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SiLA Newsletter 2026/02: Lab News, Reviews & Upcoming Events
RSC Analyticode 2026 — One‑Day Conference, London, UK, March 16
Newest SiLA article available online: Preparing for cyber-risks in the lab
The first SiLA newsletter of 2026 is now available for download
Welcome to 2026 – the first SiLA Newsletter of the Year!
Just after SLAS2026 in Boston: Join us for a hands-on Hackathon session
Where will SiLA be in 2026? Find out!
We are excited to announce a new SiLA Working Group on AI
Call for Proposals: SiLA ELN Connector Project!
SiLA Newsletter #4-2025 – OUT NOW!
Events
BioProcess International Europe 2026
Date: Apr 27-30, 2026
Place: Vienna, A
London Lab Live 2026
Date: May 6-7, 2026
Place: London, UK
Arab Lab Live
Date: May 11-12, 2026
Place: Riyadh, KSA
Future Lab Live 2026
Date: May 27-28, 2026
Place: Basel, CH
Discovery & Development Europe
Date: Jun 15-16, 2026
Place: Berlin, Germany
Analytica 2026
Date: Mar 23-27, 2026
Place: Munich, Germany
Paperless Lab Academy (PLA) Europe
Date: Mar 17-19, 2026
Place: Barcelona, Spain
RSC Analyticode 2026
Date: Mar 16, 2026
Place: London, UK
Berlin Lab Automaters Meet-up
Date: Mar 17, 2026
Place: Berlin, Germany
Munich Lab Automation Community
Date: Mar 12, 2026
Place: Munich, Germany
Pittcon
Date: Mar 7-11, 2026
Place: San Antonio, TX, USA
Lab of the Future US
Date: Mar 2-3, 2026
Place: Boston, USA
SiLA SPLASH hackathon
Date: Feb 12, 2026
Place: DAMP Lab, Boston, USA
SLAS2026
Date: Feb 7-11, 2026
Place: Boston, US
Future Labs, Automation & Technology Europe
Date: Dec 2, 2025
Place: London, UK
SiLA hackathon BAM Akademie
Date: Oct 16, 2025
Place: Berlin, Germany
9. IUTA-AnalytikTag
Date: Nov 10, 2025
Place: Duisburg, Germany
nICLAS Forum 2025
Date: Oct 8-9, 2025
Place: Stuttgart, Germany
5-HT Innovators Club
Date: Sept 11, 2025
Place: Karlsruhe, Germany
Lab of the Future
Date: Sept 30 - Oct 1, 2025
Place: Amsterdam, NL
ILMAC 2025
Date: Sept 16-18, 2025
Place: Basel, CH
ELRIG Drug Discovery 2025
Date: Oct 21-22, 2025
Place: Liverpool, UK
Arab Lab Live
Date: Sept 23-25, 2025
Place: Dubai, UAE
SiLA Conference
Date: June 25, 2025
Place: Basel, CH
German Biotech Days
Date: Apr. 9-10, 2025
Place: Heidelberg, Germany
SLAS 2025
Date: Jan. 25-29, 2025
Place: San Diego, USA
Discovery & Development Europe 2025
Date: June 23-24, 2025
Place: Basel, CH
Future Labs Live 2025
Date: May 27-28, 2025
Place: Basel, CH
London Lab Live 2025
Date: May 14-15, 2025
Place: London, UK
Future Labs, Automation & Technology Europe
Date: Dec. 3, 2024
Place: London, UK
Future Labs, Automation & Technology West
Date: Nov. 12, 2024
Place: San Diego, USA
Future Labs Live US
Date: Oct. 30-31
Place: Philadelphia, US
PLA India
Date: Oct. 15-16, 2024
Place: Mumbai, India
Automate Europe 2024
Date: May 22-23, 2024
Place: Basel, Switzerland
