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Apply to Speak: Research Facilities 2026

Speaking Applications Due by Oct 31, 2025

This is Tradeline’s 45th annual conference examining the continually evolving designs, planning models, and space metrics for labs, cores, scale-up space, and manufacturing facilities for research organizations.

PRESENTATION OBJECTIVES

  • Facilities for prototyping, testing, scaling, and manufacturing of new discoveries
  • Space plans for the new research environment: Multi-disciplinary teams, AI, and equipment-driven programs
  • Research facility features for attracting and retaining top talent
  • The latest facility flexibility, modularity, and adaptability solutions
  • New metrics for scientific work environments: offices, bench, cores, support space
  • Solutions for improving space utilization, productivity, and operating cost
  • Renovation, repurposing, and new construction strategies and costs
  • Strategic planning for research facilities to reflect changing priorities and funding models

All stakeholders interested in speaking at this conference are tasked to demonstrate innovative ideas, models, and/or solutions using one or more of the elements below, or your own creative new concepts, to address the objectives above:

  • New space plans, metrics, and layouts for labs, offices, cores, and support space
  • The latest discovery scale-up and manufacturing facility models
  • Flexibility, adaptability, and scalability for new research programs and priorities
  • Space management and allocation policies for higher utilization
  • Adaptive reuse models and examples
  • Workplace strategies for modern scientific work environments
  • Impacts of AI and automation on lab space and use
  • Construction costs and budgets
  • Decision-making criteria for renovation, repurposing, or building new
  • High-demand research space: robotics, computational, infectious disease, batteries, renewable energy
  • New standards for “wet” bench space: smaller modules, shared benches
  • Flexible assignment of resources
  • Collaborative space: What is working, and what is not
  • Planning for increased computational space: plans, metrics, and location
  • Centralized lab facilities for reduced cost and maximum space utilization
  • Mixed-discipline research space plans
  • Reassigning space to more productive programs
  • Trends and metrics for support space: types, adjacencies, and quantity
  • Lab equipment and furniture systems that provide modularity
  • Energy efficiency, carbon reduction, and sustainability
  • Building performance criteria
  • New, more cost-efficient MEP systems
  • Modular and prefabricated design and construction solutions
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Speaking Application

Type of Presentation

Guest Speaker Presentation

If you represent an owner/end-user organization and your abstract is selected for a 25-minute Guest Speaker presentation is accepted, your registration fees are complimentary and travel reimbursement may be available. This type of presentation is limited to owner/end-user representatives only (maximum two speakers).

Breakout Session Presentation

If you are from an A/E/C, Consultant, Vendor, or Service Provider:

  • The speaking application process is competitive. Tradeline selects the topics that best meet the audience priorities.
  • If your application is selected there will be a sponsorship fee to secure the speaking spot: 
    ​$8,000 if Tradeline selects the topic to be presented twice (once on each day of the conference)
    $6,000 if selected for a one-time presentation
    (Breakout sessions are presented concurrently, so presenting twice allows participants two opportunities to attend, typically leading to a larger total audience.)
  • In addition you will need to register each speaker at the discounted rate of $2,200 per speaker (minimum one speaker and maximum four speakers).
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