.Speaker Group: Future Labs, Automation & Technology East 2025 Speakers

Luke Pendergrass

Luke Pendergrass

Luke is Principal Product Manager at Automata, bringing over 20 years of experience in software engineering, cloud computing, and scalable systems. Known for driving innovation and building high-performing teams, he excels at leveraging technology to solve complex challenges and deliver impactful solutions.

Kristen Tran

Kristen Tran

Kristen Tran is the Head of Automation Strategy at Ginkgo Bioworks and joined the company in 2015 as one of the first automation engineers. Kristen has been both an individual contributor and technical lead in building out Ginkgo’s automation capabilities across multiple automation systems. Today, she and the team continue to work to increase the… Read more »

Ellen Gualtieri

Ellen Gualtieri received her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Purdue University in 2010 and began working at FORMULATRIX shortly thereafter. Initially, Ellen led the technology transfer of her Ph.D. work involving nonlinear optical imaging of protein crystals to FORMULATRIX and was the product manager of SONICC® and the ROCK IMAGER® product line for 5 years. Since then, Ellen has… Read more »