2025 AIChE Spring Meeting Topical Conferences
Dive into the latest thinking emerging in critical growth areas. The Topical Conferences at the 2025 AIChE Spring Meeting place you at the forefront of the trending topics in the chemical engineering industry and help you grow your career.
- Leadership Development- Professional Skills to Catalyze your Career
- Process Intensification
- Industry 4.0 Topical Conference
- Global Congress on Process Safety
- 37th Ethylene Producers' Conference
- 25th Topical Conference on Gas Utilization
- 28th Topical Conference on Refinery Processing
- Kister Distillation Symposium
- Hydrogen Safety Topical Conference
- The Energy Transition
- Petrochemicals Topical Conference
- Process Safety Topical Conference
Leadership Development - Professional Skills to Catalyze your Career
As chemical engineers, we are all very strong technically and usually well trained for our positions. AIChE Conferences and Courses also provide additional technical training to help us keep up to date with the latest technologies and prepare for our next roles. However, we are often missing in the people skills and leadership training that can make a difference in a successful career and life. This annual topical looks to address some of those needs. Covering topics as diverse as our attendees, we provide workshops and presentations on topics such as unconscious biases, utilizing diversity, personal growth, communications, management skills, branding and networking. Both attendees and presenters have found the previous topical conferences valuable and enjoyable, and we expect this one to be the same.
Process Intensification
The business context for the refining, chemical and other process industries is changing. Changes in market forces (feedstock costs and availability, products costs and demand), changes in regulations and consumer preferences, and technological changes all contribute to this context. Process Intensification, the radical improvement of processes through design and operational breakthroughs, provides options to cope with these transformational context changes. This topical focuses on the choices that PI provides and their connection to modular processes. The RAPID Manufacturing Institute organizes the topical sessions, but they are open to the wider MCPI community.
Industry 4.0 Topical Conference
Industry 4.0 represents the fourth industrial revolution using cyber-physical systems to produce breakthrough improvement in manufacturing productivity, safety, and competitiveness. It is driven by emerging technologies including big data analytics, robotics, augmented reality, internet of things, digital twins, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence.
37th Ethylene Producers' Conference
The 37th Ethylene Producers鈥� Conference will cover all aspects of ethylene manufacture. Typical sessions on safety, environmental, operations, rotating equipment, technology, feedstock contaminants, and big data are planned. 鈥淭utorial鈥� sessions on commissioning and hydrogenation will also be offered.
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25th Topical Conference on Gas Utilization
The Gas Utilization Topical Conference covers topics about gas processing, gas technology, equipment and advances in gas controls and design. Topics range from LNG to carbon capture to syngas and gas safety.
28th Topical Conference on Refinery Processing
The Refinery Processing Topical Conference covers topics related to crude oil refining and processing. Topics range from crude oil handling to blending to processing technology and equipment to control scheme improvements. Presentations cover both new developments and primers for new entrants to the refining world.
Kister Distillation Symposium
The Kister Distillation Symposium is the annual update on new developments and experience in distillation. This topical will cover numerous Distillation Topics regarding Tray Equipment, Packing, Optimization and Safety. There will be an emphasis this year on Tower and Confined Space Safety.
Hydrogen Safety Topical Conference
Programmed by the Center for Hydrogen Safety, a global oriented non-profit dedicated to promoting hydrogen safety and best practices worldwide, the Hydrogen Safety topical conference will address concerns regarding the safe use of hydrogen in commercial and industrial applications, fuel cells, and as a sustainable energy carrier.
The energy transition topical is intended to capture the state-of-the-art in technology, transport, and feedstock options in the future energy mix of the world. Fuels and Petrochemicals Division acknowledges the need to have a dedicated section that allows its members to evaluate the intricate complexities of a transition to less carbon intensive energy sources while also emphasizing the need for better design, modeling, and analysis measures. For this, the topical in its initial format is organized in six sessions focused on feedstock, conversion and utilization technologies, transport, design, modeling, and analysis with respect to energy transition. In addition, the topical also will have a roundtable discussion from energy leaders to shape the future of the energy transition with breakout sessions in the above topics. The F&PD welcomes you to attend the Energy Transition topical, and help in formulating the future of Energy in this field.
Petrochemicals Topical Conference
This topical focuses on developments in petrochemical processing.
