Thursday, April 16

8.30-9.30Registration
9.30-9.45Opening remarks by the Conference Chairs: Jean-Christophe Monbaliu – University of Liège, Belgium,
and Anna Slater – University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
9.45-10.30L1Plenary 1.
Milad Abolhasani, NCSU – North Carolina State University, USA
Title: Autonomous Flow Laboratories for Rapid Materials and Molecular Discovery
10.30-10.55L2 Selin Kara – Aarhus University, Denmark, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Title: Process Intensification in Biocatalysis: Transitioning from Batch to Continuous
10.55-11.20L3Alexander Pomberger, ReactWise, United Kingdom
Title: Data-Driven Flow Chemistry for Accelerated Process Optimization
11.20-12.00Coffee break with snacks
12.00-12:25L4 Victor Sans, University Jaume I, Spain
Title: Reac-Discovery: An AI-driven platform for the discovery and optimization of catalytic reactors for continuous-flow sustainable transformations
12:25-12:50L5 Yi Jiang, Leapstar Technologies LLC, USA
Title: From Flow Technology to Manufacturing Ecosystems: Lessons from Industrial Practice and the Path Forward
12:50-13:15L6Thomas Toupy, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, USA
Title: Advanced Process Control Strategies for Multistep Synthesis in Flow

13:15-14:30

Lunch
14:30-14:55L7 Frank Gupton, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medicines for All Institute, USA
Title: The Impact of Green Chemistry on Access to Essential Medicines
14.55-15.20L8Koen Kuijpers, J&J Innovative Medicine, Belgium
Title: Combining High-Throughput Experimentation and Automated Flow for Bayesian Optimization of a Metallaphotoredox reaction
15:20-15:45L9Clemens R. Horn, Corden Pharma Chenôve, France
Title: From hours to minutes to days – Transferring a batch hydrogenation to a pilot scale flow process
15:45-17:15
Poster Session & Coffee break
17:15-17.40L10 María José Nieves-Remacha, Eli Lilly, Spain
Title: Development of a Custom Automated Flow Hydrogenation Screening Platform
17.40-18.05L11 Andrea Laybourn, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Title: Microwave-Assisted Flow Technologies for Scalable Advanced Materials Production
18.05-18.30L12 Wouter Stam, Flowid B.V, The Netherlands
Title: The (Non)Sense of End-To-End in Flow

18.45-20.45

Gala Dinner & Poster Awards ceremony

Friday, April 17

9.00-09.45L13Plenary 2.
Tanja Junkers, Monash University, Australia
Title: Creating the data for an informatic chemistry future from flow synthesis
09.45-10.10L14 Rigoberto Advincula, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), University of Tennessee, USA
Title: AI/ML in Synthesis and Advanced Manufacturing of Polymer Materials
10.10-10.35L15 Timothy Noël, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Title: RoboChem and the Rise of Intelligent Flow Chemistry
10:35-12:15INDUSTRIAL FLASH PRESENTATIONS

Corden Pharma International GmbH – Olivier Legrand
Title: From Development to Manufacturing: Integrating Flow Chemistry into Scalable GMP API Production
Asynt Ltd. – Andrew Mansfield
Title: Illuminating flow – Unlocking photochemical pathways for controllable selective synthesis
KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH – Carsten Losch
Title: Advanced Solutions for Your Flow Chemistry Workflow – Pumping, Detection, Switching, Knauer’s All in One Flow Chemistry Platform
Flowid B.V. – Kevin van Eeten
Title: SpinPro reactors
Vapourtec Ltd. – Manuel Nuño
Title: Advances in continuous flow: From new reactor technology to peptide synthesis   
Zeton B.V. – Wouter Bolt
Title: ContiUnity® by Zeton: a true modular platform for flow chemistry
Corning SAS – Paola Grossi
Title: Academic Research with Corning® Advanced-Flow™ Reactors: Bridging Laboratory and Scale-Up in Continuous Flow Chemical Synthesis
HNP Mikrosysteme GmbH – Carsten Damerau
Title: Dynamic Micromixer for Low Flow Rates
DFC Co., Ltd – Laurentiu Vladuceanu
Title: Device for Flow Chemistry (DFC)
Little Things Factory by PLANOPTIK – Markus Schneider
Title: Next Generation Glass Microfluidics
KHIMOD – Eric Aubay
Title: Scaling-up continuous hydrogenation
ThalesNano Inc. – Erika Bálint (BME)
Title: Modular Continuous Flow Reactor Platform for Multilevel Chemical Education
Magritek GmbH – Anna Gerdova
Title: Benchtop NMR spectroscopy for optimization and monitoring of flow reactors
QFluidics – Thomas Bielmann
Title: Liquid-walled non-clogging continuous flow reactor
Zaiput Flow Technologies – Lorenzo Gazzola
Title: A new stacked, continuous, scalable, high performance crystallizer

12.15-13.30
Lunch
13.30-13.55L16 Nopphon Weeranoppanant, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Title: Advancing Flow Photocatalysis and Biocatalysis via Dynamic Kinetics Modelling and Flow Reactor Design Optimization
13.55-14.20L17 Stephen G. Newman, University of Ottawa, Canada
Title: Taming Hazardous Reactions with Continuous Flow Chemistry
14.20-14.55L18 Anita R. Maguire, University College Cork, Ireland
Title: Leveraging Flow Chemistry to Address Synthetic Challenges
14.55-15.20L19 Wai Chung FU, City University of Hong Kong, China
Title: Beating All Odds with Flow: Enabling Divergent Reaction Pathways of R-22 Gas
15.20-15.55Coffee break with snacks
15.55-16.20L20Marcus Baumann, University College Dublin, Ireland
Title: New Tools for Photochemistry and Metalation Reactions in Flow Mode
16.20-16.55L21Sándor B. Ötvös, University of Graz, Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH (RCPE), Austria
Title: Continuous Mechanochemical Synthesis of Amides Using Bead Milling Technology
16.55-17:20L22Thomas Heugebaert, Ghent University, Belgium
Title: When flow photochemistry meets new, challenging process constraints
17:20-17:30Closing Remarks by Timothy Noël – Flow Chemistry Society, Switzerland