Introduction de François Nicol, président de la SFGP

It’s a pleasure for me, as President of SFGP, the French Chemical Engineering Society, to welcome you to Paris for the 5th European Forum on New Technologies, dedicated to Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Engineering. I’m impressed and delighted to see so many of you here today for this scientific forum, with particularly strong participation from industry.

So, if you’re an expert in Chemical Engineering and would like to discover the latest advances in this field, this is the place to be! Actually, today’s European Forum will not focus exclusively on chemical engineering, but will also cover developments in the digital sciences, and in particular artificial intelligence. AI is a very attractive topic, but perhaps the applications of AI in chemical engineering are not as well known in the process industry.

Developing sustainable processes and decarbonizing industry are major challenges for the factory of the future. That’s why today’s conference will attempt to answer the following key questions :
– How can AI help improve process design?
– How can machine learning improve dynamic process control?
– Where are we in the development of digital twins to better control manufacturing plants and implement real predictive maintenance ?

But I don’t want to be too long, so I’ll let Giogio Veronesi, President of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering, present the main program of today’s forum.

Giorgio, the floor is yours!