From Islands of Automation to One Digital Lab (Open Day Workshop around future labs)

Where: Chemspeed Technologies, Woelferstrasse 8, 4414 Füllinsdorf, CH

When: 15:30 - 19:00 CEST, 28. May 2026

This workshop reimagines lab automation in a way that defragments islands of automation into a cohesive, interconnected experience, configured and executed from within the Scientist's own planning context. Led by Shaun Latham, Raminta Kaleinikaite and Aleksandra Szczesniak, it will show how workflows which span previously fragmented planning, processing and automation platforms can be configured and orchestrated from within your existing planning tool of choice: you plan the day, press go and wait for your results to return. Behind the scenes, ZONTAL acts as a global orchestrator, integrating devices and software, executing workflows across multiple regional and local islands of automation; all the while automatically capturing, standardising and contextualizing data with centrally governed access, archival, retention and GxP data management. Chemspeed prepares samples, Bruker instruments run, samples are analysed using SciY solutions, then results are documented automatically for review. The outcome: a holistic integrated solution removing fragmented islands of automation in favour of simplicity, intrinsic FAIR and GxP practices, and a truly automated digital lab.

Chemspeed Open Day Overview:

15:30 – Arrival and registration
16:00 – Lab demo 
16:45 – Company tour 
17:30 – Chemspeed presentation and Wrap-up 
18:00 – Apero