Agenda
Plenary Sessions
The Digital Connected Lab
The Automated Lab
The Innovation Lab
09:00
Keynote Address: Research Technologies Driving Collaborative Innovation
Plenary Sessions
09:00
Lene Oddershede, Senior Vice President, Novo Nordisk Foundation
Scientific orchestration and data platforms: This is what science needs
Plenary Sessions
09:00
Richard Milne, Vice President & General Manager, Digital Science Solutions, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Ryan Ellefson, Director Lab Informatics & Data Analytics, Clinical Research, PPD

The challenges of the analytical space are clear. Organizational barriers often make it difficult for scientists to collaborate and leverage their most important asset – data. The Thermo Fisher Connect Platform breaks down these barriers to connect people, instruments, and systems. This begins with integration to the data created through analytical techniques. The Thermo Scientific Ardia Platform connects IC, GC, LC and MS data, to provide a holistic view and enable deeper analysis, providing scientists a clearer path to the next significant breakthrough. Since scientists don’t operate alone, it’s crucial to connect scientific data with production, operational and other enterprise data. Thermo Fisher Connect is the conduit between the lab and the enterprise.

Keynote Address: Driving faster treatment delivery through the digital lab
Plenary Sessions
09:00
Ryan Ellefson, Director Lab Informatics & Data Analytics, Clinical Research, PPD

As an organisation committed to helping customers deliver life-changing medicines, we have always been focused on commercial excellence, and the importance of driving the most value from what is available to us. From a data and information perspective we recognise there is significant opportunity to build data mobility, make connections and automate processes to deliver greater impact to our customers. In this talk, I will discuss the challenges PPD recognise as being central to customer success, the digital solutions we considered as part of our path forward, and our story so far.

10:00
Keynote Address: Sanofi R&D Hub Strategy and Collaborative Innovation
Plenary Sessions
10:00
Jochen Maas, Head of R&D, Sanofi
Keynote Address: Beyond Digital: The Next Era of Transformation is Happening
Plenary Sessions
10:00
Mark Fischer-Colbrie, Chief Executive Officer, Strateos

Mark Fischer-Colbrie, Chief Executive Officer, Strateos

11:00
Coffee Break & Exhibition
Plenary Sessions
11:00
11:40
Revolutionising Laboratory Data Capture to Power Data Analytics
The Digital Connected Lab
11:40
Penny Smee, Director & Senior Product Owner, GSK
Connecting Lab Equipment to the Cloud: Best Practices from Customer Engagements
The Digital Connected Lab
11:40
Tarkan Cevik, BIOVIA Expert Solution Architect, Dassault Systèmes

Many new lab informatics projects are destined to be cloud-based, which is great for flexibility, ease of access, and deployment speed. However, a common roadblock is how to connect on premise lab equipment to cloud-based informatics solutions, because the method must be both scalable and secure while navigating different layers of firewalls and private networks. Indeed, such connections can be challenging even for on premise software networking to on-premise instruments.

In this session, we will present some best practices for equipment connections that BIOVIA has determined from working closely with customers in the life sciences industry. Additionally, we will discuss the importance of data governance for standardizing instrument readings across your organization.

Everything, everywhere, all at once
The Innovation Lab
11:40
Anthony Rowe, Senior Director & Business Technology Leader, Janssen
Smarten Up the Lab: Facilitating Experiment Design & Data Management
The Innovation Lab
11:40
Vasu Rangadass, President & CEO, L7 Informatics
Victoria Lee, Senior Global Product Manager, QIAGEN
12:40
Lunch & Exhibition
Plenary Sessions
12:40
13:40
Delivering the Lab of the Future
The Digital Connected Lab
13:40
Phil Williams, Programme Manager, Early Science, R&D IT, AstraZeneca
  • Proving the Concept with Lab4Life – AstraZeneca
  • Piloting with Digital Lab – AstraZeneca
  • Putting into Practice with Oligonucleotides – AstraZeneca
  • Delivering the Impossible with The National Covid-19 Test Centre – GlaxoSmithKline, University of Cambridge and AstraZeneca
How to Spend Less and Do More in your Lab Utilizing AI and IoT
The Digital Connected Lab
13:40
Kerri Anderson, Senior Manager, Operations, Zentalis Pharmaceuticals
Sridhar Iyengar, CEO & Founder, Elemental Machines

