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Melissa DiTucci
Community Moderator
Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator
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🎉 The Benchling Community Turns 2 + Celebratory JeffyP Plushie Giveaway

Can you believe it’s been two years since the Benchling Online Community launched? On August 15th, we celebrate our second birthday! Since day one, this space has grown into a vibrant hub where Benchling users ask questions, share insights, exchange ideas, and support one another. Whether you’ve been here from the start or just joined last week — we’re so glad you’re part of it.💬 By the Numbers: In just two years, you all have been busy!📌 2,577 topics and replies 📆 47 community-driven events 👥 2192 Members 💡 Countless insights, answers, and good vibes🧸 To Celebrate, We're Hosting a Birthday Giveaway!We want to hear from you: What’s one thing you’ve learned from the Benchling Community over the past two years?Whether it’s a new Benchling feature, a productivity tip, or just knowing you’re not alone in a tough configuration — we want to know!📝 How to EnterReply to this post by August 15th with: A quick note about what you've learned in the Community A tag for at least one collea

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Melissa DiTucci
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Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator
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Who’s been watching Transcribed?

Hey folks--I’m curious to hear if any of you have been watching Transcribed, our new interview series starring none other than Benchling’s very own CEO extraordinaire, @sajith.So far, he’s interviewed Patrick Hsu, Sara Kenkare-Mitra, John Tsai, and Karen Akinsanya. Next up to be released is Jake Becraft from Strand!If you’ve tuned in, I’d love to hear what’s stood out to you. I’ve watched the first two and loved seeing Saji in his element with industry peers—especially him and Patrick joking about how to make us at Benchling run more like Fung’s famously intense grad lab 😅Sara’s story about Kadcyla nearly being shelved really stuck with me. In a field where experimentation could be infinite but time and resources are not, how do folks make these impossible calls about when to turn back? I’m excited to keep listening and now I can do that while walking the dog or making dinner, thanks to the series being available on all major podcast platforms:🎧 Apple Podcasts🎧 SpotifyLet me know yo

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Melissa DiTucci
Community Moderator
Melissa DiTucci
Community Moderator
Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator
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Image Annotation is HERE - Show off your artistic skills for a chance at a prize!

Joy to the world, this long-awaited feature request has been shipped! For any attached image in notebook entries or templates, you can now add annotations!Available annotations include text, arrows, and circles. Select the fill and outline color, drag and drop your shapes and text to add context to your images, and press save. In celebration, I invite you to show off your artistic skills. Share a screenshot of a work of art created using Benchling’s Image Annotation. I’ll review with my team and select our favorite my favorite and the lucky artist will be rewarded with a Benchling hoodie! 🎁 

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Melissa DiTucci
Community Moderator
Melissa DiTucci
Community Moderator
Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator
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🎵 On the 2nd of December, JeffyP gave to me, a special Benchling sweater for free!

‘Tis the season for gift giving, so to get you in the spirit (and have something to wear to your lab holiday party), we’re kicking off our second annual Benchling holiday sweater contest in the form of #12 DaysOfBenchling. Don’t miss your chance to win one of 12 limited edition holiday sweaters.Over the next 12 days, we’ll be sharing a piece of content straight from the one and only JeffyP – your favorite Benchling! From jellyfish facts, to top science reads, to the State of Tech in Biopharma, JeffyP is counting down the days until you can go from bench to bells-a-ringing. Here's how to enter:Like, comment, or share any of our #12DaysOfBenchling posts on LinkedIn. Each action counts as a single entry. If you haven’t already, follow us on LinkedIn for an additional entry.It’s that easy! Wishing you a happy holiday season, from the bottom of the sea! *Contest details: Each winner will receive a limited edition Benchling holiday sweater (total prize value of $64). Giveaway will be open fr

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Melissa DiTucci
Community Moderator
Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator
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Customer Coffee Chats

