Christiane Glanzmann
Global Expert - Laboratory Workplace Strategy, Global Facilities Management & Real Estate Roche
Christiane Glanzmann leads laboratory workplace strategy for Roche Diagnostics, advancing innovation, cost efficiency, and environmental sustainability across global R&D environments. With more than 20 years of experience spanning capital project delivery, interdisciplinary team leadership, and award-winning architectural design, she excels at stakeholder alignment, strategic planning, and continuous improvement. Christiane also co-authored a published work on acclaimed designer Max Bill.
Seminars
Discover how leading organisations simplify digital transformation, cutting complexity, standardising workflows, and accelerating adoption, to build connected, high-performing labs that deliver real operational impact
- Discussing how organisations at different scales approach digital transformation, from pilot tools to enterprise-wide platforms, and what success looks like at each maturity stage
- Exploring lessons from pharma, biotech, tech and research institutes on standardising workflows, enabling interoperability, and avoiding “shiny tool syndrome”
- Enforcing change leadership in digital labs: driving adoption, shifting behaviours, and overcoming resistance when data, systems and people don’t naturally align
- Designing a 35,000 m² diagnostic research hub that empowers 800 scientists through intelligent workflows, adaptable lab spaces, and collaboration-first environments
- Exploring how the team balanced scientific agility, operational efficiency, and user experience to shape a facility purpose-built for future discovery
- Adopting key lessons from delivering a next-generation R&D centre (completed October 2025) that reduces operational burden while accelerating innovation
