, Sr. Director of Lab Services, Flagship Lab Services
Peter Chase, Scientific Director, Head of Core Automation, Bristol Myers Squibb
Arijit Chatterjee, Sr. Director- Head of Life Science Solutions & Strategy, Lab SME, Capgemini
Mike Colella, Account Executive, Elemental Machines
Rebecca Collins, Director of Sustainability, Temple University
Marc Consalvi, Vice President, Lab Planning and Operations, JLL
Ginger Cooper, VP Partnerships & Alliances, Digital Innovations & Software Solutions, Danaher
Ted Corl, President, 8090 Solutions Inc.
Susannah Cox, Compound Screening & Repository Leader, Corteva Agriscience
Ena Cratsenburg, Chief Business Office, Ginkgo Bioworks
Deidre Dalmas, Sr Director, Boehringer Ingelheim
Steven Das, Chief Laboratory Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health
Alyssa Deely, Account Manager- West Coast, Automata
Dominick Degrazio, Associate Director - Concept Development and Delivery, GSK
Shubh Dhillon, Sr Scientist (Automation), Merck
Amanda Dioszeghy, Sustainability Program Manager, The Jackson Laboratory
Dave Dorsett, Chief Digital Officer, Astrix
Brian Eden, VP, Global LS Tech Ops, Capgemini
Tina Ehnebuske, Sr. Manager Technology API, Pfizer
Ana Foley, Associate Director, Broad Institute of M.I.T. & Harvard
Bill Gigante, Engineering Associate Director, Amgen
Andrey Gorin, Lab Manager, BioLabs
Rebecca L Grant, Senior Director, Life Sciences & Innovation, City of Philadelphia
Marta Guron, Project Manager, University of Pennsylvania
Matthew Hall, Scientific Director, Pre Clinical Innovation, NIH - NCATS
Adam Hall, Field Application Scientist, SPT Labtech
Scott Hanton, Editorial Director, Lab Manager
Steven Heffner, Sales Director: CrossLab Services, Agilent Technologies
Dwayne Henry, Instructional lab manager of chemical and biological sciences, Montgomery College TP/SS campus
Tracey Hicks-Kearse, Founder, CEO & Chief Chemist, AcARRE
Jeff Hrush, SVP of Sales - WAVE, Thomas Scientific
Angela Hui, Vice President, Operations, Halozyme Inc
Del Ray Jackson, Director of Product Management, Hamilton Company
Alexis Jacobs, Customer Experience Manager, Potato AI
Marius Jacobsen, VP Business Development, Metinor
Eric Jaffe, Global Director Science, Senior Vice President, HDR
Yun Jang, AVP Head of Open Innovation, L’Oréal Groupe
Joanne Kamens, Chief Executive Officer, Women in Bio
Joshua Kangas, Associate Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Thrasyvoulos Karydis, CTO, DeepCure
Murat Keçeli, Computational Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Lucius Kemp, Director Science, Biosero
SRIVATSAN KIDAMBI, Director, NIH SOM, NIH
Brandon King, Director - Site Operations, Sanofi
Julie Kitzler, Regional Director of Laboratory Services, Bon Secours Mercy Health
Carleen Klumpp-Thomas, Senior Director, Lab Automation Engineering, Eli Lilly and Company
Kat Kozyrytska, AI & Automation Ecosystem Strategy, Independent
Ilja Kuesters, Associate Director, Generate Biomedicines Inc
Gaurav Kumar, Product Lead, TeraWeave Technologies
Manoj Kumar, Computational Science Research Manager, Mars
Michael Langner, Head of Research Area, Fraunhofer IPA
Kyle Larsen, Senior Informatics Product Manager, The United States Pharmacopeial Convention
Miu Ling Lau, Director, Merck
Bo Li, Director Applications Science, Galatek
Bingda Li, CEO, Whelix
Vivian Li, Early Stage Investor, K2VC
Jiaqi Li, Assistant, Professor, University of Michigan
Zi-Kui Liu, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Amy Lo, Senior Director and Senior Principal Scientist, Genentech, Inc
Michelle MacRae, Co-Founder & CEO, Bower
Victoria Mander, Sr. Scientist, Janssen R&D
Doug Martinez, Principal Consultant, Tempo Integrated
Ross Martin-Wells, CEO, Lab Belay
Kennedy McDaniel Bae, Executive Director, The Glassfloor
Curtiss McNair Jr, Vice President of Operations, Precipio
Guilhaume Leroy Meline, CTO Strategic Innovation, ibm
Ahmed Moustafa, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania & Co-Director Center for Microbial Medicine,, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Jim Mumm, CEO, Sunlight Energy Group
Alan Murray, Founder & CEO, Conceivable Life Sciences
Kelcy Newell, Senior Director, Robotics and Automation Development, Astrazenca
Brendan O'Hara, Associate Director, Lab Manager, Dispatch Bio
Jaime O'Keefe, Associate Director Lab Services - Americas, dsm-firmenich
Natalie O'Neil, Director of Innovation, RAPID, AIChE
Meric Overman, Product Manager, LabWare Inc.
