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Make your first Lab Design Conference count.
Your first Lab Design Conference is an opportunity to step outside your usual circle and experience laboratory design from entirely new perspectives.
Explore remarkable projects. Step inside real laboratories. Meet the people shaping the industry. Discover solutions you haven’t encountered before. And return home with ideas and connections that can influence what you do next.
Four days. Countless ways to experience them.
The Lab Design Conference isn’t an experience you have from one seat.
Your time in Dallas can take you from an inspiring project presentation to a conversation with someone tackling the same challenge, from the exhibit floor to an exclusive lab tour, and from discovering a new technology to finding an idea you can’t wait to bring back to your team.
LEARN
Explore real laboratory projects, hear directly from the teams behind them, and discover the challenges, decisions, and lessons that shaped their success.
EXPERIENCE
Go beyond the presentations with workshops and exclusive behind-the-scenes lab tours.
DISCOVERY
Follow the Innovation Trail to discover technologies, products, and expertise that address your laboratory challenges and connect with solution providers.
CONNECT
Meet scientists, laboratory leaders, architects, engineers, planners, builders, and solution providers from across the laboratory community.
Build your own conference experience
There’s no single way to experience the Lab Design Conference—and that’s the point.
You may arrive looking for ideas for an active project, searching for a solution to a specific challenge, thinking ahead to the challenges your next project may bring, or simply wanting to see how others are designing, building, and adapting their labs.
Start with what matters most to you.
Review the agenda and identify the sessions and projects you don’t want to miss. Explore the Innovation Trail based on the challenges you’re trying to solve. Make room for conversations between sessions. And if exclusive lab tours or workshops are part of your plans, build them into your experience early.
Just don’t schedule every minute.
Some of the best discoveries happen when you leave room for the unexpected. Allow time for a meaningful, unexpected conversation.
the Innovation Trail
Know where to look.
A busy exhibit environment can be difficult to navigate when you don’t know where to begin. The Innovation Trail gives you a starting point.
Exhibiting partners are organized into solution categories so you can quickly identify the companies, technologies, and expertise most relevant to your priorities.
Choose the solution paths that align with the challenges you’re working to solve, look for corresponding markers throughout the exhibit experience, and use Solution Spotlights to get a quick introduction to select ideas and technologies before deciding where you want to go deeper.
Instead of trying to see everything, you can focus your time on discovering what matters most to you.
Step outside your usual circle
The person you need to meet may work in an entirely different part of the industry.
One of the greatest advantages of the Lab Design Conference is the range of expertise gathered in one place.
If you’re an architect, talk to the scientists and laboratory leaders who use these environments every day. If you work in a laboratory, introduce yourself to the people designing and engineering the next generation of spaces. If you’re managing a project, seek out someone who has already tackled a challenge you’re facing.
And don’t be afraid to continue the conversation after a session. Speakers, fellow attendees, and industry partners are all part of the experience.
The more perspectives you seek out, the more valuable your four days become.
FIRST-TIME ATTENDEE TIPS
Make the most of your first conference
Arrive with questions.
Know the projects, problems, or decisions you want fresh perspectives on. They can become natural conversation starters throughout the conference.
Look beyond your discipline.
Some of the most useful ideas may come from people who approach laboratories from a completely different perspective than you do.
Ask how—and why.
Don’t just admire a project or solution. Find out why decisions were made, what challenges emerged, and what the team learned along the way.
Leave room for the unexpected.
Give yourself time to continue a conversation, explore the Innovation Trail, or follow an idea you hadn’t planned on finding.
BEFORE YOU ARRIVE
Plan your time in Dallas
Get the details you need to plan your stay, build your conference experience, and make the most of your time in Dallas.
Venue & Hotel
Find conference hotel information, discounted room rates, and everything you need to plan your stay.
Workshops
Add a focused, interactive learning experience to your conference schedule with a pre-conference workshop.
Lab Tours
Step inside Dallas-area laboratory environments and see design, planning, and operations in action.
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You’ll only be new once.
Your first Lab Design Conference is an opportunity to discover new ideas, build valuable relationships, and see your work from a different perspective. After that, you’re part of a community of people you can keep learning from, talking to, and turning to long after the conference ends.
Come curious. Leave with more than you expected.