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Welcome to Your One Stop Shop for All Things Lab

6 years in the making, LAFM has grown alongside the industry to become the largest and longest standing community dedicated to progressing your lab’s efficiency, productivity, sustainability, and your career. Dive into our 5 key areas of content and discover a world of opportunity for your knowledge and network development.

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Asset Management, Maintenance & Risk Mitigation

Evaluate modern resources, tools, software and strategies to plan inventory quickly and efficiently to meet scientists’ requirements without delay whilst optimizing capital spend

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Facilities Design, Management & Engineering:

Revolutionize space utilization and flexibility for end-users satisfaction and efficiency, with future scalability in mind

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Procurement & Strategic Sourcing

Explore modern procurement avenues and marketplace opportunities to keep on top of asset and consumable purchasing to prevent research delays

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R&D Operations  

Identify opportunities within space design, resources and workflow as a smaller sized organization to help meet speed-to-market demands

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Environment, Health & Safety  

Pioneer a path towards a sustainable lab of the future whilst safeguarding the safety compliance and wellbeing of your scientists

The past events in the LAFM series have brought together experts across lab operations, including facilities, asset management and EHS, empowering leaders to update their facility design, implement the best asset tracking technologies, and refine their EHS program.

But, what was new for 2023?

  • 40+ Brand New Speakers, including C-Level Experts from Pharma & Biotech
  • With the addition of our workshop days, attendees were given the option to perfect various angles of your labs or facilities through our deep diving sessions: Lab Managers Training Course, Facility Build-Out Bootcamp, and Sustainability & ESG
  • What’s more, attendees joined a careers evening to learn from the LabOps Unite community on how to expand your skillset and excel in their career - from resume building, to mentorship networking, this was the ultimate opportunity to help promote attendees in their role
  • Attendees recognized and nominated their peers for achievements within the lab operations space with the brand new awards evening – this was their chance to give back to individuals in their organization who deserve a particular shout of appraisal this year
  • Finally, with the addition of our brand-new procurement track, covering strategic sourcing, vendor management, procurement technologies and more, the 2023 event was the biggest yet!

2023 Agenda at a Glance

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Get Stuck In

discover

Discover:  

Discover the latest ground breaking case studies from data driven projects being implemented across pharma and biotech

discuss

Discuss:

Hear a panel of experts debate different approaches to the same challenge, to best benchmark your approach

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Apply:

Leverage your peers in focused roundtable discussions to find inspiration for future application

Download the brand-new 2023 Event Guide

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Download your copy to see all the 2023 speakers, fill agenda breakdown, partners and how you can access the best possible rates.

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