Deadline Approaching: Share Your Lessons Learned at the 2027 Lab Design Conference

The Lab Design Conference returns May 10-13, 2027, in Dallas, TX, bringing together the professionals who plan, design, build, renovate, and operate today’s laboratory environments.

The Call for Speakers is open through August 21, 2026, and we’re looking for practitioners with real-world experience to help shape the 2027 program.

We’re especially interested in hearing from laboratory end users, facility stakeholders, and project teams. Scientists, lab managers, principal investigators, facility managers, EHS professionals, operations leaders, and other project stakeholders offer perspectives that can’t always be captured in traditional project case studies.

What did you learn from your last laboratory project? What worked—and what didn’t? What challenges did your team encounter with budgets, schedules, stakeholder input, equipment planning, construction, commissioning, or occupancy? And, looking back, what would you do differently?

These are the conversations we want to bring to the Lab Design Conference.

Proposals should be practical, educational, and focused on lessons attendees can apply to their own projects. We welcome sessions on topics including laboratory renovations and new construction, relocations, adaptive reuse, flexibility, sustainability, user engagement, maintaining operations during construction, post-occupancy performance, and unexpected project challenges.

We also encourage collaborative presentations featuring multiple perspectives from the same project. Consider presenting alongside your architect, engineer, laboratory planner, contractor, or owner’s representative to explore how different members of the project team approached the same challenges.

Traditional presentations are welcome, but interactive formats such as roundtables and panel discussions are also encouraged. Sessions that can qualify for AIA Health, Safety, and Welfare (HSW) continuing education credit are particularly encouraged.

If you’ve recently completed a laboratory project—or are currently navigating one—your experience could help another organization make better decisions, avoid common pitfalls, and create a more effective environment for the people who use it every day.

The deadline to submit a proposal is August 21, 2026. Click here to send in your proposal.

We look forward to hearing your ideas and welcoming you to the 26th annual Lab Design Conference in Dallas, May 10-13, 2027. Stay tuned to labdesignconference.com and our LinkedIn page for announcements about the agenda, workshops, lab tours, exhibitor hall, and more!