Discussions at the 12th edition of the PLA® Conference Europe 2025

The PLA® Conference is pleased to announce its 12th European edition, which will take place on 18 and 19 March 2025 in the city of Milan, Italy, at the Hotel NH Milano 2.

The conference is the place to be for anyone thinking of implementing, consolidating, integrating, simplifying digital processes in their labs, and improving data-driven decisions. Data, Processes, People, Technology, and Compliance are the backbone of the program of each edition.

A two-day event that includes:

– Plenary talks and panel discussions

from industry leaders who share their visions and use cases, explain their strategies for tackling a specific project and share their lessons learnt along the way.

– Product deep dive and Interactive  workshops

where our sponsors present their latest solutions and their subject matter experts share their experience and knowledge on specific topics.

– Networking at the Exhibition Hall

a true showcase with high-quality networking opportunities to gather in-depth information with colleagues, speakers, and vendors.

A unique opportunity only possible thanks to  the support of the PLA® partners. More than 60 solution and service providers sponsoring all editions around the globe since 2012.

The project was launched in Europe in 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for discussion that ensures a collaborative atmosphere between suppliers and visitors.

The PLA® conference program is intended for managers and executives from R&D, QC, OpEx, IT and QA departments in the bio/pharma, cosmetics, biotechnology, service labs, chemicals, consumer goods, food and beverage sectors.

In 2023, a long-standing project that had unfortunately been delayed by the pandemic was finally realised. The PLA® conferences are now present in Europe, India, and the United States. The 2023 editions proved to be strong and robust. The programs addressed the challenges of successfully implementing digital lab transformation initiatives. The discussions aimed to question some paradigms and encourage the shift from an application-centric mindset to a digital one,” comments Isabel Muñoz-Willery, Event Director at Paperless Lab Academy®

Free Registration now open

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Discussions at the 11th edition of the Paperless Lab Academy® Conference Europe

The PLA® Conference is pleased to announce its 11th European edition, which will take place on 12 and 13 March 2024 in the city of Milan, Italy, at the Hotel Meliá Milano.

The conference is the place to be for anyone thinking of implementing, consolidating, integrating, simplifying digital processes in their labs, and improving data-driven decisions. Data, Processes, People, Technology, and Compliance are the backbone of the program of each edition.

A two-day event that includes:

– Plenary talks and panel discussions

from industry leaders who share their visions and use cases, explain their strategies for tackling a specific project and share their lessons learnt along the way.

– Product deep dive workshops

where our sponsors present their latest solutions and their subject matter experts share their experience and knowledge on specific topics.

– Networking in the Exhibition Hall

a true showcase with high-quality networking opportunities to gather in-depth information with colleagues, speakers, and vendors.

– Deep Dive Workshops

to deepen knowledge on specific topics.

A unique opportunity that is only possible with the support of the PLA® partners. More than 60 solution and service providers sponsoring all editions around the globe.

The project was launched in Europe in 2012 with the aim of creating a platform for discussion that ensures a collaborative atmosphere between suppliers and visitors. The PLA conference program is intended for managers and executives from R&D, QC, OpEx, IT and QA departments in the bio/pharma, cosmetics, biotechnology, service labs, chemicals, consumer goods, food and beverage sectors.

In 2023, a long-standing project that had unfortunately been delayed by the pandemic was finally realised. The PLA® conferences are now present in Europe, India, and the United States. The 2023 editions proved to be strong and robust. The programs addressed the challenges of successfully implementing digital lab transformation initiatives. The discussions aimed to question some paradigms and encourage the shift from an application-centric mindset to a digital one,” comments Isabel Muñoz-Willery, Event Director at Paperless Lab Academy®

In 2024, the PLA® Conferences return with their 11th European edition, their 5th in India and their second in the USA.

Join the discussions!

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The Paperless Lab Academy® project, launched in 2013 with the aim of creating an ideal learning platform for those thinking about consolidating, integrating, and simplifying scientific data management systems, is now the annual congress to attend to stay up to date about digital transformation of the laboratory and quality processes.

At Paperless Lab Academy®, we believe that discussions should be accessible to everyone, regardless of their experience. Therefore, we make sure that the sessions provide enough background knowledge and clear use cases for a good understanding and full benefit of the audience. For this reason, we look for stories about the implementation of lab informatics,

but most importantly, innovative approaches that we can share.

This 10th edition looks in more detail at the application of artificial intelligence in the GXP environment and cybersecurity in the life science industry, as well as the automation of QC processes and the projects of global implementation scale…

“I like participating in the PLA because I know I can anticipate what we will be discussing inmy company in the coming months” Head of Quality Control, European pharmaceutical company.

