THE LAB DESIGN CONFERENCE COMMUNITY
Meet the people behind the laboratory
The Lab Design Conference brings together the people who work in laboratories every day with the professionals who plan, design, engineer, build, equip, and support their environments.
For partners, that creates opportunities to connect with laboratory end users while building relationships across the entire laboratory project lifecycle—all within one highly specialized professional community.
Connect across the laboratory project lifecycle
Different roles. Shared responsibility for what laboratories become.
Laboratory environments aren’t created by one discipline. The Lab Design Conference brings together the people who understand what laboratories need with the professionals who transform those needs into spaces, systems, technologies, and solutions.
Few events bring so many perspectives involved in laboratory environments into the same conversation.
USE & DEFINE
The people who know what laboratories need
Scientists, researchers, laboratory managers, research leaders, and facility professionals bring firsthand knowledge of how laboratories actually operate—what works, what doesn’t, and what their organizations and teams will need next.
DESIGN
The people shaping the solution
Architects, laboratory planners, designers, engineers, and consultants translate scientific, operational, and organizational requirements into laboratory environments built around the work happening inside them.
DELIVER
The people bringing it to life
Project managers, construction professionals, commissioning teams, engineers, and technical specialists turn complex requirements and ambitious designs into functioning laboratory environments.
ENABLE
The people helping laboratories do more
Equipment manufacturers, technology providers, suppliers, and solution specialists bring the products, expertise, and innovations that help laboratories perform, adapt, and evolve.
Leadership is in the room
42% of the 2026 conference community held leadership or management roles
Directors, principals, and management professionals made up more than four in ten professionals represented in 2026—bringing experience leading teams, organizations, projects, and initiatives across the laboratory community.
Insight from inside the lab
Laboratory end users bring the perspective partners want to hear
Scientists, researchers, laboratory managers, research leaders, and facility professionals understand how laboratory environments perform in practice—where workflows break down, what teams need, which challenges remain unsolved, and where new solutions can make a difference.
The Lab Design Conference brings these voices into conversation with the architects, planners, engineers, project teams, and solution providers shaping their environments.
And in 2027, we’re focused on bringing even more laboratory end users into the community—creating more opportunities to exchange ideas, understand real-world needs, and build relationships across the laboratory ecosystem.
The people working inside laboratories belong in the conversations shaping what comes next.
Expertise from across the laboratory community
Because end-user needs don’t become laboratories on their own
The Lab Design Conference also brings together the professionals responsible for turning laboratory needs into functioning environments—from early planning and design through engineering, construction, and project delivery.
18%
Architecture, Design & Laboratory Planning
Architects, laboratory planners, and designers shaping laboratory environments around scientific, technical, and organizational needs.
12%
Engineering, Construction & Project Delivery
Engineers, project managers, construction professionals, and technical specialists responsible for bringing complex laboratory projects to life.
Join a community of leading organizations
From the organizations operating laboratories to the firms helping them build what’s next
Across past Lab Design Conferences, the conference community has included leading healthcare and research institutions, scientific organizations, universities, government organizations, architecture and design firms, engineering organizations, project teams, technology companies, and solution providers.
LABORATORY, RESEARCH & SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS
Mayo Clinic
Johns Hopkins Health System
Exact Sciences
Medtronic
Tulane University
Department of Defense
DESIGN, ENGINEERING & PROJECT ORGANIZATIONS
Gensler
HOK
Perkins&Will
HDR
Arup
Flad Architects
Where disciplines intersect
Different perspectives. One highly focused community.
The organizations may be different. The disciplines may be different. The challenges may be different.
What brings this community together is a shared focus on creating laboratory environments that work better—for the science, the people, and what comes next.
Scientists and laboratory leaders bring the realities of the work. Architects and planners bring ideas for what the environment could become. Engineers and project teams determine how to make it possible. Technology and solution providers introduce new ways to solve the challenges along the way.
At the Lab Design Conference, those perspectives don’t exist in isolation.
They meet in sessions, inside laboratories, throughout the exhibit experience, and in conversations that cross traditional professional boundaries.
For partners, that creates something more valuable than simple exposure: the opportunity to understand what the laboratory community needs—and become part of the conversation about what comes next.
Your audience is here
Who do you want to meet in Dallas?
Scientists. Researchers. Laboratory managers. Research and facility leaders.
The architects, planners, engineers, and project teams shaping their environments.
The companies developing the technologies and solutions helping laboratories do more.
The Lab Design Conference brings these perspectives together inside one highly specialized professional community. The question is how you want to be part of it.