Oliver Hesse

Director, Lab Automation and Data Management, Biological Development at Bayer

Oliver is Director for Lab Automation & Data Management at Bayer – Product Supply in Berkeley, Ca. He started his career in small biotech, building up and running high throughput screening systems for large molecules that generated large amounts of data and incorporated automated decision making. Since 2008 he is at Bayer and since 2011 at the Berkeley site. There he has been developing and implementing strategies and directed projects with respect to lab automation, lab informatics and data sciences for the global biological development organization. His current focus is on the application of digital technologies to gain better process understanding and the seamless digital integration from process development to commercial manufacturing