🚀 Calling all Benchling Enthusiasts! Are you passionate about Benchling and eager to showcase your journey? We invite you to participate in an opportunity to share your insights and expertise with the Benchling Community with a Customer Coffee Chat!🌐 What's Involved:🗣️ 45-minute Zoom session open to Community members 🎤 Moderation by our expert Community team 🤝 Additional support from a Benchling key player (CSM, IM, or TAM) 📣 Introductory post on the Community, sharing the exciting topics of focus🌟 Ideal Candidates:💙 Passionate about Benchling 🚀 Have an exciting Benchling project or initiative to share 📊 Strong understanding of Benchling setup and administration 🌐 Clear goals around Benchling use🔒 Rest assured:🤐 No details about specific data models or proprietary information will be disclosed.Ready to showcase your Benchling journey?☕ Let us know you're interested, and we'll set up a time for a coffee chat! ☕ Participants will be rewarded with Benchling gear! 🎁

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ShawnaWolverton
Benchling Employee
ShawnaWolvertonBenchling Employee
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My reflections on your product ideas
My reflections on your product ideas

Hi Benchling Community,Thank you for your incredible enthusiasm for the Benchling Community. We’re not even a year into this journey, and we have over 330 ideas and nearly 2,000 discussion posts. It’s amazing! One of my favorite parts of this job is hearing feedback directly from our customers. Sure, it’s lovely to hear what we’re doing right, but it’s invaluable to have folks who will tell you where you have missed the mark or where you need to do more. That’s why I’ve been such a huge proponent of building Community at Benchling. There is no better way for my team to connect with so many of you and get rich insights on what we can build to make your lives better. Now that the ideas portal has been open for a few months I thought it would be a good time to reflect on the ideas we’ve seen submitted and give you more context on where we’re saying “yes,” where we’re saying “no” — or in many cases — ”not right now.”How we categorize your ideasHistorically, we’ve had four different status

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Melissa DiTucci
Community Moderator
Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator
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📓 Benchtalk Open Notebooks

Have a Benchling topic that didn’t make it onto the formal Benchtalk agenda? We’ve got you covered. Open Notebooks is a new way to participate at Benchtalk 2025—a science fair-style poster showcase happening during lunch on Day 2. It's casual, low-lift, and a good way to share the things you’ve built in Benchling that others might find useful (or inspiring).No slides, no stage—just you, a poster or short demo, and the chance to connect with others who geek out over the same stuff.Some reasons to consider it: You’ve built something in Benchling that solved a problem (even a small one) You want to swap ideas with folks working on similar challenges You like the idea of sharing what you’ve done—without a whole formal presentation You want to attend Benchtalk, but your company will only approve travel to conferences you’re presenting at We’ll help with templates, design, or setup if you need it. Just bring your idea.Now that the full agenda is live, if there’s a topic you don’t see o

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Melissa DiTucci
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keith
Benchling Employee
keithBenchling Employee
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Updated Warehouse Docs now live!

Hi folks! I'm Keith and I'm part of the Technical Solutions Architecture (TSA) team at Benchling. We help our customers to build integrations on top of Benchling using the Developer Platform (Warehouse, API, events, SDK).We've been working on updating our Warehouse docs, and I'm pleased to share that these updates are now live on docs.benchling.com.The two old pages ("Warehouse Tables" and "Warehouse Table Columns") are now replaced by a single Warehouse Tables homepage, with subpages beneath that for different groups of tables (Workflows, Molecular Biology, Notebook etc). This should hopefully make it easier to find the information you're looking for! If you have any bookmarks saved that point to the old pages, we would recommend updating these to the new pages.Happy querying!

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Melissa DiTucci
Community Moderator
Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator
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Community Comics

Hey folks! I wanted to share a piece of community art we created with the help of our design team, inspired by a real thread in our forums. ✨This particular thread stood out to me because of how many of you jumped in to share creative ways to streamline organizing racks within your inventories. What made it even more special was that the conversation naturally evolved into identifying a product gap—a lack of location hierarchy visualization—and ultimately led to a submitted Idea in our portal.Even though we didn’t land on a perfect workaround, it was still an incredibly valuable moment. You validated each other’s frustrations, collaborated on possible solutions, and sparked a product idea that could make life easier for so many admins and users. That's the magic of community right there.Just a little proud Community Manager moment 💙If there are other threads that give you that warm-and-fuzzy feeling and deserve the community comic treatment, drop them in the comments—I’d love to bring

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raven
Benchling Employee
ravenBenchling Employee
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1000 row structured tables are now in limited availability

