2024 AIChE Annual Meeting

Management Division sessions and activities at the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting.

Monday, October 28, 2024

12:30 to 15:00  – Leading and managing industry-academia collaborations and partnerships (Cobalt 501C, Level 5, Hilton Bayfront)

• Improving outcomes with industry input: How engagement with stakeholders informs science and engineering (Peter Valdez, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
• Academic-industry sabbaticals: A professor's perspective on advancing chemical engineering education (Ryan Hartman, New York University and Daniel Hickman, Dow)
• Academic-industry sabbaticals: An industrial researcher's perspective on sparking innovation while influencing academic education and research (Daniel Hickman, Dow and Ryan Hartman, New York University)
• From Fortune 500 to startup: Perspectives on successful collaboration with academia (Ryan Lively, Georgia Institute of Technology and J R Johnson, Avnos, Inc.)
• Building a research alliance: A decade of industry-academia collaboration (Glenn Cormack, The Lubrizol Corporation and Gotz Veser, University of Pittsburgh)
• Building strong industry, academic, and national lab collaborations to enable technology deployment: An ExxonMobil perspective (Jason McMullen, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering)

15:30 to 18:00  – Leadership and management of sustainable solutions in industry (Cobalt 501C, Level 5, Hilton Bayfront)

• Lyten's advancements in lithium-sulfur batteries for electric vehicles (Kumar Bugga, Lyten)
• Ucor's practices accelerate progress towards a sustainable and resilient future (Brad Russell, United Cleanup Oak Ridge LLC)
• New resource for sustainable process development (John Dever, MATRIC)
• Product vs process sustainability: A Lubrizol case study (Michael DeLetter, The Lubrizol Corporation)
• Mission possible – From strategy to first projects, case studies (Gayle Gibson, Mission Possible Partnership)
• Environmentally sustainable process for synthesis of para amino phenol & its techno-economic benefits over the conventional process (Soukarsa Das, Dastur Energy, Inc.)

19:00 to 21:30  – Management, Environmental, and Chem Eng & the Law Dinner (Old Spaguetti Factory, 275 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101)

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

8:00 to 10:30  – Non-traditional career opportunities in chemical engineering for MBAs, legal practicioners, and PhDs (Room 30E, Upper Level SDCC)

• From Lab to legislation: A ChemE's transition from research to regulatory policy and industry advocacy (Owen P. Jappen, Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH)
• Using my chemical engineering degree as a patent attorney (Michael Stephenson, BPIC)
• Breaking symmetry: Resilient careersfor unpredictable futures (Austin S. Lin, AIChE MGMT Division)
• How a young technical geek wandered into management and later into management at a professional society and ended up loving it (Joe Cramer, AIChE)

11:00 to 12:00  – Management Division business meeting (Location TBD)

12:30 to 15:00  – Perspectives on leadership growth from previous Management Award recipients (Room 30E, Upper Level SDCC)

• A presentation by past Management Award recipient (Frank van Lier, The Lubrizol Corporation)
• Thriving as a leader in a rapidly changing environment (Senyo Opong, Dupont)
• Sleepless nights-hardest choices as a leader in industry (Gayle Gibson, Mission Impossible Partnership)
• Direct air capture-leadership and culture matter (Robert Zeller, Oxy Low Carbon Ventures)
• General Q&A and discussion for all speakers

15:30 to 18:00  – The revolution before the revolution: Technology leadership in quatum computing (Room 30E, Upper Level SDCC)

• Panel led by Austin S. Lin (ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee Quantum Technologies) with panelists Seyed Soheil Mansouri (Technical University of Denmark), David E. Bernal Neira (Purdue University), and Yufei Ding (University of California San Diego)

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

8:00 to 10:30  – Latest outlook and key trends shaping the growth of the chemical industry (Room 29C, Upper Level SDCC)

• An integrated approach to lead the material industry through disruption (David Parrillo, Dow)
• Current trends and opportunities in pharmaceutical R&D (Shailendra Bordawekar, Abbvie Inc.)
• ExxonMobil low carbon solutions; accelerating world's path for net zero (Prasanna V. Joshi, ExxonMobil)
• Digital transformation in the chemical industry using advanced process modeling (Alejandro Cano, Siemens Industry Software Inc.)
• Leading sustainability in a dynamic environment (Scott Collick, DuPont)

15:30 to 18:00  – Innovation and entrepreneurship in chemical engineering (Room 29B, Upper Level SDCC)

• Key Opex steps necessary for growth – Set yourself up for success (Irene Legiec, IALS Consulting)
• The Lubrizol sustainability scorecard: A comprehensive tool for evaluating and communicating sustainability in the chemical industry (Nico Proust, The Lubrizol Corporation)
• Michigan Climate Venture: A multidisciplinary, student-led University of Michigan program at the intersection of Climatetech and venture capital (Shawn Lu, Michigan Climate Venture, University of Michigan)
• Our journey in commercialising technology for producing porous-silicon for Li-ion battery anodes (Siddharth Patwardhan, University of Sheffield)
• Gambling on innovation and experimental portfolios (Darrell Velegol, Penn State University)