Peter O. Stahl Advanced Design Forum

Welcome

The Peter O. Stahl Advanced Design Forum, launched in 2023 with a donation from Peter’s wife, Dr. Cynthia Arnold, is a premier annual event bringing together senior industry leaders from all over the world to share best practices on adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform the ways chemicals and materials are designed, developed, and produced, and to foster collaborations. It exemplifies the University of Minnesota's Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science's commitment to excellence in research and education, now leveraging the emerging fields of data science and machine learning.

The 2026 Stahl Forum

This year's forum will be a two-day event. Join us at Cargill on May 14th and the morning of May 15th to connect with colleagues, industry leaders, and University of Minnesota researchers working on AI-accelerated development and manufacturing of chemicals and materials.

The forum will include sessions and panel discussions led by experts from organizations including Cargill, Shell, Siemens, Ecolab, Lubrizol, Google Health, AbbVie, 3M, Solventum, P&G, and more!

For questions, please contact Prodromos Daoutidis (daout001@umn.edu).

Session and panel themes:

• Efficient AI Adoption
• Generative AI for Materials
• AI in Health
• AI Methods
• AI Applications: Materials Design and Discovery
• AI for Systems Engineering & Optimization

Registration Link: z.umn.edu/stahlforum26

Registration fee: $400 (free for UMN Students, Staff, & Faculty)

Registration deadline: May 3rd, 2026