Last but not least, the Paperless Lab Academy® would not be possible without its partners, who support each edition and total more than 60 solution and service providers from all editions. They complement the programme with sponsored workshops where their subject matter experts share their knowledge and vision of the industry and present their latest solutions to address specific requirements.

“I am impressed by how the Paperless Lab Academy® event has grown year over year. It is for me an authoritative source of information that helps me stay current with market trends and anything that matters in the industry, not to mention the excellent networking opportunities. I found it particularly remarkable for the breadth of topics in the agenda and the quality of the presentations: I am very pleased to see that sessions provided by sponsors, far from being pure sales pitches, provided very useful context and insight on the industry and the market vendors’ ecosystem” Head of Global Laboratory Execution, Boehringer Ingelheim

Who benefits from the Paperless Lab Academy®

PLA is held annually and is aimed at directors and managers of research and development, operational excellence, quality, and IT departments in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, biotechnology, petrochemical, chemical, food and beverage, consumer goods and service laboratory markets.

About the Paperless Lab Academy®

The Paperless Lab Academy® is owned and organised by NL42 consulting, an independent consultancy whose services focus on the digitalisation of laboratory and quality processes. The team combines expertise, technical know-how, international networking in the laboratory informatics industry and a deep understanding of laboratory workflows

Registrations and programs are available www.paperlesslabacademy.com

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Among all the feedback from participants, visitors, exhibitors and speakers, the return to a face-to-face event was the most redundant and a certain atmosphere of fun and party was in the air over the 2 days, especially at the cocktail session where everyone could enjoy the very nice weather and location @Gran Hotel dino in Baveno on Lake Maggiore.

As promised, discussions on digital data management along the entire data lifecycle were on the agenda. As always, the Premium and Gold sponsors presented their latest solutions in their workshops.

See how it went !

See you at the #PLA2023Europe, April 18 & 19, 2023 – Lake Maggiore, Italy

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Think big, go small[er]! 

Discover what we have put down for you at the #PLA2022Europe:

Digital Data Management discussions at the live edition

We thank the Sponsors of this edition that make it possible

Free Registration to Visitors 

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While we are all missing the human interactions and the nice places to visit, that Live events provide, there is a certain list of benefits attending online events to be fair.

Not that we are pretending diminished the live experiences, yet looking for the positive side of the actual situation.

At the Paperless Lab Academy , when we recovered from the emotional impact of having to cancel the 2020 European edition last April and when we figured out how to manage the financial risks, we found the energy to reinvent ourselves and invest it into organising our very first online edition that by the way was our very first edition in India. I believe we get the best out of us when overcoming challenges.

This initiative requires the selection of a virtual event platform and as per any software selection, we applied our rules:

• SMART objectives ( Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely)
• Clear requirements definition from user, business and technical point of view
• Request for proposal to provider and objective evaluation of their answers
• Demonstration fase
• Longterm Contractual commitment

By achieving the selection, implementation and validation of the best fit to purpose software, we ended up with a solution that could support the quality requirements and the reputation of the Paperless Lab Academy editions.

The outcome and the feedbacks of the first PLA virtual edition confirm that the experience is worth, marking the event in your agenda and make some time to benefit its content.

1) Benefit of attending the Paperless Lab Academy 2021 Europe online: Easy access to valuable content

The event platform offers  2 type access. Via browser on your desktop and by installing the App on your smartphone. the presentations are programmed so they go live as scheduled, and from then remain available till May 30 for all registrees.

Take the event in your pocket and tuned to through leaders and users presentations, sharing their expertise and experiences along 3 days congress.

2) Benefit of attending the Paperless Lab Academy 2021 Europe online:  The industry offering in your hand

More than 20 solution and services providers from the industry are sponsoring the edition and bringing their latest offering. above all, they bring an immense amount of knowledge and experience from the field. You’ll find none only the big international ones  but also the youngest companies presenting innovative dedicated solutions to your problems.

3) Benefit of attending the Paperless Lab Academy 2021 Europe online: Networking at your own pace

Within the virtual event platform they are multiple options to find the right persons to interact with.

Contact Speakers: While it might be more difficult to approach a great speaker at a coffee break, surrounded by a group of “fans” and “friends”, you can easily find him/her in the speaker list and introduce yourself via chat. I can ensure you they are eager to be contacted and have the opportunity to deep in their presentation. They too miss that interaction, and they will welcome you as never before.

Contact Sponsors: Reluctant to go by the booth in case an aggressive commercial takes you out the little time you have for the coffee break? no shame here, the booth are open anytime for you to access their brochure, product description, view some of their videos… but also contact their representative via chat and also via call when you feel ready and you’re eager to go back human interaction.

