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Collaborate for Quality & Compliance
Helping keep you on top of your laboratory quality and compliance solutions
For quality and compliance professionals, Lab Innovations provides a practical route to assess laboratory quality and compliance solutions, understand changing regulations, and strengthen operational resilience. Meet regulatory, accreditation and laboratory management specialists, explore automated compliance tools, and apply relevant approaches across testing, clinical, pharmaceutical and industrial environments.
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What will Lab Innovations do to strengthen your quality and compliance systems?
In today’s fast-moving world, quality and compliance are non-negotiable. Lab Innovations brings together the people, technologies and practical insight that help laboratories improve traceability, testing, risk management and operational resilience.
Explore laboratory quality and compliance solutions across analytical instruments, digital tools, laboratory management platforms and specialist services, while learning from experts tackling quality, safety and regulatory challenges.
Who should be staying ahead of quality and compliance by attending the show?
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Quality, testing and laboratory management leaders Quality Directors, Heads of Quality, Laboratory Directors and Laboratory Managers strengthening quality systems, managing testing performance and maintaining consistent laboratory operations.
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Regulatory, compliance and accreditation professionals Heads of Regulatory Affairs, Compliance Managers, Regulatory Affairs Specialists and Heads of Accreditation responding to changing requirements, preparing for audits and maintaining effective governance.
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Quality assurance, quality control and validation teams Quality Assurance Managers, Quality Control Managers, Validation Managers and Quality Engineers improving traceability, documentation, data integrity and controlled laboratory processes.
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Technical, calibration and metrology specialists Technical Directors, Technical Managers, Calibration Managers, Metrology Engineers and Test Engineers ensuring equipment performance, measurement confidence and reliable test results.
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Procurement, operations and R&D decision-makers Procurement Managers, Heads of Laboratory Operations, R&D Directors and Technical Managers evaluating suppliers, systems and services that reduce quality and compliance risk across laboratory operations.
Why should you attend to ensure safety, quality and excellence across the supply chain?
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For your organisation Meet the organisations, suppliers and specialists helping laboratories manage changing standards, accreditation and supply-chain risk.
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Assess solutions that support resilient processes, reliable materials and stronger quality governance.
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Build relationships across the laboratory ecosystem to improve sourcing, testing and compliance decisions.
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For your team Strengthen understanding of supplier assurance, measurement, testing, accreditation and risk management across laboratory operations.
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Compare approaches to traceability, quality systems and compliance that support consistent, reliable results.
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Collaborate with colleagues around shared supply-chain and regulatory priorities
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For you Learn from standards, measurement and accreditation specialists through the Quality Infrastructure Forum.
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Hear practical perspectives on risk management, quality infrastructure and the ethics of AI.
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Meet providers of measurement, testing, quality and safety technologies on the show floor.
What people say
How are your peers collaborating to make an impact?
Why is it important to share and collaborate for quality?
Maya Carlye, Principal AI Operations Lead at NPL explains.
How do the national standards, measurement and accreditation bodies work together for labs?
Hear from Lorraine Turner, Accreditation Director at United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).
How to collaborate in-person this November
Explore measurement, testing, quality and more
The Lab Innovations show floor is home to those directly affecting lab quality (like UKAS) and also home to suppliers of measurement and testing equipment and services.
Explore how to mitigate risk to your supply chain, and explore the solutions on offer to ensure excellence.
From the ethics of AI to risk management and more
The Quality Infrastructure Forum returns to Lab Innovations 2026, with content powered by the UK’s National Quality Infrastructure – UKAS, NPL, and BSI.
Learn from those setting the standards, measurements and accreditations to ensure your lab work is of the highest quality.
What's new in quality & compliance?
Hear the latest news and opinions from industry leaders, all looking to ensure excellence across the UK laboratory supply chain.
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FAQs
Common questions
What does the Quality and Compliance track at Lab Innovations cover?
The Quality and Compliance track examines how laboratory teams can strengthen safety, quality and trust across the supply chain. It covers reliable sourcing, measurement, testing, accreditation, risk management and changing regulatory demands, with an emphasis on practical collaboration between scientific, quality and standards professionals.
Who should attend the quality, regulatory and compliance content?
The content is relevant to laboratory directors, quality and regulatory leaders, laboratory managers, testing and inspection teams, accreditation specialists, validation professionals and technical managers. It also supports procurement, operations and R&D teams whose decisions affect supplier assurance, testing quality, traceability and laboratory resilience.
Which laboratory quality and compliance solutions can visitors explore?
Visitors can explore laboratory quality and compliance solutions from organisations supporting measurement, testing, quality and safety. This includes equipment and services that help teams assess performance, manage risk and strengthen the processes behind reliable laboratory work across research, clinical, industrial and regulated environments
Is this track relevant to laboratories managing accreditation and regulatory change?
The track is relevant for teams managing accreditation, evolving requirements and supply-chain risk. It brings together organisations involved in standards, measurement and accreditation, helping laboratories understand the issues affecting quality systems and identify practical ways to remain resilient and prepared for change.
Does Lab Innovations highlight how laboratory management solutions reduce compliance risk?
Laboratory management solutions can help teams standardise workflows, improve traceability and keep quality information visible across operations. At Lab Innovations, visitors can compare relevant technologies and services, then discuss how they may support stronger controls, clearer processes and more consistent decision-making in their own laboratory.
Where can I find sessions on laboratory regulations, accreditation and supply-chain risk?
The Quality Infrastructure Stage at Lab Innovations provides content on standards, measurement, accreditation and risk management. Its programme is powered by the UK’s National Quality Infrastructure UKAS, NPL and BSI, giving visitors access to organisations involved in the systems that underpin laboratory quality.
Where can I meet providers of automated laboratory compliance tools?
Use the exhibitor information to identify suppliers of measurement, testing, quality and safety technologies before visiting. On the show floor, you can meet providers directly and discuss whether their tools support your automated laboratory compliance needs, from controlled workflows to data, testing and traceability requirements.
How do I register for the Quality and Compliance content at Lab Innovations?
Register for a free Lab Innovations visitor ticket to access the Quality and Compliance programme, including the Quality Infrastructure Forum and relevant suppliers on the show floor. The event takes place on 4 and 5 November 2026 at NEC Birmingham.
When and where does Lab Innovation take place?
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Venue details - NEC Birmingham, UKVenue details - NEC Birmingham, UK
4th & 5th November 2026
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Getting there - Train, car, bus, airport
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Parking - On-site, nearby, costs, pre-booking links
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Hotels nearby - Partner hotels
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Accessibility - Wheelchair access, assistance, dietary info
Collaborate in-person at Lab Innovations 2026
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