MSACL 2026, Indigo Industry Workshop
Join Us For From Instrument Data To Analytical Operation
We’re looking forward to MSACL 2026, October 4 – 9 and joining a community focused on advancing the use of analytical tools and data analytics in the clinical laboratory. This year the Indigo team will be teaching pre-conference Data Science courses, presenting as an invited speaker on AI, and leading an industry workshop on building the governed analytical operations capabilities required to meet the demands of today’s clinical laboratories.
From Instrument Data to Analytical Operations
A Framework for Governed, Scalable Testing Built Around The Result
As clinical mass spectrometry continues to advance, laboratories are being tasked to develop more sophisticated assays, expand multi-analyte panels, and operationalize increasingly complex science across instruments, laboratorians, and sites. At the same time, laboratories are managing growing volumes of analytical data, rapidly advancing capabilities in and expectations for automation and computation, and evolving regulatory demands. This workshop examines the capabilities now required to meet these demands and the building of more connected and governed analytical operations.
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 AM EDT
Location: Montreal 6-8, Hotel Bonaventure
Breakfast provided
Using real-world examples, learning, and results from LC/GC-MS/MS laboratory-developed testing on more than 300 million samples, Indigo EVP and Chief Product Officer, Jim Edwards, will explore the practices and expanded capabilities enabled by Analytical Operations Software™ (AOS), highlighting ASCENT® and its application in complex testing environments. Beginning with trusted review-by-exception, Jim will follow a result from instrument data and analytical evidence through laboratory defined-rules, expert review, intervention, collaboration and shared learning, and ultimately release. The session will then follow the analytical record beyond release, examining how connected evidence, decisions, actions, and data across results, reviewers, instruments and sites can support continuous QC and assay oversight, tracking, longitudinal analysis, and ongoing improvement.
Session Agenda:
• Follow a result end-to-end through a representative large panel, complex LC/GC-MS/MS workflow – from instrument data and analytical evidence through review, decisions, actions, collaboration and release.
• Explore how expertise gets encoded, scaled and continuously improved through laboratory-defined analytical logic, rules-based review, exception handling, expert intervention, and shared learning all captured and connected to the result.
• Follow the analytical record beyond release as evidence, decisions, actions, and collaboration remain connected to the result and become available for QC reporting, assay oversight and change tracking, and longitudinal analysis across batches, instruments and time.
• Connect analytical maturity to laboratory performance by examining how increasingly governed and connected analytical operations support assay and operational optimization, yielding substantive improvement in review time, throughput, samples per reviewer, and overall laboratory capacity.
Who Should Attend
Laboratory directors, mass spectrometry and laboratory informatics leaders, and others responsible for the building and scaling of complex LC/GC-MS/MS operations, particularly those introducing new complex, including large panel, laboratory developed tests (LDTs), those interested in introducing or building upon rules-based review capabilities, and those with multi-instrument and multi-site testing environments.
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Meet your presenter
Jim Edwards
EVP and Chief Product Officer, Indigo BioAutomation
Jim Edwards has spent decades helping moderate- and high-complexity laboratories operationalize increasingly complex analytical workflows. His experience spans laboratory informatics, governed review-by-exception practices, workflow optimization, quality management, operational visibility, and the practical application of technology to support sustainable laboratory growth.
Known for his practical, operationally grounded perspective, Jim works closely with laboratory leaders to translate emerging scientific and operational challenges into scalable workflow capabilities and technology solutions that strengthen quality, consistency, operational confidence, and laboratory capacity.
Explore Analytical Operations Software™ (AOS)
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About Indigo BioAutomation
Indigo BioAutomation develops Analytical Operations Software (AOS) that helps laboratories embrace complexity, streamline control and scale impact across modern diagnostics. Built on a purpose-designed technology infrastructure, Indigo software helps laboratory teams connect analytical data, decisions and operations to automate workflows, govern analytical processes, and continuously improve laboratory performance.
Developed under an ISO 13485:2016 certified Quality Management System, Indigo's software is trusted by leading clinical and forensic laboratories and diagnostic organizations in the processing of 1.5 million samples and more than 90 million traces, on average, each week.