We’ve taken steps to improve the Notebook experience by increasing table limits and in doing this we have also been able to improve the table display, performance, navigation, and export functionality in the Notebook. Here’s a look at what’s new:  Table limits are increasing from 500 rows to 1,000 rows Rows are added with an Add row button that has a numeric input field Tables have a fixed width and height to keep content structured and readable Table adjust to fit more data while staying easy to navigate, a scroll bar appears when tables exceed a certain height so you can browse without resizing, and you can scroll past tables smoothly without minimizing them Tables exceeding 500 rows will be exported as attached CSV files Large tables will be rendered as collapsed tables with the table name visible when you export an entry as a PDF The updates that are being introduced are currently in limited availability (LA), if you’d like to opt-in to using this feature while it is in LA, please

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Melissa DiTucci
Community Moderator
Melissa DiTucci
Community Moderator
Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator
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🎄‘Tis the season to give thanks!🎄

This holiday season, I’m especially grateful for our incredible product team. Your dedication to the community makes this space dynamic, impactful, and truly special.Thank you for always being so responsive to my messages, indulging my wildest ideas, and serving as amazing advocates for the Benchling product. Your hard work and passion do not go unnoticed.✨No coal for any of you this year—just stockings full of gratitude and cheer!✨Happy holidays from the Benchling Online Community!​@ShawnaWolverton ​@Kyle ​@salil ​@lilyhelfrich ​@madison.fletcher ​@Tori Ehrhardt ​@borisatbenchling ​@ankita_dhar ​@Chandler ​@Christian Arca ​@clare ​@Dane Pieri ​@ElisOl ​@Jesse Coffey ​@pilar_sterne ​@Judi Manley ​@maggie.sheldon ​@bioitnaris ​@nick.floeck ​@tina.arantes ​@rimas ​@James Pycock ​@derek 

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Melissa DiTucci
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Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator
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You can now subscribe to Community Events

Hey folks--just a little update but you now have the ability to subscribe to our events on the Community. You’ll get a handy dandy email whenever we post a new event so you never miss one! Check it out and subscribe today on the events page! 

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Melissa DiTucci
Community Moderator
Melissa DiTucci
Community Moderator
Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator
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Benchling Security Awareness Month

It’s Security Awareness Month here at Benchling and our security team created some excellent graphics to help us remember security tips!🔒🤐Do our community members have any other security tips they can share? 

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maryann22
maryann22Contributor
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Share Your Experience: We’d Love Your Feedback on G2!

 Hey Community,We have a favor to ask! If you have 10 minutes this week, we’d really appreciate it if you could write us a review on G2. Your feedback means a lot to us and helps others discover what we’re all about.Click here to leave your review.Thank you for being such valued customers! 

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maryann22
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Happy 1 year, online community! Let’s eat some cake 🎂
Happy 1 year, online community! Let’s eat some cake 🎂

  I’m excited to share that today we celebrate the first anniversary of the Benchling Online Community! It’s been only a year, but so many great things happened in this space. A huge thank you to each of you who contribute to this community, inspire your fellow Benchling heros to create community-wide success by sharing your knowledge and experiences.  Our year-one wins and achievementsHere’s a by-the-numbers breakdown of what we’ve done in just a year’s time:1250+ Benchling Community members  3545+ posts (keep them coming!) 108+ answered questions 15 Wish List ideas brought to life in the product  Kudos to these Benchling Community trailblazersHere are a few of the community founders and active community members. Thank you for your support and input during the very early days of the Benchling Community!@Ken Robbins @vinniev , @BeataDunne  @stefano_g, @Chantelle, @rooshabh, @Ben_Sanger, @gwoo, @samivel  @JasonDG @blake.fief @Pat.Valerio @adawzhang @gfmayhew  To celebrate our one year

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ellie.scholz
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ellie.scholzBenchling Employee
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40 days until Benchtalk Boston - don't miss out, register TODAY! 🎉