ELRIG Drug Discovery 2024
Date: Oct. 2-3, 2024
Place: London, UK
ICRA 2024
Date: May 13-17, 2024
Place: Yokohama, Japan / Online
Lab of the Future Europe
Date: Oct. 1-2, 2024
Place: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BioLAGO TraceBot Symposium
Date: Sept. 25, 2024
Place: Konstanz, Germany
Achema 2024
Date: Jun. 10-14, 2024
Place: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Analytica 2024
Date: Apr. 9-12, 2024
Place: Munich, Germany
Paperless Lab Academy
Date: Mar. 12-13, 2024
Place: Milano, Italy
Lab of the Future US
Date: Mar. 11-12, 2024
Place: Boston, USA
SLAS2024
Date: Feb. 5-7, 2024
Place: Boston, USA
SiLA/AnIML Splash session (ELRIG)
Date: Oct. 17, 2023
Place: Liverpool, UK
Lab Innovations
Date: Nov. 1-2, 2023
Place: Birmingham, UK
Future Labs, Automation and Technology Europe
Date: Dec. 6, 2023
Place: London, UK
Paperless Lab Academy®
Date: Nov. 15-16, 2023
Place: North Carolina, USA
Paperless Lab Academy®
Date: Oct. 10-11, 2023
Place: Hyderabad, India
Future Labs, Automation and Technology West
Date: Nov. 14, 2023
Place: San Diego, USA
Future Labs LIVE Basel 2024
Date: Jun. 26-27, 2024
Place: Basel, Switzerland
ELRIG Drug Discovery 2023
Date: Oct. 18-19, 2023
Place: Liverpool, UK
SiLA workshop at IUTA (Institut für Umwelt & Energie, Technik & Analytik)
Date: Nov. 8, 2023
Place: Duisburg, Germany
BioTechX
Date: Oct. 4-6, 2023
Place: Basel, CH
BioTechX
Date: Oct. 4-6, 2023
Place: Basel, CHF
Lab of the Future Europe
Date: Sept. 26-27, 2023
Place: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Robotics-4-Labautomation Symposium, BioLAGO
Date: May 25, 2023
Place: Konstanz, Germany
PDA Robotics & Automation Conference 2023
Date: May 3-4, 2023
Place: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
FutureLABS Live EU
Date: May 31- Jun. 2, 2023
Place: Basel, CH
BioIT US 2023
Date: May 16-18, 2023
Place: virtual / Boston, USA
Pharma Automation & Robotics 2023
Date: Apr. 20-21, 2023
Place: London, UK
IQPC smart Lab
Date: Mar. 22-23, 2023
Place: San Diego, USA
SLAS 2023
Date: Feb. 26 - Mar. 1, 2023
Place: San Diego, USA
IQPC smart Lab EU
Date: Feb. 22-23, 2023
Place: Amsterdam, NL
Future Labs LIVE US
Date: Nov. 15-16, 2022
Place: N.Carolina USA
BioIT Europe
Date: Oct. 19-20, 2022
Place: Berlin, Germany
Lab of the Future
Date: Oct. 4-5, 2022
Place: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
BioTechX Congress
Date: Nov. 9, 2022
Place: Basel , CH
ELRIG UK / SiLA hackathon
Date: Oct. 3, 2022
Place: London, UK
SiLA Academic User Conference #2
Date: Mar. 31, 2022
Place: Virtual
Lab of the Future
Date: Oct. 26-27, 2021
Place: virtual
SiLA Academic User Conference #1
Date: Nov. 11, 2021
Place: virtual
Pistoia Alliance Webinar
Date: Sept. 9, 2021
Place: virtual
smartLAB connects
Date: Sept. 9, 2021
Place: virtual
BioSASH hackathon #2
Date: Oct. 14, 2021
Place: virtual
SmartLab IQPC
