Lab of the Future & Green Lab Symposium

A deep dive into the Lab of the Future will include:

  • An immersive experience of a lab of the future using augmented and virtual reality
  • Real-world examples of a structured, connected, integrated, and augmented lab

Explore the benefits of a future lab first hand:

  • Reduced manual data handling
  • Data FAIR-ification
  • Higher efficiency thanks to digital automation and streamlining of workflows
  • Optimised asset utilisation
  • Enabling of decision-making and data-driven insights from real-time data
  • Increased R&D productivity
  • Reduction of cost and time

Join our experts on panel discussions focusing on:

  • Natural language processing
  • Operating models 
  • Data harmonisation & standardisdation
  • Data integration with LIMS and ELNs
  • Tracking and tracing across the supply chain
  • The lab of the future as a sustainable lab

As a partner of Ilmac, Arcondis will provide visitors the special opportunity to immerse themselves in a lab of the future. We will showcase advantages, state-of-the-art technologies and sustainability of a digital integrated lab, which are inspired by our collaborations within the Basel Life Science cluster.

Dr. Sadiya Raja
Consultant, Business Services

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eXperience Cube

Experience live and virtually together with Siemens and H. Lüdi:

  • BIM models and real plants
  • Optimized space and asset management with unique user experience
eXperience Cube
eXperience Cube

Green Lab Symposium

Green Lab is a cluster of the association Green Building Switzerland. As a non-profit organization, we support the development of sustainable laboratories as an innovation offensive for Switzerland.
The Green Lab Symposium is the only laboratory symposium in Switzerland, for Switzerland. In 2023, the 4th edition of the Green Lab Symposium will take place for the first time during Ilmac.
Keynote speeches will present the current state of research and future perspectives, and interactive panel discussions will address the needs of various stakeholders.
In addition, interactive workshops on specific topics will be offered to facilitate a creative solution-finding process.
The Green Lab Symposium is a unique opportunity to network with like-minded people in Switzerland.

The symposium will take place in the Laboratory of the Future area on the Innostage stage in Hall 1.0.

You can find the complete program here.

26. September 2023 Focus topic “Sustainability”

10.00Opening, welcome
Thorsten Nölle, S+B Baumanagement AG & Jens Feddern, Siemens
10.05Input presentation: Holistic sustainability from the perspective of a research-based pharmaceutical company
Daniel Zaugg, Roche
10.30Input presentation: Sustainability of infrastructure from the architect’s point of view
Paul Kath, Herzog & de Meuron
11.00Input presentation: Circular economy for laboratory infrastructure: limits and opportunities.
Dr. Andreas Oefner, Zircular
11.30Panel discussion with all speakers
12.00Lunch / break
14.00Workshop: Successful implementation of sustainability strategies
17.00Green Lab Happy Hour at eXperience Cube

27. September 2023 Focus topic “Digitalization”

10.00Opening, welcome
Jens Feddern, Siemens
10.05Input presentation: Democratizing laboratory automation in medicinal research – Rethinking scientific collaboration, technology implementation and laboratory design
Daniel Meyer, Novartis
10.30Input presentation: Versatile lab automation – the power of modularity
Mario Bott, Automata
11.00Input presentation: Why is the digitization of laboratory infrastructure a prerequisite for the laboratory of the future?
Joel Portmann, Siemens Smart Infrastructure
11.30Panel discussion with all speakers
12.00Lunch / break
14.00Workshop: Successful implementation of digitalization strategies in the lab
17.00Green Lab Happy Hour at eXperience Cube

28. September 2023 Focus topic “Laboratory infrastructure for startups”

10.00Opening, welcome
Jens Feddern, Siemens
10.05Input presentation: Scaleable Lab Spaces for startups
Jay Siddharth, House of LabScience
10.301st hand experiences of a successful startup to increase Lab operation’s efficiencey
Brian Carlson, Thot – an EPFL spinoff
11.00Highly flexible laboratory infrastructure from the modular system
Hansjürg Lüdi, H. Lüdi AG 
11.30Panel discussion with all speakers
12.00Lunch / break
14.00Workshop: How can lab requirements be better met for startups?
4th edition for the first time during Ilmac 2023

Switzerland needs an innovation offensive to maintain the excellence and competitiveness of its research and innovation hub. Green Lab has been supporting the development of sustainable laboratories as an innovation offensive for Switzerland for five years. The main event is the Green Lab Symposium that will be held in 2023 as part of Ilmac live in Basel. Ilmac is the largest meeting place for the Swiss chemical and life science industry. So together we can offer the maximum added value for the visitors of the fair and the participants of the symposium.

Jens Feddern
Member of the Board of Directors, Head of Green Lab

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