AIChE 2026 Presentations and Sessions of Interest

Applications of Scale-up Suite and METTLER TOLEDO AutoChem

Meet us at AIChE! We've compiled a selection of sessions and talks at AIChE that would be of intereste to those in data-rich experimentation, autonomous laboratories, and model-based process development.

Sessions of General Interest

Day	Time (PT)	Location	Session
Monday, November 9, 2026	8:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Room 101AB	99 - Division Plenary (PD2M): The Future of Pharmaceutical Development
Monday, November 9, 2026	3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Exhibit Hall B	200 - Poster Session: Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development, and Manufacturing
Monday, November 9, 2026	6:15 PM - 8:30 PM	Room M100I	Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development, and Manufacturing Forum (PD2M) Awards Ceremony
Tuesday, November 10, 2026	11:00 AM - 12:15 PM	Room L100I	Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development & Manufacturing Forum (PD2M)/Area 15B Programming Planning Meeting
Tuesday, November 10, 2026	1:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Exhibit Hall B	396 - Meet the Industry Candidates Poster Session: Process & Product Development and Manufacturing in Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals

Papers Featuring Scale-up Suite & METTLER TOLEDO Technologies

Day	Time (ET)	Location	Presenting Author	Affiliation	Talk/Poster
Sunday, November 8, 2026	4:36 PM - 4:56 PM	Room 200D	Viviana Cardenas Ocampo	Georgia Tech	41b In Situ Raman Monitoring of Phosphate Speciation and Crystallization In 3 m NaOH
Monday, November 9, 2026	12:30 PM - 1:15 PM	Room 211A	Geoff Purdum	Bristol Myers Squibb	182a Data-Driven Process Optimization: Integrating Modeling, Automation, and Process Analytics for Robust Tech Transfer
Monday, November 9, 2026	12:50 PM - 1:10 PM	Room 200E	Jun Wang	University of Alabama	183b Ether-Rich Alkoxy-Functionalized Diamines As Single-Component Water-Lean Solvents for Post-Combustion CO₂ Capture
Monday, November 9, 2026	1:15 PM - 2:00 PM	Room 211A	Charles Gordon	METTLER TOLEDO	182b - Technologies for Data-Rich Experimentation and Modeling: The Past, Present and Future of Enabling Scale-up and Scale-Down for Chemical Processes
Monday, November 9, 2026	3:55 PM - 4:20 PM	Room L100I	Darpandeep Aulakh	Veranova	241b - Application of Solid Form and Crystallization Strategies for Peptide Purification
Monday, November 9, 2026	4:20 PM - 4:45 PM	Room L100J	Zachary Brentzel	Vertex	243c Scale-up Considerations and Implications for a Batch Hydrogenation: Addressing Mass Transport Limitations, Starting Material Quality, and Catalyst Selectivity
Monday, November 9, 2026	4:45 PM - 5:10 PM	Room L100I	Jingyao Wang	Lilly	241d Kinetic Modeling of Competing Impurity Formation In Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis: Balancing Aspartimide and Deletion Impurities Generation during Fmoc Deprotection
Monday, November 9, 2026	4:45 PM - 5:10 PM	Room L100J	Lauren Gibson	Merck	243d Translation of API Attributes across Scales for an Unseeded, High Supersaturation Crystallization
Monday, November 9, 2026	5:10 PM - 5:30 PM	Room L100E	Ulrich Schacht	METTLER TOLEDO	242f - Autonomous Laboratories: Framework Development for AI Supported Cobots and Robots In Chemical Process Development