Date: Aug. 25-26, 2021
Place: virtual
BioSASH Hackathon #1
Date: Jun. 17, 2021
Place: virtual
SiLA User Conference
Date: Jun. 8, 2021
Place: virtual
Future Labs LIVE
Date: Jun. 21-22, 2021
Place: vitual
ACHEMA PULSE
Date: Jun. 15-16, 2021
Place: virtual
Lab of the Future
Date: Apr. 13-14, 2021
Place: virtual
PSIS workshop: Organ on Chip
Date: Apr. 28-29, 2021
Place: virtual
SmartLab exchange
Date: Jan. 27, 2021
Place: virtual
SLAS2021 digital
Date: Jan. 25-27, 2021
Place: virtual
Future Labs Live
Date: Nov. 17, 2020
Place: virtual
Future Labs Live
Date: Aug, 13, 2020
Place: virtual
Future Labs Live
Date: Jul, 22, 2020
Place: virtual
Smartlab Exchange for R&D
Date: Aug, 26, 2020
Place: virtual
Future Labs Live
Date: Sept, 28 - 29, 2020
Place: virtual
Lab of the Future USA Congress
Date: May, 19-20, 2020
Place: Boston, USA
Analytica 2020
Date: Oct. 19 - 22, 2020
Place: Munich, Germany and virtual
SLAS 2020
Date: Jan, 25-29, 2020
Place: San Diego, USA
SiLA Hackathon
Date: Oct. 13, 2020
Place: Tecan Wiesbaden, Mainz, Germany
SiLA Hackathon
Date: Sept, 9, 2020
Place: Sartorius, Göttingen, Germany
SiLA Hackathon #19
Date: Mar, 6, 2020
Place: TU Berlin, Germany
SiLA hackathon #18
Date: Nov 7
Place: MIF, Liverpool, UK
SmartLab Network
Date: Nov 6
Place: IUTA Duisburg, Germany
SiLA Conference 2019
Date: Sept, 24
Place: Basel
Lab of the Future 2019
Date: Nov, 13-14
Place: Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK
SiLA Hackathon (kindly sponsored by Tecan)
Date: Sept, 20
Place: Wiesbaden, Germany
LIMS-Forum
Date: Oct, 22-23
Place: Jülich, Germany
BioLAGO joint hackathon workshop with SiLA and AnIML
Date: Jul, 4
Place: Konstanz, Germany
SiLA hackathon #14
Date: Jun, 14
Place: Berlin, Germany
ELRIG UK 2019
Date: Nov, 5-6
Place: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Labvolution 2019
Date: May, 21-23
Place: Hannover, Germany
SSLA 2019
Date: Mar, 14
Place: Rapperswil, Switzerland
Pittcon 2019
Date: Mar, 16-19
Place: Philadelphia, USA
SmartLab Exchange 2019
Date: Feb, 27-28, 2019
Place: Berlin, Germany
SLAS 2019
Date: Feb, 2-6, 2019
Place: Washington, DC..
MipTec / BaselLife 2018
Date: Sept, 11-14, 2018
Place: Basel, Switzerland
SLASeurope Brussels 2018
Date: Jun, 27-29, 2018
Place: Brussels
ELRIG UK 2018
Date: Oct, 9-10, 2018
Place: London, United Kingdom
Paperless Lab Academy 2018
Date: Mar 20-21, 2018
Place: Milano, Italy
SiLA Conference 2018: Cloud Labs
Date: Sept 3, 2018
Place: MipTec, Basel
SLAS 2018
Date: Feb 3-7, 2018
Place: San Diego, CA
Global Pharma R&D informatics Congress 2017
Date: Nov 30-Dec 1, 2017
Place: Lisbon, Portugal
SmartLab Exchange US 2018
Date: Feb 20-21, 2018
Place: San Diego, CA, USA
SmartLab Exchange Europe 2017
Date: Feb 7-8, 2017
Place: Berlin, Germany
SLAS 2017
Date: Feb 4-8, 2017
Place: Washington, DC, USA
ELRIG France 2018
Date: May, 23-24, 2018
Place: Strasbourg, France