The Chemistry of Bourbon: The "spirit" of molecules

In this webinar, Frost & Sullivan analyst, Robert Cavin will share key drivers and the value proposition for EIM in asset-intensive and process driven industries, based on their extensive study of the global engineering information management market. Gregg Schuler, Global Manager of Engineering Information with Dow Chemical will share their experience, best practices and business results implementing EIM across 3 continents and more than 4,000 users. Juan Grobler, Business System Integration Specialist with Synergis Software will share how a top utility and mining company are driving business results through integration of information across commonly siloed enterprise business systems, such as ERP, CMMS, BI, and Project and Cost Management. Finally, Scott Lamond, Vice President with Synergis Software will share a brief overview of Synergis Adept, Synergis Technologies’ flagship engineering information management solution, and then all of us will be available to answer your questions.

HPE Discover 2017 Madrid in November was huge. Huge in participants (over 10,000+) and massive in insights, changes, direction, for the digital transformation of business and private lives.From potato chips to spaceships, IoT is delivering innovation and efficiency to the world around and above us. The next frontier for IoT creates actions where the data generates the Intelligent Edge. Dr. Tom Bradicich at Discover shared how HPE is putting IoT into action by combining the power of secure connectivity, control and compute at the edge.

Industry is currently facing a substantial challenge. There is an increasing need to develop chemical hazard data for both new and existing chemicals, while at the same time there are current and proposed regulatory mandates as well as ethical drivers to reduce, refine, and replace (the “3 R’s”) the use of animal test methods with alternative non-animal methodologies. This creates a challenge for innovators, formulators, and companies who strive to introduce a new chemical or fill data gaps on existing chemicals while adhering to the principles of the 3 R’s. In silico, or computational toxicology software offers an alternative method for predicting chemical hazards. Traditional Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR) methodology employs simple analog identification and predicting hazard data from chemical analogs with known hazard data. This webinar will cover the UL Cheminformatics Tool Kit, a novel in silico approach combining big data with advanced machine learning incorporating data fusion. The approach integrates novel models called RASARs (Read-across Structure Activity Relationship) with data fusion techniques that extend this concept by considering all available property data on both the target and analogs rather than only the modeled hazard.

Jointly organised by STEM Alliance and Scientix, the chat was held online on Thursday, 28 March 2019 from 10:00 to 11:30, Brussels time. The chat took place in English. During this session, pupils had the opportunity to ask questions on careers in the petrochemical industry to the experts. The STEM Alliance chat sessions address classes (pupils from secondary schools) that are led by one or more teachers and aim at promoting awareness of all aspects of STEM careers. Since these chats bring together key STEM professionals and classes from different European countries, they may enhance a lesson focusing on a significant subject. During one and a half hour, pupils, led by one or more teachers, had the opportunity to ask topic-related questions to the experts: