ASCENT® User Group Breakfast
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
7:00 AM–8:30 AM
Hilton Anaheim | Avila AB
Catered Breakfast
Limited seating
Going Beyond the Batch
Shared Experiences. Shaping What's Next
The inaugural ASCENT User Group is designed to bring our community together to exchange practical experience, discuss emerging challenges, explore advanced capabilities of ASCENT, learn from one another, and strengthen the capabilities and practices that help laboratories build more governed, scalable, and continuously improving analytical operations.
Led by Jim Edwards, EVP and Chief Product Officer at Indigo BioAutomation, the discussion combines Indigo’s experience supporting laboratories in the deployment and advancement of ASCENT with the perspectives and experiences of the ASCENT community. Through practical scenarios and a discussion grounded in real laboratory environments, attendees will explore how leading laboratories are achieving significant results as they scale review-by-exception workflows, strengthen QC visibility, leverage operational data, and build analytical capacity.
User Group attendees will be able to:
• Connect with fellow ASCENT users facing similar operational challenges.
• Exchange practical experience, emerging practices, and lessons learned from real laboratory environments.
• Explore new approaches to workflow scalability, QC visibility, governed review-by-exception, and operational consistency.
• Gain perspective on recent ASCENT advancements and the future direction of Analytical Operations Software.
• Be part of the community shaping the future of Analytical Operations Software.
Attendance is complimentary; however, registration is requested as seating is limited.
Meet your host
Jim Edwards
Executive Vice President & Chief Product Officer | Indigo BioAutomation
Jim Edwards leads partnership and product strategy and innovation for Indigo BioAutomation. Throughout his career, Jim has work with laboratories to improve workflow design, strengthen operational practices, and apply advancement in science and technology in ways that support sustainable growth and foster scientific, quality, and operational confidence.
Working alongside laboratories, technology providers, and with the ASCENT community, Jim has helped organizations operationalize increasingly complex analytical workflows while advancing quality, consistency, scalability, and operational confidence. Known for his practical and operationally grounded perspective, Jim frequently works directly with laboratories and organizations to understand their emerging challenges, identify opportunities for improvement, and help them translate evolving scientific and operational needs into technology, practice, and workflow capabilities.
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Attend an Indigo Workshop
Beyond Rules-Driven Review-By-Exception:
Building More Governed, Scalable, and Continuously Improving Analytical Operations.
Join Jim Edwards for an Indigo workshop exploring how laboratories are building more connected, visible, and operationally mature analytical operations.
Visit Indigo at Booth #2423
Meet with our team to discuss the analytical, operational, and reporting needs of your laboratory and how ASCENT for LC/GC-MS/MS and ARQ for q/RT-PCR can help.
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.