Celebrating NorCal’s 70th Anniversary
AIChE’s NorCal Local Section is celebrating its 70th year with a session where industry and academic speakers will present the past, present, and future of technology in the Bay Area. The session will be followed by a reception.
AIChE’s Northern California (NorCal) Local Section will be celebrating its 70th year anniversary at the Annual Meeting. The program will include a session where prominent industry and academic speakers will present past, present, and future of the ever changing face of technology in the Bay Area and challenges related to safety, health, and environment. The session will be followed by a reception. Reception tickets are available as a ticketed event.
For the latest information, please contact Dilek Alkaya (2016 Annual Meeting's General Arrangements Chair & NorCal Past Chair) and Cawas Cooper (Session Chair & NorCal Director-at-Large).
Session Chairs:
- Cawas A. Cooper, Codexis, Inc.
- Dilek Alkaya, Tesoro Corporation
Schedule:
| TIME | PRESENTATION |
| 3:15pm | Introductory Remarks |
| 3:20pm | NorCal Section Historical Perspective Emmett Miller, NorCal Advisor & Historian |
| 3:50pm | Process Safety Management Now and in the Future Randall L. Sawyer, Chief Environmental Health & Hazardous Materials Officer, Contra Costa County Health Services |
| 4:20pm | Lessons from a 41-year Career and Why Diversity Matters S. Shariq Yosufzai, Vice President for Global Diversity, Ombuds, and University Partnerships & Association Relations, Chevron |
| 4:50pm | Contributions of Catalysis to the Production of Transportation Fuels - Past and Future Alexis Bell, The Dow Professor of Sustainable Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley |
| 5:20pm | Biotechnology Innovations and Contributions from Chemical Engineers Brian Kelley, VP, Bioprocess Development, Pharma Technical Development, Genentech |
| 5:50pm | Concluding Remarks |
Reception
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Purchase a ticket for the reception when you register for the conference.