Smart Lab Forum: How Far Are We from the 'Smart Laboratory'?

The advancement of digitalization and automation technologies is gradually driving transformation in the healthcare industry. Meanwhile, every segment of the healthcare value chain is being reshaped by these technologies, generating new demands and opportunities, with laboratories serving as a critical setting for this transformation. For the first time, national laboratories have been highlighted as a vital component of China’s strategic scientific and technological capabilities, with requirements to establish and improve a laboratory system led by national laboratories and supported by key national laboratories, while enhancing mechanisms for stable funding support. Concurrently, driven by advances in biotechnology and the normalization of COVID-19 pandemic response, market demand for drug development, biological experimentation, and testing and inspection has surged. Smart laboratories, leveraging 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and big data technologies, are quietly undergoing a profound transformation.

Against this backdrop, the Top 100 Conference has specially established a Smart Laboratory Forum. To gain insights into the current development status and challenges facing China’s smart laboratory sector, and to identify growth opportunities, the forum will invite seasoned investors, industry-leading enterprises, and innovative entrepreneurs to jointly discuss their visions for “Smart Laboratories” and the challenges inherent in their current development.

2023 Future Healthcare Top 100 Conference, hosted by VB100, VCBeat, and Eggshell Research Institute, with strategic partnership support from Shanghai Zhangjiang Group, will be grandly held at the Shanghai Zhangjiang Science Hall from May 5-7, 2023. Led by Academician Robert Langer and IEEE scientists, nearly 500 industry leaders will gather for 3 main forums and 31 hot-topic forums!