Welcome to Your One Stop Shop for Lab Operations & Facilities
The inaugural 8th Lab Asset & Facility Management Summit returns to unite 40+ senior speakers and 200+ expert attendees to take the next step for your lab operations, and drive decisions backed by asset, facilities, and procurement data for a truly lean lab.
Standing as the only industry meeting to cover every single facet of lab operations, with content specifically tailored and segmented for pharma versus biotech, learn how to successfully scale or maintain resilient operations all at the same summit! Whether you’re looking to refine your asset management, facilities, EHS, or procurement strategy and transform your working environment for the long run.
What’s New for 2025?
Novel Digitalization Insights
Learn how to overcome bottlenecks when collaborating with vendors to consolidate both your operational and scientific data for complete integration to create an error-free environment.
Reframed Workshop Tracks
Are you a smaller company looking to implement agile operations? Or are you a large biopharma looking to scale? Depending on where your priorities lie, take the opportunity to learn from like-minded peers within our Agile Operations or Scaling Operations tracks, to meet the specific requirements of your scientists.
Brand-New & Upcoming Facility Projects
Find out how senior leaders are driving their internal teams and solidifying their expansion, relocation, and retrofitting strategies to keep up with modern-day demands.
End-to-End Use Cases Across Asset Management, Facility Management & EHS, and Procurement & Vendor Management
From integrated inventory-procurement systems to advanced use of CMMS for facilities work orders, find out how to upgrade your utilization across all lab operations systems, to drive cost-effective decisions across the lab.
Reimagined Careers Evening
Join our revamped Careers Evening involving panel discussions and a short course to help you excel in your career development journey and become a resilient leader in the lab operations and facilities space.
Testimonials:
“Content was very well curated, networking with other companies was also great”
Associate Director, Global Facilities Operations
“It is great to convene with like-minded individuals”
Senior Director & Head of Laboratory Operations
Agenda at a Glance:
Pre-Conference Workshop Day
Agile Operations
Dedicated to small-to-mid sized biotechs, join this track to stay compliant, remain resilient in the face of workflow fluctuations, and be creative with all lab operations resources.
Scaling Operations
Targeted towards large pharma with a critical expansion mindset, join this track to unlock your potential to expand within budget to meet the ever-changing requirements of your scientists.
Workshop A: Maximizing Impact with Limited Ops Budgets: Prioritizing Spend in Resource-Constrained Lab Environments
Workshop D: Advocating for & Pushing Back on Operational Spend to Maximize Opportunity for Lab Improvements
Workshop B: Basic Principles: Lean & Six Sigma-Guided Process Optimization to Operate Lean
Workshop E: Advanced Lean & Six Sigma-Guided Process Optimization to Achieve Operational Excellence
Workshop C: Managing Operational Responsibilities Whilst Navigating Changes in Workforce to Prevent Downtime
Workshop F: Scaling Your Building & Workforce Leveraging Advanced Tech to Promote Scientific Growth
LAFM Careers Evening
Main Conference Days
Maximizing Spatial Footprint & Digitalization Through Novel Projects to Protect Scientific Operations
Driving Connected & Compliant Lab Operations Through End-to-End Digitalization & Global Sustainability Strategies
Asset Management: Inventory, Utilization & Maintenance
Dedicated to all asset management, lab operations, maintenance, and inventory leads looking to optimize ROI of your asset management tools and influence strategic lab decisions for upcoming pipelines.
Facility Management & EHS
Join facility management and engineering professionals to unlock the next step towards digital transformation in your lab, revolutionizing your scientists’ workspace.
Procurement & Vendor Management
Targeted towards procurement, sourcing, and lab operations professionals who must redesign critical procurement and vendor management strategies for lab equipment and consumables to protect budgets.