Labs are full of hidden costs and expenses related to asset management. LabOps teams are held accountable to tight budgets and demanding technology requirements. A powerful strategy to manage these conditions is leveraging equipment usage data to guide purchasing decisions, service contracts, retirements, and beyond to maximize ROI. In this session, Elemental Machines and Zentalis Pharmaceuticals will present use cases for these benefits:

●  Harnessing data-driven purchasing decisions with advanced analytics and usage data during times of supply chain crisis

●  Data management strategies and resources supporting consistent quality & compliance requirements

●  Practical cost-saving applications through service contracts, underused equipment, and maximizing lab spaces

●  Best practices and tools to empower lab teams for greater technology adoption, improved processes and proven ROI outcomes

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Three Faces of Digital Collaboration in Drug Design
The Innovation Lab
13:40
Fabio Rancati, Lead Optimization Unit Head, Chiesi Farmaceutici

Fabio Rancati Lead Optimization Unit Head , Chiesi Farmaceutici

The Dramatic Benefits of Digitalized Experiments
The Innovation Lab
13:40
Markus Gershater, Chief Scientific Officer, Synthace
Alex Rimmer, Senior Scientist, Higher Steaks, ,

The digital world has immense potential to transform the value we get from experiments. Digitalization efforts often focus on how we can gather and structure experiment data and metadata so that companies can make best use of the information that they’re continually producing. However, this invariably leads to a misalignment: the company needs highly structured and standardized data with as much contextual metadata as possible, while -due to time pressures- the scientist wants to just gather the data and context required to draw immediate conclusions and move on. This misalignment means that (meta)data will rarely be recorded in sufficient detail to get anything but the most immediate value.

14:40
Bringing Machine Learning in operations for drug discovery: the example of compound property predictors
The Digital Connected Lab
14:40
Christophe Chabbert, Senior Scientist, Discovery Informatics, Roche
  • Scaling up and delivering Machine Learning models and their predictions remains a challenge
  • We built a platform to put more than a hundred compound property predictors in operations and make them available for scientists in the research organization
  • This effort is paving the way for the establishment of our Machine Learning Operations service and community
Automating and Scaling the Impact of Protein Engineering Workflows From Your Local Coffee Shop
The Digital Connected Lab
14:40
Marc Siladi, Executive Director Operations, Strateos

Marc Siladi, Executive Director Operations, Strateos

From single cell analysis to next generation cytometry: the best is yet to be
The Digital Connected Lab
14:40
Yann Abraham, Principal Scientist, Janssen
– Cytometry is undergoing a revolution thanks to recent technology developments
– Cells or genes : what we are measuring defines the questions we can answer
– Population-based analysis does not fully capture changes in cellular ecosystems
– AI/ML methods can help tackle this compositional challenge
– Data integration across platforms is as important as within platforms
The new Roche Innovation Center Basel
The Innovation Lab
14:40
Geo Adam, Global Head of pRED Facilities & Infrastructure Projects, Roche
  • Designing and building the future work environment
  • Architecture to support collaboration
  • Concepts regarding building lab flexibility
Designing the Lab of the Future
The Innovation Lab
14:40
Christiana Olaibi, Laboratory Process Consultant, CBRE
  • Lab design framework then and now
  • Automation in the lab vs “The manual lab”
  • Occupancy and equipment utilisation for the ideal workflow and lab design.
Lab of the future (pt. 2) – The role of R&D in the transformative journey
The Innovation Lab
14:40
Mark McCord-Amasis, Vice President, Real Estate & Facilities, Seagen
  • R&D must define its strategic ambitions and behaviours. What are we really trying to achieve and how should we behave to achieve them? 
  • Leadership needs to own the transformation process.  They must have a clear vision of what the transformation is supposed to do and make sure the business achieves it 
  • It is also R&D that provides the drive and vision for the transformation with the primary purpose of their sponsorship is to create organizational commitment and support, helping ensure transformation does do not fail 
  • Achieving a successful cultural transition requires R&D to drive the change management. Real Estate and Workplace will provide the framework, design & change expertise, and communications tools to support R&D’s transformation journey 
16:00
Tea Break and Exhibition
Plenary Sessions
16:00
16:30
Turning Data into Decisions
The Digital Connected Lab
16:30
Laura Williams, Decision Science Manager, GSK
Decisions made confidently
The Digital Connected Lab
16:30
Ángel Gil Nolskog, Sales Consultant , LabTwin

