Claudio Battilocchio

Automation is no longer just about efficiency – it’s about enabling new ways of working, accelerating discovery, and demonstrating value to both scientists and the business. This panel will bring together leaders who are piloting, scaling, and embedding automation into their labs to explore what’s working, what’s next, and how to overcome the cultural and technical barriers that remain.

Discussion points:

• Streamlining repetitive lab tasks through robotic and instrument automation to reduce errors and free up scientist time.
• Integrating automation platforms with lab data systems (LIMS/ELN) for seamless workflow orchestration.
• Overcoming implementation challenges: scaling automation across multiple sites and aligning with regulatory requirements.
• Measuring ROI: how labs quantify the efficiency, throughput, and quality gains from automation.
• Preparing automation for future AI augmentation: building workflows and data pipelines that can feed predictive models