BioPREVAIL Built Environment Design Innovation Showcase (VIRTUAL)

BioPREVAIL Built Environment Design Challenge Showcase

Welcome to the BioPREVAIL Built Environment Design Challenge Showcase - an engaging event where innovation, collaboration, and sustainability in diagnostic containment laboratories take center stage.

Join us at the Auditorium de la Pastorale for an engaging event where interdisciplinary teams from around the world present bold ideas that reimagine how diagnostic containment laboratories can be designed and sustained. This is your opportunity to see how architecture, engineering, and health security come together to create context-appropriate solutions that advance sustainability, biosecurity, and the One Health vision.

Discover how global innovators are transforming the built environment to meet the realities of diverse regions and varying resource environments. Meet the teams shaping the next generation of laboratories and see how their designs strengthen biosecurity and resilience from the ground up.

Engage with experts, connect with industry professionals, and be inspired by the creative power of co-design. Each finalist team will present its innovation and outline the next steps toward real-world implementation and commercialization.

Hear from key speakers in biosafety and biosecurity:

• Keith Hamilton, World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)
• Trevor Smith, Global Affairs Canada - Weapons Threat Reduction Program
• Lisa McDonald, BioPREVAIL, Global Health Security Fund

The BioPREVAIL Built Environment Design Challenge supports the development of bold, interdisciplinary solutions to transform how labs and health-related facilities are designed for safety, security, and sustainability when working with especially dangerous pathogens.