As laboratory medicine continues to advance, many of this year's conversations are shifting from scientific possibility to operational capability.
Every year ADLM brings together the scientists, laboratorians, and innovators helping to shape the future of laboratory medicine. This is where new technologies are introduced, breakthroughs in science are shared, and the challenges and opportunities ahead are considered, debated, and advanced.
This year, alongside conversations about AI, personalized medicine, the challenges and potential of data, and new analytical applications and technologies, we’re expecting another important conversation to gain momentum.
How do laboratories operationalize increasingly complex science, expand testing capabilities, and elevate their role in patient care while preserving the repeatable accuracy that modern diagnostics demands, across people, instruments, workflows, and sites?
Why We’re Excited About ADLM 2026
We believe some of the most important conversations this year won’t be only about scientific potential, they’ll also be about how we’re working to make that potential operationally possible. For us, these are the conversations that are especially meaningful.
Since our founding and that very first challenge to help a customer confidently operationalize a new diagnostic test, we’ve been helping laboratories automate high-complexity analytical decisions, standardize their expertise, and strengthen their quality oversight. Whether the work is solving for continuously expanding complexity or preparing for advancing regulatory rigor or fostering collaboration and continuous improvement, we’ve been working on what that looks like from a capabilities, operational, and infrastructure perspective from the beginning.
Figure 1: As laboratory complexity increases, the conversation is expanding from managing individual workflows to continuously improving analytical operations.
Starting with critically important activities surrounding the release of individual batches via primary workflows and related automation efforts, we’ve worked alongside leading laboratories to understand how analytical operations themselves must evolve. Together, we’ve explored how laboratory practices, operational capabilities, and enabling technologies must advance, not only to address today’s complexity, but to prepare laboratories for what’s next.
We Hope You’ll Join Us
Educational Workshop: Beyond Rules-Based, Review-by-Exception
Led by Jim Edwards, EVP and Chief Product Officer, our ADLM workshop explores how laboratories are responding to increasing scientific and operational complexity by building more governed, connected, and continuously improving analytical operations.
Through practical examples and discussion, attendees will explore topics
including review-by-exception, quality oversight, operational visibility, longitudinal data, and the evolving capabilities laboratories are using to support increasingly sophisticated testing.
Jim Edwards
EVP and Chief Product Officer at Indigo BioAutomation
Inaugural ASCENT® User Group
ADLM 2026 marks the launch of our ASCENT User Group. As we collectively look to build new operational capacity and capabilities, we believe learning from one another is one of our most valuable tools for continuous improvement. Designed as a collaborative discussion among ASCENT users and operational leaders, the session provides an opportunity to exchange experiences, share practical approaches, discuss emerging challenges, and help shape the future of analytical operations together.
Visit Us at Booth #2423
Throughout the conference, our team will be available at Booth #2423 to discuss the operational challenges laboratories are navigating today, demonstrate the latest advancements across ASCENT® and ARQ®, our software for governed LC/GC-MS/MS and q/RT-PCR workflows and explore practical approaches for building more scalable, visible, and continuously improving laboratory operations.
Whether you’re exploring review-by-exception for the first time, expanding quality oversight, or thinking about how analytical and operational data can support future optimization, we’d welcome the opportunity to talk.
Join Us for Key Events
Beyond our own Indigo Workshop and ASCENT User Group, we’re proud to continue supporting ADLM programs that bring the laboratory community together around some of the most important conversations shaping the future. These events reflect something we value deeply, that is that meaningful progress happens when scientific innovation, operational experience, and community come together.
Data Science Symposium
As a sponsor of the Data Science Symposium, we’re excited to support the discussions and shared learning regarding how data science, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics are transforming laboratory medicine and creating new opportunities for clinical and operational insight. Find out more here.
INT-Spectacular
We’re also proud to once again support INT-Spectacular, a long-standing ADLM tradition celebrating innovation, education, and the collaborative spirit of the analytical sciences community. Find out more here.
Looking Ahead
For us, looking beyond the batch is about ensuring laboratories have the operational and technological capabilities to translate increasingly sophisticated science into trusted, consistent, scalable, and repeatable patient care. ADLM provides an opportunity to learn from one another, challenge our assumptions, share experiences, and collectively shape what comes next for laboratory medicine.
We hope you’ll join us in Anaheim.
