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2019
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Annual Dinner for Senior Executives (Boston)
Boston, Massachusetts
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Directed to senior executives, especially those in the Boston and Northeast area, our regional dinners present a great opportunity to connect with and stay in touch with other companies and top executives in an informal environment outside of ALDA’s semi-annual meetings. The dinners also present an opportunity to introduce members of your executive team who may not regularly attend our senior executive meetings to the ALDA network.
We are please to have Barry Canton, one of the five co-founders of Ginkgo Bioworks, a highly successful and leading synthetic biology company, as our guest speaker. Based in Boston, Ginkgo Bioworks employs approximately 200 people and is valued at more than $1 billion. Ginkgo was founded by four students, including Barry, pursuing graduate degrees at MIT, and a then-professor Tom Knight, who inspired them to research the idea of “programming” biology.
Using its platform to program the DNA of living cells allows the company to produce a range of products, including in chemicals and agriculture. For example, Ginkgo is working to replace nitrogen-based fertilizers by engineering microbes for crops. In the chemical industry, the company can replace chemical synthesis with engineered cells that make the desired chemical through fermentation. Designing enzymes for food and beverage production is another growth area for the company.
In his presentation, Mr. Canton will provide a general update on Ginkgo and the synthetic biology field more broadly, and touch on what products and technologies from our industry would allow Ginkgo to advance faster.
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2020
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Executives Breakfast at SLAS 2020
San Diego, California
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The breakfast presents a great opportunity to meet and network with other senior executives from our members and invited guests attending the SLAS Conference and Show.
In addition to presenting a great opportunity to meet and network with other ALDA member executives and a few key membership prospects attending SLAS, we also invite a guest speaker.
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Marketing & Sales Executives Meeting
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Our Meeting for Marketing & Sales Executives is an annual meeting directed to senior marketing and sales executives including vice presidents and directors of marketing and sales, and other executives interested in emerging trends and strategies to increase sales performance and growth. This meeting provide continuing education to your senior managers in the marketing and sales business area and also allows them to meet and network with other executives with similar responsibilities.
Our past meetings examined important emerging “hot” topics and strategies to increase B2B marketing and sales performance, including customer advocacy marketing, sales and marketing fusion, and the role of AI and predictive analytics, as well as offering strategic advice on how many companies are seeking to become customer- and outcome-centric organizations, and marketing shifts from selling products and services to selling business outcomes.
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Executives Breakfast at Analytica 2020
Munich, Bayern
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The breakfast presents a great opportunity to meet and network with other senior executives from our members and invited guests attending the Analytica Conference and Show.
In addition to presenting a great opportunity to meet and network with other ALDA member executives and a few key membership prospects attending Analytica, we also invite a guest speaker.
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2020 Spring Senior Executives Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts
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The Spring Senior Executives Meeting is one of our semi-annual meetings designed for member company C-suite executives, presidents and their senior executive teams. Each meeting focuses on emerging trends and business strategies and offers great insights and advice, along with many opportunities for dialogue with other senior executive attendees.
Past meetings have focused on single cell biology, synthetic biology, and the evolution of sensor technologies. We include a global economic and financial outlook to complement each topical program.
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2020 Senior Management Conference
Laguna Beach, California
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The Fall Senior Management Conference is one of our semi-annual meetings designed for member company C-suite executives, presidents and their senior executive teams. Each meeting focuses on emerging trends and business strategies and offers great insights and advice, along with many opportunities for dialogue with other senior executive attendees.
Past meetings have focused on the future of immunology, digital and the implications for health (assessing the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare, blockchain technology and IoT), and how the ‘omics technologies are evolving (genomics, proteomics and metabolomics). We include a global economic and financial outlook to complement each topical program.
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2021
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2021 Spring Senior Executives Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts
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The Spring Senior Executives Meeting is one of our semi-annual meetings designed for member company C-suite executives, presidents and their senior executive teams. Each meeting focuses on emerging trends and business strategies and offers great insights and advice, along with many opportunities for dialogue with other senior executive attendees.
Past meetings have focused on single cell biology, synthetic biology, and the evolution of sensor technologies. We include a global economic and financial outlook to complement each topical program.
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Member Testimonials
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Meet Our Members
Membership is open to companies with a life science, analytical, and diagnostics technology business.
These companies include manufacturers and suppliers of:
- Analytical Instruments, Reagents, and Consumables
- Lab Automation Tools
- Life Science Instrumentation, Reagents, and Consumables
- Software and Informatics – pure play sales force software
- Clinical Invitro & Advanced Diagnostics
ALDA meetings, market data, and surveys are tailored specifically for CEOs, presidents, and senior executives of member companies.