Siubhan Pabst, Facilities Laboratory Operations Manager, AbbVie Ltd
Aaron Parr, CEO, co-founder, inRoot
Chandni Patel, Director, Medical Information, Novo Nordisk
Alisha Ramirez, Sustainable Labs Manager, University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Raymond, Director of Corporate Relations, Seeding Labs
Adam Regelmann, Founder & COO, Quartzy
Sahar Rizvi, Associate Manager, R&D Operations, Regeneron
Eric Robbibaro, Head of Sales, Reach Industries
Melissa Ronan, Senior Manager, PRISM Screening, Broad Institute
Abhishek Roy, Senior Director - Global R&D - Digital and AI, Cargill
Michael Santillo, Acting Branch Chief of Systems Toxicology and Senior Research Chemist, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Burkhard Schaefer, Director & Head of Partnering, SiLA Consortium
Sarah Simons, Sr Field Marketing Manager, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences
Hannah Sobotka-Briner, Senior Automation Scientist, Merck
Johannes Solzbach, CEO and Co-Founder, Calira
Jeremy Springall, Director of Physicochemical and Biophysical Methods, AstraZeneca
Kyle Stahmer, Director, Advanced Research - Regenerative Beauty, L’Oréal Groupe
Kayla Stocking, Market Development Representative, Impact Laboratories / My Green Lab
Angelo Stracquatanio, Chief Executive Officer & Co Founder, Apprentice.io
Kelly Sullivan, PhD, Global Head of Operations & Labs, Cambridge Innovation Center
James Swinyard, Director of Investments & Partnerships, My Green Lab
Sadi Thomas, Laboratory Technical Administrator, City of Baltimore
Sandip Tiwari, Head of Tech Services, BASF
Filippos Tourlomousis, founder & CEO, Biological Lattice Industries Corp.
Gena Van Blunk, Procurement and logistics specialist, BioAnalysis LLC
Anand Venkataraman, Director, R&D Data Stewardship, CSL Behring
Robert Voelkner, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, LabVantage Solutions, Inc.
Adam Washburn, Director-Research & Development, Eli Lilly and Company
D.J. White, CEO & Co-Founder, Cytodyme
Ellie Whitehead, Head of Content, Terrapinn Holdings Ltd
Arnold William, Senior Lab technician, Beavertown Brewery
Robert Williams, Director of Digital Lab Innovations, Agilent Technologies
Kelli Wilson, Acting Director, Research Services Core, NCATS/NIH
Jeff Wisotzkey, Founder, Speakworth
Dan Wu, Leader of Digital Innovation and Technology, DOW
Ferhat Yilmaz, Director - Enterprise and Pipeline Insights & Analytics, novartis
Wendy Zhang, Executive Director, Head of Applied and Agentic AI, Genentech
Liyang Zhang, CEO, SciOne AI
Yan Zhou, Digital Lead and Research Scientist, Quaker Houghton
Tammy Zingaro, Senior Principal Scientist, Johnson & Johnson
GLOBAL SPEAKER HALL OF FAME
Chemical, Petrochemical & Materials
Sreejit Menon
Life Sciences Director for North America
Dan Wu
Associate TS&D Director
Mary Reinthal
Environmental Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment Consultant
Sandip Tiwari
Head of Technical Services - Pharma Solutions, North America
Derrick Smith
Senior Process Experimentalist
Fast Moving Consumable Goods (Including: household, cosmetics, fragrance)
Anat Shiloach
Senior R&D Director, Science & Technology
Rahul Tyagi
VP & Global Head Data Science, AI & Intelligent Automation
Ahmad Khodr
Head of the Microbiology Innovation Laboratory
Andre Dourson
Director AI– Next Generation Technologies (Science & Diagnostics Division
Peter Clarke
Director, Global Analytical Sciences
Pharma & Biotech
Stuart Jackson
Chief Operating Officer, Oncology R&D
Melissa Crisp
Senior Director
Marissa Mock
Senior Director of Research
Matthew Walker
Executive Director, Research Architecture and Engineering
Kalpesh Gupta
Director Research Automation
Agriculture & Energy
Paul Ulanch
Executive Director, Crop Commercialization Program
Amellalih Reza
Global QA Manager IT Projects
Ben Mintz
Director, Interconnected Science Ecosystem (INTERSECT) Initiative
Daniel Lipp
CTO, R&D
Deborah Bard
Group Lead for Data Science Engagement
Education & Academic
Sean Caffrey
Executive Director, Acceleration Consortium
Maureen O'Leary
Associate Vice Provost for Research, Environmental Health and Radiation Safety
Matthew Golden
Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate and Masters Life Design
Jeffery Myers
Director of Michigan Medicine Laboratories (MLabs)
Logan Gin
ssistant Director, STEM
Government, Technology & Investors
Alessandro Curioni
Global Research VP, Strategic Partnerships & Technology Incubation
Pinar Ormanoglu
Director, Automated Cell Technologies
Zisis Kozlakidis
Head, Laboratory Services and Biobanking
Marc Raphael
Biophysicist
Shawnnah Monterrey
Founder CEO
Medical, Hospital & Diagnostics
Lauren Singelakis
Chief Laboratory Officer
Jocelyn Lee
Associate Director
Nancy Ross
Assistant Director Clinical Pathology and Qualit
Samer Albahra
Director, Research and Development, PLMI's Center for Artificial Intelligence & Data Science
Patty Eschliman
Director Laboratory Operations
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