23 September 2025 Block 1 Seminars

7:00AM - 7:50AM

Registration and Networking

7:50AM - 8:00AM

Opening Remarks from AMG World

8:00AM - 8:30AM

Rethinking Lab Facility Design and Management: Are We Getting It Right?

• The critical role of lab facility design in safety, productivity, and long-term ROI
• Defining lab functions and user needs to shape effective design and management strategies
• Key factors to ensure a functional, compliant, and adaptable lab environment
• Choosing the right contractors and management teams to maintain lab safety and operational efficiency
• Ensuring successful lab launch: Staff training, safety protocols, and future-proofing the facility

Sponsor

  • Adam Ames Director of Facilities and Planning - Salk Institute for Biological Studies
8:30AM - 9:00AM

From Concept to Cutting-Edge: Unlocking Innovation Through Next-Gen Lab Builds

• Optimizing lab construction with cost-effective strategies, modular builds, and proactive lifecycle planning
• Mastering conceptual design principles while balancing scientific accuracy, regulatory compliance, infrastructure adaptability and pioneering innovation
• Applying sustainability and scalability principles by leveraging green energy-efficient design, and future-ready infrastructure planning
• Championing human versus animal work needs in the lab designs and the development process for which to approach

Sponsors

  • Jennifer Watts Director, Facilities & Strategic Projects - UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Brenna Tam Building Operations/ Project Manager - UCLA
9:00AM - 9:30AM

Thriving Amidst Uncertainty: Agile Equipment Solutions for Resilient Lab Operations

• The importance of resilient lab equipment strategy in mitigating market disruptions and protecting long-term ROI
• Identifying core equipment needs and facility functions to align procurement with operational priorities
• Key considerations for equipment selection: Adaptability, serviceability, supply chain stability, and compliance
• Choosing qualified vendors, service partners, and project managers to ensure safe and efficient equipment integration
• Coordinating installation timelines, delivery logistics, and site readiness for equipment deployment

9:30AM - 10:10AM

Technology Demonstrations

This session provides an additional opportunity to meet with our product and solution providers in the exhibition
hall to learn more about the products, technology, and services that have been developed to solve some of
your unique challenges. The technology demonstrations will last approximately 8 minutes on four cycles with
the opportunity to ask questions immediately afterwards over the refreshment break.

10:10AM - 10:50AM

Networking Break & Exhibition