Dues are based on the member company’s global analytical, life science, and diagnostics business revenues for the most recent business year. Companies that are the U.S. or North American division of an overseas corporation can choose to pay dues based on their global revenues or their North American business revenues.
In addition to the annual dues members pay registration fees for attendees at some meetings. For most member companies that is estimated to average between $5-7K USD per year.
“Diagnostics” business refers to revenues from: molecular diagnostics; companion diagnostics; and emerging and next generation diagnostic technologies such as cellular diagnostics.
| Annual Revenues (in US Dollars) | Annual Dues |
|---|---|
| Under $10 million | $2,625 |
| $10-15 million | $4,725 |
| $15-25 million | $6,825 |
| $25-50 million | $10,500 |
| $50-100 million | $15,750 |
| $100-200 million | $21,000 |
| $200-300 million | $26,250 |
| $300-750 million | $31,500 |
| Over $750 million | $33,000 |
ALDA meetings, market data and surveys are directed to CEOs, presidents, and members of their senior executive teams. Most members agree that the most important membership benefit is the opportunity to regularly meet, have dialog, and develop strategic business relationships with others.
Senior Executives Meetings
Semi-annual meetings focus on timely topics and feature world-class speakers who offer strategic insights into trends, emerging technologies, and new markets. Leading business-school academics and industry consultants provide keynote presentations.
The Spring Meeting is typically held in Boston on the first Sunday-Tuesday in May and our Fall Conference is held on the West Coast on the first Sunday-Tuesday in October.
Click here to view a sample program >
List of attendees from our most recent meeting. >
Recent ALDA Semi-annual Meeting Topics:
- 2019 Fall: Immunology
- 2019 Spring: Single Cell Biology
- 2018 Fall: Digital and the Transformation of Healthcare
- 2018 Spring: Synthetic Biology
- 2017 Fall: Connection/Integration of ‘Omics Technologies
- 2017 Spring: Disruptive Forces – Sensors and Deep Learning
Other Meetings
- Annual Meeting for Senior Marketing & Sales Executives
- Annual Meeting for Senior Customer Service & Support Executives
- 2 Regional Senior Executive Dinners – one in Boston & one in the San Francisco Bay area
- Trade Show Breakfast Meetings which include AACC, AMP, Analytica, ECCMID, and SLAS
Powerful Networking
ALDA meetings offer opportunities to make valuable contacts and engage in dialogue. Increase your company’s visibility and gain valuable industry connections for business partnerships, OEM and sales opportunities, strategic investment, and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, trade show events and annual dinner meetings on both coasts make it easy to network with other industry executives, customers, and international organizations.
“ALDA brings together some of the brightest and most talented minds from both the life science and diagnostics space – it is a forum where we can truly interact and network with one and other in a way that no other industry association has enabled.”
Kamni Vijayena, Vice President and General Manager, Genomics Bio-Techne
Market Data
ALDA sponsors four market data reports.
1. The Industry Market Assessment Report is published quarterly and sent to all members of ALDA. The cost is included in your annual dues. The report contains a high level overview of the global market and 15 product/market segments, and is designed to complement your internal market research. Official and alternate representatives will automatically receive this report.
The following three reports are available only to participants:
2. The Global Lab Instruments Bookings Report tracks global bookings (orders) on a quarterly basis for about a dozen laboratory analytical instrument systems including LC, GC, LC-MS, GC-MS, UV/Vis, AA, FTIR and ICP products. ALDA jointly sponsors this report with instrument associations in Japan and Europe.
3. The Microplate Reader Sales Report tracks global sales on a semi-annual basis for three categories of microplate reader products: single-mode microplate readers, multi-mode microplate readers, and washers.
4. The Bio-Research Reagents Market Report tracks sales on a semi-annual basis for several categories of life science reagents and consumables. The report is offered on a subscription basis through the ABA Audits firm in the UK, and ALDA subsidizes a portion of the participation fee for our members.
Compensation Survey
ALDA members are invited to participate in the Pearl Meyer CHiPS One World Total Compensation Survey at the special fee of $995 USD. (2019)
The CHiPs One World survey reports positions based on salary, short-term and long-term incentives, total cash/target and direct compensation, and global merit increases.
Participants receive an all-participants report, a custom peer group report and an ALDA-only report, along with a full year of 24/7 access to CHiPs online with free on-demand features.
