From Research to Application – the Industry Marketplace

Since 1968, the analytica trade fair has transformed the city of Munich every two years in spring into the central meeting place for the international laboratory technology, analytical and biotechnology sectors. analytica is the leading platform for instrumental analysis, diagnostics, measurement and testing technology, as well as quality control, and has always been more than an exhibition of equipment. From the outset, a scientific congress was held in parallel with the trade fair and under its umbrella: initially the “Conference on Biochemical Analysis” and, since 1994, the analytica conference, which has been organised by the Forum Analytik since 2003. The Forum brings together three scientific societies dedicated to promoting analytical science:

• German Chemical Society (GDCh),
• Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) and
• German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL).

The analytica conference is the science-focused component of the world’s leading analytica trade fair and offers an interdisciplinary, forward-looking and practice-oriented conference programme: from basic research to application-oriented topics, from instrumental analysis to analysis in the life sciences, medicine and biotechnology.

International and world-leading scientists report on what modern methods can achieve, where they can be used and where their limitations lie. All events aim to familiarise those interested in analytical science with the diversity of methods, procedures and techniques, and to stimulate dialogue between research, application and equipment manufacturers. The lunchtime poster sessions, at which early-career researchers in particular present current research findings, also invite participants to exchange ideas and engage in discussion.

The programme of the first analytica conference in 1994 already featured neural networks as well as immunoassays in environmental and food analysis. Current highlights include data management, artificial intelligence, the sustainable laboratory and sustainability in the laboratory.

The analytica conference takes place over the first three days of the trade fair as a five-stream event and offers around 190 invited scientific presentations in a total of 45 sessions, as well as more than 100 posters.