Contact Peers: the audience is composed like you of people from the manufacturing industry looking for engaging in high-level debates, learn from others, and refining their ideas. you can din them all in the community corner and contact them on 1o1 basis via chat. yet you can always engage to the whole audience by sharing your thought in the Activity Stream.

4) Benefit of attending the Paperless Lab Academy 2021 Europe online: Learning at your own pace

At the Paperless Lab Academy we aim for facilitating information, if there is one key benefit to remember is the possibility to view and review the multiple presentations that are running in the 3 days congress.  The event platform will remain open till May 30, 2021. so many opportunities to rewind that precise presentation you did not want to miss, that one that brings you so many reflexions, that one that stimulates you to go back to your team and start your digital journey.

Additionally, we had the opportunity to record great presentations for the edition we ran last december and were really glad to inform you that they have agreed to facilitate you access to it.

Beside the 3 day congress you’ll also find more presentations that have been rated top level at the last PLA2020IndiaProgram: Lloyd Colegrove, Mark Newton, Bob McDowall, Andreas Steinle, Sergio Nasi … from Down Chemicals, EliLilly, ISPE, Roche Diagnostics, Boehringer Ingelheim …

5) Benefit of attending the Paperless Lab Academy 2021 Europe online: build your own agenda

The virtual event platform allows you to mark the presentations, workshops you want to attend  and receive notifications, reminders from the App in your smartphone.

From the organisation we have also learn that a simple email at the beginning each day with the highlights of the agenda helps you to organise yourself and prioritise your attention. The slots are 30 min long: just enough to get quality time on the subject without loosing interest and get distracted from emails.

Discover the PLA2021 program

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Paperless Lab Academy® main goal  is to feed the laboratories managers and directors with relevant content to support the digitisation of their analysis and quality processes. PLA aims for providing sound insights on how to build digital transformation strategies and plan for successful implementations, how to drive the change and influence positively the human factor.  Finally, PLA is the platform to meet with industry and the thoughtleaders, discover the latest solutions and find the right partner to collaborate with.

Paperless Lab Academy® had to make a final decision about the 2020 European edition of the congress. When the first signs of the pandemic were tangible in Europe , we thought that postponing our 8^th edition to beginning of June was the right decision. Unfortunately, the evolution of the situation in Italy and the delayed waves of the pandemic reaching the rest of Europe, are forcing us to accept that the new date is not feasible for various obvious reasons.

Given the current circumstances, we have now unfortunately decided to cancel the 2020 European edition.

We would like to welcome all of you in April 27 & 28 2021, in the same venue with even more energy and enthusiasm.

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The Paperless Lab Academy® is where to find the answers to your daily scientific data management concerns. You’ll hear about experiences and strategies implementing paperless processes, about the latest on Lab Informatics and discussions on scientific data management methodologies.

Keynote speakers sharing their digital transformation strategy and experience

The 8th edition offers you a unique panel of keynote speakers, from different industries yet with very same concern about managing their scientific data and extracting the maximum of it. They have confirmed their presence and willingness to share with you their digital project experiences.

https://www.paperlesslabacademy.com/program-2020/

15 interactive workshops from solutions providers sharing their expertise and latest offering 

From Data Insights, Internet of Lab Things #IoLT , Integration of interments #Ioi, Laboratory Digital Tools, Data Integrity, Good Manufacturing Practice, Good Laboratory Practice, Agile Validation, laboratory performance management … 15 sessions that brings you the latest from well known solutions providers as new and innovative companies.

https://www.paperlesslabacademy.com/workshops-pla2020/

A unique pre-congress training opportunity

Understand vendor’s quality process and software design to maximise use of vendor’s quality activities and reduce cost and time to implement and validate systems for internal use in a regulated environment.

https://www.paperlesslabacademy.com/academy-precongress2020workshop/

A 4 hours workshop hold by Mark Newton, principal at Heartland QA, with the objective of:

• Understanding vendors’ quality processes
• Understanding software design
• Maximize the use of vendor’s quality activities
• Reduce implementation & validation costs and time
• Evaluate properly the Risks
• Identify the Low & High risks areas.

Mark is coming over to Europe, he brings more than 35 years experience at Eli Lilly and expertise as co-leader and co-author of multiple GAMP initiatives

More than 20 companies sponsored the edition every year and make possible the free access to visitors from companies that own a laboratory: Laboratory Directors and Managers, Operational Excellence, IT Business Partners, QC, R&D, QA Management and Manufacturing.

Make sure to book your seat at #PLA2020  

Hint! Want to benefit of 15 demos in 2 days? 
Come along with 2 more colleagues and distribute yourselves along the 15 workshops : 3 workshops per session, 5 sessions in 2 days.