Tuesday, November 10, 2026	8:00 AM - 8:25 AM	Room L100I	Sofia Branco	Hovione	302a Accelerating API Manufacturing through Mechanistic Models and Flow‑Enabled Experimentation
Tuesday, November 10, 2026	9:30 AM - 9:48 AM	Room 205A	Neil Hawbaker	Takeda	676f Accelerating Kinetic Model Development through Automated, Human‑In‑the‑Loop Model Building Workflows
Tuesday, November 10, 2026	12:33 PM - 12:54 PM	Room 102D	David Lamberto	Merck	371g When Isolation Gets Complicated: Crystallization, Precipitation, and Agglomeration from Simple Salts to Macrocyclic Peptides
Tuesday, November 10, 2026	4:10 PM - 4:30 PM	Room L100E	Fateme Molajafari	Takeda	452c Systematic Crystallization Pathway Design through Integrated Solubility Modeling and Process Screening
Wednesday, November 11, 2026	8:27 AM - 8:51 AM	Room 102D	Wei-Lee Wu	AbbVie	522b Utilization of Model-Free Quality-By-Control Approaches for Rapid Crystallization Process Design In Early-Stage Pharmaceutical Development
Wednesday, November 11, 2026	8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Room 211B	Jamie McCarry	METTLER TOLEDO	511b Analysis of Mixing Characteristics Using Dynochem and CFD for Easymax Reactors
Wednesday, November 11, 2026	12:50 PM - 1:10 PM	Room L100E	Zhenzi Yu	AbbVie	579b Model-Based Automation for Single-Use Reactor Systems: Real-Time Heat and Mass Transfer Characterization
Wednesday, November 11, 2026	3:30 PM - 3:55 PM	Room L100J	Neil Hawbaker	Takeda	635a Model Informed Designs: Using Mechanistic Kinetic Models to Enable More Effective Pharmaceutical Process Characterization
Wednesday, November 11, 2026	5:35 PM - 6:00 PM	Room L100J	Onkar Manjrekar	AbbVie	635f Kinetic Modeling of Catalytic Hydrogenation through Combined Heat-Flow Calorimetry and Hydrogen Uptake Measurement
Thursday, November 12, 2026	8:21 AM - 8:42 AM	Room 205B	Guanghui Zhu	Takeda	675a Supersaturation Control for Crystallization Following Distillation of Ternary Solvent System
Thursday, November 12, 2026	8:42 AM - 9:03 AM	Room 205B	Julia Parzecki	Merck	675b Integrated Experimental–Modeling Workflow to Assess Seed‑Point Robustness In a Distillative Crystallization
Thursday, November 12, 2026	9:03 AM - 9:24 AM	Room 205B	Andrea Angulo	Merck	675c Scalable EDC/HOPO Activated‑Ester Coupling and pH‑Swing Crystallization Enabling a Key API Intermediate
Thursday, November 12, 2026	9:24 AM - 9:45 AM	Room 205B	Kelvin Jones	Bristol Myers Squibb	675d Development and Scale-up of a pH-Dependent Crystallization Via Data-Rich Experimentation and First-Principles Process Modeling
Thursday, November 12, 2026	9:30 AM - 9:48 AM	Room 205A	Neil Hawbaker	Takeda	676f Accelerating Kinetic Model Development through Automated, Human‑In‑the‑Loop Model Building Workflows
Thursday, November 12, 2026	12:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Room 102D	Giovanni Aprile	Amgen	371 Crystallization and Precipitation of Pharmaceutical and Biological Molecules
Thursday, November 12, 2026	12:48 PM - 1:06 PM	Room 101E	Martha Grover	Georgia Tech	689g Extending Physics-Informed Recurrent Neural Networks to PDE-Governed Batch Crystallization Modeling
Thursday, November 12, 2026	2:00 PM - 2:18 PM	Room 101F	Eric Sacia	AbbVie	705a Efficient Control Strategy Design In a Late Stage Asset Using Kinetics and Physics-Driven Modeling
Thursday, November 12, 2026	4:06 PM - 4:24 PM	Room 101F	Teri Hochdorfer	Pfizer/Matheus	705c Kinetic Modeling of a Multiphase, Two-Step Tosylation-Cyclization Reaction to Control Impurities and Determine Design Space Boundaries