Real-time contextualization to enable data-driven decisions
Decision based on historical data are only as good as the data itself
Downstream data repositories intervene poorly on the data collection process in real-time
Efforts must be made to ensure data quality at the point of capture

Creating Space for Innovation at CSL Behring
The Innovation Lab
16:30
Vicky Pirzas, VP, Recombinant Product Development, CSL Behring
Creating a Space for Innovation
The Innovation Lab
16:30
Daniela Jansen, Senior Director of Product Marketing, TetraScience

The digital transformation journey from a traditional to an intelligent lab
The key elements and prerequisites for this transformation
The infrastructure for collaboration and exchange of scientific data
The role does data organization and standardization

17:30
LiveLab Working Groups
Plenary Sessions
17:30 BST
Start time: 12:40 CDT | 13:40 EDT | 18:40 BST | 19:40 CEST |
18:00
Networking Drinks Reception
Plenary Sessions
18:00
09:00
Keynote Address: The Novartis Research Data Strategy- Data Culture, Data Management, Data Science and Data Enterprise
Plenary Sessions
09:00
Philippe Marc, Executive Director, Global Head of Integrated Data Sciences, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Keynote Address: Digitalisation from source to scientist – developing a data and technology driven flexible lab operations model
Plenary Sessions
09:00
Tola Olorunnisola, VP - Strategy, Innovation, Marketing & Digital, Avantor
10:00
Keynote Address: The Sustainable Lab is the Lab of the Future
Plenary Sessions
10:00
Penny James, Chief Operating Officer for Biopharma R&D, AstraZeneca

The Sustainable Lab is the Lab of the Future

  • When we envision the ‘Lab of the Future’ we know this requires increasing innovation, automation and technology
  • To deliver ‘Sustainable Business Growth’ we look for solutions to increase productivity whilst at the same time reducing the amount we consume – in energy, resources and space
  • These 2 goals can be aligned and achieved by embedding sustainability and digitization into every area of our labs
Keynote Address: Sustainability on the path to Operational & Process Excellence
Plenary Sessions
10:00
Priya Vijayakumar, CEO, Watt IQ
Pernilla Sörme, Technical Program Director, My Green Lab, ,
  • Shifting Sustainability’s siloed paradigm with data
  • Insights from connecting new and existing data sources
  • Sustainability’s true ROI
11:00
Coffee Break & Exhibition
Plenary Sessions
11:00 BST
Start time: 11:50 CDT | 12:50 EDT | 17:50 BST | 18:50 CEST |
11:40
Interoperability Standards as an Enabler in the Digital Lab of the Future
The Digital Connected Lab
11:40
Andrew Mitchell, Data Manager, Unilever
Burkhard Schaefer, Managing Director, Splashlake
James Love, Vice President, Automation and Process Optimization, Novo Nordisk
Patrick Courtney, Director, SiLA
Lab Automation – Delivering Solutions and Future Directions
The Automated Lab
11:40
Philip Hopcroft, Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca
It Is Time to Think About the Digital-Backbone and Automating Data Processes the Way We Automate Wet Lab Processes
The Automated Lab
11:40
Sascha Fischer, Business Development Manager, Automation, Genedata
Romel Bobby, Senior Scientist, Roche
  • Lab automation increases productivity and standardizes sample processing
  • To maximize productivity, data-analysis & -processing also needs to be automated
  • This results in true end-to-end automation workflows
12:40
Digitalisation & the Lab of the Future
The Digital Connected Lab
12:40
Rainer Winnenburg, Team Lead Literature-based Scientific Discovery - FAIR Data, AbbVie

Generating FAIR Lab Data at AbbVie
Rainer Winnenburg, Team Lead Literature-based Scientific Discovery – FAIR Data, AbbVie

Customising Data Capture to Eliminate Data Processing
The Digital Connected Lab
12:40
Lars Schroder, Principal Scientist, AGC Biologics
Thomas Boesen, CEO, Scifeon
Giving Time Back to Science with Provision of Scientific Services
The Automated Lab
12:40
Richard Snell, Director, Global Scientific Services, GSK