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Dopo il grande successo delle prime edizioni, il 3 ottobre 2019 torna il QC Pharma Day, una giornata di grande utilità per quanti vogliono approfondire gli argomenti proposti e che rappresenta un punto di riferimento per le aziende farmaceutiche e chimico-farmaceutiche. Organizato da Quality Systems.

La giornata è dedicata alle ultime novità normative e alle più avanzate tecniche del settore, oltre che alle buone pratiche del Laboratorio QC, affinchè i Responsabili QC possano assicurare il mantenimento di un efficace Sistema di Qualità.

Nella sesione mattutina, nostro CEO, Roberto Castelnovo parlera di Paperless nel lab QC: dall’idea al progetto seguito da una tavola rotonda.

L’agenda del giorno include anche argomenti di interesse come QbD e DoE: applicazioni per il lab QC , I segreti per affrontare OOS e OOT, Aspetti di cleaning in R&D

Vedi Agenda

NL42  offre un coupon di 40% sconto per iscrivervi  

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The Paperless Lab Academy, that just ended the 7th edition of the Congress, is ready to welcome the 8th edition in 2020 and, as many of you may have heard already, it will also introduce the first Asian edition, that will take place after summer 2020 in India.

Hence…the Congress, yes, but not only.

Over the years, Paperless Lab Academy has grown into a real center of education, the “Academy”, as you can tell by the very name, indeed!

Alongside the annual congress, Roberto Castelnovo and I, as organizers of the event, decided to make of PLA a 360° learning platform, with the aim of providing people with training content not only during the days of the event but 365 days a year.

Paperless Lab Academy – the Webinars & the Training courses

In light of what said above, we decided to enrich the Academy with two specific typologies of contents: webinars and training.

Keynote speakers, influencers of the sector as well as Roberto Castelnovo and myself, as domain experts are willing to share their knowledge and experience in order to support companies in the digitalization processes of their laboratories, to keep them up-to-date on innovations, methodologies, trends, and news from the lab informatics industry, to put them in the condition to know the latest state-of-the-art technologies and evolutions.

With reference to the Webinars, we´re already offering sessions from last winter. More recently, on May 8^th,  Mr. Bob McDowall, Director of R D McDowall Limited, offered the participants his 45 years experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry and focused on a hot topic: how a paperless approach can help data integrity in a regulated laboratory.

And for those who still favor human contact over the online educational sessions? We also thought about this 😉

Congress, webinars, and, last but not least, Training, who are addressed to those who want to benefit from interactive workshops and discuss their own situation.   The training courses of the academy combine theoretical interduction to key concepts and methodologies, as well as on practical applications of what discussed, in order to make them as concrete as possible and get the maximum out of them.

We launched this project on April 8^th, the day before the starting of #PLA2019, with a training hold by Mr. Peter Cohen, principal at Second Derivative, and another one hold by Mr. Roberto Castelnovo, owner and managing director at NL42 Consulting.

The first results were a success: Peter’s training, focusing on “how to deliver an effective Demo”, attracted a good number of solution providers aiming at improving their skills in presenting their software.

Roberto’s training focused on “how to set the stage for a Paperless Transformation of the laboratory processes”: an interesting and interactive session that saw the participation of a large audience among the attendees of the #PLA2019.

The success of this initiative led us to organize more appointments in different countries and in local languages.

Setting the stage for a Paperless Transformation of the Laboratory Processes: the Italian and Spanish appointments.

To all the Italians and Spanish that are interested in the topic, do not miss our next appointments:

June 18^th in Rome

June 19^th in Milan

June 25^th in Madrid

June 26^th in Barcelona

In this session, Roberto Castelnovo will share his professional expertise and experience in driving successful digital projects.

Why attending the Digital Transformation training?

During the training, Roberto will introduce the main concepts related to the digital transformation of the laboratories processes, providing concrete examples on how to prepare the project and successfully implement it. The objectives for the attendees are:

• Improve how project objectives are defined
• Improve the quality of the documentation for the preparation of the project
• Design the best system mapping according to your company’s needs
• Improve how the business case is presented to the company’s management
• Increase the effectiveness of the system selection
• Reduce the implementation risks

With the training, participants (laboratory managers and scientists, IT staff, operational managers and senior managers) will learn how to set the stage for a digital transformation project, define how the software systems should fit into the overall strategy, select the systems that better suit to the company/laboratory needs and design an implementation plan to reduce the related risks.

The training will offer the opportunity to learn the principles on how to design, prepare and implement a digital transformation project for the laboratories. The attendees, therefore, will have the opportunity to discuss concrete scenarios and prepare the ground for the journey to digitization.

A unique occasion to learn more about the topic and benefit from the practical sessions!

Do not miss this opportunity – for more information and for subscriptions, visit https://www.paperlesslabacademy.com/academy-training-digital/

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