Dr. Tanja Musiol, Project Director for Portfolio Management Marketing, Eppendorf AG:

"For our company, smartLAB provides an opportunity to team up with other companies and institutions to present our vision of the lab of the future. The ability to network with other specialists and customers face-to-face supplies us with key input for future projects."

Axel Wechsler, Team Leader for Lab IT, Fraunhofer IPA:

"Digitalization and connectivity in the lab will energize the equipment market and revolutionize lab-based work."

Tobias A. Thiele, Managing Director of Köttermann GmbH & Co KG:

"As a visionary group effort staged by the business and research community, smartLAB represents the ideal platform for consolidating our collective experience and developing future projects on that basis."

Dr. Simon Bungers, Founder and CEO of labfolder GmbH:

"n 2015, smartLAB revealed the high level of interest in research and development geared to digitalizing the laboratory environment. At the same time, it revealed how the participating partners made up a fine team which could handle the demand for innovation. Our aim at smartLAB is to showcase our innovations to win key accounts among large industrial enterprises and public research institutions as well as gain additional cooperation partners in the lab equipment sector."

Alexander Görz, CEO and Co-founder of LUPYLED GmbH:

"For us, smartLAB means hooking up on a peer-to-peer basis with other innovative, agile and far-sighted companies."

Gernot John, Director of Marketing & Innovation, PreSens:

"Until now, PreSens’s innovative measuring technology has been integrated primarily in the production environment. SmartLAB will give us a chance to gear our systems even better to the requirements of lab personnel."

Reinhard Baumfalk, Vice President R&D Instrumentation & Control, Sartorius Group:

"SmartLAB offers us the opportunity to see the latest lab developments up close and stay on the cutting edge."

Dr. Sascha Beutel, Team Leader at the Institute for Technical Chemistry at Leibniz University Hannover:

"For us, smartLAB offers the opportunity to help drive and accelerate the modernization of laboratory infrastructure. As a university institute, we have excellent access to young researchers who voice their expectations and requirements for the future lab environment so it can be tailored to meet the practical needs of the research community."

Thomas Rahn, Business Solution Manager, Zühlke Group:

"SmartLAB brings together all the right partners from the life sciences. Our interdisciplinary cooperation here results in the smart lab technology of the future. What we appreciate about smartLAB is the sharing of practical information among experts."