WHERE LAB LEADERS CONNECT
2027 Lab Manager
Leadership Summit
Run your lab like a business—with practical strategies for leading people, improving operations, and driving organizational success.
Why Attend
Built for the people who
run the lab
The premier leadership conference for lab managers, directors, and scientific leaders across clinical, forensic, environmental, food & beverage, pharmaceutical, and life science fields.
Elevate your leadership
New strategies to lead your team—whether you’re newly promoted or a seasoned director.
Expand your network
Connect with peers facing the same operational, regulatory, and people challenges as you.
Solve real problems
Hands-on workshops, roundtables, and one-on-ones with product and service experts.
Countdown to the Summit
April 12–14, 2027 · Salt Lake City
These are your people
A community built for laboratory leaders
The Leadership Summit brings together professionals from a wide range of industries, disciplines, and leadership backgrounds.
What connects attendees isn’t the type of laboratory they work in—it’s the responsibility of leading people, improving operations, solving problems, and driving success within their organizations.
Many attendees arrive knowing no one and leave with new professional relationships, trusted peers, and a stronger support network.
- Laboratory managers
- Laboratory directors
- Executives & senior leaders
- Quality professionals
- Safety professionals
- Operations leaders
- Emerging leaders
Designed for learning, connection, and action
What makes the Summit different?
The Leadership Summit is intentionally designed to create meaningful conversations, practical learning, and lasting professional relationships.
Unlike large trade shows, attendees have direct access to speakers, peers, and industry experts throughout the event experience.
Expert-led education
Practical sessions focused on leadership, management, quality, safety, and operations.
Interactive workshops
Hands-on learning experiences that help attendees develop new skills and strategies.
Exclusive lab tour
Go behind the scenes at a leading scientific facility and see innovation in action.
Leadership Excellence Awards
Celebrate the accomplishments of outstanding laboratory leaders.
Explore the exhibit hall
Meet industry partners offering products, services, and solutions designed to support today’s laboratories.
Collaborative learning
Learn from professionals facing many of the same challenges you encounter every day.
Content designed for laboratory leaders
Practical solutions. Meaningful connections.
Topics explored at the Leadership Summit include:
- Effective communication
- Team development
- Strategic planning
- Workforce development
- Change management
- Operational excellence
- Quality improvement
- Safety leadership
- Budgeting & resource management
- Artificial intelligence
- Innovation & future trends
The Summit combines keynote presentations, educational sessions, workshops, lab tours, networking experiences, and peer learning opportunities to create a highly interactive event experience.
You’ll leave with practical ideas you can apply immediately, along with new professional relationships that continue long after the Summit ends.
2026 Recap
Three days. One field. Hundreds of leaders.
The 2026 Lab Manager Leadership Summit brought lab leaders together in Phoenix for keynotes on disruption, workshops on agile budgeting and lab quality, and behind-the-scenes lab tours at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute.
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