smartLabs Summit 2025 – optimise your workflow
Welcome to the smartLabs Summit 2025: Shaping the Future of Lab Innovation
The smartLabs Summit opens its doors for the first time at BioLabs Heidelberg, in the heart of the Rhine-Neckar life science ecosystem. Initiated by the bioRN Life Science Cluster Rhine-Neckar in close collaboration with BioLabs Heidelberg, this brand-new trade fair and networking event is designed for one clear purpose: to accelerate smart lab workflows that improve reproducibility, drive innovation, and support sustainable science.
The smartLabs Summit is not just another industry gathering — it’s a premium platform bringing together top minds and technologies in research, biotech, diagnostics, lab management, automation, and data science.
From 1:00 pm to 7:30 pm, attendees will dive into a full program of insights, interaction, and inspiration.

Spread the word. Share the vision. Shape the future.
Join the premiere event on 24 September 25 at BioLabs Heidelberg, Nicola-Tesla Straße 1-3, 69124 Heidelberg
What can you expect?
– ~30 pioneering exhibitors
– Two high-impact keynotes offering deep insights into the real-world implementation of AI, digital workflows, and automation technologies in modern labs.
– Eight live demonstrations and expert sessions, where visitors can explore practical applications and smart innovations hands-on.
– “Talent Connect” networking tables, organized by key topics to foster meaningful dialogue and new partnerships across disciplines.
Whether you’re an R&D professional, lab operations lead, startup innovator, or technology provider — this summit is your chance to connect, collaborate, and co-create the future of life science research.
Join us for a dynamic afternoon of exchange, exploration, and empowerment — and be part of the smart lab revolution.
Exhibitors: status 26.05. 25, more to follow

















Exhibitors 2025
BIMOVIS supports small and medium-sized companies in structural biology through consulting, training, and project coordination. As it’s often uneconomical for startups and SMEs to employ structural biologists, BIMOVIS bridges this gap, offering tailored training and expertise to help companies become more independent and proficient in structural biology and protein science.

Exhibitors 2025
KyooBe Tech develops innovative production technologies for biopharmaceuticals, combining robotics, automation, and biotechnology to create sustainable solutions. Key areas include pathogen inactivation and automated production of personalized cell and gene therapies. KyooBe Tech launched eFIT in 2024 for pathogen inactivation via low-energy electron irradiation. Their MOSAIC system improves personalized cell therapy production.

Exhibitors 2025
PHABIOC GmbH offers advanced tools for drug screenings, focusing on efficiency and reduced animal testing. Key products include: – PermeaPad: Simulates human barriers to predict drug uptake without animal tests. – SpecPlate: Measures drug concentrations quickly and reliably in high-throughput settings using UV/Vis spectroscopy. These tools address complex lab challenges and enhance analysis.

Exhibitors 2025
ZEISS is one of the world’s leading technology companies in the optical and optoelectronic industry. As a fully foundation-owned company, ZEISS is aware of its responsibility in all its activities, which forms the basis of its actions. As pioneers in scientific optics, we have always challenged the limits of imagination. With our passion for excellence, we create customer value and inspire the world to see things in a new way. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Exhibitors 2025
Nikon Europe B.V. is the European division of Nikon Healthcare, a world leader in the development and manufacture of optical and digital imaging technology for biomedical applications.

Exhibitors 2025
New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB) is the industry leader in the discovery and production of enzymes for molecular biology applications and now offers the largest selection of recombinant and native enzymes for genomic research

Exhibitors 2025
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, is a global science and technology leader in healthcare, life science, and performance materials. With around 58,000 employees, the company aims to improve lives through innovations in gene editing, disease treatment, and smart devices.

Exhibitors 2025
Avantor® is a leading life science tools company and global provider of mission-critical products and services to the life sciences and advanced technology industries. Our portfolio is used in virtually every stage of the most important research, development and production activities at more than 300,000 customer locations in 180 countries.

Exhibitors 2025
The biozym portfolio includes high-quality plastic consumables for daily laboratory use (such as filter tips, pipette tips, PCR consumables), biochemicals, kits (including agaroses, PCR kits, polymerases) and high-tech equipment systems for molecular biology (gel documentation, thermocyclers, centrifuges) as well as customised services, such as the calibration of thermocyclers.

Exhibitors 2025
We are laboratory specialists with our own product range and a strong partner of the most renowned manufacturers in the laboratory sector. Our range extends from consumables and equipment to standard chemicals, speciality products and speciality chemicals. With laboratory products developed in-house under our umbrella brand ‘neoLabLine’, we have been bringing colour to your laboratory for more than 30 years!

Exhibitors 2025
Leica develops high-tech precision microscopes for the analysis of microstructures with the user, for the user. In our product portfolio you will find microscopes for life science including biotechnology and medicine as well as for research and development of raw materials and industrial quality assurance.

Exhibitors 2025
Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) provides an intuitive software suite extensively used by creative biologists and chemists working in academic, biotechnology and pharmaceutical settings. Their flagship product, CDD Vault, enables researchers to intuitively organize and analyze both biological and chemical data, and to collaborate with partners through a straightforward web interface. .

Exhibitors 2025
SENSIFIC develops and provides advanced assay-driven, image-activated cell sorters (IACS) and state-of-the-art camera technology, supporting both droplet-based and flow-based cell sorting to enable groundbreaking applications.

Exhibitors 2025
Revvity offers comprehensive life science solutions, technologies, and services, covering workflows from discovery to cure. We revolutionize biomedical research with a focus on translational multi-omics, biomarker identification, imaging, prediction, screening, detection, diagnosis, informatics, and more.

Exhibitors 2025
Bio-Rad is a global leader in developing, manufacturing, and marketing a broad range of innovative products for the life science research and clinical diagnostic markets. With a focus on quality and customer service for 70 years, our products advance the discovery process and improve healthcare. Our customers include university and research institutions, hospitals, public health and commercial laboratories, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, as well as applied laboratories that include food safety and environmental quality.
1:00 Uhr
Official Opening of the smartLabs Summit 2025

1:05 – 1:20 Uhr
Mario Richter, PhD.
Senior Director Development Services
AbbVie Detuschland GmbH & Co. KG
BioLabs FOYER
The past, present and future of regulated bioanalysis
@AbbVie
1:20 – 1:40 Foyer Uhr
Room 1
BioLabs FOYER
Workflow Optimisation in a real world lab – an academic perspective

2:00 – 2:30 Uhr
Joanna Deek, PhD
Director
Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc.
ROOM 2:
Building Smart: Laying the Data Foundation for Scalable Discovery and AI-Driven Growth”
2:30 – 3:00 Uhr
sessions will be led by Merck KGaA scientific experts
Session 3
Merck KGaA
ROOM 1
Laboratory Workflow Transformation Part 1:
Organoid Technology and more sustainable practices
3:00 – 3:30 Uhr
sessions will be led by Merck KGaA scientific experts
Session 4
Merck KGaA
ROOM 1
Laboratory Workflow Transformation Part 2: • Right the First Time: Pressure testing your readiness to ensure the success of GMP batch #1
3:30 – 4:00 Uhr
Room 2
Session 5
4:00 – 4:30 Uhr
Room 1
Session 6
4:30 – 5:00 Uhr
Room 1
Session 7
5:00 – 5:30 Uhr
Room 2
Session 8
5:30 Uhr
Networking and Get Together
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