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SPEAKERS

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Amrik Mahal, Ph.D.

 

Global Head of IT for Research

AstraZeneca

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TBA

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Nick Lynch, Ph.D.

 

Founder

Curlew Research

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TBA

 

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Thibault GEOUI, Ph.D.

 

Director

Zühlke Group

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TBA

 

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Juan Dominguez, Ph.D.

 

Drug Discovery Expert

Topazium Artificial Intelligence

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Democratizing Iterative Screening: ITERCeen™ — A Machine Learning Tool for Hit Prediction

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Bob McDowall, Ph.D.

 

Principal 

R D McDowall Ltd

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TBA

 

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Tamara Mckenna

 

Director

Clinysis

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Empowering Scientific Discovery with AI, Data Analytics and Trust

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David Harburger, Ph.D. 

 

Shareholder

Greenburg Traurig

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TBA

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Andreas Steinbacher, Ph.D.

 

Senior Digital Director

Novo Nordisk

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TBA

 

SPONSORS

PREMIUM

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GOLD

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SILVER

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BRONZE

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TRACK THEMES

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  1. In Silico-First Science (AI/ML) 

  2. Scientific Informatics & Scientific Data Management

  3. 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.   

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R&D Success Takes  

Culture | Data | Process | Technology  

to Make Laboratories Efficient Again  

HANDS-ON LABS

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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. â€‹â€‹â€‹

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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

speakers
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Wolfgang Colsman

CEO

ZONTAL

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Smarter Labs, Faster Science: Turning Scientific Data into Predictive Power

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Joseph Dremock

Senior Director

AstraZeneca

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AstraZeneca's Next Generation Scientific PMO: From Project Management to Project Leadership​

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Patrick Pijanowski

Founder & Managing Director

Scientia Advisory Services 

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PANEL DISCUSSION

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Andrew Doran

Head of Laboratory Robotic & Process Automation

20/15 Visioneers 

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Beyond the Bench​

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Norman Azoulay

 

Vice President- Platforms & Data

Excelra

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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​

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Michael Bradfield

Senior Staff Engineer

Takeda

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TBD

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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

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Kelcy Newell, Ph.D.

Robotics & Automation Development & Innovation 

Astrazeneca 

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FAIR Data, FAIR Robots and the pursuit of the Orchestrated Lab​

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Dr. Raminderpal Singh

Global Head of AI & GenAI Practice

20/15 Visioneers 

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PANEL DISCUSSION

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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?​

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Fred Bost

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Harnessing LabVoice AI to Streamline Lab Workflows

Co-Founder & CEO

LabVoice

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Rohit Singh

Head Of Clinical Data Science Visioneering 

20/15 Visioneers

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From Beside to Approval: The Journey Of Clinical Data Science 

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Shrika Eddula

Co-Founder & Scholar 

Pedal, MIT

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TBD 

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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​​

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John Conway

Founder & Chief Visioneer

20/15 Visioneers 

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TBD
 

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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

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Rewriting the Stack: Python for NGS Automation

Student & Intern

Duke University & Hamilton Company

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Sam Mohler

Talk Title
We Are Our Few Discoveries 

Founder

Lab Automators

Michael Swartz

Chief Strategy Officer

Dotmatics

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Multimodal Informatics from Research through Manufacturing 
 

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