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Meritxell Orpinell, Leader, Professional Services, Benchling
Ewout Spronk, Commercial Manager, Kadans

Robert Burke, General Manager EMEA, Benchling

Shawna Wolverton, Head of Product and Design, Benchling

Aga Wegrzyn, CEO, EV Biotech

Embark on a journey with EV Biotech, a pioneering Contract Research Organization (CRO) at the forefront of digital transformation in fermentation-based solutions. Aga's talk explores how digitalization drives sustainability and addresses regulatory hurdles in the biotech industry.

Meet EV Biotech, where innovation meets sustainability. EV Biotech specializes in providing scale-proof strain development support through iterative wet and dry lab cycles, revolutionizing fermentation processes for diverse applications—from pharma to food, cosmetics, and biomaterials. Fermentation stands as a sustainable production alternative, offering vast potential across industries. However, unlocking its industrial prowess requires synergistic, multidisciplinary teamwork spanning the globe and leveraging advanced digital tools.

EV Biotech recognizes digits as the universal language driving its success. By integrating wet and dry lab efforts with digital-only data repositories, EV Biotech aims to streamline processes and enhance efficiency. Yet, the company journey has been marked by both failures and triumphs. Join Aga as she unveils the challenges and successes encountered during EV Biotech's digital transformation. From initial struggles with scalability to breakthroughs in unifying digital systems, Aga will showcase the evolution of EV Biotech's approach and the pivotal role of digitalisation in the company's achievements.

Explore the future of fermentation-based solutions through a digital lens. Witness how EV Biotech continues to navigate the intersection of digitalisation, fermentation, and sustainability, forging a path towards a brighter, more efficient future for biotech.

Henning Redestig, Lead Data Scientist, International Flavors & Fragrances

Many organisations are undergoing a digital transformation. For ubiquitous applications with huge user groups, e.g. natural text, photo and video analysis, there are numerous consultancies and software solutions that can empower and enable teams, even when they lack dedicated experts. In Biotech, certain operations are general, like liquid handling and management of biological sequence data, but the diversity in the more specific logic is large. As a result, Biotech R&D teams must employ their own interdisciplinary digital staff to build tailored solutions. In this talk, Henning will give an account of his team's effort to digitalize a molecular biology workflow and how they used concepts from domain-driven design to create testable integrations for Benchling.

Our VP of Product Marketing, Ingrid Wantuch, kicks off the event with a welcome message.

Elsa Lauwers, CSO, Paleo

Through a process of precision fermentation, Paleo delivers a sustainable animal protein that provides an authentic meat flavor, allowing the food industry to offer meat and fish alternatives that people love. To develop animal-free ingredients that are bioidentical to conventional meat and fish products, Paleo gathers expertise in genome engineering, microbiology, bioprocess engineering, food science and regulatory science. In this talk, Elsa will present how Paleo relies on Benchling as a single source of truth to support and coordinate all its R&D activities. In particular, she will discuss Paleo's approach towards the selection of new ingredients, and how the company maximize the value of the bioprocess and analytical data captured.

Tobias Wingbermühle, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer, Clustermarket

In today's fast-paced biopharma landscape, the integration of digital tools has become indispensable for enhancing laboratory efficiency and accelerating research and development (R&D) processes. With a growing reliance on digital solutions, it is imperative that these tools seamlessly connect to enable smooth data transfer and integration.
Clustermarket, the leading equipment management and scheduling tool for laboratories, has released an integration with Benchling, the R&D Cloud powering the biotechnology industry, to provide scientists with ease of connection between the two companies’ digital solutions.
Gain insights from real use case on how this integration streamlines the connection between the two companies' digital solutions, bringing equipment management and scheduling functionality directly to users' workflows. Now, researchers and lab managers can seamlessly access Clustermarket's booking calendar within the Benchling ecosystem, enhancing their ability to digitize and synchronize critical laboratory processes. This synergy paves the way for enhanced productivity and accelerated research breakthroughs, ultimately expediting the journey from innovation to market-ready products. Join the talk and find out how other biotech companies have leveraged this integration.

Join this interactive panel session to hear firsthand from innovative biotech on how they’re progressing their R&D digital transformation journeys.

Aga Wegrzyn, CEO, EV Biotech

Elsa Lauwers, CSO, Paleo

Henning Redestig, Lead Data Scientist, International Flavors & Fragrances

Moderated by Charlotte Hamel, Customer Success Manager, Benchling

Join your industry peers on one of the two following intimate roundtable discussions: 

Reimagining Collaboration: Building effective strategies to accelerate time to market

Discuss how modern biotechnology companies are using connected software to evolve their R&D approach and improve collaboration to produce more efficiently.

AI in biotech: Doing better, not just faster, with AI

Target identification and molecule design have seen the lion’s share of AI and ML focus in biotech. But more opportunity awaits for labs that bring these tools downstream. Join us to discuss how scientists are applying AI to process development, parameter optimization, IND filings, and more.

Connect and engage in quality conversations with your peers over delicious food and drink.