6 December 2023 Seminars

Prishu Kagra, Conference Director, AMG World

• Defining digital transformation: What does it mean for our processes, workforce, and organisation?
• Reflecting on progress: Suitable use cases, technology implementation, and scaling digitalisation initiatives
• Benefits of all this change: How has disruptive technology met our original value proposition and yielded ROI?
• Labs of the future: Adapting our strategy and aligning vision within an ever-evolving technological landscape

• Realistic lab automation: Evaluating potential, clarifying possibilities, and refining vision
• End-to-end ecosystems: Establishing cloud-based systems for instrument and equipment integration
• Reflecting on our journey: Challenges, obstacles, results, and adaptations
• What’s next: Extracting additional business value and driving continuous innovation

• Developing smart, digitally connected labs that support our evolving scientific workforces
• Simplifying SOP’s for straightforward digitalisation of lab processes and workflows
• Consolidating technologies to improve efficiency, accelerate timelines, and reduce costs
• Embracing change and upskilling: Welcoming the next generation of data-led, technology-driven labs

• Blending manual and automated lab processes to create digitally optimised end-to-end workflow
• Retaining the core elements and digitising processes for improved lab efficiency
• Enhancing lab capabilities by connecting people, software, instruments, and data in meaningful ways
• The future of fully integrated labs: Remote working, virtual accessibility, and our evolving scientific workforce

• Exploring data platforms as key enablers of transformation
• Building data-driven mindsets and approaches
• Unlocking life science data with improved integration and connectivity
• Evaluating how AI is reshaping our work with data

• How is disruptive technology transforming our labs and the scientific stakeholder experience?
• Harnessing emerging technologies to positively impact and add value within the lab
• Digital user-experience: Importance of human-interaction and feedback for increased adoption
• Harmonising workforce capabilities: Balancing traditional scientific experience with technology implementation

• Introduction, motivations, and the historical background of AI/ML, Chemometrics and other algorithms
• Classical chemistry (Analytical Chemistry): The separation, identification, and quantification of chemical substances using univariate analysis
• Modern Chemistry (Chemometrics): The design of experiment (DoE), sampling, preprocessing, and statistics using multivariate analysis (MVA)
• 21st Century Chemistry (AI / ML): Using data to perform supervised, unsupervised or reinforcement training to elicit descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive
  responses

Accelerated digital transformation is happening within pharma and biotech labs as organisations embrace automation, robotics, and digital tools. This panel
discussion will provide tips to unlock value from data-led, technology-supported scientific environments. Our panellists will reflect on the progress made, common
challenges faced, and how we can maintain momentum with lab innovation to create smart, connected, labs of the future.

• Realising ROI: Taking a timely, structured, and scalable approach to lab automation for consistent incremental, compounding improvements
• Organisational assessment and change management: Understanding existing lab capabilities, environment, history, politics, and talent to streamline digital
  transition
• How can we simplify lab automation and remove intimidation associated with technology adoption and implementation?
• Harmonisation and standardisation: Exploring the benefits and challenges of standardising lab automation, scientific data, systems, processes, and terminology
• Enhancing scientific collaboration: Applying best practice methods to improve lab connectivity, managing open source vs closed source, and optimising
  interoperability across instruments, platforms, workflows and users
• Exploring disruptive technology trends within discovery, research, and development: How can we remain ahead of the curve and what do we envision as the
  future of labs?
• Evaluating the importance of developing collaborative partnerships: Interlinking academia, associations, users, and providers to help drive meaningful change

All attendees are invited to attend our networking drinks reception at the end of the day’s proceedings. This is our way of saying thank you for your contribution and to create an additional opportunity to continue your discussions in an informal setting.