Scimcon sponsors SmartLab Exchange and identifies priority themes for 2022 lab informatics

Geoff Parker and Dave Sanders attended SmartLab Exchange 2022 as proud sponsors of this year's show. Here, they discuss their key findings and observations from the event.

The SmartLab Exchange, from April 26-27, 2022 at the InterContinental At Doral Miami – Doral, FL is one of the global meetings for lab informatics leaders. Scimcon continues its proud sponsorship of this event, and attended in person to facilitate one-to-one meetings with a number of informatics customers from big pharma and lab-centric sectors. Scimcon sponsors the SmartLab Exchange because it provided a useful access to the community of senior R&D, Quality Assurance and Quality Control decision-makers from industry in North America.

Speakers at the 2022 SmartLab Exchange included the best of the best, with attendees from Proctor & Gamble, Biovia, Bayer, AstraZeneca, Sanofi and Amgen, among others. SmartLab Exchange is attended by invite-only decision-makers. The unique invite-only format of the event means that both sponsors, speakers and delegates can access a closed community that meets their individual needs. 

Feedback and Voice of the Industry

Attending from Scimcon were Geoff Parker and Dave Sanders, and during the event they took the opportunity to poll the customers and contacts from many of the attending organizations, to identify the current 2022 trends in the lab informatics industry. SmartLab Exchange represents the lab informatics community across industries including:

  • Pharmaceutical
  • Bio-pharmaceutical
  • Biotech
  • Biobanking
  • Medical device
  • Petrochemical
  • Bio-fuel
  • Chemicals 
  • Cosmetics
  • Food & beverage
  • Defence
  • Forensics
  • Water
  • Environmental
  • Agriculture
  • Consumer Goods

Geoff and Dave spoke with representatives from a multitude of organizations to take a pulse of the trends in the industry. Geoff explains:

“Scimcon works globally as a lab informatics consultant and implementation partner, with big pharma and biotech companies as well as vaccine manufacturers. We tend to see similar challenges from lab to lab, from organization to organization, and it is useful to take events like SmartLab Exchange as a means of checking in and ensuring that our customers’ needs are current.”

Summary of trends in lab informatics for the modern lab

In the informal poll of attendees at SmartLab Exchange, Scimcon was able to identify key trends and themes that are important to the modern lab in 2022.     

The subjects identified as highest interest to the delegates were:

  • Data standardization
  • Data Quality and Integrity
  • Instrument Connectivity/ IoT 

Interest in product areas for the lab was high, especially for:

  • Scientific Data Management Systems,
  • Lab Automation
  • ELN
  • LIMS

There was a general trend for interest and support in data integration and systems integration.

Scimcon sponsors SmartLab Exchange 2022, summarizes trends from laboratory informatics leaders

Geoff summarizes “As lab informatics consultants with a global customer base in pharma and biopharma labs, it is important to us to check in with influential decision-makers from the lab. SmartLab Exchange gave us a useful ability to poll the attendees and see trends that will impact the modern lab decision-maker, and will help us at Scimcon to hone the way we partner with our customers.”

 

 


 

 

Scimcon is proud to sponsor SmartLab Exchange, and support customers in life sciences with their lab informatics management and strategy. For more information about Scimcon’s services, contact us today.

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