Hi Community,Can you believe it? Benchtalk Boston is just 40 days away! We're counting down the days until we can finally come together, celebrate, and connect IRL.If you haven't snagged your spot yet, now's the time to jump on it—seats are disappearing fast!This year's event is jam-packed with a stellar lineup of speakers including our own community members, @Ken Robbins, @Pat.Valerio, @hanakibe, @rckc, @Mariya Gazumyan. @jrcharles, @csukuru, @mcheng!!Dive into their sessions and the full agenda here: https://benchtalk.benchling.com/boston24/sessions. What’s new and exciting this year?Support Lounge: Got questions? We've got answers. Grab a spot in the lounge and chat through all your questions 1:1 with our support experts. “Lunch with a Product Manager”:  Enjoy a roundtable lunch with the minds behind your favorite products like Notebook, Dev Platform, Connect, and more.  More Hands-On Workshops: Jump into new workshops like "Build a Benchling App," "Perfecting Plates," and "Level Up

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Melissa DiTucci
Community Moderator
Melissa DiTucciCommunity Moderator
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What's New Webinar is TOMORROW

Don’t miss this chance to hear from Head of Product Shawna Wolverton and our product managers as they walk through a comprehensive overview of our latest product features. Plus, there’s an opportunity for live Q&A!We have two sessions you can join -- Europe and Americas

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joe.sylvester
Benchling Employee
joe.sylvesterBenchling Employee
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Introducing the Benchling Customer Awards - submit your nominations today!

Hellooooo Benchling Community 👋Joe from the Community team here. Wanted to pop in and let y’all know that we are continually inspired by the groundbreaking work our community accomplishes every day. To honor your incredible contributions to life sciences research, we’re thrilled to announce the first-ever customer awards, with winners announced at Benchtalk 2024!The Changemaker Awards are designed to celebrate the research, innovation, and excellence among our amazing customers. Whether you’re driving significant advancements in R&D, making breakthroughs with societal impact, or excelling in your use of Benchling, we want to recognize and celebrate you.How to participate:Nominate a colleague, team, or yourself: Check out the 5 award categories Be recognized at Benchtalk 2024: Finalists will be honored at our events in Boston and London. Special Prizes: Receive exclusive recognition and rewards for your contributions.So, let’s celebrate the changemakers among us! Nominate yourself,

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maryann22
maryann22Contributor
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Win a Benchling Summer Hawaiian Shirt 🌺👕

Benchling Community!The weather is heating up and so is Benchling’s Online Community! 😎☀️🥵 We want to design the ultimate piece of Benchling apparel for the lab, the beach, and everything in between. Join our contest to help us choose a design and  for your chance to rock this exclusive piece of swag at all your summer gatherings! Design 1Design 2 Design 3🏅 Here’s how to participate:1) Vote for your favorite shirt design2) Tag at least one person from your company or a friend in the community in your post3) Tell us what summer fun activity you want to do in your Benchling Hawaiian shirt! IMPORTANT: You must complete all steps to be entered into the raffle by June 14th by 5PM PST!  The design with the most votes is the shirt we will produce.We will be giving away a total of 25 limited-edition Benchling Summer Fun Hawaiian Shirts 🤗

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New Release: Updated Scientific Accelerators Now Available

Greetings, Benchling Community!The Benchling Solutions Team is thrilled to announce that updated versions of our Bioresearch and Bioprocess Scientific Accelerators are now available! This release constitutes our first major update to the Benchling Scientific Accelerators since their initial launch in late 2023. Each of our Bioresearch and Bioprocess Scientific Accelerators have been updated and refreshed with the latest Benchling Product features, tons of new, ready-to-use content such as Notebook Templates and Insights Dashboards, and improvements to the underlying data models to better support and accelerate your organization’s science. See below for a brief preview of some of the newest Product features and enhancements we’ve brought to our Accelerators:Benchling for Bioprocess: All Bioprocess Scientific Accelerators now utilize our new Bioprocess Product (see here for the Bioprocess Product Release Announcement) Benchling Connect: All Scientific Accelerators are now Connect-ready -

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ellie.scholz
Benchling Employee
ellie.scholzBenchling Employee
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Benchtalk registration is open! 🎉

