欧洲实验室及设备展览会（LABVOLUTION）与生物技术和生命科学博览会（BIOTECHNICA）是欧洲创新实验室设备展览会与欧洲第一大生物技术和生命科学与技术实验室博览会同期举行的专业贸易展，BIOTECHNICA是欧洲最大的生物技术展览会，LABVOLUTION是实验室工作流程优化 - 呈现出无与伦比的广泛的产品和服务。该展两年一届，在德国汉诺威展览中心举行。BIOTECHNICA展覆盖了所有的生物技术领域–从基础生物技术、生物信息分析、产品和服务到五大应用领域–药品医学、工业、营养学、农业和环境。
主办方将生命科学活动展（BIOTECHNICA）与实验室设备展（LABVOLUTION）一起举办，结合两个贸易展览不仅仅是展品范围扩大，它更为访客创造了真正的附加值。一方面，有一个新的LABVOLUTION展，其显示的实验室技术为一系列用户行业和有远见的智能实验室特殊显示。另外还有BIOTECHNICA，以其骄傲的30多年历史，成为欧洲研究、生命科学和生物技术领域的领先盛事。
LABVOLUTION是全球领先的实验室技术和设备国际贸易展会，其所有形状和形式，重点是创新产品和服务“实验室4.0”和数字化。其展览部分涵盖所 有类型实验室的技术，设备和基础设施 - 研究，分析，生产和教学。 来自世界各地的公司前往LABVOLUTION与北欧的实验室技术客户开展业务。
通过LABVOLUTION，组合事件提供了所有最新的创新实验室产品和当前最佳实践，以及跨多个行业价值链整体追踪实验室技术。而且感谢BIOTECHNICA展会在研究上非常强大。 BIOTECHNICA是科学与研发社区和生物技术公司将现有的研究成果和应用从多个领域提供给个人化医学，工业生物技术和诊断领域。
BIOTECHNICA与LABVOLUTION是一个完全一体化的活动，为实验室世界的所有方面提供了多学科的观点。由于广泛的覆盖范围和观众抢手的亮点，如smartLAB专用显示屏，它是北欧领先的分析，实验室技术和生物技术业务平台。
BIOTECHNICA展示范围：农业技术应用，生物工程，生物信息学/服务，环境应用，农业生物设备，营养技术应用，药品和医疗应用。BIOTECHNICA观众群体：展会目标是成为技术提供者和使用者见面及讨论新的技术与科学发现。个性化医药技术将吸引诊断和治疗，科研院所，大专院校，制药/生物制药行业，产业诊断，生物库和实验室等研发。
展品范围(Show Products):
生物过程工程，生物信息学，生物分析，生物技术服务，应用制药、诊断、生物医学，营养学应用，农业学应用，工业生物技术的应用，环境应用，海洋生物技术的应用，转基因动物， 一般生物制品（酶，蛋白质，精细化工）。
智能实验室：创新的实验室技术，包括相关的智能应用和解决方案，实验室安装和设备的智能规划和设计，简化实验室程序和文件，优化质量和效率，提高过程可靠性，实验室整个价值链概述。
展会报告(Show Reports):
2021 smartLAB connects impresses with successful premiere
Hanover. Germany. Compact, efficient and informative: the premiere of smartLAB connects ended on Wednesday with a positive response. The two-day LABVOLUTION digital conference brought together more than 60 international experts from science, industry and politics to discuss new solutions and process technologies for the laboratory and life sciences sector.
More than 700 participants took the opportunity to take part in knowledge transfer and network with the laboratory industry. The presentations and discussions gave important impetus to the dialogue on the key topics of digitalization, sustainability and pandemics. The online event was hosted in place of the LABVOLUTION laboratory technology fair, which had to be cancelled due to the developments surrounding Covid-19.
"We are very pleased that so many highly qualified speakers and participants followed our digital alternative concept and exchanged ideas on the online platform," said Bernd Heinold, project manager smartLAB connects. "In the future, we will therefore also offer a digital conference in addition to the classic LABVOLUTION trade fair forma."
