Agenda

Thursday, May 14th

8:00-8:45 am

Registration and Breakfast

8:45-9:00 am

Welcome Address

•Prodromos Daoutidis, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota

•Cordell Hardy, VP, North America R&D, Cargill

9:00-9:30 am

Keynote Talk

•Florian Schattenmann, CTO and VP for Innovation and R&D, Cargill

Morning Session: Authoritative analyses and case studies on the efficient adoption of AI in the face of rapidly changing business conditions and technology tools and the new capabilities that AI brings towards autonomy in process operations.  

9:30-10:10 am

AI Adoption I

•Larry Lu, Senior Principal Fellow, Shell

•Costas Pantelides, CTO, Siemens Process Automation Software

10:10-10:30 am

Break

10:30-11:10 am

AI Adoption II

•Elizabeth Balapitiya, Director of RD&E - Global AI Technologies & SH&E, Ecolab

•Leo Chiang, Senior Director, Lubrizol & Robert Duan, VP of Technology, Lubrizol

11:00-11:30 am

Discussion / Q&A

11:30-11:40 am

Overview of Poster Session and Day 2

11:40–11:50 am

Highlights from IPRIME

11:50am-1:30pm

Lunch and Poster Session

Afternoon Session: Expert insights on the way generative AI tools are changing industrial practice, the new capabilities they bring in materials and pharma discovery, and the new needs they create in workforce upskilling, along with lessons learned from the health and pharma sectors on safety and information security. 

1:30-2:10 pm

Generative AI for Materials

•Anand Chandrasekaran, Product Manager - Materials Science Informatics, Schrödinger 

•Jayshree Seth, Corporate Scientist & Chief Science Advocate, 3M

2:10-2:20 pm

Break

2:20-3:00 pm

AI in Health

•Michail Vlysidis, Senior Engineer, AbbVie

•Jen McKay, Lead - Health on Cloud, Senior Clinical Specialist, Google Health

3:00-3:20 pm

Discussion / Q&A

3:20-3:30 pm

Break

3:30-4:30pm

Panel Discussion – An insightful discussion among senior industry leaders on the AI impact on corporate culture and management, and best practices on designing and implementing a digital strategy for AI adoption.

Moderated by Dan LeCloux, CTO, Ecolab

•Raymond Chiu, Senior VP, R&D, Solventum

•Mike Kesti, Senior VP, Corporate R&D, 3M

•Alison Main, VP, Corporate R&D, P&G

•Florian Schattenmann, CTO and VP for Innovation and R&D, Cargill

4:30-6:00 pm

Closing Remarks and Networking Reception

Friday, May 15th

8:00-8:25 am

Breakfast

8:25-8:30 am

Welcome Address

•Prodromos Daoutidis, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science

8:30-9:20 am

AI Methods

•Ju Sun, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

•Aryan Deshwal, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

9:20-10:35 am

AI Applications

•Ben Hackel, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science

•Sapna Sarupria, Department of Chemistry

•Chris Bartel, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science

10:35-10:50 am

Break

10:50-11:30 am

AI & Systems Engineering

•Bernard Agyeman & Prodromos Daoutidis, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science

•Jnana Sai Jagana & Qi Zhang, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science

11:30 am-12:10 pm

Panel Discussion on Industry Academia Collaboration – Moderated by Chris Ellison, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

12:10-1:00 pm

Closing Remarks & Lunch

1:00-2:00 pm

Networking between UMN Students and Industry Sponsors