
SPEAKERS

Amrik Mahal, Ph.D.
Global Head of IT for Research
AstraZeneca
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TBA

Nick Lynch, Ph.D.
Founder
Curlew Research
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TBA

Thibault GEOUI, Ph.D.
Director
Zühlke Group
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TBA

Juan Dominguez, Ph.D.
Drug Discovery Expert
Topazium Artificial Intelligence
Talk Title
Democratizing Iterative Screening: ITERCeen™ — A Machine Learning Tool for Hit Prediction

Bob McDowall, Ph.D.
Principal
R D McDowall Ltd
Talk Title
TBA

Tamara Mckenna
Director
Clinysis
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Empowering Scientific Discovery with AI, Data Analytics and Trust

David Harburger, Ph.D.
Shareholder
Greenburg Traurig
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TBA

Andreas Steinbacher, Ph.D.
Senior Digital Director
Novo Nordisk
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TBA
SPONSORS
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TRACK THEMES

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In Silico-First Science (AI/ML)
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Scientific Informatics & Scientific Data Management
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Creating Smart or Smarter Labs
Join us MARCH 17-19, 2026, for a transformative Paperless Lab Academy® (PLA) conference in Barcelona, Spain, held in collaboration with 20/15 Visioneers. The event will focus on education and learning the skills necessary to achieve next-generation transformation in your labs and enhancing your personal skill set.
HANDS-ON LABS

Advance your skill set!
Attend an Interactive, Hands-On Lab at Paperless Lab Academy® EUROPE 2026.
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Building skills will help you thrive through change. And, as we’ve all witnessed, technology changes from business process management to AI and LLM are coming at us fast and furious. That’s why 20/15 Visioneers has put together four hands-on, interactive labs at The Paperless Lab Academy® Europe, March 17-19, 2026.
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Seats are limited to 20 registrants/workshop Act now!
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Choose from the following topics:​
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1. Prompt Engineering for Scientists led by Raminderpal Singh, Ph.D.
March 17th, 10am-12pm
Scientists regularly use tools like ChatGPT in work and home. But how do you power-house their use without any software skills? It’s called Prompt Engineering and it’s an art to get right. In this Lab, you'll design the key parameters for a clinical 1 trial for an aging compound! We’ll set you up with best-practice methods, so you won’t be lost. But you will be challenged to build effective prompts. Everything you learn will be reusable back in your workplace (and at home).
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2. Lab Automation Using (no-code) Agent led by Raminderpal Singh, Ph.D.
March 17th, 1-3pm
AI adds to automation, and LLMs add to AI. But, without some insider know-how, integrating these tools into experimental workflows can be complex and lead to much technical debt. And when software IT folks are not available, it can be frustrating. In this lab, we’ll get our hands dirty learning about the world of “no-code” LLM tools. This will give you a clear understanding for how they can help you build and run better experiments. We will cover methods to ensure data privacy & security. Coming out of the lab, you will be energized and ready to try out different LLM-based tools in your experiments!​
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3. Business Process Mapping for ELN Optimization led by David Hessler
March 17th, 4-6pm
For thirty years ELN products have been used by research and development labs, and today the still often are not delivering on their promise. Why is this? One answer is that you first need a map of how data is generated, progresses, and is consumed inside and outside your labs. In this workshop, we take a hands-on approach to analysis of the subsystems which produce and analyze data, and we produce easy-to-understand business process mapping which defines the actors, systems, and data which make up the informatics ecosystem. If you want to really leverage the value of an ELN, you need a map which describes the high-quality touch points, and the high risk integrations.
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WHERE:
HOTEL
QGAT Restaurant EVENTS & HOTEL
Avenida de la Via Augusta, 51, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Catalonia, ES, 08174
Info and Reservations:
Phone Number +34 935 44 19 22
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Conference participants will benefit from special rates by using the link below.
You can also contact the hotel directly and book your room indicating your presence at #PLA2026EUROPE
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WHEN:
MARCH 17-19, 2026​
DISCOUNT:
Discounted hotel booking link here
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If the link does not work for you, please call the QGAT Restaurant Events & Hotel (+34 935 44 19 22) and let them know you are booking for the conference. ​​​
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Turning Complex Data into Trusted Insights with Data products and LLMs
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Automating Lab Processes and Workflows with AWS Agentic AI
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SPEAKERS FROM PLA® USA 2025

Wolfgang Colsman
CEO
ZONTAL
Talk Title
Smarter Labs, Faster Science: Turning Scientific Data into Predictive Power

Joseph Dremock
Senior Director
AstraZeneca
Talk Title
AstraZeneca's Next Generation Scientific PMO: From Project Management to Project Leadership​

Patrick Pijanowski
Founder & Managing Director
Scientia Advisory Services
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PANEL DISCUSSION

Andrew Doran
Head of Laboratory Robotic & Process Automation
20/15 Visioneers
Talk Title
Beyond the Bench​


Norman Azoulay
Vice President- Platforms & Data
Excelra


Holly Lynch
Consultant
Lynch Consulting
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AI & Lab-in-the-Loop Strategies Redefining Partnerships with Next Gen CROs & TechBio
David Dalgarno
Former SVP, Digital & Data Science Technology​
Formerly Kojin TX
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Making In-Silico First Discovery a Reality: Insights from Integrating Data, Computation, and Technology to Enable Science in Small Biotech​

Michael Bradfield
Senior Staff Engineer
Takeda
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TBD

Patrick Courtney Ph.D.
Leader of Topic Group on Analytical Laboratory Robotics
SiLA
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TBD
Director of Computational Chemistry
Rowan
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Building ML-accelerated simulation tools for chemists
Jonathon Vandezande

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Attendees will hear about how current services and solutions leveraging AWS Agentic AI are already capable of automating common lab processes and workflows.​
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Patrick Combes
Senior Principal of Technology, AWS STT​
AWS

Kelcy Newell, Ph.D.
Robotics & Automation Development & Innovation
Astrazeneca
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FAIR Data, FAIR Robots and the pursuit of the Orchestrated Lab​

Dr. Raminderpal Singh
Global Head of AI & GenAI Practice
20/15 Visioneers
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PANEL DISCUSSION

William Warren
Co-Founder & Former VP, Head of Global Antigen Design
WKLW Consulting LLC, Sanofi
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If your lab could talk back—what would it say about how you're using it?​

Fred Bost
Talk Title
Harnessing LabVoice AI to Streamline Lab Workflows
Co-Founder & CEO
LabVoice

Rohit Singh
Head Of Clinical Data Science Visioneering
20/15 Visioneers
Talk Title
From Beside to Approval: The Journey Of Clinical Data Science

Shrika Eddula
Co-Founder & Scholar
Pedal, MIT
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TBD

Peter Smith
CEO
Semaphore Solutions
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From BPMN to Knowledge Graph: Enabling FAIR Data and AI-Ready Audit Trails in Modern LIMS​​

John Conway
Founder & Chief Visioneer
20/15 Visioneers
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TBD



James White
Collaborative Communications
CDD Labs
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Biology as Chemistry: Chemically Aware Data Management for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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Stefan Golas
Talk Title
Rewriting the Stack: Python for NGS Automation
Student & Intern
Duke University & Hamilton Company

Sam Mohler
Talk Title
We Are Our Few Discoveries
Founder
Lab Automators
Michael Swartz
Chief Strategy Officer
Dotmatics


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