MEDIA ALERT
WHO:
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
WHAT:
AIChE’s Spring Meeting and 8th Global Congress on Process Safety is expected to draw nearly 2,000 chemical engineers with lectures, 9 topical conferences and hundreds of technical sessions. The Spring Meeting keynote address on Monday, April 2 will feature Michael J. Dolan, Senior Vice President of ExxonMobil Corporation. Dolan’s speech, “Process Safety and Corporate Responsibility” ties together safety and sustainability, two of the major topics of the spring meeting.
The Global Congress on Process Safety covers the critical needs of process safety practitioners more broadly and deeply than any other conference.
WHERE:
Hilton-Americas Houston and George Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas
WHEN:
Sunday, April 1 – Thursday, April 5, 2012
HIGHLIGHTS:
A wide range of subjects relevant to the current needs of industry will be featured. In addition to the Global Congress on Process Safety, energy advances will be at the forefront of much of the conference, given Houston’s importance to the energy industry. Other highlights of the meeting include:
- 24th Ethylene Producers’ Conference
- 12th Gas Utilization Topical Conference
- 15th Topical Conference on Refinery Processing
- 1st International Conference on Upstream Engineering and Flow Assurance
- Advances in Sustainability
- Fossil Energy Utilization
AIChE will update content on its social media channels throughout the Spring Meeting. News, photos, videos, special event and keynote coverage is available at www.chenected.com/spring. Facebook (www.facebook.com/chenected) and Twitter feeds (@chenected) will have regular updates direct from the meeting. The official hashtag for the meeting is #AIChESpring.
For more information about the conference or related workshops and meetings, please go to: http://www.aiche.org/spring
Editor’s Note: Journalists interested in covering the conference should contact Danielle Gross at dgross@thebravogroup.com
About AIChE:
AIChE is a professional society of more than 40,000 chemical engineers in 92 countries. Its members work in corporations, universities and government using their knowledge of chemical processes to develop safe and useful products for the benefit of society. Through its varied programs, AIChE continues to be a focal point for information exchange on the frontier of chemical engineering research in such areas as nanotechnology, sustainability, hydrogen fuels, biological and environmental engineering, and chemical plant safety and security. More information about AIChE is available at www.aiche.org.