Exhibitor Tutorial
Join us on Monday, February 9, 12:00 PM in Room 103
Speakers Hamza Sahil from Pfizer, Madeline Wolf from Instance Bio, and Arun Timmaraju from Interpace Diagnostics explore real-world examples of how flexible, modular, AI-driven automation is redefining high-throughput science without sacrificing precision.
Solutions Spotlight
Join us on Tuesday, February 10, 12:00 PM at Spotlight Theater
AI is rapidly reshaping biology, but progress is increasingly constrained not by models but by physical execution in the lab. In this session, James Atwood (CEO, Opentrons) and Stacie Calad-Thomson (North America Business Development Lead, Healthcare and Life Sciences, NVIDIA) explore how laboratory automation is evolving in the age of Physical AI, where digital intelligence must reliably plan, execute, observe, and adapt in the real world.
Join us throughout the show for short, focused talks at the Opentrons booth #912. Hear directly from Opentrons experts and partners about real automation challenges, solutions, and best practices.
Ultra-Fast Sequencing with Robot Dinosaurs
Speakers: Erik Werner, PhD, Robotics Engineer, Plasmidsaurus and Andrey Shur, PhD, Automation Lead, Plasmidsaurus
Time: 1:15 PM on Monday, February 9
Scalable DNA Pools Enabled By Automation-First R&D
Speaker: Karen Lee, Member of Technical Staff, Automated Manufacturing, Instance
Time: 1:45 PM on Monday, February 9
High Throughput Proteomics – The Need For Automation
Speaker: Hanno Steen, PhD, Director of Proteomics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Time: 12:30 PM on Tuesday, February 10
Validating Automation Workflows In A Clinical Regulated Environment
Speaker: Leah Ali Bishop, Assay Development, Interpace Diagnostics
Time: 1:00 PM on Tuesday, February 10
Development to Deployment: High-Throughput Single Cell Multiomics Automation
Speaker: Jamie Moskwa, Engineering Manager, BD Biosciences
Time: 1:30 PM on Tuesday, February 10
Automation in Action: Building a High‑Throughput Nanopore NGS Workflow on the Opentrons Flex
Speaker: Fabrice Lamour, Senior Associate Scientist, DNA Production, Pfizer Biomedicine Design
Time: 2:00 PM on Tuesday, February 10
Millipore® Protocol Library – Verified Protocols from MilliporeSigma for the AAW – Automated Assay Workstation
Speaker: Mark Pawlicki, Senior Product Manager, MilliporeSigma
Time: 12:45 PM on Wednesday, February 11
Lowering the Barrier to Automation: Teaching Liquid Handling to the Next Generation of Scientists
Speaker: Curtis Walton, PhD, Director of Automation and Process Optimization, Institute for Protein Innovation
Time: 1:15 PM on Wednesday, February 11
Automating Antibody Discovery on Opentrons Flex
Speaker: Leslie Mitchell, PhD, Chief Science Officer, Opentrons
Time: 2:15 PM on Monday, February 9
OpentronsAI Live Demo
Speaker: Homam Jamal, Product Manager, Opentrons
Time: 12:15 PM on Wednesday, February 11
Implementing 21 CFR Part 11: A Compliance-Ready Framework for Open-Source Automation
Speaker: Nick Ritzo, Product Manager, Opentrons
Time: 11:45 AM on Wednesday, February 11
