Lab automation is constantly evolving. While teams work hard to keep their labs running smoothly today, they must also evaluate and incorporate the emerging automation technologies of tomorrow. In particular, the rise of AI-led scientific discovery may very well turn the entire research process upside down. How can automation teams manage these dynamics and effectively plan for the future?In this webinar from Trilobio, Roya Amini-Naieni, CEO & Co-founder, presents a look at where lab automation is heading and what labs can do to build towards that future. Additionally, with a focus on the practical questions that matter most to the hardware, software, AI, and people of the biology lab.

• Hardware: Making balanced investments that support today’s experiments while enabling long-term scale.
• Software: Ensuring devices stay connected across a growing ecosystem of tools and data.
• AI: Where do you let AI drive your lab, from data analysis to protocol design, and where human expertise remains essential
• People: How roles will evolve, and how to free up time for training and higher-value work.

In this insightful webinar from Roylan Developments, Stuart Naylor, Managing Director, presents storage and compound-handling practices and benefits to support your research.

The storage of small molecule compound collections (in DMSO) in a nitrogen storage environment can offer many benefits, such as avoiding the need to freeze compounds and maintaining compound concentrations and activity levels by keeping DMSO free of moisture.
Additionally, it is now possible to dehydrate DMSO compound solutions to recover ECHO® microplates. The benefits are numerous, including a significant extension of the shelf life of DMSO-solubilized samples stored in microplates, thereby reducing operational costs. This webinar examines these storage and compound-handling practices and present their benefits.
Key learning points:

• A technique for long-term, room temperature, high-quality storage of chemical libraries solubilized in DMSO
• Technique for recovery of ECHO®-plated test libraries to a >95% DMSO concentration
• Unique characteristics of an easy-to-use, small-footprint, scalable, and validated hardware solution
• How to eliminate moisture in your compound libraries and retain/reuse moisture-laden ECHO® plates.

This webinar is essential for scientists and lab managers focused on high-throughput screening, compound management, and assay development.

This TIE explores how digital twins are transforming laboratory design and automation - where they work, where they don’t, and what’s coming next. Speaker: Sura Hadi, E Tech Group

SLAS Meet-Ups allows you to stay connected to the latest research and opportunities happening within the SLAS global community. Meet-Ups include the  following: SLAS Technology Idea Exchange, the SLAS Get Ahead series, Special Interest Group Science Circle series and any in-person or virtual Regional Community Meet-Ups. 

This TIE discusses the challenges and opportunities of creating standardized automated workflows for single-cell analysis and highlighted innovations that bridge the gap from biopsy to clinically relevant insights. Speakers: Stefan Scheuermann, Fraunhofer IPA Mario Nikolas Graeve, Fraunhofer IPA

Join Rui Campos, VP of Product, and Mike Asham, MS, Head of Presales from Automata, to explore how connecting the bench to the cloud can transform lab operations—from scaling throughput to improving data quality and compliance.

This SLAS Technology Idea Exchange features three companies from the inaugural SLAS NexusXp People's Choice Award-winning collaboration: "TEST," - The Future of Drug Discovery: DeepCure's AI and Robotics Driven Pipeline.

DeepCure is accelerating drug discovery through AI, robotics and advanced informatics. A fully integrated hardware and software solution was deployed to synthesize, purify and advance 5,000 to 10,000 new compounds every month through the development pipeline. Design-Make-Test-Analyze (DMTA) was fully automated and increased laboratory efficiency by orders of magnitude. This was accomplished through deep collaboration between DeepCure, Waters and Biosero.

Representing TEST for this T.I.E. will be Thrasyvoulos Karydis (DeepCure), Dustin Whitson (Biosero), and Andrew Leightner (Waters), with Hayley Dyer (Biosero) and SLAS Scientific Manager Emily Yamasaki, Ph.D., serving as moderators.

This SLAS Technology Idea Exchange is led by Len Glass, Senior Associate Scientist, FMC Corporation and Christopher Keim, Head Process Automation, Food Brewer.  The discussion will cover the three main topics about Agriculture Research and Development work. These topics include BioPharma similarities and differences, the two main Agriculture industry components between pesticides and GMOs, and current trends for the Agriculture industry.

This SLAS Technology Idea Exchange will be focused on sustainability in the lab featuring Grenova, a leader in sustainable laboratory solutions. 

Caitlin Harclerode, Senior Director of Marketing, and Jackson Horner, Senior Technical Applications Specialist with Grenova will lead a conversation exploring Grenova's innovative technology, which allows labs to wash and reuse plastic lab consumables. Grenova's technology is transforming lab operations and driving sustainability impact in the lab without compromising performance.

This T.I.E will also feature a spotlight discussion with Carleen Klumpp-Thomas, the Head of Automation at NCATS, and her experience with sustainability solutions.

This Technology Idea Exchange will explore Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as a form of wireless communication that incorporates the use of electromagnetic or electrostatic coupling in the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to uniquely identify an object, animal, or person. Talia Karchem, Laboratory Software Consultant and Founder, Karchem Consulting, will explore how RFID can be used in laboratory automation with case studies focusing on: 
• Reagent/Consumables Management
• Sample Tracking
• Chain of Custody