WHAT ARE THE PLA® CONFERENCES ABOUT
At the PLA® conferences, we set the stage for discussions on the most suitable strategies for implementing digitalised processes in the laboratory. Today´s digital ecosystem offers many opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency, yet there are always some hurdles that make the journey longer than expected
At the PLA® conferences, we put together an agenda to help you tackle the key milestones to turn your scientific data into solid business insights. The PLA® conferences offer networking sessions to connect with colleagues who have similar operational issues to you, a programme to learn about case studies from users and how they use them in their processes, and an exhibition hall to learn about the latest informatics tools and methods.
The PLA® conference has earned a reputation for solid, informative content in a creative and productive atmosphere.
Let's cover your DATA LIFE CYCLE: eCONNECT, eMANAGE, eDECIDE, eARCHIVE
Paperless Lab Academy® Conference goes Global
Thank to the continuous support of our sponsors, partners, speakers and visitors we are now hosting conference editions in Europe, Indian and USA
WHY COMING TO PLA® Conferences
* Industry leaders report on use cases, experiences and strategies from practise
* Thought-provoking panel discussions
* Focused programme organised by domain experts
* Cross industry discussions about DATA related topics
* Special attention to People, Processes, Quality Culture, Digital Ecosystem
* Unique opportunity to connect with the laboratory informatics industry
* Unique showcase opportunity of innovative solutions
* Multiple workshops
* Excellent opportunities to network, interact and learn
* Free registration for visitors
WHY PARTNERING WITH PLA®
* Solid international reputation
* 90% of attendees involved in a digitalisation project
* 80% of attendees with budget allocated
* 75% of attendees actively looking for new solutions
* Multiple Open Networking Sessions
* Workshops opportunities to showcase your solution and services
* Increasing number of attendees, subscribers, followers and new partners
* Numerous collaboration agreement born at PLA amongst our partners
* Active promotions of our partners activities through the PLA® community
* Collaboration for media activities along the year
THE LAB INFORMATICS LEARNING PLATFORM
THE LAB INFORMATICS LEARNING PLATFORM
WHAT´S IN IT FOR YOU
- 2-day conference on transformation strategies, data master plan, data management, data lifecycle, data and always data!
- 2-day conference where you can listen, learn, interact with from industry leaders and executives from international companies who share their experiences and strategies
- A content-rich, non-commercial plenary session
- Several interactive, sponsored workshops
- Deep Dive Workshops: Hands on Training
- Excellent opportunities to network, interact and learn
- A unique opportunity to connect with key software and service solution providers
- A unique opportunity to discover new innovative solutions
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE #PLA
Lawrence Barratt
Unilever
The Paperless Lab Academy is an essential networking event for all involved in the automation of laboratories. I found it a great way to connect with others facing the same decisions and operational issues as me – and of course, learning how other industries dealt with them. Having easy access to the major vendors also helped enormously in laying out our Digital roadmap. I would thoroughly recommend this event.
Patrick Pijanowski
Accenture
The Paperless Lab Academy® has consistently proven to be rich in content and an excellent forum in which to exchange ideas with industry thought leaders
Mark Newton
Eli Lilly
Had a great time at the Paperless Lab Academy. I really like the close interaction between attendees and the vendors. The forum provides a chance to really interact on a personal level – I like that. Enjoyed my time, and hope to come again.
Guido von Dahlen
Labforward
Thank you for this well organised PLA2023Europe event. Not only the location which is gorgeous also the atmosphere during PLA was helping us as vendor to create new relations with other companies and for sure also with prospects. The professional setup and the relaxed atmosphere helped us a lot to stay focused on knowledge transfer instead of just product selling and kept all attendees very open minded.
Phillipe Bouchat
UCB
As digital project manager, responsible for lab areas, I came to the Paperless Lab Academy® 2023 at Baveno, Italy. It was a real opportunity to meet some of the key players in the Lab Informatic market via “Town hall” presentations, workshops and informal discussions. This gave me interesting and important insight for my job in next month/years. I recommend it to any IT/digital leader that want to increase his/her knowledge of the digital lab market and available technologies.
Rory McCan
Astellas
Coming from outside the Laboratory area I found the Paperless Lab Academy conference to be very informative and by listening to the various speakers both Industry and Vendors. I gained a good insight into where Laboratory systems are going system-wise and gained an understanding of the challenges they face in the current environment.
Shree HARSHA
Dassault Systemes
We are really happy to partner with Paperless Lab Academy on this unique project to bring in our expertise addressing Indian pharma companies and improve their overall operational excellence in their laboratories and support their digitalisation journey.
Dassault Systemes provides “ONE Lab” Industry Solution Experiences which can integrate people, resources, processes, and data for improved efficiency and collaboration. In addition, these consolidated information and processes reduce regulatory risks and help enable faster time-to-market by eliminating data silos, remove paper processes, reduce review time and errors, and improve overall compliance.
Sergio Nasi
Boehringer Ingelheim
I am impressed by how the Paperless Lab Academy event has grown year over year. It is for me an authoritative source of information the helps me stay current with market trends and anything that matters in the industry, not to mention the excellent networking opportunities.
I found the 2021 Edition particularly remarkable for the breadth of topics in the agenda and the quality of the presentations: I was very pleased to see that sessions provided by sponsors, far from being pure sales pitches, provided very useful context and insight on the industry and the market vendors’ ecosystem
Clara Kao
Danone
The Paperless Lab Academy® remains an important platform for exchange and sharing for us and we will do our best to maintain Danone’s involvement in the 2021 agenda. Actually, we are also very interrested by the webinars being organised this summer.
Andrea Costigliola
& Miguel Ramos Lopes
Hovione
The PLA2018 reinstated that Automation and Digitalization of Laboratory processes & workflows are at the forefront of innovation in the laboratory realm.
The conference, expertly organized in a pleasing venue, provided a great blend of plenary sessions and interactive workshops, along with good networking opportunities to interact with industry peers and solution providers. We hold the overall level of the presentations to the highest standard, having enjoyed the contributions from thought leaders, fellow peers from the pharmaceutical industry and other areas of expertise.
Our sincerest compliments on the quality of the event – it´s ranked as the best lab informatics conference we attended
Claudio Scaramuzza
Chiesi
We spent 2 interesting days professionally speaking and very pleasant thanks to the organisation, company and location.
Samantha Kanza
& Nicola Knight
AI3 Science Discovery Network+
This is a fascinating conference with a strong focus on Research Data Management and different strategies to not only go paperless in the lab, but also how to best organise one’s data. There were a range of talks and workshops/demos including some on FAIR data and the use of semantic web technologies both in conjunction with AI and for interoperability purposes.
May Roca
Dow Chemical
The Paperless Lab Academy has been a very interesting experience for me. I´ve learned on other markets´ initiatives which could potentially be of interest for my company´s journey. It has given me the opportunity to discuss further with the speakers to expand on my understanding. I am already looking for projects internally based on the learnings from the PLA. I can honestly say that I got a lot out of it.
Erwan David
DEXSTR
The Paperless Lab Academy 2019 has been even more focused on data than before. Understanding FAIR data, leveraging ontologies, create and share knowledge are now part of most discussions and presentations. We are truly in the data era.