From research to application – the industry’s marketplace

Since 1968, the analytica trade fair has transformed Munich into the central meeting place for the international laboratory technology, analytics, and biotechnology industries every two years in spring. Analytica is the most important platform for instrumental analytics, diagnostics, measurement and testing technology, and quality control, and has always been more than just an equipment exhibition. From the very beginning, a scientific congress has taken place parallel to the trade fair and under its umbrella. Initially, the "Biochemical Analytics Conference" was Conference , and since 1994, the analytica conference has been organized since 2003 by the Forum Analytik, an association of three scientific societies dedicated to promoting analytics:

 

• 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-oriented component of the world's leading trade fair analytica and offers an interdisciplinary, future-oriented and practice-oriented conference program: from basic research to application-related topics, from instrumental analysis to analysis in life sciences, medicine and biotechnology.

Leading international and global scientists will report on the capabilities of modern methods, where they can be used, and where their limitations lie. All events aim to introduce those interested in analytics to the diversity of methods, procedures, and techniques and stimulate discussion between researchers, practitioners, and device manufacturers. The midday poster sessions, where young researchers primarily present their latest research findings, also encourage exchange and discussion.

The program of the first analytica conference in 1994 already included 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 as a five-track event on the first three days of the trade fair and offers around 190 invited scientific presentations in a total of 45 sessions as well as over 100 posters.