The CHiPS One World also offers one-to-one account support through their dedicated team of account managers. This customized approach ALDA members go beyond the data to understand how the survey results apply to their organization and its unique compensation needs.
How to Join
If you are interested in learning more about the association or if you are ready to join please contact Kerrie Peterson our Director of Membership at kpeterson@thealda.org.
Applicants for membership in ALDA must be actively engaged in the manufacture and/or supply of “analytical and life science systems” or “diagnostics”.
Please contact Kerrie Peterson, our Membership Director for more information at KPeterson@thealda.org or (703) 647-6214.
Thank you for your interest!
About Us
ALDA (Analytical, Life Science & Diagnostics Association) is a non-profit industry trade association for global companies that develop and market products and services used in life science research, drug discovery, QA/QC and food testing, and clinical and molecular diagnostics.
ALDA’s meetings, data and programs are directed to C-suite executives, presidents and senior executives of our member companies to help them to develop business strategies to grow their business.
Member companies range from the industry’s largest suppliers to medium-size and small pre-product companies. Together, our analytical and life science members account for more than 70 percent of the industry’s global revenues. Our diagnostics members manufacture and supply molecular diagnostics, companion diagnostics, and emerging and next-generation diagnostic technologies.
ALDA is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
ALDA members participate in the $70 billion life science, analytical & diagnostics tools market. Participating companies supply instrumentation, reagents, consumables, assays, and related services for life science research, drug discovery, food safety, QA & QC testing along with clinical and diagnostics testing.
Having deep insights in the life sciences enables ALDA members to connect life science research to clinical diagnostics and brings diagnostic solutions faster to market. This enables better diagnostics and helps more patients throughout the world.
Officers
R. Bradley Gray Chairman
President & CEO
NanoString Technologies, Inc.
Patrick Kaltenbach Vice Chair & Chair Elect
Executive Vice President & President & Life Science Segment
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Briar Alpert Immediate Past Chair
BioTek Instruments, Inc.
Michael J. Duff President & CEO
Board of Directors
Thomas Bachmann
President & CEO
Eppendorf Group
Rainer Blair
Executive Vice President-Life Sciences
Danaher Corporation
Robert G. Carson
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development
Waters Corporation
Anna Christensen
President and CEO
Magnetic Insight, Inc.
Peter Dansky
Chief Executive Officer
Agena Bioscience, Inc.
Mark D. Fischer-Colbrie
Chief Executive Officer
Strateos
Tim Harkness
Chief Executive Officer
Unchained Labs
Charles (Chuck) Kummeth
President & CEO
Bio-Techne Corporation
William A. Linton
Chairman & CEO
Promega Corporation
Jean Qiu
Chief Technology Officer
Nexcelom Bioscience LLC
Prahlad Singh
President and Chief Operating Officer
PerkinElmer, Inc.
Dan Shine
Analytical Instruments Group President
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
Jacob Thaysen
SVP & President, Life Sciences and Applied Markets Group
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Mark Van Oene
SVP & Chief Commercial Officer
Illumina, Inc.
Achim von Leoprechting
Chief Executive Officer
Tecan AG
Meetings
All ALDA meetings feature strategic presentations and are designed to facilitate networking opportunities. Customers and users often attend these meetings and present insights about their evolving needs for our industry’s products and services.
ALDA offers four types of meetings:
- Semi-annual meetings for CEOs, presidents, and senior executives. These meetings focus on timely topics and feature world-class speakers who offer strategic insights into trends, emerging technologies, and new markets. Leading business-school academics and industry consultants provide keynote presentations. The Spring Meeting is typically held in Boston on the first Sunday-Tuesday in May and our Fall Conference is held on the West Coast on the first Sunday-Tuesday in October.
Click here to view a recent program >
Click here to view a list of our semi-annual meeting topics >
List of attendees from our most recent semi-annual meeting >
- An annual meeting for senior marketing and sales executives, and senior service and support executives
- Two regional senior executive dinners – one in Boston & one in the San Francisco Bay area
- Trade show breakfast meetings including AACC, AMP, Analytica, ECCMID, and SLAS
“ALDA meetings are a primary benefit of membership because they bring together leading executives who are important to the analytical, life sciences and diagnostics industry.”
Briar Alpert, former President & CEO, BioTek (now an Agilent company)
“While the meeting content focuses on learning more about the scientific trends (which) help us as leaders to stay current, the meetings help with networking and understanding the various companies and actors in the industry.”
