2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Management Division (MGMT) sessions and activities at 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting.

Saturday, November 1, 2025

10:05 to 10:50  – Management Careers and the Chemical Engineer, session at Annual Student Conference (Room TBD)

13:40 to 15:40  – ChemE Career Circuit: Explore your Future, session at Annual Student Conference (Room 311, Third level, Hynes Convention Center)

Monday, November 3, 2025

8:00 to 10:30  – Quantum computing applications in chemical engineering: Beginnings & futures (Room 202, Second level, Hynes Convention Center)

12:30 to 15:00  – Leading and managing industry-academia collaborations and partnerships (Room 311, Third level, Hynes Convention Center)

• Integrating business, innovation, and engineering your tomorrow at the Tickle College of Engineering (Jeremy Kirk, University of Tennessee)
• Nuclear energy in academia - Industry partnerships (Brian D. Wirth, University of Tennessee)
• CCPS Process safety student boot camp: Advancing process safety education through industry collaboration (Shakeel Kadri, CCPS)
• Unlocking innovation: The power of academic partnerships in manufacturing (Berardino Baratta, MxD)
• Cleanup today for a nuclear tomorrow (Kenneth Rueter, UCOR United Cleanup of Oak Ridge LLC)
• Placing your bets on your innovation portfolio: The Kelly Method for innovation portfolio budgeting (Darrell Velegol, Penn State University)

15:30 to 18:00  – Engineering education reimagined: Industrial gigs and workforce readiness -- 2025 Management Award session (Room 311, Third level, Hynes Convention Center)

• Award presentation and sponsor recognition (Belma Erdogan-Haug, MGMT Awards Committee Chair)
• Keynote address: A gig for every engineer (David Parrillo, Dow)
• Panel: The significance of practical experience for students (Darrell Velegol, Penn State University; Erik Einset, Engineering Tomorrow; Karena Lekich, Dow)
• The inside gig: How sharing untapped talent across boundaries unleashes organizational capacity (Edie Goldberg, E. L. Goldberg & Associates)
• Engineering Tomorrow (Erik Einset, Engineering Tomorrow)
• Path forward: A gig for every engineering student (Monty Alger, Penn State University)

18:00 to 21:00  – Management (MGMT) and Environmental (ENV) divisions, and Chemical Engineering & the Law (ChE&L) forum joint dinner, Legal Seafoods Restaurant (next to the Marriott Hotel). Ticketed event open to anyone interested in joining.

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

9:00 to 10:30  – Leadership and management of sustainable solutions in industry (Room 311, Third level, Hynes Convention Center)

• Sustainability practices and programs at Hoshizaki Americas (Gwendolyn Jordan-Harris, Hoshizaki)
• Green Tweed's leadership commitment to sustainable solutions (Justine Franchina, Green Tweed)
• From farm to fuel: Scaling biodiversity and revenuw through anaerobic digestion in Agri-Tech systems (Jim de Vries, Enhance International Group)
• Accelerating the circular economy through AI-powered material intelligence (Raghav Mecheri, Visia)

11:00 to 12:00  – Management Division business meeting (Room 311, Third level, Hynes Convention Center). Open to all interested members.

12:30 to 15:00  – Latest outlook and key trends shaping the growth of the chemical industry (Room 311, Third level, Hynes Convention Center)

• Emerging trends in specialty chemicals: Process innovation & digitalization at Lubrizol (Glenn Cormack, The Lubrizol Corporation)
• Emerging trends in decarbonization - The Mission Possible partnership story (Gayle Gibson, Mission Possible Partnership)
• XL Batteries -- Organic flow energy storage (Paul Evans, XL Batteries)
• Sustainable innovation at scale: Meeting performance and price expectations in the next generation of materials (David Williamson, Modern Meadow)
• Advancing the chemical industry through materials science and advanced manufacturing (Justine Franchina, Green Tweed)
• Panel discussion with industry leaders on the latest outlook and key trends shaping the growth of the chemical industry (Senyo Opong, DuPont)

15:30 to 18:00  – Upskilling your career with emerging technologies (Room 311, Third level, Hynes Convention Center)

• Upskilling chemical engineers in artificial intelligence and machine learning (Aaron Parr, inRoot.io)
• Upskilling in process safety and cybersecurity, sustainability (Irene Legiec, IALS Consulting)
• Managing workplace dynamics (trust, respect, communication, and feedback), (Dennis Hess, Georgia Tech)
• Continuous learning (Yuhe Tian, West Virginia University)
• Networking & practical experience (Gayle Gibson, Mission Possible Partnership)
• Enlisting a mentor (Dennis Hess, Georgia Tech)

18:00 to 19:00  – MGMT and ECC networking session (Room 311, Hynes Convention Center). Ticketed event.

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

8:00 to 10:30  – Innovation and entrepreneurship in chemical engineering (Back Bay Ballroom B, Sheraton Boston)

• Empowering chemical engineers as innovators, leaders, and entrepreneurs: Advancing sustainable solutions and biobased technologies (Mark Miller, Ramapo College of New Jersey)
• Scaling innovation in software-enabled systems: Building startups and consultancies for the chemical engineering industry (Jim de Vries, Enhance International Group)
• Amplisi: Providing scalable, safe and sustainable porous silicon for Next-Gen batteries (Siddarth Patwardhan, University of Sheffield)
• From plant to platform: Applying chemical engineering tools to build an AI startup (Aaron Parr, inRoot.io)
• Engineering the AI-powered future: Sustainable infrastructure, thermodynamic intelligence, and the entrepreneurial path (Stephens The', Rexes Corporations)
• Opportunities for innovation and technology transfer for startups as a design-to-cost chemical engineer (Remil Aguda, Calls National LLC)