Since 1968, the trade fair analytica has transformed the city of Munich every two years in spring into the central meeting place for the international laboratory technology, analytics and biotechnology industry. analytica is the most important platform for instrumental analysis, diagnostics, measuring and testing technology and quality control and has always been more than just an equipment exhibition. From the very beginning, a scientific congress has been held parallel to the trade fair and under its umbrella, initially the "Conference on Biochemical Analysis" and, since 1994, the analytica conference, which has been organised by Forum Analytik, in which three scientific societies have joined forces to promote analytics:
The analytica conference is the science-oriented component of the world's leading trade fair analytica and offers an interdisciplinary, future- and practice-oriented conference programme: from basic research to application-related topics, from instrumental analysis to analysis in life sciences, medicine and biotechnology.
Internationally and globally leading scientists report on what modern methods can achieve, where they can be used and where their limits lie. All events aim to familiarise those interested in analytics with the variety of methods, processes and techniques and to stimulate discourse between research, application and equipment manufacturers. The lunchtime poster sessions, in which young scientists in particular present their latest research results, also invite exchange and discourse.
The programme 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 on the first three days of the trade fair as a five-strand event and offers around 190 invited scientific presentations in a total of 45 sessions as well as over 100 posters.