Rainer Blair, EVP – Life Sciences, Danaher Corporation
Market Data & Compensation Survey
When you join ALDA, you connect with comprehensive, current insight into the industry. ALDA produces four market data reports.
The Industry Market Assessment Report is delivered quarterly to all members, whereas specific market reports are provided to participating companies only. You will find more details on each report below.
Members use our reports to benchmark operations against industry data and averages and:
- Improve efficiency and performance
- Broaden their perspective on global users and markets
- Identify and track emerging trends
Industry Market Assessment Report
This quarterly report is designed specifically for senior executives and is delivered to all ALDA member companies.
It contains a high-level overview of the global market and 15 product sectors. Among the 15 product sectors are life science instruments and reagents, cell analysis, liquid chromatography, and mass spectroscopy and lab automation.
Global Lab Instrumentation Bookings Report
This is a quarterly report that covers bookings for multiple analytical product sectors. Bookings are divided into North America, Europe, Japan, China, India, Latin America, and rest of world (ROW).
Member companies must provide data in order to receive this report.
Sectors covered include:
- Total Laboratory Analytical Business
- Gas Chromatographs (GC)
- Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometers (GC-MS)
- Liquid Chromatographs (LC)
- Liquid Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometers (LC-MS)
- Ultra Violet/Visible/Near Infrared Spectrophotometers (UV/Vis/NIR)
- Atomic Absorption Spectrometers (AA)
- Fourier Transform Infrared Instruments (FTIR)
- Total Organic Carbon Analyzers (TOC Analyzers)
- Fluorescence Spectrophotometers (FS)
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Systems (ICP)
- Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometers (ICP-MS)
Bio-Research Reagents Market Report
This semi-annual report is produced for ALDA by ABA Audits Ltd. of the United Kingdom and member companies must provide data in order to receive this report.
It covers sales of products in 14 groups, including:
- Genomics
- Proteomics
- Cell Research
- General Biochemicals
- Specialty Research
- Amplification & PCR
- Real Time
- Labeling & Detection
- Antibodies
- Protein, Enzymes & Peptides
- Inhibitors
- Substrates & Receptors
- Cell Research Kits & Specialty Kits
- Assay Kits
Microplate Reader Report
This report is issued semi-annually and member companies must provide data in order to receive this report.
It covers three product segments in a spreadsheet format and contains data for the current period and past historical periods.
Product groups addressed include:
- Single-mode: combining scintillation, fluorescence, and luminescence
- Multi-mode
- Washers
ALDA members are invited to participate in the Pearl Meyer CHiPS One World Total Compensation Survey at the special fee of $995 USD (2019).
The CHiPs One World survey will provide your company with accurate and comprehensive information at an affordable rate. All elements of the employee pay package are collected and reported, providing your company with the information needed to analyze your competitive position and compensation mix from a total compensation perspective.
Among the data to be reported for each position are base salary, short-term and long-term incentives, total cash/target and direct compensation, and global merit increases.
Participants will receive an all-participants report, a custom peer group report and an ALDA-only report, along with a full year of 24/7 access to CHiPs online with free on-demand features.
The CHiPS One World also offers one-to-one account support through their dedicated team of account managers. This customized approach will help you to go beyond the data to understand how the survey results apply to your organization and its unique compensation needs.
Even if your company participates in other compensation surveys, the ALDA-sponsored survey will provide valuable information that will allow you to “test” and compare the results of other surveys.
Participants’ data is typically collected during the Spring with final submissions due in early May and a July 1 publication of the final report.
This survey covers:
- Base salaries
- Incentive eligibility and pay
- Bonus compensation for each position
- Mix of base and incentive pay
- Compensation practices
- Salary administration
- Professional and managerial total compensation
- Data reported on a country-by-country basis
Periodically ALDA may release the results of other surveys including a Marketing & Sales Benchmark Survey. Provided to participating companies only, the survey has been designed to help ALDA members better understand industry-specific expenditures for marketing and sales programs. It has provided a snapshot of full-time employees, revenue, and operations expense budgets by geographical regions and for 10 categories of sales operations.
It has included detailed information about spending and projected budgets for:
- Advertising
- Direct mail
- Tradeshows
- Seminars
- Web activities
- Market research
- Brand management
- Customer events
- Social media
Contact Us
Have questions or concerns? Or just need more information from ALDA? Contact us today.
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703.647.6214
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Have questions or concerns? Or just need more information from ALDA? Contact us today.