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  • Friday, Nov 14th
    2:00 PM - 2:45 PM EST
    Title TBD
    Breakout Speaker: Ju-Yoon Yoon, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Unity Health Toronto/University of Toronto
  • Saturday, Nov 15th
    8:15 AM - 9:15 AM EST
    Plenary Tech Topic
    Program Committee Moderator: Tessara Baldi, n/a (she/her/hers) – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Program Committee Moderator: Timothy Daniels, n/a (he/him/his) – Palmetto GBA
  • Saturday, Nov 15th
    8:15 AM - 9:15 AM EST
    Automation for Tumour Sequencing at Scale.
    Plenary Speaker: Robin JN Coope, MASc, PhD. PEng (he/him/his) – Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at BC Cancer
  • Saturday, Nov 15th
    10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EST
    Bots on the Bench: Real-World Lessons from Custom Automation in Molecular Diagnostics
    Breakout Speaker: Keyur P. Patel, MD PhD – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Saturday, Nov 15th
    11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EST
    The Rise of The Machines – Important Considerations in Migrating Molecular Workflows to Laboratory Automation
    Breakout Speaker: Michael T. Mueller, PhD, MBA – Nucleus Automation Partners
  • Saturday, Nov 15th
    2:30 PM - 3:00 PM EST
    Imposter Syndrome and Personal Development: Perspective from Laboratory Technologists
    Breakout Speaker: Ali Nussbaum, MA, MLS(ASCP)CM – n/a
  • Saturday, Nov 15th
    3:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST
    The effect of Gender Bias and the Pathway to Department Chair
    Breakout Speaker: Alexis Carter, MD (she/her/hers) – Children's Healthcare of Atlanta