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Conference programme
Lab Innovations has 5 CPD-accredited conference theatres for you to enjoy, explore and discover – all included in your ticket.
The 2025 programme has just gone live – take a look at what’s on the lineup so far!
Key themes for 2025
The following themes will be covered in the programme:
- Sustainability
- Robotics & automation
- Quality, accreditation and compliance
- Biotech innovation
- Technical product advice & demos
- Professional development
A CPD-accredited event
Lab Innovations 2025 has been accredited by the CPD Group, the largest and most trusted professional development accreditation body in the UK. This means you can trust that our conference is of the highest quality!
How to collect your CPD points
Make sure to scan the QR codes at the entrance to each conference theatre to ensure you will receive your free CPD certificates and points.
Take a look at this year's agenda
Let's collaborate!
At Lab Innovations 2025, we’re focusing on five key areas in the conference where collaboration is driving transformation in the lab industry:
Quality & Compliance
Uniting to ensure excellence, safety, and resilience
Collaboration with all lab professionals is key to tackling global supply chain challenges, and ensuring quality, compliance, and innovation in lab materials and processes is crucial.
Biotechnology
Solving global health challenges, together
From drug discovery, to genomics, to diagnostics, see how cross-sector collaboration is shaping the future of biotech and the life sciences, and making an impact on healthcare.
Sustainability
Collaborating to build greener, more responsible labs
Explore the latest in sustainable lab practices, green chemistry, and carbon-neutral research—and how the industry is working together to reduce environmental impact.
Skills
Developing scientific talent through shared expertise
Discover how labs, training providers, and institutions are working together to close the skills gap, support continuous learning, and futureproof the scientific workforce.
AI & Automation
Reinventing research through connected minds and machines
See how AI, robotics, and digital transformation are revolutionising the way scientists work, ensuring faster, more accurate, and more efficient research.
See what the 2024 keynote speakers had to say...
Tom Whipple
Tom Whipple is the science editor at The Times. He joined the paper after graduating with a degree in mathematics. In his job, he has interviewed Stephen Hawking, Jimmy Carter, Bill Gates and Jedward. He was named science journalist of the year for his coverage of the covid pandemic.
Adam Rutherford
Adam Rutherford is a geneticist at University College London (UCL), who teaches evolution; eugenics and the history of race, having completed his PhD at UCL’s Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. One of BBC Radio 4’s most pre-eminent broadcasters, Adam is also a prolific writer having published eight books.
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