Get excited — registration for Benchtalk 2024 is officially open!If you haven’t been before, this is our largest community event of the year and – trust me – you’re not going to want to miss this! Go from URL → IRL and meet hundreds of your community friends in-person in October in Boston (10/1-10/2) and London (10/23-10/24).Why attend?Learn: 30+ sessions jam-packed with product innovation, Benchling workshops, and insights from the brightest minds in the industry Hands-on training: Get best practices and take training on all things Benchling from product experts. Network: Meet 400+ users from biotechs of all sizes to get inspired, swap best practices, and grow your professional circle. Have fun: Let’s toast your incredible work, mingle with JeffyP, and get cool swag.So, save your spot today:📍 Boston, October 1-2nd, 2024: https://benchtalk.benchling.com/boston24 📍 London, October 23-24th, 2024: https://benchtalk.benchling.com/london24  And, don’t wait to start meeting Benchtalk 2024

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ellie.scholz
Benchling Employee
ellie.scholz
Benchling Employee
ellie.scholzBenchling Employee
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Benchtalk Call for Speakers Open – Apply Now!

Big news: Benchtalk is back this October and the 👉 call for speakers is open for Boston (10/1-10/2) and London (10/23-10/24)!Apply today for a chance to become a part of the prestigious community of experts selected to show off their learnings and expertise like @AnnaS_Lyell, @justintaylor, @MichaelD @tangy73 and @Ken Robbins.Submissions will be read and presenters notified on a rolling basis, so apply soon! The call for speakers will close on May 15th and all presenters will be notified by May 31st.If you have any questions, feel free to drop them below so we can all learn together or DM me or @maryann22.

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maryann22
maryann22Contributor
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Benchling's 2024 Roadmap & AI Strategy - Join us in Person on May 22 in the Bay Area!

👋Hey community,Join us for a first look at Benchling’s 2024 roadmap and AI strategy in this half-day event on May 22 at Oyster Point in South San Francisco. You’ll get a peek into our newest features, hear from super admins (including @Krista Bowman ) on secrets to excelling as a Benchling admin, and time to get hands-on training. Agenda Highlights: Insights and Analytics and Scientific accelerator Hands-on Workshop  Product and Roadmap Update by @shawna.wolverton Biotech’s Path to AI-Enabled Scientists and AI-Ready Data   Customers from Oric & RevMed presenting Tips and Tricks for Being a Top Admin   Happy Hour and Demos  Register today!Would love to see many of you there! Maryann 

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ellie.scholz
Benchling Employee
ellie.scholzBenchling Employee
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New product idea responses: Your questions answered!

Hi everyone, happy Friday!You might have noticed some of your ideas getting replies recently from our awesome product team! We've been hearing some questions around about this process, so I wanted to hop in to address those and open up the conversation for other questions. Why did the status change on my idea without a response from the product team? Don't worry! The product team always responds to your idea before we tweak the status. It will appear as two separate messages because only community admins like myself and @Melissa DiTucci are able to adjust statuses. Just scroll up a bit to find the product manager's response. Oh, and heads-up: you might not see the Benchling Logo / JeffyP next to their name, but a quick hover over their picture will reveal their role. My idea didn’t get a response. Why? Hang tight! Once your idea hits the minimum voting threshold (which we've set at 25 votes for now), our Benchling Product team will dive in and give it their two cents. Good news, howe

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ellie.scholz
Benchling Employee
ellie.scholzBenchling Employee
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User Groups: Vote for your city to be next!

Hey everyone 👋 I'm excited to share that User Groups are gaining momentum in Boston, and this month, we're gearing up for our second city launch: Madison, WI – all thanks to our fantastic leaders @Ken Robbins and @gfmayhew!🗳Want to see a Benchling User Group come to your city?Cast your vote in the poll or comment below to nominate your city for our 2025 roadmap.What are User Groups?Gatherings hosted for users, by users. They’re all about bringing great minds together to swap knowledge and make a few friends along the way. Learn more here.💻 Excited to meet up with other Benchlings but can’t wait until your city is launched?No problem, stay tuned for virtual users groups like the event @Ken Robbins is hosting on App Canvas and other front-end apps. P.S. Have expertise on this topic? Ken is actively looking for speakers!  📩 Passionate about Benchling and excited to help bring people together? Drop me a DM or comment below if you’d like to learn more about becoming a User Group leader.

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