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AGENDAS

DAY ONE

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DAY TWO

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SPONSORS

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TRACK THEMES

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R&D Success Takes  

Culture | Data | Process | Technology  

to Make Laboratories Efficient Again  

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Join us October 5-7, 2025, for a transformative Paperless Lab Academy® (PLA) conference in Orlando, Florida, USA, 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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Track Themes: 

  • In Silico-First Science (AI/ML) 

  • Scientific Informatics & Scientific Data Management 

  • Creating Smart or Smarter Labs 

  • 4 Hands-On Labs 

SPEAKERS

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Turning Complex Data into Trusted Insights with Data products and LLMs

Norman Azoulay

 

Vice President- Platforms & Data

Excelra

Talk Title

Automating Lab Processes and Workflows with AWS Agentic AI


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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.

Patrick Combes

 

Senior Principal of Technology, AWS STT​

AWS

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David Harburger, Ph.D. 

 

Shareholder

Greenburg Traurig

Talk Title
Building IP as an Asset for the Innovation Life Cycle​

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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

Talk Title
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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FAIR Data, FAIR Robots and the pursuit of the Orchestrated Lab
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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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TBD

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Holly Lynch

Consultant 

Lynch Consulting

Talk Title
AI & Lab-in-the-Loop Strategies Redefining Partnerships with Next Gen CROs & TechBio

David Dalgarno

Former SVP, Digital & Data Science Technology​

Kojin TX

Talk Title
Making In-Silico First Discovery a Reality: Insights from Integrating Data, Computation, and Technology to Enable Science in Small Biotech

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Dr. Raminderpal Singh

Global Head of AI & GenAI Practice

20/15 Visioneers 

Talk Title
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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Michael Bradfield

Senior Staff Engineer

Takeda

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Patrick Courtney Ph.D.

Leader of Topic Group on Analytical Laboratory Robotics

SiLA

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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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Director of Computational Chemistry

Rowan

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Building ML-accelerated simulation tools for chemists

Jonathon Vandezande

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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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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

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Sam Mohler

Talk Title
We Are Our Few Discoveries 

Founder

Lab Automators

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Michael Swartz

Chief Strategy Officer

Dotmatics

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Multimodal Informatics from Research through Manufacturing 

HANDS ON LABS

Advance your skill set!

Attend an Interactive, Hands-On Lab at Paperless Lab Academy® USA 2025.

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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® USA, October 5-7, 2025.

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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. Discover Cheminformatics led by Subhas Chakravorty, Ph.D. 

The powerful fusion of computational algorithms and chemical expertise transforming modern drug discovery. Learn to digitally encode chemical structures, explore chemical diversity and navigate chemical space, build predictive QSAR and machine learning models, and rapidly analyze bioactivity and ADMET (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion, and Toxicity) properties. Acquire practical skills with Python and RDKit, crucial for drug repurposing, lead optimization, and creating novel molecules with tailored properties. Explore these techniques using datasets derived from current marketed drugs. This structured course takes you from foundational concepts to advanced techniques, providing hands-on expertise essential for pharmaceutical research and molecular innovation.

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2. Prompt Engineering for Scientists led by Raminderpal Singh, Ph.D.

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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3. Business Process Mapping for ELN Optimization led by David Hessler
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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4. Building No-code LLM Workflows for Your Lab led by Raminderpal Singh, Ph.D.
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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WHERE:

THE FLORIDA HOTEL

1500 Sand Lake Road
Orlando, Florida 32809

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Info and Reservations:
Phone Number +1 (407) 859-1500

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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 #PLA2025USA

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WHEN: 

October 5 - 7, 2025

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DISCOUNT:

Discounted hotel booking link here

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If the link does not work for you, please call the Florida hotel (+1 (407) 859-1500) and let them know you are booking for the conference. 

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