Conference Schedule

Speakers:

• Alan Aspuru-Guzik | Director, Acceleration Consortium
• Grace Lee Reynolds | CEO, MaRS 
• Leah Cowen | Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and Strategic Initiatives, University of Toronto
• Melanie Woodin | President, University of Toronto

Presenter:

• Mitra Taheri | Johns Hopkins University

Presenter:

• James Love | Novo Nordisk A/S

Chair:

• Avi Goldfarb

Presenters:

• Wei Yang Tham | Reproducibility and automation in science
• Emily Moore | Bringing sustainability in: Using group model building to integrate social, environmental and economic considerations into SDL research
• Kristina McElheran | The rise of industrial AI in America
• Raviv Murciano-Goroff | The effect of automation technologies in university labs

Chair:

• Nasim Abdollahi

Presenters:

• Brandon Keith | Automated high-throughput-screening for vaccine formulation development
• Xiao Li  | Accelerating drug development through laboratory automation and AI
• Andrew Kukor | Developing a self-driving HTE lab for pharmaceutical process development
• Jon Stokes | AI for designing novel synthetically tractable antibiotics

Chair:

• Chris Sutton

Presenters:

• Yousung Jung  | AI-driven organic reactivity prediction based on electron movements
• Vladan  Stevanovic | The potential energy surface of solids through a statistical lens – “widths” and “depths” of local minima and their role in materials synthesis
• Rodrigo  Neumann Barros Ferreira | Hybrid quantum-classical simulation of periodic materials
• Thomas Pruyn | LLM-guided graph reasoning for scientific intuition and MOF discovery

Chair:

• Marisa Gliege

Presenters:

• Shi Xuan Leong | Accelerating chemistry digitization with vision-language models
• Fang Liu | Detecting thermodynamic phase transition via explainable machine learning of photoemission spectroscopy
• Hessam Mehr | Bringing back the human touch: Expert-in-the-loop AI in chemistry using probabilistic models
• Jan Gerit | Science & Technology Innovation: How we build AI-assisted computational workflows and make them available at scale
• Benjamin Sanchez | Data-centric AI and data-debt: A case study on mixture tasks with CheMixHub
• Graeme Henkelman | Correlating structure and function for nanoparticle catalysts

Chair:

• Jehad Abed

Presenters:

• Tejs Vegge | AI-accelerated computational discovery of molecular, enzymatic and inorganic catalysts for sustainable fuels and chemicals
• Holly Fruehwald | AI-assisted optimization and accelerated synthesis of 2D conductive MOF CuTHQ
• Simon K. Steensen | FINALES - Developing a general modular data infrastructure for materials acceleration platforms to facilitate data-driven battery research and design
• F. Pelayo García de Arquer | Automated protocol optimization towards reliable active and stable catalysts for water splitting
• Jason Hattrick-Simpers | Development of experimental tools and data analysis pipelines for autonomous electrochemistry

Chair:

• Florian Shkurti

Presenters:

• Yuchi Zhao | Anyplace: Learning generalized object placement for robot manipulation
• Pablo Quijano Velasco | Qubots: Modular framework for the design of automated tools for materials experimentation
• Süleyman Er  | Simulating self-driving labs: A virtual framework for smarter automation
• Maria Politi | Development of an end-to-end autonomous liquid-liquid extraction platform
• Woosuck Shin | Development of automated system for ceramic powder dispensing and grinding
• Dimitrios Chatzinikolis | Enabling self driving labs via custom robotic development

Join us on the second floor of Eataly Yorkville for an unforgettable evening of Italian cuisine and drinks at La Pizza & La Pasta located at the Manulife Centre - 55 Bloor Street West Toronto. Mingle with fellow attendees, celebrate the conference and enjoy live music.

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Please note that this is a ticketed event and is not included in the conference registration unless you have already purchased a spot.