In the lectures and talk rounds, the speakers dealt in particular with the topics of new paths for drug/vaccine development, laboratory automation and digitalisation, as well as sustainability in laboratories and life science companies. Further education and training for technical employees and laboratory assistants was also on the agenda. New paths for active substance/vaccine development
A highlight of the digital conference was the block of lectures by acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering, which offered exciting topics on active substance/vaccine development, production and logistics. "Corona as a driver for new paths in active ingredient development and production in Europe" was the general headline of the lectures by Dr. Stefan Oschmann, Vice President at acatech and former CEO of Merck, Prof. Dr. Oscar-Werner Reif from Sartorius, Dr. Frank Lammers from Sanofi Aventis, Dr. Barbara Holtz from Dassault Systèmes and Prof. Dr. Nils Hoppe from Leibniz Universität Hannover.
They discussed lessons learned from the pandemic and identified fields of action for the future. Host Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheper, spokesperson of the acatech Biotechnology Topic Network, summarized: "The biotech industry has impressively demonstrated what it is capable of in the Corona pandemic".
Equally interesting was the science symposium organized by BIOspektrum and the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM), the German Society for Toxicology (GT) and the Society for Genetics (GfG). The agenda included current approaches to vaccines and the use of artificial intelligence in pandemics.
What are the lessons from the pandemic? What impact will they have on research and industry? These questions were addressed by Dr Thorsten Teutenberg, Division Director, Institute for Energy and Environmental Technology e. V. (IUTA) e.V., Prof. Dr. Thomas Bosch, Director of the Zoological Institute, University of Kiel, and Dr. Harald Meyer, Managing Director, YMC Europe, during a panel discussion organized by Wiley. Laboratory automation and digitalization
Under the umbrella of smartLAB connects, the AnalytikTag of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Technology e. V. (IUTA) also took place. Everything there revolved around "Flexible laboratory automation and digitalization". A panel discussion with experts on the topic of "Standards and interfaces: how far away are we from the laboratory of the future?
The initiative link_the_lab, which was newly founded just a few months ago, was integrated into the conference programme of smartLAB connects on the first day of the event. As part of a live demonstration from labforward's new Connectivity Space in Berlin, users were given an interactive tour of the smart lab. Exciting highlights included wirelessly linked multi-sensor technology, Al-controlled collaborative robotics, devices from different manufacturers that communicate with each other, and workflow management. Intelligent hazardous materials management and insights into working with SiLA were also discussed. Sustainability in laboratories and life sciences companies
The Sustainability Day showed the wide range of sustainability topics in the life sciences sector. "In many presentations, solutions were presented on how, for example, plastic consumption can be reduced or methods optimized in terms of lower resource consumption," said Dr. Kerstin Hermuth-Kleinschmidt, NIUB Sustainability Consulting. "However, the challenges that users and companies have to face also became clear - and here it was emphasized how important knowledge (exchange) and cooperation are in order to develop solutions together. This also shows how important new formats like the smartLABconnects are to serve as an exchange, knowledge and information platform for the laboratory and life sciences sector." Continuing education and training for technical employees and laboratory assistants
Further education and training was the central theme of the activities of the Gläsernes Labor Akademie from Berlin, which organizes digital Laboratory 4.0 workshops for technical employees and laboratory technicians in the life sciences. The programme, which focused on digitalization, automation and miniaturization, offered sessions on topics such as "Paperless research documentation with the electronic lab book" or "Next Generation Sequencing".
Traditionally, the Wissenschaftlerkreis Grüne Gentechnik e. V. was featured, this time with a session on genome editing. Among others, Dr. Tobias Brügmann from the Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics (vTI), Prof. Dr. Christian Jung from the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and Prof. Dr. Klaus Jany (WGG) reported on the possibilities of genome editing to meet future challenges in plant breeding and illustrated corresponding objectives with concrete projects.
The next LABVOLUTION will be held from 9 to 11 May 2023 at the Hannover Exhibition Centre.