Richard Snell, Director, Global Scientific Services, GSK

People-Process-Technology, Scientific Services the key to unlocking the future lab
The Automated Lab
12:40
Martin Curtis-Emerson, Director, Lab and Production Services, Avantor Services
Mags Heneghan, Regional Head, Lab & Production Services Europe, Avantor
13:40
Lunch & Exhibition
Plenary Sessions
13:40
14:30
Collaborate to Innovate – Pistoia Alliance framework for non- competitive R&D projects
The Digital Connected Lab
14:30
Anca Ciobanu, Lab of the Future Lead, Pistoia Alliance
Rainer Winnenburg, Team Lead Literature-based Scientific Discovery - FAIR Data, AbbVie

The session will cover some examples of industry-wide projects, programs and communities of interest facilitated by the not for profit organization Pistoia Alliance.
1. IDMP Common Core Ontology Project – the goal of the project is to enable deep, semantic interoperability based on FAIR principles to augment the existing ISO IDMP standards of the European Medical Agency
2. User Experience for Life Sciences (UXLS) Community – which develops and delivers numerous best practice guides, blogs, and toolkits to increase the adoption of user experience (UX) practices in life sciences.
3. D&I IN STEM Leadership Program – which promote diversity in top executive roles and aims at improving leaders’ understanding of the importance of D&I industry-wide. The program alumni include participants from 17 large size pharma organizations.

Collaborative Drug Design In Virtual Reality At UCB
The Automated Lab
14:30
Sasker Grootjans, New Medicines IT Sr. Project Manager, UCB

• Virtual Reality (VR) is a mature technology, used for 3D insights and connecting teams across the globe
• UCB developed a re-usable in-house VR platform for drug design with an academic partner
• We present key learnings on setting up an industry-academic collaboration and on the introduction of this type of new technology

Strategic Procurement in support of the Scientist: The Roche Journey Towards a Progressive Procurement Value Chain
The Automated Lab
14:30
Emrah Sürün, Sr. Market Solutions Manager Research & Development Solutions, Roche
Innovative Lab Automation Solutions in Biologics Manufacturing
The Automated Lab
14:30
Gunnar Zoch, Manager for Process Automation & Digitalization, Lonza
15:30
Digitalization in the Clinical Laboratory
The Digital Connected Lab
15:30
Mathew Divine, Head of Digital Lab in Clinical Development & Operations, Boehringer Ingelheim
Accelerating Decision Making Through Parallel Medicinal Chemistry
The Digital Connected Lab
15:30
Francesco Rianjongdee, Scientific Leader, GSK
Delivering digital solutions that make lab life easier
The Digital Connected Lab
15:30
Sean Peschisolido, Product Manager, Digital Science Solutions, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Does the digital lab solve scientists’ problems? Is automation the key to advancement? The real route to progress is in making small changes that have a significant impact. In this talk we’ll discuss our three rules to make lab life easier using digital solutions that are accessible today:
Protect IP while making data more accessible
Reserve instrument time, monitor experiments and analyze data
Empower scientists to manage resources

Using Robotics and Automation to Invent, Improve and Design Concepts that Reduce Human Interventions and Remove Repetitive Work
The Automated Lab
15:30
James Love, Vice President, Automation and Process Optimization, Novo Nordisk
  • High throughput automated protein production
  • Automation of closed loop optimization for biologics
  • Building and deploying your own automated solutions
  • Barriers to lab of the future, a personal viewpoint
Unleashing the Power of Data
The Automated Lab
15:30
Sanjanaa Jeevandass, Senior Consultant, Zifo
Paul Denny Gouldson, Principal Consultant, RnD Solutions, Zifo

–              Data exists, but how do we utilize it to the fullest potential?

–              Standardization is the stepping stone to data FAIRification

–              What the data journey looks like for life science companies

–              How to get tangible impact and continue to build on this

–              Shooting for the stars if you get this right

16:30
Technology of the Future – Supporting Innovation
Plenary Sessions
16:30
Martin Winter, Founder, Lab Automation Network
Bryn Roberts, Global Head of Information Sciences, Roche
Nathan Clark, Founder, Ganymede
Lars Timmer, Lab Automation Manager, Rethink Robotics
Helmut Köster, CEO, pantaBio, ,
Filip Szczęsny, Chief Executive Officer, Holo4Labs
Gunnar Zoch, Manager for Process Automation & Digitalization, Lonza