The Scientific Laboratory Show and Conference is back in May, bringing together the industry’s leading brands and professionals for a day of networking, discovery, and knowledge sharing.
Held by Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS) at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, on May 22, 2024, the event boasts a Professional Development Zone offering an array of lectures, workshops, seminars, and masterclasses. This zone will feature demonstrations from brands such as Eppendorf, Corning, Ohaus and Mettler Toledo.
Keynote speakers Helen Czerski, Adam Rutherford, and Robin Ince, will deliver engaging and thought-provoking talks. Helen is a physicist, First and foremost a physicist, Helen has also but she’s acquired the titles of oceanographer, presenter, author, and bubble enthusiast. She has presented BBC science documentaries on various subjects, from everyday physics to atmospheric and ocean science. She is also a regular presenter for the Fully Charged Show, a very familiar face on the Cosmic Shambles Network and hosts the Ocean Matters podcast for the Bertarelli Foundation.
With a background in genetics and evolution, Adam Rutherford did a PhD at the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond St Hospital, studying the role of genes in the development of the eye. He worked as an editor at Nature, launching and presented the award-winning Nature Podcast. Adam is one of BBC Radio 4’s most prominent broadcasters, recently winning the Audio Kavli AAAS Science Journalism Gold Award for his six-part series Bad Blood: The Story of Eugenics,.
Adam also presents Radio 4’s Start the Week and was the host of the BBC’s flagship science programme Inside Science for eight years. His popular series The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry has been on air for a decade. Adam is also a regular guest on Lauren Laverne’s BBC 6 music show, and The Infinite Monkey Cage with Brian Cox and Robin Ince.
Completing the keynote lineup and acting as the show’s MC, is comedian, author, broadcaster and populariser of scientific ideas, Robin Ince. He is best known as the co-host of the Sony Gold Award-winning BBC Radio 4 series The Infinite Monkey Cage. He also co-hosts the podcast Book Shambles with Josie Long as well as An Uncanny Hour and Science Shambles.
All three keynote speakers are a part of The Cosmic Shambles Network, which Robin co-created. Chortle described his most recent book, I’m a Joke and So Are You, as ‘one of the best books ever written about what it means to be a comedian’. He also wrote the book The Bad Book Club.
The conference schedule is complimented with an exhibition hall demonstrating the latest in laboratory instrumentation, technology, and sustainable laboratory solutions. More than 70 exhibitors will showcase the newest products and latest technological advances available to the UK laboratory market.
On the lighter side of the Conference, attendees will be automatically entered into a prize draw for a chance to win £250 in Amazon vouchers, with more prizes up for grabs at the SLS Arcade Olympics. There will also be an opportunity to try virtual reality gaming and sample liquid nitrogen ice cream.
To join us at the Scientific Laboratory Show and Conference 2024, register HERE.
